Scallop Ranching in NW Highlands

[Snagman]

Hi Folks,

Some of you who know me are aware when not crawling around on a soggy hillside I am involved with a project to kick start a new industry in both Scotland and the UK, Scallop Ranching.

For those of you who don't know Wild King Scallops like many marine species are in decline from overfishing and as a Scallop diver I have seen this first hand. I now work alongside like minded individuals with the mindset of creating a 100% sustainable King Scallop fishery by using Scallop Ranching rather than continuing to fish the wild stocks.

We have been running for 5 years now and have completed commercial scale trials, however we are a small team and now require investment and as such we have entered into a competition run by Sir Richard Branson called "Pitch to Rich" for funding and business advice. To progress in the competition we need votes on their website, if you could please spare a coupe of minutes to vote for us on the link below it would mean the world to us as every vote brings us closer to realising our dream of creating a sustainable Scallop fishery.

There is a short video with more details of how the whole operation works on the link below where you can vote for our Pitch. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to post or PM me

Scot-Hatch Limited #pitchtorich #VOOM


Thank you for your time,

Phil

 

[willie_gunn]

Phil

Well done on this initiative - vote cast accordingly. Much happier to see this than more farmed salmon

Crowdsourcing might be another avenue to consider?

 

[sauer]

Just voted
Scallops , king of sea food , nowt better & such memories of pulling em hand dived out the water at ardnamuchan ...dry suit round waist , mug of tea & garlic butter seared scallops & black pudding & bacon.....

I need to get some diving gear again!

Paul

 

[Pine Marten]

That's fantastic, and I love the logo with the stork bringing baby scallops too.

 

[merlin]

....another vote cast by me. Good luck.

 

[old keeper]

Another from Sunny Devon.

 

[bogtrotter]

I don't eat scallops or any other sea food for that matter, due to severe allergic reaction, however this enterprise
gets my vote, having seen the damage caused to the seabed by scallop dredgers,an environmentally friendly
enterprise such as this can only be a good thing.

 

[McKenzie]

I'm in too

 

[Ranger22]

Good luck

 

[N1mr0d]

Portuguese seed rock oysters have been successfully 'grown' on the Southern East coast very successfully and sustainably for a good few decades - great to see local strain of Scallops being used in Scotland - shame they have to be flown to Bergen though - hopefully you will get sufficient funding and local jobs could then be created. Vote cast

 

[AN DU RU FOX]

done and good luck,

 

[ELMER FUDD]

I love scallops, sliced and fried in butter and the juice off fried bacon, you have my vote Sir, well done.


Also shared with facebook and twitter accounts

 

[megsjockey]

Interesting project. How do you stop other divers helping themselves to the Scallops you are 'ranching'?

 

[Pine Marten]

How do you stop other divers helping themselves to the Scallops you are 'ranching'?

They have trained basking sharks with frickin' laserbeams on their heads.

 

[tozzybum]

done good luck

 

[megsjockey]

They have trained basking sharks with frickin' laserbeams on their heads.

I think you'll find that there's too much red tape preventing that. Ill tempered, mutant, sea-bass may have to suffice. But seriously, Snagman, how do you protect your investment from simply being plundered by others?

 

[NOTSHARP]

Done.

( I'll have mine with Stornoway black pudding, please.Charles MacLeod - Makers of Stornoway Black Pudding )




Steve.

 

[mikeakc]

Vote cast, good luck!

 

[willie_gunn]

They have trained basking sharks with frickin' laserbeams on their heads.

I thought they employed pirates to repel other divers?

 

[Snagman]

I think you'll find that there's too much red tape preventing that. Ill tempered, mutant, sea-bass may have to suffice. But seriously, Snagman, how do you protect your investment from simply being plundered by others?

Well other than now needing extra funding to rearm our scallop protection squad of harpoon wielding hunter killer Dogfish to the aforementioned laser equipped Basking sharks!!! We have what is called a Several Order leased to us by the Crown Estate, essentially it allows us sole rights to a specified resource on the seabed over the defined area in our case King Scallops. If other persons where to be caught fishing for King Scallops on our Several Order they can be charged, heavily fined, vessel confiscated and with possible jail time to boot. The old "Oh I didn't know" doesn't fly either as the site is very well marked and is on all Maritime charts and we live with a good overview of the site so keeping an eye out isn't a worry.