Salmon lifecycle

Follow the lifecycle of the farmed salmon

Broodstock. This male salmon will mature and produce milt around November. The milt will mixed with eggs taken from a female salmon

Egg incubators at Inchmore Hatchery

Egg incubator tray holding 15,000 salmon eggs

Alevins in a tray

Alevins close up showing their yolk sac

Parr in a hatchery tank

Salmon smolts being moved from Loch Garry to sea water farms

Salmon grower at Laga Bay, Loch Sunart

Young salmon at Laga Bay two weeks after transfer from fresh water

Atlantic salmon

Ballan Wrasse (Cleaner Fish), assist in the removal of sea lice. Image Credit: Andrew Denham, Technology Strategy Board, Stirling University, Scottish Sea Farms, Marine Harvest Scotland

Ballan Wrasse (Cleaner Fish), assist in the removal of sea lice. Image Credit: Andrew Denham, Technology Strategy Board, Stirling University, Scottish Sea Farms, Marine Harvest Scotland

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