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The following organisations have been awarded grants through the Infrastructure Scheme: round 2 to strengthen the seafood supply chain, bring social and economic benefits, and reduce the seafood industry’s impact on the environment.
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
Award amount: £380,360.16
Defra has awarded over £380,000 to AGD Duff & Partners Limited to buy equipment, including an in-house smoking facility and weighing, grading and skinny machinery to increase their processing capability in Aberdeenshire.
The project also includes:
Location: Peterhead, Scotland
Award amount: £853,001.61
Defra has awarded £853,000 to Alisrose Limited to expand the capacity of a wastewater treatment plant that serves 3 of the main pelagic processors in Peterhead, alongside a shellfish processor and 2 local whitefish processors. The project is to expand capacity at the wastewater plant to facilitate the expansion of capacity at the processors. This project will increase the waste-water processing capability by 60%.
Location: Portsmouth, England
Award amount: £362,975.48
Defra has awarded £363,000 to Brighton & Newhaven Fish Sales Ltd to regenerate Camber Dock Fish Market’s onshore facilities. The project will improve cold storage and freezer facilities and provide saltwater tanks for shellfish to add a minimum of 15% to catch value. This project will:
Location: Berwickshire, Scotland
Award amount: £650,802.76
Defra has awarded over £650,000 to DR Colin & Son to purchase processing equipment to improve yield and throughput of crab and shellfish at their factory. The project will:
Location: Fraserburgh, Scotland
Award amount: £724,318.50
Defra has awarded over £724,000 to Enterfoods to invest in a new plant that will boost their seafood processing capability in Fraserburgh through increasing the cold storage and blast freezing services for the local supply chain.
The project will:
Location: Grimsby, England
Award amount: £1,277,692.29
Defra has awarded £1.2 million to Fastnet Fish to increase cold store capability in the existing facility by 150%, by installing racking units which will maximise product throughput, without incurring additional energy costs. The project aims to substantially reduce electricity usage by installing renewable energy mechanisms to reduce carbon emissions and create environmentally sustainable energy solutions.
Location: Fleetwood, England
Award amount: £2,839,931.04
Defra has awarded £2.8 million to Fleetwood Fish Merchants Association to fit out and upgrade the current shell and core food processing units to the required standards with the aim of creating a more sustainable industry. The project will:
Location: Lincolnshire, England
Award amount: £5,000,000.00
Defra has awarded £5 million to Flo-Gro Systems Ltd to build a new aquaculture facility in Lincolnshire to produce fresh king prawns (Pacific Vannamei) for the UK market. The facility will include a hatchery, and processing and packing equipment. The project will deliver pioneering technology, sustainable energy generation and innovative farm practice and will:
Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales
Award amount: £1,110,998.61
Defra has awarded £1.1 million to For the Love of the Sea (Câr-Y-Môr), a Community Benefit Society based in Pembrokeshire, West Wales. The project will expand seaweed production facilities by developing a seaweed processing unit with storage, equipment, shop and an educational hub. The project will:
Location: Isle of Mull, Scotland
Award amount: £230,727.98
Defra has awarded over £230,000 to Inverlussa to improve growing and storage facilities at their mussel farm on the Isle of Mull. The project includes a wind turbine, a mussel growing rope and the construction of onshore facilities. The project will:
Location: Hampshire, England
Award amount: £233,450.43
Defra has awarded over £233,000 to Langstone Harbour Board to upgrade the Eastney pontoon. The project includes upgrades to the pontoon, a slipway trailer and telehandler to increase the quantity of catch landed in Langstone. The project will:
Location: Shetland, Scotland
Award amount: £450,759.24
Defra has awarded over £450,000 to Lerwick to reclaim land to create a laydown area. Part of this area will be developed by constructing a new cold storage facility, and part by creating an area for storage and handling of refrigerated containers. The project includes the costs for the groundworks and construction. The project will:
Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales
Award amount: £2,643,291.57
Defra has awarded £2.6 million to Milford Haven Port Authority to deliver a suite of interlinked, major regeneration works to Milford Fish Docks. The project will:
Location: Ardessie, Scotland
Award amount: £5,000,000.00
Defra has awarded £5 million to MOWI Scotland Limited to establish a new, state-of the-art, brood stock farm at Mowi Scotland’s Ardessie site. The brood stock are the breeding fish which produce the next generation of eggs (ova).
The facility will be a recirculating aquaculture system, including the construction of new buildings, and aquaculture equipment such as chillers, tanks, filters and an ice machine. The project will produce 25 to 30 million eyed (fertilised) eggs (ova) annually.
Location: Grimsby, England
Award amount: £3,774,667.53
Defra has awarded £3.8 million to New England Seafood International to deliver a state-of-the-art processing facility in Grimsby. The project includes the purchase of processing equipment, the extension and refurbishment of the current building and installation of a refrigeration plant. The project will:
Location: Peterhead, Scotland
Award amount: £5,000,000.00
Defra has awarded £5 million to Northbay Pelagic Limited to increase its capability in both processing and cold storage. The project includes the purchase of processing equipment, the construction of a cold store extension, blast freezer and the move toward renewable energy sources. The project will:
Location: County Down, Northern Ireland
Award amount: £2,644,292.12
Defra has awarded £2.6 million to Northern Ireland Fishery Harbour Authority to replace and enhance the existing boat cradle and winch, used to pull fishing vessels out of the water for maintenance at Portavogie Harbour. The new facility will be designed to take a larger range of vessels both larger and smaller. The project will:
Location: Barcaldine, Scotland
Award amount: £5,000,000.00
Defra has awarded £5 million to Scottish Sea Farms Limited to build a Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) at an existing post smolt facility in Barcaldine, Argyll. The facility will have the capability to receive 6 million salmon smolts a year from the existing smolt facility. The project includes the construction and internal fit out of the new building and the RAS system. The project will:
Location: Grimsby, England
Award amount: £315,051.62
Defra has awarded over £315,000 to Seafish Processing Limited to expand its processing facility. The project will include the refurbishment of their current building to install a new cold store, blast chiller and fish-debone and separator station. The project will:
Location: Shoreham, England
Award amount: £1,204,158.00
Defra has awarded £1.2 million to Shoreham Port to redevelop the inshore fishing marina. The objectives of the project are to secure the viability of inshore fishing in the locality, protecting skills, and creating employment for future generations. The project will:
Location: Tarbert, Scotland
Award amount: £407,395.03
Defra has awarded over £407,000 to Tarbert Harbour Authority to streamline the fish quay facility ensuring it is fit for purpose for current and emerging needs and can deliver a quality service to the fishing vessels of Argyll and Bute who specialise in creel fishing for high value live shellfish, and traditional trawling vessels. The project will include:
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