Scottish Sea Farms’ new £55 million (€65.3 million/$72.3 million) Barcaldine Hatchery has put its first smolts out to sea pens.

The smolts, which arrived at Barcaldine as eggs back in January and were hatched and reared using a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS), had an average weight of 160 grams – more than double that of smolt grown by the company using traditional hatchery methods.