Aquacultured, the company behind what could become the UK's first land-based salmon farm, has officially submitted its formal planning application to the relevant authorities, a significant step forward for the project.

Mike Berthet, a former executive with UK distributor M&J Seafood and one of the directors behind the project, confirmed to IntraFish the planning application was now in and verified.

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"We now wait for due process, which hopefully will follow prescribed timings," he said.