Leading a young farming team to success on Scalpay 
By Rob Fletcher UK Source: thefishsite 6/12/2023
Rob Fletcher
Sarah MacDonald is one of Mowi Scotland’s youngest farm managers, running one of the company’s newest and best performing farms, off the Isle of Scalpay.
 

Can you briefly describe your aquaculture experience to date?

I joined Mowi in 2019 starting as a farm technician in Cheesebay, North Uist. I loved my year there and was surrounded by extremely knowledgeable people. I was looking for a new challenge, so the area manager at the time then sent me up to Loch Erisort, on the Isle of Lewis. It was a tough but rewarding year up there before I then took the job as assistant manager in Scalpay, an island in the Inner Hebrides lying off the northeast coast of the island of Skye. Within a year I was promoted to farm manager. I’ve found moving around farms has helped me learn quite quickly on the job.

 
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