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Traditional Hebridean Smokehouse in Locheport

Atlantic Ocean

Hebridean Smokehouse
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Restaurant, catering & organic shop

This family-owned company controls the entire salmon and sea trout processing chain, from fishing through to export, while adopting an eco-responsible approach.

  • Environment

  • Sustainable policy

  • Service quality

An exemplary environmentally responsible policy

Aquaculture, which seemed to be the solution to cater for growing protein needs while avoiding excessive fishing that depletes the oceans, ultimately resulted in serious environmental disturbance.

The techniques recently taught, which consisted in targeting maximum economic profitability per cubic metre of net-cage at sea, have had dramatic environmental consequences, often causing the relocation of farms in countries that are less concerned with environmental protection.

A sustainable and environmentally conscious policy

For these reasons, we can only support the initiative of the Hebridean Smokehouse company, which is involved in promoting a more environmentally conscious policy and sustainable economic development.

Tasting is a way of measuring immediately the tangible results of this policy: the products are excellent. Such an objective proves hard to achieve but it makes the company extremely proud.

While the majority of aquaculture farms in Scotland raise hybrid salmon from Norway, Hebridean Smokehouse continues to catch adult wild salmon when they return to their birthplace in North Uist to reproduce.

Total control of the production chain

The roe collected are placed in hatcheries to later provide young fish that are placed in breeding cages for two years after reaching weight of about 100 g. All the stages of this process are undertaken by the company.

Hebridean Smokehouse does not use any chemicals, colouring agents, growth accelerators or antibiotics. Regarding the latter, it is important to recall that in November 2011, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), based in Sweden, announced that 29 new cases of resistance of bacteria to antibiotics were reported in Europe between October 2010 and March 2011! Even if formal evidence of the interconnection between human resistance to antibiotics and the use of these products on animals has yet to be verified, a precautionary approach should be taken. In this case, the policy adopted by Hebridean Smokehouse proves quite appropriate.

Moreover, all preparation techniques used are traditional, from salting through to smoking with local peat and filleting by hand. The workshops can be visited by appointment to ensure a transparent producer-consumer relationship.

The end products are highly qualitative and are exported around the world, from Japan to the USA.

Hebridean Smokehouse

Pricing (from) - 14.00 €

Rates vary depending on the order and the destination country.

Opening period - All year round.

Restaurant, catering & organic shop, key-features

A remarkable fish farming site

The hilly West Coast of North Uist Island faces Canada. Its pure and wild waters are ideal for fish farming.

An aquaculture sector incorporating environmentally responsible principles

Hebridean Smokehouse is one of the rare companies that harvest wild salmon along the coast between October and December.

The whole production chain, from roe through to ready-to-eat fish, is managed by the company.

Farming is undertaken with a lower fish density than in other farms.

The food is controlled and the company claims that it does not systematically use products such as antibiotics, whose effects can be devastating for the environment.

The fish is smoked on the spot using peat collected on the island.

An online service to place orders and delivery service provided around the world

Online orders can be placed through the website: www.hebrideansmokehouse.com

Smoked salmon and trout can be delivered in blocks or pre-sliced in various packaging from 125 g to more than 1 kg. You can also buy local peat-smoked scallops.

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