{"id":2819,"date":"2009-10-21T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2009\/10\/21\/hat-trick-for-stornoway-fishery\/"},"modified":"2009-10-21T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T10:40:00","slug":"hat-trick-for-stornoway-fishery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/hat-trick-for-stornoway-fishery\/","title":{"rendered":"Hat trick for Stornoway fishery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young&#8217;s Premium Whole Isle of Lewis scampi &#8211; the UK&#8217;s first certified sustainable scampi &#8211; will be launched in Sainsbury&#8217;s stores throughout the UK from November. Made from whole langoustine tails landed by the Stornoway fleet and peeled at Young&#8217;s Stornoway processing facility at Goat Island, the scampi will be coated and packed in Grimsby. A deal has also been struck with Sainsbury&#8217;s to serve Stornoway scampi in 220 of its cafes from this autumn.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Isles Langoustine Fishery became the first trawl-caught langoustine fishery in the world to achieve MSC certification as a sustainable and well-managed fishery. Certification was achieved after a rigorous, independent assessment process which took 12 months to complete, supported and financially sponsored by Young&#8217;s Seafood, which has invested around \u00a31 million in the fishery to date.<\/p>\n<p>Young&#8217;s, who invented scampi over 60 years ago, buys around \u00a32.5 million of langoustine from The Stornoway Western Isles Langoustine Fishery per annum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification gained by Stornoway Western Isles Langoustine Fishery in April this year has directly resulted in a hat-trick of good news for the fishermen &#8211; with exports up 50 per cent, a new product launch and a deal with a major supermarket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}