Company History

In 1991 he took over a factory at Gramsdale, Benbecula that was previously used for packing shellfish. He converted it to allow salmon to be gutted, filleted and packed on the island so that it could be dispatched less than 12 hours after harvest.

Around the same time that Angus was setting up his farms sites in Benbecula, a cooperative of independent fish farmers formed to market and sell salmon. This company was called Hebrides Harvest. Over the years many of the small farmers who made up the co-operative were bought out by multinational food businesses and in 2004 Hebrides Harvest came under the sole umbrella of West Minch Salmon Ltd operating as our sales and marketing division.

West Minch Salmon Ltd has achieved a lot since those early days including:

• we have our own contracted hatchery, 5 freshwater and 7 seawater sites throughout the Outer Hebrides
• our organic salmon has been certified by the Soil Association since 2001 which is the most prestigious organic accreditation body in the UK
• we are certified with their European counterparts, Eco-cert
• we are one of Rick Stein’s Food Heroes
• we were one of the first fish farm companies to achieve Freedom Food certification which we still hold
• we have an accredited Environmental Management System to ISO 14001:2004
• we operate a Quality Management System which ensures our customer receive the necessary assurances expected in this quality driven sector

Site Plan
Select the map to see a plan of our sites.

Our emphasis is to differentiate our product, particularly for smoking grade for organic for that specialised sector.