Whole fish board
Two whole fish, gutted and gilled
Loch salmon or brown trout
2 kg box
Day boats work the north loch and the west bay, and everything is lifted by hand into slush ice on deck. Nothing sits in a tank, nothing is trucked in from a second hand. The catch reaches the bench within the hour.
Meet the boatsThe old boathouse holds at zero to two degrees, with flaked ice turned twice a day. Fillets rest on stainless trays, whole fish lie on their sides, and the door stays shut until the van is at the ramp.
How we packWe are three boats and a timber shed at the end of a single-track road. The family has worked this shore for four generations; we still gut on the same bench, still write the ticket by hand, still send the fish out in the order they were landed.
Read the logLoch Caught
Cold Chain
Boathouse Packed
Traceable
Species log
Six species we keep on the boats through the year. The season is when the loch gives them at their best.
Water we work
Three marks on the chart: the north loch for salmon, the west bay for mussels, the east pier for the morning prawn haul.
Packed at the bench
Three ways we leave the bench: whole fish on ice, fillets on trays, and the cold-smoked packs that go out at first light.
Two whole fish, gutted and gilled
Loch salmon or brown trout
2 kg box
Four side fillets, pin-boned
Cut to 180 g portions on request
1.8 kg tray
Cold-smoked over oak
Sliced thin, vacuum sealed
1.2 kg pack