An independent fish farming firm has unveiled Scotland’s first salmon fingerprint scheme to counter fakes.
Highland-based Loch Duart says fraudsters have been passing off lower-quality produce as its fish.
So starting next year it will use technology – pioneered by law enforcement to identify the backgrounds of human corpses – that will mean all of its salmon are traceable to each of its farms in Sutherland and the Hebrides.
Its move, unprecedented in Scotland, comes after ...