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Speed dating bid to match up fish

A Scots aquaculture company is using speed dating techniques to help it step up the search for the perfect fish here and in South America.

Information on thousands of salmon in its farms in both Chile and Scotland is now being fed into a state-of-the-art database which can make quicker and more exact decisions on pairing fish, customising matches.

In this way the resulting eggs, that are sold on to different companies, are effectively customised to meet their individual needs

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