‘We feel very honoured that minister [Mairi] Gougeon has considered our facilities and has given us almost a full morning of her time.” So said Miguel Portus, chief executive of Lago Sofia, which is a fish farming business near Puerto Montt in Chile.
Gougeon and her entourage of officials have been in South America to visit an aquaculture trade show and peatland projects. Of course, this jolly will no doubt be justified as a fact-finding mission while here was me thinking the Scottish government had no money.
Puerto Montt is 7,858 miles from Edinburgh. Auldgirth in Dumfriesshire is 70 miles from Edinburgh. Last summer, the Scottish Beef Association held its premier event at the Dalswinton Estate farm to showcase the Scottish beef sector. Gougeon was
