From a Scottish loch to the desert: UAE sets up its first salmon farm

By The Newsroom
Published 29th Mar 2019, 20:48 BST
Updated 29th Mar 2019, 20:58 BST
With an indoor ski resort in the middle of a shopping centre, an African safari park and massive football pitches carved into its arid deserts, the United Arab Emirates has never ceased to amaze visitors.

But now a Dubai company is “importing” a Scottish loch – in the shape of 40,000 fish – to rear the first ever UAE-grown Atlantic salmon.

“We’ve made salmon in the desert, it’s pretty remarkable,” said Bader Bin Mubarak, chief executive of Fish Farm, which is based in Dubai, the largest city in the UAE.

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