Ugie Smokehouse, situated on one of northeast Scotland’s most bountiful salmon and trout rivers, the River Ugie in Peterhead, north of Aberdeen, is the oldest salmon fish house in Scotland. Built in 1585 for Scottish nobleman, George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal, who initially used it for the preservation of game and fish, it has been used to smoke fish for centuries.
Joseph Yule, production manager of Ugie Smokehouse, has worked here for 45 years and remembers the heyday of fishing in the region.
“Salmon fishing was a great way of making a living when the rivers and seas were abundant with fish,” he says, “Once there were hundreds of
