And new jobs in hatcheries
MARINE Harvest, having completed a restructuring process that saw 80 jobs go across the company, is creating new roles as it expands its hatchery facilities. It is constructing a new hatchery at its Inchmore, Glenmoriston, site, and a new wrasse hatchery in Machrihanish. Inchmore will be a copy of the original Marine Harvest facility at Lochailort with an output of about five million smolts and five to six million fry and parr each year, said the company’s Steve Bracken.
‘The numbers employed in the hatchery at Lochailort have been 20 and the old hatchery in Inchmore can take six, so we’ll be taking on 14 extra staff by the look of things.’
The wrasse hatchery is still at an early stage but will be built close to the existing Machrihanish facility. ‘It will be bigger, about 10,000 square metres, and we will employ probably a further 10 people there,’ said Bracken.