SCOTTISH Sea Farms has bought Barcaldine’s Marine Resource Centre and plans to turn it into a multi-millionpound salmon hatchery, creating 25 jobs, writes Sandy Neil.
Scotland’s second largest salmon farmer, which employs 440 people, announced yesterday that it is investing £35 million in a land-based freshwater facility at the centre, allowing it to more than double the number young salmon, or ‘smolts’, it rears each year.
Scottish Sea Farms’ managing director Jim Gallagher said: ‘Argyll will benefit from high-quality jobs and training opportunities. Logistically, it provides everything we want, and it is close to our existing activities around Oban. This will be transformational helping us to meet the rising, global demand for Scottish salmon and grow our harvest volumes and revenues sustainably.’