MARINE Harvest staff have been congratulated on an outstanding performance after the company announced a record high for operational performance in its first quarter of the year.
The company, which has the Eilean Grianan farm off Carradale, achieved an operational earnings before interest and tax of 220 million euros in the first quarter of 2017, compared to 112 million euros in the corresponding quarter of 2016 with Marine Harvest Scotland contributing 25 per cent of that sum.
Ben Hadfield, managing director of Marine Harvest (Scotland) Ltd, said: ‘This is a great outcome and is the result of incredibly hard work here in Scotland.