Uncertainty over fish farm jobs

Owners Marine Harvest will now be amalgamating the operation with Pan Fish Scotland and sell the combined company. This decision overrules the previous conclusion, which was to make the Stornoway operation a stand-alone company. Fjord Seafood, which supports more than 100 fish farming jobs, has recently been re-branded Outer Hebrides Seafood. Marine Harvest was told by the Competition Commission that it had to sell Pan Fish Scotland to be allowed the three-way merger with Pan Fish and Fjord Seafood worldwide. However, it has now decided to transfer Outer Hebrides Seafood and some former Marine Harvest sites into Pan Fish Scotland, before selling it, the news source wrote. Pan Fish Scotland already has processing facilities in Argyll and there could now be the possibility of rationalisation in Stornoway, with processing concentrated at Pan Fish facilities in Argyll, BBC News reported.