Seafood firm to invest €3.5m in Bantry salmon farm site

ONE of the world’s leading seafood companies, Marine Harvest plans to invest €3.5 million developing a new salmon farm site in Bantry Bay, Co Cork.

The capital investment is part of a €14m programme by the Irish subsidiary Marine Harvest Ireland (MHI) over the next five years. MHI plans to upgrade 16 aquaculture sites around the coast. MHI has lodged an application with the Department of Agriculture for an aquaculture licence and a foreshore licence for the proposed Shot Head development.

The development would create six full-time jobs during the farm set-up and two extra jobs when fully operational.