Marine Harvest bought Linnaeus Capital Partners-backed Welsh sea bass farmer Anglesey Aquaculture as part of a strategy to expand its cleaner fish production, a top executive at the salmon farming giant told IntraFish.

"We think it has a lot of potential," Ben Hadfield, managing director of Marine Harvest Scotland, told IntraFish of the deal.

"It was an attractive acquisition to strengthen the volume of cleaner fish we intend to produce in the coming years, but it will take time to undertake the refurbishment and reconditioning of the unit and come up with a proper plan over the coming months."

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