Discount retailer Aldi has transferred its chilled salmon processing contract to Young’s Seafood from rival Marine Harvest, according to reports in The Press and Journal.

The salmon will be processed at Young’s Fraserburgh plant.

The announcement is a complete reversal in fortunes for the seafood processor from last year, when it looked like the plant might close when Young’s Seafood lost a lucrative processing contract with Sainsbury’s to Marine Harvest.

After axing hundreds of jobs, the plant was able to remain open.

The move will mean that all of Aldi’s chilled salmon products which are processed in Rosyth will be transferred to Young’s factories.

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