Article: What a whopper!; Anglesey nets pounds 19m Euro fish farm deal.(News)

Byline: Welsh Affairs Correspondent By Tom Bodden

EUROPE'S biggest halibut farm is to be built in North Wales with the creation of 55 jobs.

The pounds 19.2m plan, for a disused quarry on Anglesey, will place the island at the forefront of European fish production.

It will include Wales' first on-site fish processing plant and commercial scale marine hatchery.

The Welsh Assembly yesterday announced a pounds 3.6m European grant for the scheme, which will lie next to an existing turbot fish farm at Penmon.

The initial target is for a minimum output of 1,000 tonnes of halibut a year.

Phillip Gatland, a director of the ...

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