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The world's largest farmed salmon firm has saved a £12m fish farm on Anglesey - creating new jobs at the site.

The facility at Penmon had been owned by Anglesey Aquaculture who once produced thousands of tonnes of sea bass at the site.

But production came to a halt in 2015 after the UK was swamped with low cost sea bass from Turkey and Greece - making it impossible to compete.

Now though the site has been bought by farmed salmon giant Marine Harvest with plans to produce wrasse - a fish that eats sea lice at salmon farms.

There are an initial 12 roles available at the site.

A spokesman for the company said: “Marine Harvest, the world’s largest aquaculture company, has purchased the former sea bass and sea bream hatchery at Anglesey.

“The company plan to transform it into a modern facility for the production of wrasse, which are natural predators for sea lice.

“The hatchery will be used to grow wrasse to stock the company’s salmon farms in Scotland.

“The use of wrasse as a sustainable solution to the challenge of sea lice is increasingly common in salmon farming and demand for wrasse and other so-called cleanerfish is expected to increase in future years.

“Re-fitting the hatchery is expected to begin in January 2018 and we are currently recruiting to fill up to 12 positions in the modernised facility.”

The fish farm was established on Anglesey in 2002 and at its peak produced 1,000 tonnes of sea bass annually.