Marine Harvest and Stolt Seafoods, Scotland’s largest fish farming companies, have agreed to merge.

The merger, which will create the newly-named company Marine Harvest, will lead to the loss of 120 jobs at the companies.

Approximately 50 positions will be lost at Stolt’s processing factory in Scalpay, with a further 70 from combined operations.

Marine Harvest said that the merger would allow the Scottish fishing industry to compete with Norwegian fisheries.

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