Construction to get underway in Spain for France Turbot, Paris

France: France Turbot's Spanish subsidiary - set to be built this year - will be called 'Al Rogal', meaning juvenile turbot in Spanish.

"We are building a 12,000 square metre hatchery in Galice to service our Spanish customers," MD Didier Leclercq told IntraFish, "The unit will be modern and therefore much more practical than our 10 year old site here in France."

With an ergonomic layout, the site has been designed with the hindsight of 10 years of experience in juvenile turbot farming.

"As well as producing smolt, the new unit will give us the extra facilities we need to carry out more research into this field, it will give us more commercial weight and our purchasing power will in fact we multiplied by two," added Mr Leclercq.

France Turbot have already built up the brood stock which will kick start the new hatchery. "We have forecast output at 6 million juveniles per year, within three years. Production should be underway by 2003," he said.

Optimal output figures, however, depend on the workforce and France Turbot have a team of 40 people to train.

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