Built on Klädesholmen, also known as ‘herring island’, it will include six two-storey buildings on floating pontoons outside the restaurant. The hotel’s 23 rooms with 48 beds will be ready for the start of the lobster season when people across the region celebrate the riches of ‘black gold’.

The eco-friendly hotel will be secured to steel posts in the seabed and rubble, left over from the building work, will be used to construct a new reef outside the hotel to benefit fish and shellfish. The underside of the pontoons with not be painted making them a perfect home for shells and mussels and it is envisaged the underside of the hotel will act as a huge natural purification plant for the marine environment.