SAVE BANTRY BAY: PRESS RELEASE Monday 22 October All 166 of Ireland’s TDs have been contacted by Save Bantry Bay, a voluntary group campaigning to prevent the expansion of Marine Harvest’s salmon farms in the Bay. While Save Bantry Bay is a local group, they claim preventing the expansion of salmon farming in Bantry Bay … Continue reading
Scotland’s lucrative salmon industry is facing a multi-million-pound threat from a parasitic disease outbreak, experts have warned. Worried fishermen said the spread of the disease in farms has seen hundreds of tons of fish being killed. There are fears a recent outbreak of the parasite could have cost the industry as much as £17million. Some … Continue reading
Scores of people in the Netherlands and the US have caught salmonella after eating Dutch smoked salmon, say Dutch health authorities. About 200 people have fallen ill in the Netherlands along with about 100 people in the US, said the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM). An RIVM official told the BBC that this could … Continue reading
FOR many people in West Cork the refusal by the Aquaculture Licensing Appeals Board to grant a licence for a shellfish farm in Dunmanus Bay was a victory for common sense. Except for the politicos – because Simon Coveney, Fine Gael Minister for Agriculture, Marine and Food, was much in favour of the project and … Continue reading
A COMPLAINT about alleged lack of information and transparency on decisions regarding fishfarming matters has been made to the Minister for the Marine. In a letter to Simon Coveney, Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) notes that the website of the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board appears to have ceased operating in 2006, showing an out-ofdate … Continue reading
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