Problems in Lough Swilly and Mulroy Bay The highest recorded levels of sea lice on farmed fish in Ireland were found on two Donegal fish farms in recent months , it has emerged. According to industry-circulated Marine Institute reports leaked to the Donegal News, the worst affected fish farms were those in Lough Swilly and … Continue reading
What’s the difference between organic farmed salmon and the much-demonised variety that’s kept in cages, stuffed with colours and pesticides, doomed to swim in its own faeces and prematurely slaughtered? Surprisingly little, discovers Joanna Blythman. I’m eyeing up a fillet of farmed Scottish organic salmon and, to be honest, it doesn’t look too enticing. Its … Continue reading
As a keen salmon angler, I am deeply concerned to learn of a proposal by Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) to install a supersized salmon farming unit off Inis Oirr in Galway Bay. Over the past 30 years, sites chosen have proven to be ill-judged in terms of their close proximity to river mouths. The untold … Continue reading
Environmental groups, angling organisations and touristy industry representatives are planning to launch a national campaign to oppose the expansion of fish farms. The groups have claimed that the planned construction and expansion of such farms along the west coast would be damaging to the environment and to local tourism. The campaign was proposed at a … Continue reading
A global anti-fish farming activist on a tour of the west coast has called for details of chemical anti-parasite treatments used in Irish waters to be made available. Activist Don Staniford, a known ‘public enemy’ of salmon farming drew a 100-strong crowd to Bantry Bay on Friday. A guest speaker on behalf of campaign group … Continue reading
A global anti-fish farming activist on a tour of the west coast has called for details of chemical anti-parasite treatments used in Irish waters to be made available. Activist Don Staniford, a known ‘public enemy’ of salmon farming drew a 100-strong crowd to Bantry Bay on Friday. A guest speaker on behalf of campaign group … Continue reading
Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is the state agency charged with the conservation, protection, development, management and promotion of Ireland’s inland fisheries and sea angling resource. The Board of IFI agrees with the recent statement by Minister Fergus O’ Dowd on offshore salmon farming and welcomes the development of Ireland’s aquaculture sector, once any development complies … Continue reading
BANTRY is set to become the centre for the showdown between those who are for or against the future development of salmon farming in the bay. On Friday November 23rd, the Maritime Hotel in Bantry will see what the organisers hope will be a large turn out to demonstrate against Marine Harvest’s proposed new salmon … Continue reading
An international activist dubbed salmon farming’s “public enemy number one” is set to boost the campaign against two major fish farming projects off the south and west coasts. Anti-fish farming campaigner Don Staniford is expected to draw a large crowd to a protest meeting in Bantry on Friday, the Save Bantry Bay group said. The … Continue reading
HUGE stocks of the iconic wild Atlantic salmon are being wiped out by sea lice from fish farms around the coast. The wild salmon returning to Irish rivers to spawn are being infested with sea lice, an official report has found. Some of the fish farms may have to close due to the high mortality … Continue reading
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