The license for a salmon farm at Shot Head has now been granted to Marine Harvest. Save Bantry Bay are now in the process of preparing an appeal. If you would like any more information, want to know how you might submit an appeal, or have any items you would like to discuss, please do … Continue reading
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Irish Examiner, 21 Sept 2015: Marine Harvest salmon farm to go ahead in Bantry Bay
Farmed salmon producer Marine Harvest says it has a ready market for fish from its newly approved second site in Bantry Bay, to be completed within four months. MHI has received Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine approval for aquaculture and foreshore licences for a site at Shot Head in Bantry Bay. After … Continue reading
Licence Granted for Shot Head, Bantry Bay Salmon Farm: Public Notice 16 Sept 2015
FISHERIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1997 (NO. 23) & FORESHORE ACT, 1933 (NO. 12) NOTICE OF DECISION TO GRANT AQUACULTURE AND FORESHORE LICENCES. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has decided to grant an Aquaculture Licence and a Foreshore Licence to, Bradán Fanad Teo t/a Marine Harvest Ireland, KINDRUM, FANAD, LETTERKENNY, CO. DONEGAL, REF: T5/555 … Continue reading
Inland Fisheries Ireland, 10 Sept 2015: Salmon farms can have a significant impact on wild salmon and sea trout stocks
A definitive scientific paper, reviewing over 300 scientific publications, has just been published in the prestigious journal Aquaculture Environment Interactions on the effects of sea lice on sea trout stocks. A team of top international scientists from Norway, Scotland and Ireland reviewed all available published studies on the effects of sea lice and have concluded … Continue reading
Irish Examiner, 3 Sept 2015: Aqua farmers warned as massive algae bloom threatens fish and marine life
Thursday, September 03, 2015 Sean O’Riordan Aqua farm owners off the south-west coast have been warned of a massive bloom of algae which has the potential to kill fish and shellfish stock along with other marine life. The algae has already been blamed for de-oxygenating waters off Goleen in West Cork, leading to the destruction … Continue reading
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