Links

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed salmon farm site at Shot Head, Trafrask, Adrigole, Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland, prepared for Marine Harvest Ireland in May 2011. The deadline for any submissions, objections, observations closed on 11th Feb 2012.

• EIS Vol 1 Main Text (34Mb)
• EIS Vol 2 Main Text (62 Mb)
• EIS Shot Head Vol3 Non-Tech Summary  (1 Mb)

Some information on salmon farming

• Closed system fish farming
• Protect and Preserve Dunmanus Bay (english)
• Lachsfieber / Salmonopoly – Der Dokumentarfilm (german)
• Pure Salmon (english)
• Save Dunmanus Bay (english)
• An outline of the impacts of the proposed salmon farm on tourism including angling
• Impact on Local Fisheries

Information on fish health

• RSPB Reasearch Paper on the ‘Impact of parasites on salmon recruitment in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean’
• Sea Lice – Life cycle and general information.
• Abstract of report on the recovery of sea lice from Hydrogen Peroxide
• Information on the effect of plankton on fish health
• Research on the genetic impact of farmed Salmon on wild Salmon
• Sea Lice Monitoring data August November 2012

Information on health issues

• Scientific American article on mercury, pcb’s and dioxin
• Scottish farmed salmon scare and PBT’s
• Health impacts of saturated fat in farmed salmon
• Marine Institute report Dangerous Substance use in Finfish Aquaculture
• Farmed salmon more toxic than wild salmon
• Report on Bantry and Dingle Bay (contains information on chemicals and heavy metals)
• Los Angeles Times article on toxic chemicals in the food chain and autism

Environmental Information

• Information on eutrophication
• Information on phytoplankton

More links sent by well informed readers:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et5mvUUAr1o
• http://www.salmonaresacred.org
• http://www.superheroes4salmon.org
• http://www.ourglobalocean.org
• http://www.puresalmon.org
• http://www.farmedsalmonexposed.org
• http://www.medwayriversalmonassociation.org/news/Fish_Farmageddon_23Aug2011.pdf