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 local action group was set up to oppose Marine Harvest expansion plans in Bantry Bay.
The fish farm company wants to develop a 100-acre site at Shot Head and has lodged an application for a foreshore and aquaculture licence with the Department of the Marine.
Save Bantry Bay is fighting the project, citing concerns about the farm’s impact on water quality, wildlife, angling, fishing, tourism, shipping navigation and water sports.
But the campaign group is now also harnessing growing opposition to a Bord Iascaigh Mhara proposal for a super salmon farm in Galway Bay which it says would double the national production of farmed salmon.
The group has invited Mr Staniford to address Friday’s meeting as it steps up its campaign. Mr Staniford has been described by the aquaculture trade media as salmon farming’s “public enemy number one”. He was recently cleared by British Columbia’s Supreme Court of defamation charges after he ran a series of shock ads linking cancer from cigarette smoking to cancer from farmed salmon……..
Irish Examiner. 20/11/2012. Read the article ‘Fish farming’s ‘public enemy No 1′ to boost Bantry campaign’
