SCOTLAND’s oldest university been accused of “misleading the nation” over research about the £1 billion Scottish salmon farming industry, the country’s largest food exporter. The row erupted between St Andrews University and the Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organisation (SSPO), the body that represents salmon farmers, over the interpretation of research on the numbers of Atlantic salmon estimated to have been killed by parasites. It centres on the controversial issue of disease being passed among wild and farmed salmon and it broke out after the research, which salmon farmers say is “wholly incorrect and unjustifiable”, was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B this week.
The Herald, 09/11/12. Read the full article ‘University under fire over salmon lice death claims‘.
