BIM defends use of pesticides at proposed Galway Bay fish farm, Galway Bay FM

Galway bay fm newsroom – Bord Iascaigh Mhara has defended the use of an active ingredient within a veterinary medicine to be used at a proposed Galway Bay fish farm off Inis Oirr. It follows concerns raised by campaign group Galway Bay Against Salmon Cages that a pesticide containing cypermethrin to be used at the farm could pose a toxic threat to aquatic organisms. BIM has applied for a deep sea salmon farming licence at a site roughly six kilometes off Inis Oirr, which it argues could create hundreds of jobs…
Galway Bay FM, 25/07/13. Read the full article ‘BIM defends use of pesticides at proposed Galway Bay fish farm‘.