An EU inquiry into the prevalence of sea lice around salmon farms and their impact on wild salmon, which was closed in September 2012, is to be reopened. The reopening of the inquiry follows complaints that information from State agency Inland Fisheries Ireland on the scale of damage caused to wild fish from lice associated with salmon farms, was withheld by the Department of Agriculture. The EU initially sought information on the scale of the sea lice issue from Ireland as part of a larger EU study as far back as 2009…
Irish Times, 25/11/13. Read the full article ‘EU to reopen salmon farm inquiry‘.
