Despite the Minister for Agriculture’s reassuring words that the sea-lice infestation ‘is no longer significant’, the infestation has continued to spread and salmon farms in Ireland are now reported to have three times as much infested salmon as they did three years ago. This was claimed by the conservationist group Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE), which recalled that not long ago, the Department of Agriculture reported that the sea-lice issue was a ‘decreasing trend’ during an investigation conducted by the European Commission (EC)…
FIS, 06/08/13. Read the full article ‘Sea-lice contamination three times higher‘.
