A CONSORTIUM of angling and environmental groups from all over Ireland met in the Menlo Park Hotel, Galway last Sunday to discuss a national strategy to counteract plans to expand open salmon cages along the western seaboard, according to the group Galway Bay Again Salmon Cages (Gbasc).
Delegates heard that plans are afoot in the preparation of further Environmental Impact Statements for a number of salmon farming sites in Galway, Mayo and Donegal…..
Anglers and tourist interests expressed concerns that their sectors would be hit and and that job losses would occur as salmon rivers within a 30k radius of cages would have their young salmon returning to sea infected by lice from salmon installations……
Irish Times 31/01/2014 Read the article ‘Sea-lice concerns are expressed by angling and tourism interests against salmon farms‘
