With reference to recent media coverage relating to Marine Institute research on sea lice, the Save Bantry Bay group concludes the statement was “misleading” and “deceptive”.
The statement claims the Journal of Fish Diseases apologised for publishing the critique of the work of Dr David Jackson, senior Marine Institute fisheries inspector, and that the critique was “downgraded”.
When read more closely, the apology is for nothing more than an administrative error that meant Jackson’s response was not published alongside the critique. What is more, at no point does it suggest the critique was “downgraded” or that there are any errors in the critique, according to Save Bantry Bay…..
Irish Times 28/04/2014 Read the article ‘Save Bantry Bay group claims sea lice statement ‘misleading’‘
