Representatives from 12 organizations opposing open pen salmon farms across Ireland have joined together to encourage.
“Simon Coveney is committed to a massive increase in Ireland’s output of farmed salmon with eight further farms along the Irish coast proposed by his agency,” reads a statement from the ‘Wildfish’ campaign.
“A licence to double Ireland’s farmed salmon output in one super-farm in Galway Bay is under consideration, while a recent grant of permission for the expansion of the Norwegian multi-national Marine Harvest in Bantry Bay is currently under appeal.”…
Undercurrent News 15/12/2015 Read the article ‘Irish environmental groups launch boycott on farmed salmon’