Biased Siggins on ‘Morning Ireland’ repeatedly distorted the science and politics of salmon-farming and sea lice – failing elementary journalistic standards
Lorna Siggins’ performance on ‘Morning Ireland’ last Friday stunned those who have been following the fish-farm and sea-lice controversy which yields only one credible conclusion, confirmed by world experts and numerous studies – that fish farms generate sea lice that latch onto and devastate wild salmonids (salmon, trout, graylings etc). Siggins has become part of the problem – a source of what Mark Costello, the leading scientist in the field, told Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney in May was ‘recent incorrect information in the media’. Costello, Professor at the University of Auckland and Chair of the World Register of Marine Species, says he does ‘not normally get involved in such debates’ but felt conscious-bound to make it clear that sea lice are ‘linked to mass fatal parasite infestations on wild salmon and trout in Ireland, Scotland, Norway and Canada’……
Village Magazine.ie 08/07/2013 Read the article ‘Lice, damned lies and statistics’
