Galway Bay plans under fire

According to the Irish Times, Ireland's Minister for Marine, Simon Coveney, has come under increased pressure to refuse a licence for the proposed 15,000-tonne organic fish farm in Galway Bay, with Nolan declaring that the project “carries too many risks”.

Nolan said new information coming to light this year showed that hundreds of thousands of farmed salmon escaped from a farm in Bantry bay and were unaccounted for.

“I feel there is now too much evidence showing the negative impact this salmon farm could have on Galway Bay,” he told the newspaper.

Marine Harvest has been tipped as one of the potential operators of the Galway project, if approved.