Minister confirms single biggest salmon-farm escape in history in Ireland

Minister Simon Coveney has confirmed 230,000 salmon are missing after storms significantly damaged Murphy’s salmon farm in Gearhries, Bantry Bay, on 1 February 2014. This is Ireland’s largest single salmon farm escape in history.  It is a legal requirement that all mortalities are disposed of at a licensed facility. However, none have been retrieved despite a well boat, capable of collecting farmed salmon from nets, spending a day at the site on 18 February 2014.