Bid to Stop Plymouth Wrasse Being Taken for Salmon Farms
SEAFOODNEWS.COM] Plymouth Evening Herald - KEITH ROSSITER - June 26, 2017
SCOTTISH salmon farmers may be taking thousands of live fish from protected Plymouth waters – and using them to clean parasites from captive salmon.
The colourful fish, from the wrasse family, are being caught in areas such as the Plymouth Sound Special Area of Conservation and Wembury.
The fish are caught in baited traps, known as pots. As wrasse live on rocky reefs close to shore this means that much of the fishing activity could take place within Devon’s most treasured and protected inshore marine ...
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