Iceland Aquaculture Firm Seeks Land Based License For Salmon Farm
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [FISH UPDATE] - November 2, 2017
An Icelandic aquaculture company has applied to build a land based salmon farm in a small community in the north east of the country.
Iceland is looking to grow its fish farming industry over the next decade and during the summer it commissioned a study into the environmental impact of any expansion, which is now being hotly debated.
The report ruled out fish farming in the Isafjordur region, for example, but this has drawn criticism from some of its more isolated communities, who have lost traditional fish processing jobs and now want to be considered for any future fish farming developments. .
But this application, by the company Fiskeldi Austfjarðar – or Ice Fish Farm, is unusual in that it is on land. Most Icelandiic ...
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