Groups Call on Scottish Salmon Farms to Scale Back after Record Mortalities
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The National Scot] by Kirsteen Paterson - Febraury 7, 2018
PRODUCTION should be cut at Scotland’s biggest salmon farms over the high number of fish lost to parasites and disease, it is claimed.
Industry figures published in October show up to 10 million salmon were disposed of by Scottish producers in 2016. The total tonnage – almost 22,480 – is a record high and more than double that of 2013.
Now the Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture (GAAIA) is calling for restriction on the country’s largest producers in light of new data obtained under Freedom of Information law. Data released by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) shows almost 2.3m fish were lost by Marine Harvest alone ...
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