A controversial West Cork salmon farm application will be considered at a hearing in Bantry next month.

The failure of Government departments to regulate fish farm-used pesticides is continuing to threaten shellfish and inshore fishing industries, along with marine wildlife, in West Cork.

The Department of Agriculture has refused, under appeal, to publish a report it commissioned into how 230,000 farmed salmon escaped from cages in Bantry Bay during winter storms.

After months of questioning, Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has confirmed that up to 230,000 farmed fish escaped from their cages into Bantry Bay during February’s storms.

Met Éireann has warned of a major flooding risk both from expected stormy weather from Wednesday onwards and from heavy rainfall which will swell rivers already near capacity.

A European Commission investigation into the impact of sea lice on salmon farms is to be reopened.

Environmental groups protested outside the Good Food Ireland awards and called on the food and tourism sector to boycott farmed salmon this Christmas.

The report used by Bord Iascaigh Mhara to allay fears about the threat posed to wild salmon stocks by salmon farming has been dismissed as “flawed” by international marine scientists.

Celebrity chef Darina Allen and the international Slow Food organisation have clashed with Bord Iascaigh Mhara over its proposed 500-hectare organic salmon farm off the Aran Islands.

The discovery of huge quantities of toxic pesticides at a salmon farm in Scotland has escalated fears for a facility planned for Bantry Bay.

Assurances given by a state body over risks to wild salmon have not eased coastal communities’ fears over fish farms.

Sea lice are not playing a “significant role” in killing off salmon stocks, joint research by the Marine Institute and NUI Galway has claimed.

Campaigners against a planned €3.5m fish farm in Bantry Bay have called for Ireland’s sea lice assessment system to be tested.

Salmon and sea trout anglers along with inshore fishermen insist a planned explosion of giant fish farms on the west coast will lead to a senseless destruction of the Irish environment and damage key industries.

Shoppers are being encouraged to boycott farmed salmon by Irish anglers, coastal communities, and environmentalists opposed to the further expansion of fish farms around the coast.

A global anti-fish farming activist on a tour of the west coast has called for details of chemical anti-parasite treatments used in Irish waters to be made available.

An international activist dubbed salmon farming’s “public enemy number one” is set to boost the campaign against two major fish farming projects off the south and west coasts.

Up to 7,000 homes in the Beara Peninsula have been targeted by a voluntary group campaigning to prevent the expansion of Marine Harvest’s fish farms in Bantry Bay.

Tributes have been paid to an environmentalist and author who was killed in a freak lawnmower accident in West Cork on Tuesday.

The Department of Agriculture has described as “flawed” a report from the 1990s which warned about the negative effect of fish farms on wild sea trout and, furthermore, denied ever trying to “suppress” it.

A Norwegian fish farming company is seeking to develop a closed container fish farm at buildings which were previously used for the processing of mussels in Bantry, West Cork.

A Bord Iascaigh Mhara employee was asked to leave a public meeting hosted by a group opposed to a planned €3.5m fish farm.

A West Cork campaign group aiming to halt the planning of an offshore €3.5m fish farm has called on its developers to locate the project inland.

TRADITIONAL fishermen, anglers and sailors, bed and breakfast-owners, hoteliers, harbour commissioners and environmentalists along with peninsula residents — it’s a disparate bunch.

Residents in West Cork, opposed to the development of a €3.5m fish farm by one of the world’s biggest aquaculture companies, have accused the developers of trying to “buy” the local community “with trinkets”.

A number of West Cork county councillors are “keeping their counsel” in a continuing controversy over a planned new €3.5m fish farm in Bantry Bay.

A harbour authority has lodged objections to a controversial €3.5 million fish farming project in West Cork by one of the biggest aquaculture companies in the world.

A third generation West Cork fisherman has said fishermen are objecting to a proposed fish farm in Bantry Bay because if it proceeds, they “won’t be able to access their shellfish pots” in bad weather.