Move fish farm inland, say Bantry protesters

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.

The Save Bantry Bay group, established to stop the development of an organic salmon farm at Shot Head off Adrigole, has urged Marine Harvest to instead use a closed containment fish farming system (CCS) in the Bantry/Beara peninsula area.

Letters urging county councillors to support the farming method were sent in recent days.