Fisheries official angry at being told to leave meeting

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

BIM regional development officer David Millard had questioned the accuracy of assertions made by the Save Bantry Bay (SBB) group in a presentation in Glengarriff at the weekend.

According to Mr Millard, he queried a statement that in Spring 2010, sea lice levels at the existing Marine Harvest farm were at dangerous “trigger levels” whereby the farm would have to be treated with chemicals.