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.

Fisheries official angry at being told to leave meeting

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.

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