Anglers voice concerns over State’s fish farm grants

Anglers in the West of Ireland have raised concerns about why the State is continuing to provide grant aid to a group of Connemara fish farms when the businesses have persistently lost money and when fish farming provides little employment.

Anglers voice concerns over State’s fish farm grants

In recent months, the Department of Agriculture announced the transfer, to a new company, of salmon farming licences from five operators who received up to €4.5m in State funding since the 1980s.

According to Salmonwatch Ireland, the original five licensees also owe up to €378,340 in aquaculture and foreshore licences payments to the department.

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