Peninsula bids to halt fish farms’ expansion

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.

In leaflets distributed by An Post, a Save Bantry Bay action committee has highlighted the problems of pollution in the bay through the poor circulation of water.

The group has claimed the projected waste from the fish farm would be equal to sewage from a town 10 times the size of Bantry.