Government agencies in dispute over plan for deep-sea salmon farm

Government agencies have clashed over plans for a massive deep-sea salmon farm off the west coast, which backers say will create 500 jobs.

Inland Fisheries Ireland claims the project will bring in less than half the employment forecast by the promoters, Bord Iascaigh Mhara.

The seafood agency has applied for a licence to produce 15,000 tonnes of organic-certified salmon each year in Galway Bay, in waters 1.7km off Inis Oírr on the Aran Islands.