Another oyster farm ‘will strangle bay’

Plans for another oyster farm in a scenic West Cork harbour will strangle the bay, environmentalists have claimed.

Friends of the Irish Environment have now lodged a detailed objection to an application by local man John Crowley for a license for oyster cultivation in Adrigole Harbour on the Beara peninsula.

His proposal is for the installation of trestles constructed from reinforcing rod — submerged at high tide but exposed for the lower tides across a nine hectare site.