Simon Coveney: Weather delayed collection of fish

These figures would make the fish escape the largest single salmon farm escape in history, according to local group, Save Bantry Bay, which is campaigning to stop the development of a €3.5m organic salmon fish farm at Shot Head, Bantry.
Mr Coveney admitted that only 20,000 out of 250,000 fish remain at Murphy’s farm at Gearhies, Bantry, after storms on February 1.