Fury at refusal to publish report on escaped salmon

The Department of Agriculture has refused, under appeal, to publish a report it commissioned into how 230,000 farmed salmon escaped from cages in Bantry Bay during winter storms.

Friends of the Irish Environment and Save Bantry Bay first requested a copy of the Marine Engineering Division report earlier this year.

But Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney refused and interested parties in West Cork appealed his decision under internal departmental mechanisms.