Bantry Bay oral hearing: Fish farm report wasn’t circulated

An oral hearing into the granting of a licence for a salmon farm in Bantry Bay has been adjourned for at least a month after it emerged a technical report relevant to the proceedings had not been circulated to all parties due to an oversight.

Photo credit: Graham Saunders, technical adviser to the the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board , Dr Owen McIntyre, Hearing Chairman, Seb Rider, Technical adviser to the Chairman, at the Bantry Bay Fish Farm Oral Hearing in the Westlodge Hotel, Bantry. Pic Tony McElhinney

Marine Harvest had been granted a licence for the facility off Shot Head and the second day of the oral hearing was to feature a contribution from the company in which it sought to assuage concerns raised by those objecting to the development.