Say no to organic salmon farming

I oppose the “organic” salmon farming scheme which is being considered for Galway Bay.

More jobs (and therefore income to the State) will be lost than gained because of the negative impact.

Tourism will gradually decline in the west of Ireland, and especially in Clare and Galway, because of the unsightly pen markers and the gradual awareness in the minds of the public that Galway Bay has become an “industrial” asset of big business rather than the natural asset it is now perceived as. Moreover, the cumulative effect of the effluent and detritus from the caged salmon, along with the inevitable escapes, will adversely affect wild salmon as well as lobsters, crabs and crustaceans in a wide area.