09 Jan 2021
Controls over wild wrasse harvesting imposed By Robert Outram – 1st December 2020 Fish Farmer ‘The Scottish Government has announced mandatory controls over the harvesting of wild wrasse for managing sea lice in the salmon farming industry. Fishers will have to meet certain criteria, show they have an appropriate relationship with an aquaculture business and have a proven […]
17 Nov 2020
Thanks to Emma Sheehan for this. CGTN: RAZOR: How mussels could help soaring food demand and the environment – Watch the Video Jo Colan and Giulia Carbonaro Feeding the world’s ever-increasing population is a growing challenge, pushing the limits of what the planet can sustain. By 2050, the demand for food is expected to be […]
13 Oct 2020
BBC ‘Nearly 50,000 salmon escaped from storm-damaged fish farm Salmon that escaped from a fish farm near Campbeltown during Storm Ellen have now been found in three rivers in Cumbria in England. Almost 50,000 fish escaped when cages at the North Carradale farm broke free from their anchors in August. Many have been found in local waters […]
07 Oct 2020
Pollution from farming increases massively from a planned surge dairy farming plan. Guardian ‘Ireland is experiencing a water pollution crisis. A lack of investment in managing sewage is part of the story: half of urban wastewater treatment plants don’t meet minimum EU standards, while raw sewage from 77,000 people across Ireland flows into the environment every day. […]
07 Oct 2020
Pollution from farming increases massively from a planned surge dairy farming plan. Guardian ‘Ireland is experiencing a water pollution crisis. A lack of investment in managing sewage is part of the story: half of urban wastewater treatment plants don’t meet minimum EU standards, while raw sewage from 77,000 people across Ireland flows into the environment every day. […]
02 Sep 2020
Protecting Our Local Rivers from Pollution by Industrial Farming The pollution of the Wye this summer by farms have been widely reported on by national and local media. Now concerned residents of the Golden Valley in Herefordshire are crowdfunding to take on Herefordshire County Council On 3 June 2020, Herefordshire County Council gave its approval to a planning application […]
16 Jun 2020
‘Salmon and Trout Conservation Scotland’s 2016 Petition to the Scottish Parliament led to the 2018 ECCLR and REC Committee inquiries into salmon farming. The REC Committee identified that “the ‘status quo’ in terms of regulation and enforcement of the fish farming industry is not acceptable”. In response, the Scottish Government tasked the Salmon Interactions Working […]
16 Apr 2020
Low Carbon Farming unveils plans to deploy wastewater-heated greenhouses nationwide Business Green ‘Enormous greenhouses the size of the O2 Arena could allow the UK to become self-sufficient in tomatoes and cucumbers, according to developer Low Carbon Farming More than 40 giant wastewater-heated greenhouses could help curb the UK’s reliance on imported vegetables and significantly shrink […]
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