The Wild Atlantic Salmon is widely recognised as the King of game angling species. Salmon anglers and conservationists are passionate about these fish and have given freely of their time and money to conserve and protect them. The Atlantic Salmon and sea trout are now under serious threat and in recent years stocks have been steadily declining to a point where all conservation groups have become alarmed and all government agencies have been tasked with bringing in legislation to protect the small numbers of fish we now have. Anglers and conservationists have also fought hard to eradicate commercial netting for this species in our coastal waters thereby attempting to enhance numbers. Anglers of Ireland have also been conserving stocks on a voluntary basis along with some Irish rivers been closed to all angling as a result of the declining numbers of wild salmon and sea trout.
Interest in this by NSFAS (No Salmon Farms At Sea), was initially sparked by the announcement of a major development in Bantry Bay and then Galway Bay, and we have now learned that one is also planned for the Tory Island area of Donegal which would impact on rivers in Northern Ireland. The picture seems to have developed even more with the announcement that the governments both north and south have applied to the EU for PGI status for “Irish” salmon. They seem to have neglected to add that this application refers to “farmed” fish . This was a joint application and since then it would seem that, with the recent announcement regarding the Glenarm Salmon Farm signing a contract to supply farmed fish to Hong Kong, that both governments are hell bent on promoting an industry which will have the potential to decimate our already endangered wild stocks. Couple that with the information that has come from the Inland Fisheries Ireland Study in the Republic, which clearly states that 39% of our salmon smolts heading to sea are dying due to sea lice infestation. These smolts are the main life blood of all future stocks. It is imperative we do all we can to protect them.
NSFAS have set up an all-Ireland Group and will be voicing our concerns at every possible opportunity. We have been looking at this issue for some time and we believe the time is right to bring this to the attention of the public, the Irish Government and the Stormont Executive. Ministers in Stormont recently agreed, unanimously, in the executive debate on Wild Salmon Decline that the situation needs to be addressed. To allow any growth of the farmed salmon industry at this time would be a massive error in judgement. NSFAS recognise the issues with the number of salmon farms already in place on our coastline and are realistic enough to expect that they are not going away. We would like to mirror the policy of other groups who would like to see them brought inland where possible. We would also like to see them regulated more stringently to deal with sea lice control and commensurate penalties imposed for any and all breaches.One might think that farmed Salmon would take the pressure off the wild salmon but unfortunately the opposite is true. NSFAS agrees with the recent statement by Minister Fergus O’ Dowd on offshore salmon farming and welcomes the development of Ireland’s aquaculture sector, provided any development complies with Ireland’s obligations under relevant EU environmental legislation, particularly the Habitats Directive, and does not adversely affect salmon and sea trout stocks.
The Irish Government has recently decided to expand the salmon farming industry in Ireland and one of the first additions will be a ‘Mega’ salmon farm in Galway Bay that will produce 15,000 tonnes of farmed salmon and will have the capability of producing 30,000 tonnes of farmed salmon making this the biggest salmon farm in the world. This proposal has been put to the public with a lot of misleading information and concerns which we have listed below. These concerns are based on scientific reports by respected authors and scientists of the IFI.
As usual, commercial interests are entirely focussed on short-term financial gain. Environmental considerations are seen as obstacles to development and local protests are dismissed as the rantings of uninformed bystanders. I support NSFAS all the way.
It is at times like this that we see the worst in human behaviour in the neglect, abuse and greed that is promoted by multi national interests for their own gain at the expense of nature.
Proud to have signed this petition
Jobs yes!….but not in a “dirty” industry ….with attendant parasites and diseases which have the potential to destroy an existing pristine environment…..we have had huge problems with smaller fish farms a bigger fish farm is just gambling with our future and our childrens future…
Jobs yes but not in this “dirty” industry….this “dirty” industry is tainted and the product is tainted….indeed we are told to not eat more than one portion per week due to chemical tainting of this “dirty” industrys end product……
do not let this go ahead will devastate stocks of salmon and seatrout all around ireland and beyond
Please someone, stop these fools…………
We intend to!!!
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The environmental impact of these salmon farms is considerable, virtually uncontrolled seal lice concentrations generated by these farms. Seems to me the management of this is a shambles at every level.
The NSFAS is facing a long and difficult task in stopping this madness.Show your
support on Dec. 15th .
We need jobs! but not at the expense of our angling tourism. We need jobs but not the ones that contribute to the pollution and contamination of the seas around us. We need jobs! but not at the expense of depriving our children and grandchildren of the joy and elation of seeing a salmon and sea trout leap out of our precious rivers. We need jobs! but not those that destroys the good work that fishing clubs do up and down this country. We need jobs! but not at a price that destroys our finely balanced ego system and the collateral damage that would ensue. We need jobs but not the ones that make a few well connected rich while destroying or reputation as a green country-that cares about our environment and the quality of our food. We need jobs! but not the fictional ones created by spin doctors hired to pull the wool over our government not so open eyes.
Your angling tourism should be protected at all costs.I spend a fortune each year chasing fish all over the world but my favourite fishing places are Ireland and Scotland.We pay large sums of money for the pleasure of fishing on your rivers and lakes but will not visit you if you let this monstrous scheme take place. Mobilise your protesters without delay and sack your government ( and the EU)
if the go ahead is given for these farms no license fee paid no tourist welcome in other words rod war again all tackle dealers should refuse to sell license
no salmon farm in irish waters if you want our support
We need all the support we can get! Thanks.
Surely the EIS should be carried out by an independent organisation not BIM! Is there any way we can get Europe to help us?
Excessive unnatural lice infestations on our sea trout have only been seen since salmon farming came along.
Salmon farming is the sole cause of these grotesque infestations on our precious wild sea trout. Infestations geat enough to kill adult sea trout have been witnessed so what chance do juvenile salmon or sea trout stand?
The photographs being shared of unnatural and damaging lice infestations on sea trout are demonstrative and give a glimpse of what salmon farming brings about. To witness bad infestations in reality is an altogether more distressing experience. To know that the ugly phenomenon is a direct result of human interference in the habitat of these iconic wild fish is very disturbing. Parasite explosions resulting from industrial aquaculture are not just damaging to our wild fish stocks, it is downright cruelty for the fish affected.
In this age of environmentalism the only place left where detrimental human interference in the name of profit can go on out of the public gaze is below the sea suface. As the effects of salmon farming are difficult to see they are easy to deny. Its almost 2013 and it appears profit still justifies environmental destruction or will the Republic of Ireland be the first country to see sense?
Health Hazard Warning is what should be on farmed salmon for sale in our shops.
It has been established in a B.B.C. documentary “The Price Of Salmon” that farmed salmon is cancer enhancing and in particular should be avoided by pregnant women!
Allowing such neglect to Irelands coast lines would be disasterous. Goverment bodies need to listen for once on true facts never mind lining there pockets. We the people of Ireland dont want these farms anywere near us ever. Take advice from the from the people who yous employ to look after and conserve what little stocks we have left on our Island
Why is it only us that can see that this is such a disaster for the country ?
The Sea trout disappeared over night in Co. Clare when last farm in Inis Oirr (B.F) was installed. They’re only starting to make an reappearance lately.
What will happen with this monumental farm?
I am doing my best to spread the word!
Farms Stay Out!
So what was the point in getting rid of the drift nets ??????
I had the very same thought Seamus, why?
So what was the point in getting rid of the drift nets if this lunacy is allowed to go ahead ??????
It’s horrifying the damage to smolts and the number of sea lice on the declining numbers of returning grilse. The West coast of Canada is experiencing a similar onslought.Short term gain? I am a forester working overseas and throughout have witnessesed the destruction of natural resources; forests, fisheries, wildlife in the same context. Mangroves cleared for prawn farms in Sri Lanka that didn’t work!
governments around the world need to face facts and realise what they are doing to one of the worlds greatest creatures. if not they will drive them to the brink of extintion.
I fished for sea trout in Conemarra in the 80s, since then i,ve only been able to dream about them. We’ve now got members of a government who are intent on destroying the only chance we may have of getting those magic fish back into our rivers. We must fight this potential catastrophy at all costs. We’ve only to read about the destruction to the environments in Chile, Scotland and Canada to understand whats awaiting us should these lunacy go ahead. I have always eaten salmon but having spent three weeks educating myself on farmed salmon
and the down sides to how this industry produces this product, its definately of my eating list for good.
When are they going to catch themselves on . It is stupid to needlessly kill our wild stocks of salmon . When there is a perfectly viable answer to the problem .
the under developed angling of the south connamara area has been blighted for the past number of years because of lice from existing salmon cages along the west of Ireland coastline. Should this major industrial sized operation go ahead in Galway Bay all wild fisheries, salmon and seatrout in all rivers flowing into Galway Bay will be destroyed for the sake of profits and jobs at any price regardless of envioromental damage
We Irish really must be a soft touch if we are to allow the biggest fish farm to be anchored in Galway bay . What was wrong with the sheltered fjords in Norway.
When the Norwegians decided to give the Nobel peace prize to a Chinese dissident, the Chinese government decided to stop buying farmed salmon from Norway. The Irish and Scottish governments see a huge market as having opened up and want a piece of the pie at any cost. That cost is our wild salmon and sea trout, our environment and countless jobs which will be lost in the tourism industry that depends on salmon and sea trout.
Fish farms cause pollution and damage the stocks of wild salmon and sea-trout
Should it not be evident enough to anyone that if this project is getting interst from 22 companies from around the world, it is obvious that it is not welcome in their own waters.How long more is ireland going to sell out for the quick buck,with no thought to the future. Hard budgets will be gotten over in time, irelands economy will recover,but the wipe out of the wild salmon population and the pollution of our coastal waters for generations to come will not be forgotten,and neither will any government who is responsible for it.
people just have to look to the scottish isles to see the devastation this industry causes
Once again the Irish Goverment has will let its people down if it allows this to come to pass.
the answer is to vote your government out of office and leave the EU which is corrupt and causes issues like this on a regular basis in those countries which can least afford it.
sea-trout have all but disappeared on the Foyle system ( irrespective of what you may heard or read) We fully support all efforts to rid the country of the many obstacles now being amassed to wipe out this precious species.
Do people realise that 2–4 kg of wild-caught fish are needed to produce one kg of salmon. Synthetic colours are added to the feed. Antibiotics cure an expanding list of fish diseases, some new to science. Because the antibiotics used in salmon farming are identical to those dispensed in doctor’s surgeries, ingestion of penicillins, tetracyclines, sulphonamides etc. contained in farmed salmon could contribute to both allergic reactions and antibiotic resistance in the population as a whole. Certain salmon diseases e.g. furunculosis, can be resistant to three different antibiotics. The Veterinary Inspectorate regularly finds residues of antibiotics in farmed salmon.
According to Scotland’s World Wildlife Fund, salmon farms there produce nitrogen wastes equal to a human population of more than nine million people.
I would not trust Coveney. Will some one in government shout stop to this fish farm proposal. Anyone. If this is allowed to go ahead you will be collectrively be remembered for it.
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Will some one in government shout stop to this fish farm proposal. Anyone. If this is allowed to go ahead you will be collectrively be remembered for it.
stop this enviromental madness- this will be along term environmental nightmare an expensive mistake for the nation – what about our green image
Tourism & agriculture are this country’s base industries. Always have been, always will be.
These so called ‘salmon farms’ are certain guaranteed to totally destroy a huge tourist attraction. Namely, game angling on our wonderful river systems.
How is it that the severe negative impacts of modern intensive agriculture are acceptable to you, but the negative impacts of aquaculture are unacceptable? Both are unacceptable. Aquaculture wont go away, so, instead of investing your energy in trying to stop it (a lost cause in my opinion) concentrate on sustainable forms of aquaculture (e.g. Integrated Multi-trophic Aquaculture). Get informed and invest your time in realistic and sustainable solutions!!
Do we really want to return to the barren waters of the last 30 years?.
Just when we are starting to see the wild stocks of Salmon and Sea Trout return to our shores following the removal of the nets.
There are several PhD theses proving the demise of the wild stocks as a result of the infestation of fish farms with sea lice. The farmed fish are safe as a result of pesticides, but not the wild fish that have to run the gauntlet through these murky lice infested wild routes towards home.
Are we to return to the ghost rivers and lakes of the past? Have we not learned from history? Anything for the quick buck. Oh ..I nearly forgot … We’re in the land of do gooders’ ,again when it’s too late. Owen Brady
Is it right to be so adamant about salmon farming? The Scots seem to have reached accommodation, as between sporting and commercial interests, with a blend of shrewd politics and sound science. Their rivers have not all been destroyed for salmon angling. I think we would be well advised to listen and learn from their experience rather than shout the odds from behind a wall of – how shall I put it? – less than total knowledge of all the issues. My understanding is that there is a means of biological control of sea lice, which are admittedly the major hazard.
Perhaps I should add that I am neither a salmon angler nor do I have any interest in salmon farming. I am a lifelong supporter of Countryside Alliance and would not wish us to be associated with a campaign that is not soundly based.
Richard, firstly thank you for your comments. Without wanting to sound condecending, I suggest that you should read the scientific evidence that is freely available which confirms that salmon farming kills young salmon. Among many international peer reviewed reports is the recent international study which Inland Fisheries Ireland, a state body, collaborated on with scientists from Scotland and Norway, which concluded that 39% of smolt mortalities are directly attributable to salmon farming. The SALSEA-Merge study came to similar conclusions. The rivers in Scotland of which you speak of not having been destroyed, are on the opposite coast to where their farms are located. I can assure you that as a group, we do indeed have knowledge of all the issues of concern and they are not just related to having salmon in our rivers. There are also issues in relation to pollution and job loses in areas that no other industry exists other that that in tourism of which angling tourism plays a major part. In fact angling is worth 143 million euro to our economy and a further 89 million from visiting anglers from around the world. Should you wish, I can forward you more information via email in the next few days. I can assure you that our campaign is based on sound scientific evidence and we would be grateful if your group would make itself fully aware of the facts in order that you may offer your support without delay.
Despite the continuing efforts of anglers and others here in Scotland who care for our wild fish and our marine environment, it is disappointing to note from the above comment that the Scottish situation is not more widely understood. If there has been an “accommodation” here, it has not been between sporting and commercial interests, but simply a cosy pact between an incredibly complacent and short-sighted Scottish government, vested land interests and foreign-owned salmon farms. Some jobs have been created but many others have been lost, along with our west coast sea trout.
The impact of the salmon farms, and the practice of open sea cage rearing, with its associated deadly plague of sea lice, has been particularly severe on stocks of sea trout on the west coasts of Ireland and Scotland. Rivers and lochs which once supported healthy stocks of sea trout, and with them healthy numbers of visiting fishermen, have seen a dramatic decline in sea trout returning to spawn each year. This has been very damaging to local jobs and local economies. To cite just one example: before the coming of the salmon farms, the Loch Maree Hotel employed 15 boatmen during the sea trout fishing season. The boats now lie idle, the jobs gone, along with others which relied on the visiting anglers, who came from far and wide to cast a line for these wonderful game fish. The loss of these jobs and traditions is, I believe, directly attributable to the failure, by fish farmers and those responsible for their operation and regulation, to protect wild sea trout from the sea lice emanating from the fish farms. Their loss is not, however, irreversible. The sea trout, and the boatmen, might yet return to Loch Maree. All it would take is a determination by a hitherto obdurate Scottish Government to value our once pristine environment and unique sporting heritage and to enforce sensible regulation on the salmon farms. The rational consensus appears to favour a move to a system of closed containment, to isolate the salmon cages from their immediate environment. This would at once eradicate the dual problems of sea lice infestation and marine pollution. It would see the return of our sea trout to Scottish and Irish rivers and lochs, a revival of traditional rural occupations, and wider support for a sustainable, and potentially valuable, salmon farming industry.
Despite the continuing efforts of anglers and others here in Scotland who care for our wild fish and our marine environment, it is disappointing to note from the above comment that the Scottish situation is not more widely understood. If there has been an “accommodation” here, it has not been between sporting and commercial interests, simply a cosy pact between an incredibly complacent and short-sighted Scottish government, vested land interests and foreign-owned salmon farms. Some jobs have been created but many others have been lost, along with our west coast sea trout.
The impact of the salmon farms, and the practice of open sea cage rearing, with its associated deadly plague of sea lice, has been particularly severe on stocks of sea trout on the west coasts of Ireland and Scotland. Rivers and lochs which once supported healthy stocks of sea trout, and with them healthy numbers of visiting fishermen, have seen a dramatic decline in sea trout returning to spawn each year. This has been very damaging to local jobs and local economies. To cite just one example: before the coming of the salmon farms, the Loch Maree Hotel employed 15 boatmen during the sea trout fishing season. The boats now lie idle, the jobs gone, along with others which relied on the visiting anglers, who came from far and wide to cast a line for these wonderful game fish. The loss of these jobs and traditions is, I believe, directly attributable to the failure, by fish farmers and those responsible for their operation and regulation, to protect wild sea trout from the sea lice emanating from the fish farms. Their loss is not, however, irreversible. The sea trout, and the boatmen, might yet return to Loch Maree. All it would take is a determination by a hitherto obdurate Scottish Government to value our once pristine environment and unique sporting heritage and to enforce sensible regulation on the salmon farms. The rational consensus appears to favour a move to a system of closed containment, to isolate the salmon cages from their immediate environment. This would at once eradicate the dual problems of sea lice infestation and marine pollution. It would see the return of our sea trout to Scottish and Irish rivers and lochs, a revival of traditional rural occupations, and wider support for a sustainable, and potentially valuable, salmon farming industry.
YOUR DAILY ALLOWED PORTION OF FARMED SALMON IS ! ! !
Now, in February 2009 it comes as no shock to note that the world media in the first month of this year trumpeted the alarm that farm bred salmon are tainted with cancer-causing chemicals. US scientists published their findings, based on an analysis of two metric tonnes of salmon bought in shops in Europe, and in North and South America.
In the journal Science, they advise NO MORE than two ounces of Scottish farmed salmon should be eaten every month.
Other farm bred salmon, they said, should be limited to an intake of four ounces every month.
Professor Ronald Hites, from the University of Indiana School of Public and Environmental Affairs, said: “We think it is important for people who eat salmon to know that farmed salmon have higher levels of toxins than wild salmon from the open ocean.
And the trash left behind by these farms kills and infects all remaining species left on the ocean floor …..
most informative …..worth a look
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zheaUQqehnw
All four parts of that video are well worth watching Mike. As you say, very informative.
Stop this madness.We can manage without this,this minister has to be a narcissist he must be stopped at all costs.
Destroy our marine enviroment to line a norwegien billionares pockets??? No thanks!!!
Farmed salmon are bad enough, and genetically modified, so-called “Frankenfish” are even worse. Unfortunately, these monstrosities are just around the corner, if the fish farmers have their way. If we must have farmed salmon, why in God’s name can’t they be raised in closed-containment pens totally isolated from any interaction with wild fish? Oh, I forgot, it’s too expensive! So a few greed corporate a..holes profit while everyone else loses.
Having fished in Galway for the last 25 years, I have witnessed first hand the damage and distruction that these farms do to wild fish stocks and the local economy. Surely protecting our natural wild Atlantic Salmon and sea trout stocks is more important to our national interests. I’m sure if it were measured, fishing tourism brings more to the economy than this insane proposal.
Do whatever you have to do to stop this madness.
Just a quick message of support from an avid sea trout and salmon angler from Wales.
We love our salmon and sewin fishing, the sport has tremendous cultural and economic benefits for the communities whose rivers support these ancient and fascinating fish, how awful to think that just one greedy company can ruin such an important asset to a region. I feel enormous sympathy for the angling clubs of Ireland who are having to fight off an industry which is a known polluter of coastal waters, if these salmon farms are allowed to be built they will quite simply kill migratory fish in the adjoining rivers.
Wishing you every success with your campaign to prevent their construction, pob hwyl!
We mustn’t let the fish farmers threaten migratory fish stocks in Irish waters in the way that they have been allowed to affect those off North-west Scotland.
It is plainly obvious the damage fish farms are doing, not just to wild fish stocks but to the whole ecosystem.
There is huge scientific and documented evidence supporting this.
When will Governments and the industry itself accept this.
We must do all that we can to protect homing migratory fish.
Evidence suggests that fish farms encourage the generation of excessive sea lice stocks, which have had serious adverse affects upon wild sea-going salmonids.
Mr Salmond & Co.
blinded by importance
The sooner these fish farms are moved out of the seas the better. Wild Salmon and Sea Trout stocks will hopefully recover.
Good luck with petition hope the same happens in Scotland or anywhere else there has got to be a end to that fish farming.
I have never fished for salmon but can still appreciate, as an angler, what an awful dirty and destructive industry this is. Perhaps when sea cages are finally banned there will be motivation to farm fish in properly constructed and contained safe inland structures.
sea lice are a big problem enough without these salmon farms, I catch alot of sea trout in saltwater some are very badly infested with sea lice 40+ I counted on some for the CSTP,theres no doubt sea lice take a heavy toll on trout and salmon smolts,we should be trying to conserve whats left not doing more damage!! is there anyone from the CSTP who can add any weight to this campaign??
Sean what is CSTP?
CSTP-
Celtic Sea Trout Project
I support this totally. If salmon are to be farmed then it must not be at the expense of the environment.
I support ! I’m against atlantic Salmon farming at sea !
I’m tired of these company that have the support of our politician, the one that we put in place. They have been elected by the people not by the company, they should work for the people not the company.
There is a depressing familiarity to all this: the “promise” of many jobs used to silence evidence based research. Classic short- termism with the added lure of helping to get the country out of recession instead of building on our green reputation and unique tourism potential.
Those of us who are campaigning to keep Ireland’s reputation as a GM free haven are experiencing very similar forces at work. The muscle and spin of big business–in this case the pharma and agri-chemical giants seems to prove irresistible to both our tax funded regulatory bodies as well as our elected representatives.
We can and will win these battles however if we band together, and if we challenge each and every phony claim and breach of due process.
I believe we also need more media champions–journalists and the like–who will promote sustainable fishing and agriculture and who are prepared to fearlessly report the facts. The stereotype of objectors as “Greenies” has been used and abused in this country to the benefit of big business for far too long.
What next.
Ireland surrenders its sea fishing rights to the Eu and now welcomes open cage salmon farms hence fails to do its duty under the Eu Habitats Directive to protect wild atlantic salmon.
Stop this crazy plan.
IThis matter is causing me great concern. Our natural heritage is being dismantled by the politicians who were voted in by us. With no agenda agreed by their voters they have taken action that will ultimately result in the demise of our Salmon & Sea-trout.
As a boy, on holiday in Ballycastle, pier fishing for anything that moved, I was struck by the beauty of the silver fish that jumped in the sea. A local chap gave me my first sea-trout lesson. ‘They’re hard to catch and best fished at night’ ‘Use flies’ Intrigued, I turned up at the bridge at dusk, eager for information from the fishermen who were starting their sea-trout quest. With openness and I would imagine some amusement, they filled my head with tales of the majestic fish. Every night I went to the bridge and watched. As dusk crept in, I would shake with anticipation as I waited to catch sight of those big silver trout exploding out of the river. It was euphoric. Captivated in a timeless scenario, the hours melted away. My mother despaired, I was always late back to the caravan, devoured my supper in record time before disappearing again each evening. That was a long time ago now, a lot has changed. My childhood and early adulthood of daytime tree climbing recon missions watching hoards of silver fish, night times where the river bed was littered with fishermen and the river packed with fish are a distant memory. It saddens me that no generation again will experience the true raw beauty of an eco-system now destroyed. In 1984 I returned to Ballycastle to fish. There were fewer fisher men than I remembered, “not to many fish showing” was the typical retort from the anglers. That year I fished quite a lot and caught around 30 trout for the season. While that may sound like a reasonable catch for the present, I had often caught 30 a night only 5 years previously.
It wasn’t just me either, the river was awash with “it’s a bad run” from saddened fishermen. 1985 was worse again.
It was then I began to read stories about Salmon farms and sea lice infestations, I learned that Glenarm had built a Salmon farm around 1984. Was it just coincidence? I started to read about these farms and the devastation that they caused.
The demise has continued with locals in Ballycastle reporting that sea-trout are now a rare sight. Over the past 20 years I have fished there occasionally and caught one small sea-trout “not much bigger than a smolt” that was so heavily infested with lice that you could hardly see the fish.
I feel angry.
We exist as a collection of components which are isolated, yet connected, all of which are subject to change. Human beings are both responsible for the monitoring and caring for the planet while being dependant on nature to keep us. Every organism has its place, it’s purpose and it’s role within our ecology. Even the decomposing bodies of fish after spawning have an environmental effect on the ecology that the river depends on. All of us realise the delicate interdependence that each and every organism on our planet exists by. Do the law makers? Do the money makers?
The pursuit of profits by governments and companies has taken precedence over our responsibility to care for our planet, to tend to nature as it tends to us. Balancing audit books, fat cat wages with bonuses has become the priority. To hell with the consequences for future generations.
Like I said I am angry.
The people responsible should hold their heads in shame, guilty as they are for ruining our home, the earth, for monetary gain. They have no moral responsibility, no conscious or remorse for their actions. Little do they realise that this will have far reaching consequences, not just for angler’s, but for all of us. We are citizens of the earth. It has provided for us, now we need to provide for it.
So where do we go from here?
B.G.
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This will only spread more diseases that are already known to have started because of the farms that are in use right now. It will only get worse with this crap idea. No need for such thing. The higher ups need to quite trying to push crap that destroys our natural resources and only gains money for higher ups.
We need to talk more about the bastards that want more money in their pockets and make our voices be heard world wide!!!!!!