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Salmon Farming Expansion – Wild fish stocks under threat from over-fishing to sustain feed for salmon aquaculture.
The very essence of sustainability is to guarantee that remaining fish stocks after commercial exploitation can be replenished naturally within a short period and not have the population dynamic…
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Pink Salmon: Non-Native Fish Species Alert
Inland Fisheries Ireland has appealed to anglers and the general public to remain vigilant and report the presence of any Pacific pink salmon in Irish river systems. To date,…
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Salmon Alert – Bleeding and Skin Ulceration
A small number of salmon are returning to Irish rivers with signs of bleeding and skin ulceration. Anglers and fishery owners…
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Stop Europe’s Dirty Fish Farms – Petition
Stop Europe’s Dirty Fish Farms To the governments and members of parliament of Iceland, Norway, Scotland and Ireland: Petition text: As concerned citizens…
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Deenish Island – Salmon Watch Ireland Submission – ALAB
SALMON Watch Ireland wishes to make the following submission in relation to the above appeal by Comhlucht Iascaireachta Fanad Teoranta (MOWI Ireland), Fanad Fisheries, Kindrum, Fanad, Letterkenny Co Donegal. Firstly…
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Sea Lice Ireland – Erriff River Study
The long term study of sea lice in Ireland by Inland Fisheries Ireland has definitively linked a reduction of up to 50% in returning adult salmon to high levels…
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Marine Harvest – Smolts or Not
Smolt overstocking by Marine Harvest Hereunder find documentation regarding the gross over…
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Scottish Salmon Farming and its Environmental Impacts
This review is a very important element in understanding the impacts of salmon farming in Scotland and is certainly important in the ongoing debate surrounding aquaculture in Ireland. It…
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Patagonia- Salmon
"The road to extinction is paved with good intentions". This is a very apt statement and demonstrates that we as a society have failed to understand the natural world. The three areas examined in this film demonstrates the folly of salmon hatcheries and their effects on wild salmon survival, the damming of rivers which has interrupted the connectivity of important ecosystem services and the natural transfer of nutrients from oceans to freshwater catchments and the very substantial problems caused by open net pen salmon farms causing a cascade of effects through breeding with wild fish causing a rapid decline in genetic diversity to disease transfer to wider ecosystem and out of control parasitic infestations. For more information please go to the following link- Patagonia Artifishal Artifishal Film – Salmon https://youtu.be/I-MMlQ5AIzQ
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International Year of the Salmon- David Attenborough and Salmon Survival
Atlantic and Pacific salmon face many unique problems in today's world. David Attenborough, a champion of nature, reflects on the perilous state of salmon stocks around the globe and warns that these salmon stocks cannot be saved unless we adapt our behaviour to protect our vital ecosystems. International Year of the Salmon- David Attenboroughhttps://youtu.be/riO36JBni4M
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