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Salmon Farm Controversy

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  • #52
    thebishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭thebishop


    Marine harvest tells us the one they intend to build in Bantry Bay will provide 2 full time jobs If the one in Galway Bay is five times that size (5x2) that would mean 10 jobs .Maybe we have better workers down here.:D


  • #53
    _Puma_
    Registered Users Posts: 983 ✭✭✭_Puma_


    Anyone see the Prime Time piece on the salmon farm in Galway last night? Some very good points made by the people against the salmon farm, including the Aran Islanders. One thing that stuck out for me was the IFA representative in the audience, he looked very familiar.

    Low and behold I found him on on another Prime Time investigation into illegal practices on salmon farms in Ireland I had watched a couple of weeks ago from 2003here. Go to about the 30 min mark. Seems the guys that were implicated in this investigation are now high up in the likes of BIM, the marine institute and the IFA aquaculture section, the very people who are touting this new venture.

    What people must remember that many of the salmon farms set up in the 80's & 90's in the likes of Connemara were not financially viable without state funding, resulting in many being closed down once the grants run out. BIM's record speaks for itself.

    The jobs argument also falls down under close scrutiny. BIM as License holders will not actually run the farm, a foreign multinational like Marine Harvest will so there is no requirement for the operators to create 500 jobs. BIM are trying to play the 500 jobs card by looking at small scale farms like the one off Clare island and scaling up. Unfortunately due to sheer size of the farm off Galway the farm will actually be run in a more automated process and will actually create in the region of 100-200 jobs.


  • #54
    Zzippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    The farm itself will actually theoretically create 65 jobs. That's BIM's own figures. The 500 figure is from spin-offs, and is based on all the salmon being processed in local plants. Problem is that the operator will be under no obligation to sell fish to local processors, and there is no guarantee of local jobs.
    If you go into Dunnes or Tesco at the moment, you can buy Irish-farmed salmon, but it has been processed in the UK and re-imported into Ireland. Marine Harvest export most of their salmon to UK and France, where they have contracts with processors, and don't give a fcuk about Irish processors. BIM are naive if they think this project will create even a fraction of 500 jobs.

    And don't get me started on the environmental impacts. Inland Fisheries Ireland have some good information here on that: http://www.fisheriesireland.ie/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=330&Itemid


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