Cooke gets approval for salmon farm expansion in Scotland

An application to expand a fish farm in Carness Bay, St Ola, Scotland, has been approved by the OIC’s planning committee.

The plans, put forward by Meridian Salmon Farms — before the site was bought by Cooke Aquaculture — will see 1,270 meter circumference cages at the site changed to 12,100 meter cages.

Objections had been put forward by both the Orkney Trout Fishing Association and Orkney Fisheries Association, with the latter represented at the meeting, on the grounds of the risk of lice to wild salmon and the cumulative impact on local fishermen and scallop divers.

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