Cermaq and Grieg ‘disappointed’ over Canadian court ruling

A legal move to maintain open pen fish farming around the Discovery Islands in British Columbia – at least for a time longer – has been rejected.
A Federal Court judgment said that a decision by former fisheries minister Joyce Murray in February last year did not breach the operators’ rights of procedural fairness.

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Fish health chief says sea lice control has improved

man sat in committee room

Action to control sea lice numbers on Scottish fish farms has been successful, partly driven by the new requirement to report lice numbers on a weekly basis.
That is the verdict of Charles Allan, group leader of the Scottish Government’s Fish Health Inspectorate (FHI), in the evidence he gave to the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Affairs and Islands (RAI) Committee.

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