Farms: Salmon Farms Displace Fishermen in Scotland
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With the expansion of salmon farming throughout Scotland, fishermen are being pushed out of their fishing grounds, and supermarkets will not buy wild fish from fishermen if they have pellets from salmon farms in their stomachs. Local Creel fisherman of Harris, Angus Campbell, talks about how the salmon farms are impacting his livelihood. In an interview with STV news after a disease outbreak in the salmon farms Creel fisherman Angus Campbell said: "The reports on Sepa indicate that there are hundreds of tonnes of fish dying in these sites. "Last week we saw a load of 26 tonnes heading down to Uist to get buried. It's just incredible the amount of dead fish coming out of these sites." See the whole interview with STV here: http://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/194441-fishermen-in-western-isles-losing-up-to-20-of-stock-as-disease-spreads/
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Lots of fishermen I've spoken to hate salmon farms and see them as a threat to their business. And those fishermen who do catch wild fish near salmon farms must surely be concerned about contaminants and chemicals?