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Galway fish farm no longer allowed to bathe diseased salmon in lake water Permission to pump freshwater from lake on Gorumna Island overturned by High Court
Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 16:11
The High Court has overturned a permission granted to a fish farm operator to pump freshwater from an island lake for use in bathing salmon in fish farms off the Co Galway coast to rid them of disease.
Environmental activist Peter Sweetman took the challenge over An Bord Pleanála’s permission for taking freshwater from Loch an Mhuilinn, Gorumna Island, Co Galway, and associated works, including a temporary pipe link to the lake.