Our friends at ButeifulCoasts.com have created a very useful page outlining the process of how objectors can ‘call-in’ for review by Scottish Ministers the decision by SEPA to approve the CAR (Controlled Activities Regulations) licences for the proposed fish farms at South Bute, Little Cumbrae and Cumbrae. Even if you did not originally object to…
Category: Cumbrae
SEPA grants authorisation for Dawnfresh Cumbrae fish farms
Despite objections from a number of individuals and groups in North Ayrshire, SEPA has granted Dawnfresh authorisation for a CAR licence (Controlled Activities Regulations) for two proposed trout farms at Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae. The next stage will be for Dawnfresh to consider submitting a planning application to North Ayrshire Council which would include an…
Deadline approaches for opposing Dawnfresh Clyde fish farm proposals
Friday 28 May, 2021 is the deadline for submissions to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) for opposing the Dawnfresh proposals for fish farms at South Bute, Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae. As the proposed locations will not only have a catastrophic environmental effect on the the areas adjacent to the fish farms, the farms will…
Fish Farms – Self reporting not working
Reports of the recent escape of some 33,000+ trout from the Dawnfresh-owned fish farm at Loch Etive, which has been covered extensively in the local and national media over the past week, has again highlighted a greater need for transparency in the fish farming industry and in particular, Dawnfresh Farming Ltd. As widely reported, the…
#AFFtheClyde at Bute meeting
#AFFtheClyde volunteer Jann Garrett gave an update on our local group’s work to a packed public meeting in Rothesay last week. Dawnfresh Farming Ltd are proposing to develop a fish farm at Hawk’s Neb on the Isle of Bute, in addition to Ardentinny and the Cumbraes. The meeting, called by ‘Buteiful Coasts’, an environmental group created…
Ardentinny fish farm – map projections
We are grateful to our friends at BUTEifulCoasts.com who have provided us with map projections of the proposed Ardentinny industrial fish farm location which would be located south of the village. In addition to the Loch Long site, Dawnfresh are also proposing a fish farm in the waters around Bute and the BUTEifulCoasts group is…
SEPA objection letter guidance
Deadline for representations to SEPA in respect of CAR (Controlled Activities Regulations) Licence application for the proposed rainbow trout farm in Ardentinny is: Wednesday 5 June Representations should be made in writing by email to: registrydingwall@sepa.org.uk or by post to: Dingwall Registry, SEPA, Graesser House, Fodderty Way, Dingwall, IV15 9XB quoting Permit Number CAR/L/1178003. You…