The Loch Long Bienn Reithe fish farm planning application Public Hearing takes place on Monday 31 October at Arrochar. A number of MSPs, government bodies and the Argyll & Bute MP have submitted letters of support. However some 200+ members of the public, community councils and environmental organisations have submitted letters opposing the industrial development…
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Your opportunity to speak against Loch Long Fish Farm proposal at Public Hearing
Planning Application 2021/0357/DET – Loch Long Fish Farm at Bienn Reithe. Any member of the public or organisation which has made a written representation prior to the National Park Special Board Report being published may request to speak at the hearing. Please read the Framework Document prior to completing the speaker participation form. The speaker…
National Park Planners recommend Loch Long fish farm application be refused
Ardentinny-based environmental group, AFFtheClyde, has this week welcomed, with guarded optimism, the National Park recommendation that the proposed Loch Long Salmon (LLSC) Bienn Reithe fish farm near Arrochar’s planning application be refused. Although the application has received support from some MSPs and local councillors, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park received over 200 objections…
Concerns raised over nutrient pollutants at proposed Loch Long fish farm
The salmon aquaculture industry in Scotland has long fought against the suggestion that phosphorus and nitrogen containing compounds excreted by salmon, indeed all animals, act as nutrients in the growth of phytoplankton in marine ecosystems. These, in turn, can result in what are called plankton or harmful algae blooms. These can be of sufficient magnitude…
FOI request reveals fish died from toxic levels of ammonia in system similar to that proposed for Bienn Reithe, Loch Long.
A Freedom of Information request submitted to the Fisheries and Oceans Canada Federal Agency by the British Colombia marine environmental group Clayoquot Action has revealed that fish in the trial Fiizk Semi-Closed Containment System, (similar to that proposed for the fish farm at Beinn Reithe, Loch Long), died from toxic levels of ammonia. Initially, the…
Scottish Ministers will not intervene in Ardentinny fish farm planning application
Objectors to the proposed Dawnfresh fish farm at Ardentinny have failed in their attempt to have the Scottish Government ‘call-in’ the proposed planning application. Scottish Ministers have the power to intervene by ‘calling-in‘ in any planning application for their own determination. Last week those who had submitted objections to the application to SEPA in May…
Proposed Loch Long fish farm (Beinn Reithe) – Questions that need to be answered
With a second fish farm planned for Loch Long and the planning application submitted by Loch Long Salmon Ltd. (LLS) to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park in October 2021 (with a closing date for representations/objections of 5 December, 2021), we should all be concerned at the rapid growth of proposed fish farms in…
Is SEPA failing our community?
As outlined in our article of September 13, 2021, SEPA is to grant a licence for the proposed Dawnfresh Ardentinny fish farm subject to the conditions in the draft authorisation. Although SEPA advised that they had lost the contact details of those who had made representations in June 2019 due to a cyberattack in December,…
SEPA to grant licence for Ardentinny Fish Farm
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is to grant a licence for the proposed Dawnfresh fish farm on Loch Long at Ardentinny subject to the conditions in the draft authorisation (see below). As can be seen in the SEPA advertisement (see image below), published in the 10 September, 2021 issue of the Dunoon Observer, it…
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…