Author: Billy Briggs
A salmon farming company accused of misleading people over its plans for a fish farm in a marine protected area has withdrawn a controversial application for an industrial feeding system.
A subsidiary of Mowi Scotland, a multinational headquartered in Norway, wanted to have the automated system at an existing salmon farm on Loch Broom, near Ullapool in the northwest of Scotland.
The plan would have seen a large vessel called a feed barge allowed onto the loch to feed thousands of salmon at the Corry fish farm.
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Top of page picture is of traditional fish farm off Oban in Argyll. Picture by Bill Heaney