Salmon Watch Ireland welcomes the withdrawal of this application but will strongly oppose any plans to site a smaller facility in Galway Bay.
While welcoming this development we will continue to lobby for changes in siting and management of existing facilities with the ultimate result our preferred option as outlined below.
Our policy on salmon aquaculture will only endorse closed containment systems.
We congratulate all the other organisations which have lobbied on this facility and hope all collective efforts in future will help to preserve our natural heritage.
Outlined below is our submission to the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine on the draft National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture
http://www.salmon.ie/2015/07/submission-to-department-of-agriculture.html