Shot Head farm will have a maximum permitted biomass of 2,800 tonnes over a 24-month production cycle and will have 18 pens
On 23rd of September, Salmon Watch Ireland filed an application at the High Court seeking judicial review of the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board (ALAB) decision to approve the awarding of a licence for a new open-cage salmon farm at Shot Head in Bantry Bay.
Inland Fisheries Ireland, Sweetman and others filed a similar application.
ALAB
The Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board has determined all appeals before it against the decision by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to grant an Aquaculture Licence to Bradán Fanad Teo t/a Marine Harvest Ireland on site Ref: T05/555 for the cultivation of Atlantic Salmon; Salmo Salar on a site on the foreshore at Shot Head, Bantry Bay, Co Cork.
The Board determined the Appeals pursuant to section 40(4)(b) of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1997 (as amended and substituted) by determining the appeals as if the application had been made to the Board in the first instance and by GRANTING a licence to the Applicant for the proposed activity on the Site, in accordance with the draft licence prepared by the Minister, but subject to the varied and amended Terms and Conditions as set out in the Determination. There were 14 appeals in total.
Copies of the Board’s determination in respect of each appeal are available on this website by following the link to Board Determinations 2015 – http://alab.ie/boarddeterminations/2015/
Copies of the documents to which the Board had regard in reaching its determination are available on this website by following the link to http://alab.ie/boarddeterminations/2015/scheduleofdocuments
Media Coverage on Decision
https://www.southernstar.ie/news/massive-salmon-farm-gets-go-ahead-in-bantry-bay-4225943
https://www.thejournal.ie/troubled-waters-pt4-shot-head-5482531-Jul2021/
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40327370.html
https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/article/mowi-ireland-wins-10-year-campaign-for-new-salmon-farm/