date:May 08, 2014
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However, the rise in value and production of farmed salmon sparked anger in some quarters.
Andrew Graham-Stewart, director of the Salmon and Trout Association (Scotland), said: The salmon farming industrys growth has come at a heavy ?environmental cost.
The negative impact of sea lice produced in huge numbers by fish farms on wild salmon and sea trout numbers is widely accepted by fisheries scientists including the Scottish Governments own Marine Scotland Science.