Plea to protect 'decimated' wild salmon
A PETITION bearing 17,000 names will be handed to the Scottish Parliament today calling for urgent action to protect wild salmon and trout from "damaging" fish farm practices. Lord David Steel will hand over the document on behalf of the Salmon and Trout Association to the petitions committee, amid claims that the government is not doing enough to safeguard wild stocks.
The association says wild salmon and trout in the west Highlands and Islands have been "decimated" by sea lice infestations from salmon farms, and siting farms on salmon rivers and lochs has potentially disastrous implications.
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