Post by Sandison on Jul 1, 2003 11:34:41 GMT -5
July edition of Salmon Farm Monitor out now!
www.salmonfarmmonitor.org
• Exclusive to ‘Salmon Farm Protest Group’: Orri Vigfùsson, international chairman of the North Atlantic Salmon Fund accuses Scottish Executive of deciding that Scotland’s wild salmon are not worth saving: “The Executive appear to be besotted with salmon farming and is apparently prepared to do everything it can to protect the industry from criticism.”
• Salmon Farm Protest Group lodge complaint with the Commission of the European Communities concerning failure to comply with Community law. The UK has failed to enforce Fish Labelling Regulations No.2065/2001 which came into force on 1st January 2002. 18 months later the UK has still not properly implemented the law. Similar action has been taken by Patricia McKenna, Green Party member of the European Parliament over breaches of EU law by Ireland, Luxembourg, Greece, Belgium and the UK.
• Rod McGill exposes fallacy that fish farming supports vital jobs in fragile rural areas: “Raids carried out by the Department of Work and Pensions and police under the code-name ‘Operation Shark’ found that “more than 50% of workers gutting, filleting and packing fish at the plants….. were foreign and a third of those were in the country illegally.” This suggests that 2,500 fish farm workers are foreign immigrants and that 800 of them are working in UK illegally.
• International news, reports from around UK fish farms and update on The on Farm Protest Group’s expanding and highly successful ‘Supermarket Salmon Watch’ campaign. All on www.salmonfarmmonitor.org now!
www.salmonfarmmonitor.org
• Exclusive to ‘Salmon Farm Protest Group’: Orri Vigfùsson, international chairman of the North Atlantic Salmon Fund accuses Scottish Executive of deciding that Scotland’s wild salmon are not worth saving: “The Executive appear to be besotted with salmon farming and is apparently prepared to do everything it can to protect the industry from criticism.”
• Salmon Farm Protest Group lodge complaint with the Commission of the European Communities concerning failure to comply with Community law. The UK has failed to enforce Fish Labelling Regulations No.2065/2001 which came into force on 1st January 2002. 18 months later the UK has still not properly implemented the law. Similar action has been taken by Patricia McKenna, Green Party member of the European Parliament over breaches of EU law by Ireland, Luxembourg, Greece, Belgium and the UK.
• Rod McGill exposes fallacy that fish farming supports vital jobs in fragile rural areas: “Raids carried out by the Department of Work and Pensions and police under the code-name ‘Operation Shark’ found that “more than 50% of workers gutting, filleting and packing fish at the plants….. were foreign and a third of those were in the country illegally.” This suggests that 2,500 fish farm workers are foreign immigrants and that 800 of them are working in UK illegally.
• International news, reports from around UK fish farms and update on The on Farm Protest Group’s expanding and highly successful ‘Supermarket Salmon Watch’ campaign. All on www.salmonfarmmonitor.org now!
