This decision leaves the industry and the 6,500 dependent jobs vulnerable to further uncertainty. The SSGA said the Government should either provide state insurance or relax ISA rules to encourage private to offer cover.
Insurance firms consider salmon farmers too high a risk because regulations are so tight.
SSGA chairman Lord Lindsay said the Government announcement was deeply disappointing and would not protect the industry's 6500 workers or reassure potential investors. THE FISH FARM Professor David Mackay, north region director of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, claims that his political masters are 'misleading people'. He says that current fish farm practices are causing environmental damage which is reaching 'near crisis levels'. He also blames salmon farms for the catastrophic decline in West Highland wild fish stocks. One reason might be that the sludge is about to hit the fan.