[Andy MacArthur]

Some sinister goings on here...

https://theferret.scot/secret-drug-company-fish-farm-pesticide/?fbclid=IwAR3MObpn1FV6gV-uSJ_wk-K-QPr8N4bgNn-uA3vPN8St1SbvDyFU4cJFVhY

[Kerry Jordan]

Uncanny parallels with  neonicotinoid insecticides and glyphosate herbicide in terms of lobbying by huge pharma corporations and the suppression / modification of relevant scientific  evidence.
If we ever get Brexit there is likely to be less control on these agents than there is now. Just sayin.....

[Andy MacArthur]

Aye Kerry it’s the suppression and debunking of the hard science that’s the worrying aspect.

[Bob Mitchell]

Science will prove what ever the company wants. Just a matter of researching what you want for an answer.
Bob.

[Derek Roxborough]

SEPA are now condemning the use of Chemicals, as they have found the chemicals persist in the environment, I read this near 30 odd years back , but it was poo pooed at the time, Derek Roxborough

[James Laraway]

one of the SEPA 'bosses' was on radio scotland yestarday morning.

one word springs to mind - toothless.

The way he was talking it was like he was a friend of the fish farm companies trying to gentle persuade them to do the right thing.

They are meant to be a regulator. Regulators are not meant to be 'friends' with the industry that they are meant to be regulating - they are meant to keep them in check.

You dont see the Financial Conduct Authority being best chums with the banks, so i dont see why SEPA thinks it appropriate to be best friends with the fish farmers.

Oh, hang on, i know the answer. Its because they are a Scottish Governement agency and thus do as they are told - and they are told that the fish farming industry is more important than wild salmon, seat trout , the environment or people's health.

rant over....

[Bob Mitchell]

I hope that S.E.P.A. is far better with there protection work than the F.C.A when the banks took us all to the wall.
S.E.P.A . is about all we have unfortunately.
Bob.