Bohus aquaculture has now been refused by the county administrative board to start another cultivation of mussels and oysters, this time outside Haftsen, west of Uddevalla, writes Bohusläningen. The application was submitted in September last year.
- It was mainly maritime safety reasons in this case, says Lars Molander as a county fisheries consultant and has been involved in decision-making, to the newspaper.
Collapsed cropsThe company has received SEK 30 million in granted support from the authorities and wants to become a leader in Sweden in mussel farms. But in June, films from the network Divers against ghost nets showed how the crops outside Orust collapsed. The Swedish Board of Agriculture then chose to stop all payments to the company and announced that the business would be reviewed.
"That's not how it should be"Bohus Havsbruk believes that they have not done anything wrong.
- It is crops that have broken down and that is not how it should be. But the material has not been dumped or left behind. And we will set it up again, said co-owner Per Persson to SVT Väst in June.
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Hear the inspectors about the shortcomings of the mussel farm: "This is not true". Photo: TT / SVT