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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Animal rights group urges halt to ‘monstrous’ Lincolnshire salmon farm

Salmon in a fishmonger.
The development aims to produce 5,000 tonnes of salmon a year. Photograph: Jenny Evans/Getty Images

Animal rights campaigners are urging Michael Gove to stop the construction of the UK’s first fully on-land salmon farm, claiming the decision to give it planning permission was flawed.

Animal Equality says an environmental impact assessment (EIA) should have been carried out before North East Lincolnshire council (NELC) gave the green light to the salmon farm in Cleethorpes, which it says would be the UK’s biggest on land or at sea.

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