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Dan Vevers

'Toxic' salmon farm barge dumped at scenic Scots bay could be spewing chemicals at loch

Furious locals have been told it could be “many weeks” before a “toxic” salmon farm barge dumped in a scenic Highland bay can be salvaged.

It’s feared the sunken barge “the size of a house” could be spewing chemicals into the pristine environment at Loch Reraig, near Kishorn.

The 400-tonne fish feed container sank at a farm owned by Faroese firm Bakkafrost in Portree, Skye, during last year’s Storm Arwen.

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