04/08/2010
The government gives the go-ahead for a supermarket watchdog, and a huge mussel farm is planned for Lyme Bay.
The Government gives the go ahead for a supermarket watchdog to police the relationship between suppliers and supermarkets. Farming Mimister Jim Paice tells Caz Graham how the Groceries Code Adjudicator will work. A huge mussel farm is planned for Lyme Bay and not everyone is happy. Moira Hickey meets the man behind the plan, John Holmyard in Scotland where he farms mussels in Loch Etiven and Anna Varle visits John Gosling, a fisherman in Lyme Bay, at the site of the proposed farm. He fears for the future of his livelihood as a direct impact of the planned farm.
Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Martin Poyntz-Roberts.
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