Rocks close to Burtonport, Co Donegal,
where  the 128ft Skifjord wen aground
in 1981 with the loss of five lives.
Photo J Rafferty. 

Confirmation that the Department of Communications Marine and Natural Resources is to re-examine the sea lice issue will be welcomed by salmon farmers, anglers, fishery owners and conservationists alike as a way of finally solving a problem which has created bitterness since it came to the fore in the early 1980s.  

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