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Guardian: China's appetite for Scottish farmed salmon is threatening dwindling stocks of sea trout and wild salmon, according to conservationists.
A new trade agreement was signed last month with the Chinese vice-premier, Li Keqiang, by Scotland's first minister, Alex Salmond, who boasted that "even if 1% of the people of China decide to eat Scottish salmon, then we'll have to double production in Scotland".
But the prospect of a massive increase in farmed fish production has horrified defenders of Scotland's......
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Scotland’s wild salmon face ‘calamity’ from trade deal with China
Posted by Guardian: David Sharrock on February 20th, 2011
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