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

Onshore Lincolnshire farm due to be world’s biggest was given planning go-ahead without environmental check

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 world’s biggest at land or sea.