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Tue 08 Aug 2010Mussel farming to resume in Dingle Bay
THE DREDGING for and collection of wild mussel seed resumed yesterday after a two-year gap at Castlemaine harbour in Dingle Bay, one of the biggest natural mussel beds in the country.
The ban imposed in 2008 on the €4 million centuries-old tradition of collecting natural mussel seed and replanting it further inshore near Cromane, in what is one of the biggest natural mussel beds in Irish waters, led to huge controversy.
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