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	Podcast:		Farming Today
	Episode:		09/04/25 Funding for checks at the border, salmon farming
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:14:25
	Publish Date:		2025-04-09 05:00:00
	Description:		Farmers are calling for the government to look again at the amount of funding it provides to stop illegal meat imports coming into the country. The Dover Port Health Authority which carries out the checks has been offered £3.1 million pounds by DEFRA for this financial year - the same amount as last year. However it says the funding’s too low and will make delivering its remit ‘immensely challenging’ and will ‘leave the border largely open’. With an increasing number of confirmed cases of foot and mouth disease and African swine fever on the European mainland, there are concerns the UK isn’t doing enough to prevent these serious contagious livestock diseases from entering the country. All week we're looking at farmed fish. Last year Scottish farmed salmon was the UK’s biggest food export, with £844 million worth of fish sold in 48 different countries. The industry is not without its critics though, they highlight marine pollution, fish welfare and disease and the impact on wild salmon as some of the problems. Salmon farming is big business on the West coast of Scotland. The Norwegian company MOWI employs more than one thousand 600 staff there and we’ve been looking into how the business is addressing criticism of the industry. We also speak to the industry body Salmon Scotland. Presenter = Caz Graham Producer = Rebecca Rooney
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