 aims to deter seals from salmon farms using sound. Its impact on cetaceans including whales, dolphins and porpoises is being assessed. GenusWave, which manufacturers Tast, says it is 'the only acoustic deterrent proven to be both effective and harmless'. Animal rights campaigners are not convinced. Freddy Bowen-Bate, of the charity Animal Concern, said: 'This new seal-scaring technology is being trialled at known risk to cetacean welfare, when there are already proven non-harmful methods that exist such as well-spaced double-skinned anti-predator nets that have been successfully used in British Columbia){kind=link}
The Scottish government environment agency has issued a licence for new seal scaring technology to be trialled in salmon farms that animal welfare campaigners claim could disturb whales and dolphins.
The Targeted Acoustic Startle Technology (Tast) aims to deter seals from salmon farms using sound. Its impact on cetaceans including whales, dolphins and porpoises is being assessed.
GenusWave, which manufacturers Tast, says it is “the only acoustic deterrent proven to be both effective and harmless”.
Animal rights campaigners are not convinced. Freddy Bowen-Bate, of the charity Animal Concern, said: “This new seal-scaring technology is being trialled at known risk to cetacean welfare, when there are already proven non-harmful methods that exist such as well-spaced double-skinned anti-predator nets that have been successfully used in British Columbia
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