Trout infections raise concerns from welfare campaigners

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Following an FOI inquiry, Animal Equality UK said it had been left alarmed by a ‘critical data gap’ in the number of fish that die from highly infectious diseases

Animal Equality UK is calling on the government to make fish mortality reporting mandatory, after it submitted a Freedom of Information request, which discovered repeated incidences of serious infections across rainbow trout fish farms in England.

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