Over 5,500 people - roughly the entire population of Kinsale - have signed a petition opposing a mussel farm in the town's harbour
Locals are calling for the licence issued to Woodstown Bay Shellfish - who will operate the mussel farm near the Dock beach - to be revoked
Dozens of individual and organisational appeals have been submitted to the Aquaculture Licence Appeals Board citing legal, ecological, economic, and procedural grounds.
A decision from the Appeals Board is expected later this year
