BREAKING: Marine Harvest issues a letter to evict Midsummer Island occupiers

Fish Farm protestors have been asked to leave the site.

Marine Harvest has sent a letter to the occupiers of their Midsummer Island aquaculture facility requesting them to leave the site by Nov. 9.

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