CARDIFF bay barrage, centrepiece of Europe's largest waterfront development, could cost British taxpayers more than they thought.
The barrage stretches across the bay, creating a false harbour. But it also blocks the route of fish migrating up from the Severn estuary into two Welsh rivers that flow into the bay. Now the Environment Agency has told
"Every adult salmon that doesn't make it up could cost thousands to the taxpayer," says Rhys Morgan of the Environment Agency, who monitors the barrage.
Controversy has dogged the barrage project. Completing the barrage in 2000 created a 200-hectare freshwater lake that has been the catalyst for a massive redevelopment of Cardiff's disused docks. But the tidal bay the lake ...
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