Watch video footage shot by Scottish Salmon Watch at Mowi's RSPCA Assured and ASC-certified salmon farm at Gorsten in Loch Linnhe during the same night as Seaspiracy visited:
"Whenever politicians & vetted journalists are hosted at salmon farms, you can be absolutely sure that the venue has been carefully selected as free of visible disease & parasites & that it has been thoroughly sanitised prior to arrival" https://t.co/FjlYvH5To4@SalmonTroutCons
"Whenever there is a problem – from disease & morts to out-of-control sea lice on the farms – those producing & selling farmed salmon hide behind accreditation schemes of dubious merit. These schemes are essentially financial transactions" https://t.co/FjlYvH5To4@rspcaassuredpic.twitter.com/MrvJF4dJQq
Scottish Salmon Watch is calling on workers inside the salmon farming industry to blow the whistle on the illegal killing of seals, mass mortalities, disease problems, toxic chemical use, welfare abuse & any other cruel practices https://t.co/ARohq1l23W@salmon_scottishpic.twitter.com/FoQyxlyxnP
Scottish Salmon Watch is calling on workers inside the salmon farming industry in Scotland to blow the whistle on the illegal killing of seals, mass mortalities, disease problems, toxic chemical use, welfare abuse and any other cruel practices. Please email Don Staniford via salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com or fill in an online form via https://scottishsalmonwatch.org/about-us
In April 2021, Animal Concern and Scottish Salmon Watch issued a £10,000 reward for information leading to a successful prosecution for the illegal killing of seals on salmon farms.
A £10,000 reward has been offered for information on the illegal shooting of seals after it emerged Police Scotland and the National Wildlife Crime Unit were passed intelligence reports about a number of killings.https://t.co/opzT3BtGvC
"Regulatory capture is an economic theory that says regulatory agencies may come to be dominated by the industries or interests they are charged with regulating," wrote Investopedia in March 2021. "The result is that an agency, charged with acting in the public interest, instead acts in ways that benefit incumbent firms in the industry it is supposed to be regulating".
Regulatory capture - and corruption - is certainly not exclusive to disease-ridden salmon farming. It has spread like a cancer all over the globe as corporate giants now rule the world.
The letter cited evidence of serious regulatory failings in welfare assessment of salmon farms obtained via Freedom of Information from the Animal & Plant Health Agency.
Picture Exclusive: leaked photos from the 'independent' inspection team charged by the RSPCA (who receive over £500K per year from the salmon farming industry & employ an ex-Mowi manager on staff) with checking for welfare abuse at Mowi salmon farms @RSPCAChris@RSPCA_PATeam ££££ pic.twitter.com/fmryMVcbNt
A devastating report - "RSPCA Assured certification of Scottish farmed salmon" - published by Salmon & Trout Conservation in July 2017 exposed how the RSPCA's involvement in salmon farming was a kiss of death for millions of farmed salmon.
It seems that the RSPCA were too busy handing out awards to Marine Harvest (re-named Mowi in 2019 due to what their CEO admitted was "negative consumer perception" in the name Marine Harvest). Fish Farming Expert reported in 2018:
Here's the reply from @rspcaassured to the recent complaints they have received.
Apparently their involvement is not financially driven. They say their "sole mission" is to improve salmon welfare, which they claim to already have done!https://t.co/dpfabvqxK5pic.twitter.com/AIDv9tnZBY
Fish Farming Expert reported in May 2020 that the RSPCA suspended in-person assessments of salmon farms on 23 March 2020 with contactless assessments available by mutual agreement on 1 June 2020:
Compassion in World Farming has released video and photos claiming to show the salmon farming industry causing “silent suffering” in “cruel underwater factory farms” across Scotland.https://t.co/EWiEhKUePT
Impartial?????! The RSPCA's farmed salmon standards were written by salmon farmers; the RSPCA receives over £500K a year from salmon farmers for certification via RSPCA Assured & former salmon farmers have been hired by the RSPCA to police salmon farms. https://t.co/dnZk1bhb0Mpic.twitter.com/3pWsa4HzT8
Questions were asked about the RSPCA's "rigorous in-person inspection".
Don Staniford of Scottish Salmon Watch said: "Rest assured that RSPCA accreditation of Scottish salmon as ‘welfare-friendly’ is a sham, scam and consumer con. Video evidence shot @rspcaassured salmon farms across Scotland exposes endemic welfare abuse"https://t.co/BQNB1NM434pic.twitter.com/tj7KNVTmQw
"Following our detailed investigation, which included a rigorous in-person inspection by a specially-trained RSPCA farm livestock officer, we found no evidence to support the allegations made" @rspcaassuredhttps://t.co/NedKSOFIcfpic.twitter.com/cMaVXqFZ4e
The SSPCA has also been infiltrated, co-opted and corrupted by the salmon farming lobby. Shamefully, the Chairperson of the SSPCA is the head vet of Scottish Sea Farms - a company guilty of welfare abuse in Loch Creran in 2020.
The RSPCA's farmed salmon standards (February 2021) detail a scoring system for assessing welfare problems in farmed salmon with, for example, fish missing one eye deemed "mild" damage and fish missing two eyes deemed "severe damage".
Do you have a strong stomach & love gory horror movies? Then working for @rspcaassured inspecting welfare abuse on salmon farms in Scotland could be for you. Closing date for job applications is 27 August and it pays £26,840.11 https://t.co/mnjqTctL8D@MowiScotlandLtd@SSPOsays
"Exciting" job opportunity developing @rspcaassured policy in relation to welfare of farmed salmon - must have strong stomach, love seeing dead seals & diseased fish and ideally employed by the salmon farming industry! Deadline for applications is 1 June https://t.co/fCdsMOfBXCpic.twitter.com/rqZgoAcoAl
A report - "Investing in Troubled Waters" - published this week exposed Mowi's greenwashing including damning details of mass mortalities and welfare abuse.
Reality check: High fish mortalities: Over the last decade, Mowi had the highest amount of fish mortalities out of the top salmon producers. Since 2010, 50 million salmon (a quarter of a million tonnes) have died or escaped from Mowi farms – worth $1.7 bn https://t.co/bUhhsb4jd6pic.twitter.com/Q5WnNmfgfG
I’m so glad that it isn’t just buckets of cash that is preventing the protection of animals but a campaign of infiltration from animal abusers. Nice work @rspcaassured
UPDATE: RSPCA Assured has finished its investigation.
“These farms have now been visited by a specially trained RSPCA Farm Livestock Officer and an RSPCA Assured Assessor. During their visit they did not find any of the problems highlighted in the images"https://t.co/KNo2Q4dcXB
Picture Exclusive: leaked photos from the 'independent' inspection team charged by the RSPCA (who receive over £500K per year from the salmon farming industry & employ an ex-Mowi manager on staff) with checking for welfare abuse at Mowi salmon farms @RSPCAChris@RSPCA_PATeam ££££ pic.twitter.com/fmryMVcbNt
Reality check: High fish mortalities: Over the last decade, Mowi had the highest amount of fish mortalities out of the top salmon producers. Since 2010, 50 million salmon (a quarter of a million tonnes) have died or escaped from Mowi farms – worth $1.7 bn https://t.co/bUhhsb4jd6pic.twitter.com/Q5WnNmfgfG
"Mowi was ranked the worst for animal welfare out of the four large salmon-farming companies in Scotland in a 2018 report by OneKind...the company is not doing much to improve; poor welfare & high mortality seem to be a consistent theme on Mowi farms" https://t.co/bUhhsb4jd6pic.twitter.com/L6ep81eXEz
Revealed: Whiteshore Cockles has still not applied to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency for a Pollution Prevention & Control permit (as of 14 July 2021)@ScottishEPA@TerryAHearn Why is the dumping of diseased salmon in North Uist still being permitted? @marinescotlandpic.twitter.com/qz3gQ5qNX4
Where there's a hit, there's a writ! An article in The Times on the dumping of diseased farmed salmon "is the subject of a legal complaint from Angus MacDonald & Whiteshore Cockles" https://t.co/PUxDL1BKl1 Watch video footage here before lawyers remove it! https://t.co/rerpUNE1Hdpic.twitter.com/1SWdfkKXC3
A letter from the Scottish Government to Scottish Salmon Watch dated 26 July 2021 now admits that Whiteshore Cockles breached the conditions of their derogation by accepting diseased farmed salmon from the mainland (Scottish Salmon Watch has filed a Freedom of Information request to find out more details):
The Definition of 'Taking the Fish' - as salmon farmers in Shetland tackled illegal dumping of diseased fish via alternatives to landfill, companies in the Western Isles extended the geographical scope to Lewis, Harris & even mainland Scotland @scotgovhttps://t.co/kZPwlysv8dpic.twitter.com/iUGJbwD6yf
Another letter from the Scottish Government to Scottish Salmon Watch dated 26 July 2021 claimed that the continued dumping of diseased farmed salmon at Whiteshore Cockles was not 'illegal' (something which Scottish Salmon Watch certainly takes issue with):
"Fish morts from all over the Western Isles and even the mainland going to the site" @scotgov "Whiteshore are taking advantage of derogation by extending their scope or range to bring in more income...it should not be a cheap disposal route" https://t.co/OvxPfiOiaO@ScottishEPApic.twitter.com/taTsvodHMi
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) told Scottish Salmon Watch in a FOI reply dated 14 July 2021 that Whiteshore Cockles had still not yet applied for a Pollution Prevention & Control licence/permit:
From: Access to Information Enquiries <foi@sepa.org.uk> Date: Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 9:41 AM Subject: F0193398 Response To: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com> Cc: Access to Information Enquiries <foi@sepa.org.uk>
OFFICIAL – BUSINESS
Dear Don Staniford
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION – RESPONSE
Thank you for your request. Please see the enclosed response.
If you are not satisfied with the response provided and wish to request a formal review, you have 40 working days from the date of this email to request a formal review from SEPA at: foi@sepa.org.uk
If you are still not satisfied, following the completion of a formal review, you can appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner. www.itspublicknowledge.info/appeal
Your unique reference number is F0193398. Please quote this in any future contact with us about your request.
As I reported earlier this month (3 July 2021), we have a backdrop of the salmon farming industry - aided and abetted by the Scottish Government and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) - flouting EU law on the dumping of diseased salmon in landfill at Whiteshore Cockles. No wonder the authorities have desperately attempted to bury the evidence of illegality.
They may not have done something illegal but it’s utterly disgusting to abuse a derogation intended to minimise damage to the island by importing waste from the mainland. They live on the island they’re damaging so they and their neighbours have to live with the damage and stink. https://t.co/H4tAGJzqEb
Scottish Salmon Watch shared recent video footage shot at Mowi's Poll Na Gille salmon farm with the authors of the studies cited above:
From: Don Staniford<salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 12:02 PM Subject: Video of dead lumpfish at Mowi (Poll na Gille) salmon farm (17 July 2021) To: <sonia.reyplanellas@stir.ac.uk>, <jim.treasurer@faifarms.com>, GarciaDeLeaniz C. <c.garciadeleaniz@swansea.ac.uk>
Scottish Salmon Watch filmed at Mowi's Poll Na Gille salmon farm in the evening (ca. 6pm) on Saturday 17 July 2021 - we found over a dozen dead cleaner fish on the surface of one cage. Here's the raw video footage: https://vimeo.com/576372350
We also filmed licey lumpfish being fed on feed pellets at Mowi's 'Bay of the Dead Heads' salmon farmon 16 July 2021 - I can dig out that footage if you're interested.
From: Don Staniford<salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 1:06 PM Subject: Do lumpsuckers eat dead farmed salmon flesh? To: <sonia.reyplanellas@stir.ac.uk>, <jim.treasurer@faifarms.com>, GarciaDeLeaniz C. <c.garciadeleaniz@swansea.ac.uk>
Have you ever seen lumpsuckers eating the flesh of farmed salmon?
This video footage shot at Mowi's Poll Na Gille salmon farm on 17 July 2021 shows lumpsuckers foraging near a dead farmed salmon floating on the surface of a cage:
The lumpsuckers could just be hiding in the dead salmon or eating any lice on the carcass but it seems as if they may be feasting on the flesh. Do you know if this has been reported?
Models and indicators are useful but there is no substitute for real life conditions captured by underwater surveillance shot inside salmon farms. When Scottish Salmon Watch visited Mowi's Poll Na Gille salmon farm near Craobh Haven on 17 July 2021 we were shocked to find over a dozen dead lumpsucker 'cleaner fish' lying on the surface of one cage. You certainly don't need to be a mathematical modeller to work out that this is evidence of serious welfare abuse.
Dirty Rotten Salmon Farmers! Mowi's @rspcaassured salmon farm at Poll Na Gille near Oban is so lice-infested that 'cleaner fish' (lumpsuckers) are struggling to clean house https://t.co/orKMdiDAf4@MowiScotlandLtd is dead in the water! @SSPOsays
Here's more video footage showing licey lumpsuckers at Mowi's 'Bay of the Dead Heads' salmon farm on 16 July 2021.
Here's a summary of video footage shot by Scottish Salmon Watch on 16 & 17 July 2021 at four Mowi salmon farms (SW Shuna, Port Na Cro, Poll Na Gille and Bay of the Dead Heads):
Here's video footage of a lice-infested farmed salmon swimming with what looks like a shoal of baby wild herring inside Mowi's Poll Na Gille salmon farm on 17 July 2021 - are there simply too many lice for the 'cleaner fish' to keep the parasites under control?
A welfare complaint filed with the Animal & Plant Health Agency and Marine Scotland led to Mowi being rapped for welfare failures. The Ferret & Sunday National reported in November 2019:
When Scottish Salmon Watch filmed at a processing plant at South Shian operated by Scottish Sea Farms in September 2018 we were shocked to discover dead lumpsuckers:
Today's Times newspaper: "Mowi could lose its 'RSPCA Assured' labelling, which guarantees consumers the fish is reared in line with the highest welfare standards. “We are concerned by some of the images that have been shared with us,” said @rspcaassuredhttps://t.co/dWHR2Vyr3n
Don Staniford, the director of Scottish Salmon Watch, which campaigns against fish farms, took the video. He said: “In three years of secret filming at more than 25 salmon farms I have never seen such unnecessary suffering” https://t.co/dWHR2Vyr3n@thetimesscot@rspcaassured
Shameless Shill: In 2018 Hamish Macdonell reported for The Times on the "huge risk to the environment" from salmon farming. Now he's a paid lobbyist for 'Scottish' salmon burying the truth about the environmental & welfare nightmare @HamishMacdonellhttps://t.co/dWHR2Vyr3npic.twitter.com/eiQ0se8c1l
Scottish Salmon Watch urged people to boycott farmed salmon. “When will the public wake up to the deceptive marketing & glossy greenwashing behind the toxic salmon farming industry? Consumers should avoid Scottish salmon like the proverbial plague” https://t.co/pW3VK9XlPp
Crocodile tears from the boss of Mowi (who raked in over $1 million last year): "There will unfortunately be times when individual animals are in distress, and these isolated examples can be understandably concerning to the public as well as the farmer" https://t.co/pW3VK9XlPppic.twitter.com/00HT0JCdtl
Do you have a strong stomach & love gory horror movies? Then working for @rspcaassured inspecting welfare abuse on salmon farms in Scotland could be for you. Closing date for job applications is 27 August and it pays £26,840.11 https://t.co/mnjqTctL8D@MowiScotlandLtd@SSPOsays
Here's a follow up to Intrafish's Podcast and comments made by Intrafish Editor Drew Cherry:
From: Don Staniford<salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 6:36 AM Subject: Podcast - right to reply: correction re. cancer risk of farmed salmon consumption To: Drew Cherry <drew.cherry@intrafish.com>, John Fiorillo <john.fiorillo@intrafish.com>, <john.evans@intrafish.com>
Or other reports and articles which you've read over the years?
"Consumption advisories for salmon based on risk of cancer and noncancer health effect" (Environmental Research, June 2006): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16198332/
I am currently offline on a family holiday until Saturday (24 July 2021) - if you need a quote or access to any videos or photos from Mowi please read:
When Norwegian salmon giant Mowi resorts to ad hominem personal attacks & desperately tries to shoot the messenger rather than address the obvious welfare abuse caught on Go Pro camera you know you've won the argument! https://t.co/6OsaOcw3Zb@thefishsite@MowiScotlandLtd
"Scottish salmon farming is a horror story," says Andrew Holder of Dip in the Blue "When will the RSPCA stop condoning the torture of millions of farmed salmon in Scotland, by allowing it to be labeled as RSPCA Assured?" https://t.co/dhVFllDjXX@andrholderpic.twitter.com/IfAXFP72mv
1/2 Fish welfare is a priority for Co-op and we only take salmon from approved suppliers who meet strict welfare standards. We do not tolerate unacceptable
2/2 welfare practices for animals within our supply chain and in light of the seriousness of the allegations, supply has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation. ^Lav
"SalMar’s Witzøe attended a dinner meeting with Lerøy’s [CEO] Beltestad, during which they discussed a pricing model for their salmon based on NASDAQ spot prices. Witzøe & Beltestad were communicating with Jim Gallagher of [Scottish Sea Farms] via email" https://t.co/L8nWLUsVURpic.twitter.com/EDV4nIOF2w
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency told a firm wanting to start using a bee-killing chemical at fish farms to mark correspondence “confidential”— so that it wouldn’t have to be released in response to freedom of information requests. #FOIhttps://t.co/hIclBVFKop
Marine Scotland’s director, Annabel Turpie, has backed a treatment system for farmed fish designed to use a pesticide with “potentially devastating consequences for marine life”.https://t.co/kCHxUc4YBC
Video footage and photos filmed by Scottish Salmon Watch in the evening of Friday (16 July 2021) and on Saturday (17 July 2021) is published online via:
And raw footage of salmon lying dead and dying on the surface of Mowi's REDACTED salmon farm on Saturday morning (17 July 2021) is available via:
https://vimeo.com/576448909/bd7a062d1e (it seems that morts lie either dead or dying on the surface early in the morning before Mowi staff come to pick them all out in a small dinghy which they have tied to their farms - hence a visit prior to Mowi staff cleaning up the morts would be advisable).
Scottish Salmon Watch followed Scottish Government and SSPO approved biosecurity measures and safety protocols when filming - we disinfected (with Virkon) our kayak which was launched safely and at a distance outside Mowi's lease area. Here's ground-truthing video from Saturday evening (17 July 2021) at Mowi's REDACTED salmon farm ca. 6pm when no staff were present on site:
Scottish Salmon Watch recommends filming inside Mowi's cages with better equipment - my Go Pro camera has seen better days and the telescopic window-cleaning pole (£9.99 from a hardware store) is not as stable as you would like. Here's ground-truthing video footage from Mowi's REDACTED salmon farm on Saturday morning (17 July 2021): https://vimeo.com/576464579/890b1dff37
Suffice to say that Scottish Salmon Watch found clear evidence of welfare abuse at all four RSPCA Assured salmon farms - with dead salmon and cleaner fish lying belly up in the cages, lice-infestation of both farmed salmon and cleaner fish and evidence of physical damage to farmed salmon clearly visible when filming at the cages (including eye damage, head damage, snout damage and fin damage).
Please also note that our filming was carried out in poor visibility (it was misty), in snatched sessions (when we filmed at REDACTED at 6.30pm on Friday we had to leave when we noticed a salmon farm worker on site) and we only filmed on a 2 metre telescopic pole (filming in deeper water would be advisable). Hence Scottish Salmon Watch only just scratched the surface of the welfare abuse which appears endemic in these RSPCA Assured salmon farms.
I have already Tweeted various photos and videos naming Mowi but not the four salmon farm locations:
Scottish Salmon Watch would strongly encourage site inspections early this week before Mowi bury the evidence of welfare abuse.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me (I am away on a family holiday from early tomorrow until late Friday but the seriousness of the welfare abuse warranted filing complaints immediately and working through the weekend to get the photos and videos out quickly).
The RSPCA's farmed salmon standards (February 2021) detail a scoring system for assessing welfare problems in farmed salmon with, for example, fish missing one eye deemed "mild" damage and fish missing two eyes deemed "severe damage".
Compassion in World Farming investigated 22 salmon farms in four months between September & December 2020 using cameras, drones & divers. APHA 'inspected' 22 salmon farms in six years (2014 to 2019)! How many did @rspcaassured inspect? https://t.co/vgp2qsBh4g@media_ciwfpic.twitter.com/jMBQsCJZUF
An investigation has been launched into conditions at an Argyll fish farm after footage emerged of dead and dying salmon floating in cages on a freshwater loch.https://t.co/WZTX93fdnL
Scottish Salmon Watch today (19 July 2021) filed complaints for breaches of welfare laws by Mowi at salmon farms on the West coast of Scotland - sites certified as 'welfare friendly' via RSPCA Assured and sold as "responsibly sourced" via Sainsbury's, Lidl and Aldi.
Here's some of the photographic evidence submitted to the Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA), RSPCA Assured, the SSPCA, the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council, the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate and Police Scotland's Wildlife Crime Unit.
17 July 2021 - Mowi's RSPCA Assured salmon farm (#1)
Video footage shot last night from inside a Mowi salmon farm - lice-infested & swimming in a school of wild fish trapped inside the cage! But don't worry it's certified as "welfare friendly" @rspcaassured & sold as "responsibly sourced" @sainsburys@LidlGB@AldiUK@ASC_aquapic.twitter.com/lgHcE6kGLL
It's official - Scottish salmon is the worst ever! Official data - published by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency via 'Scotland's Aquaculture' which is sourced from monthly returns submitted by salmon farming companies - reveals that mortalities on salmon farms during 2020 exceeded a staggering 27,000 tonnes (an estimated 20 million dead salmon). That's more than double the 10,000 tonnes of morts reported in 2013; almost four times more than the 7,000 tonnes reported in 2010 and the worst on record (2019 and 2017 were both just over 25,000 tonnes)!
Six out of the top twenty monthly mortalities since 2002 when data was made available were reported during 2020 - with The Scottish Salmon Company's salmon farm at Sgian Dubh in Loch Striven in August 2020 heading the list of shame.
To put the scale of Scottish salmon's mort mountain into perspective, over a quarter (26%) of all farmed salmon in the sea phase of production are dying before they reach harvest size. BBC Countryfile reported in December 2020:
Here's the source data as reported in October 2020 via the Scottish Government's Annual Fish Farm Production Survey 2019 - detailing survival rate ranges between a low of 71.8% (i.e. 28.2% mortality) in 2007 and a high of 85.4% (i.e. 14.6% mortality) in 2012. The survival rate drastically differs between regions too with survival in in 2017 as low as 58.2% (i.e. 41.8% mortality) in the North West and as high as 80.8% (i.e. 19.2% mortality) in the South West. The latest mortality rate we have data for is 2017 which reported only 73.8% survival i.e. 26.2% mortality.
"Fish morts from all over the Western Isles and even the mainland going to the site" @scotgov "Whiteshore are taking advantage of derogation by extending their scope or range to bring in more income...it should not be a cheap disposal route" https://t.co/OvxPfiOiaO@ScottishEPApic.twitter.com/taTsvodHMi
Compassion in World Farming has released video and photos claiming to show the salmon farming industry causing “silent suffering” in “cruel underwater factory farms” across Scotland.https://t.co/EWiEhKUePT
45 per cent of the salmon killed by disease or other problems at Scottish fish farms end up as landfill, are incinerated or disposed of as waste. #fishytaleshttps://t.co/USRD8YDRoq
Censored: Salmon farmers in Scotland refuse to publish numbers of deaths as disclosure is "commercially damaging" https://t.co/FiaGuR3KoG Yet Norway published 2020 data detailing 52 million deaths - why the double standard when Norway owns 80% of 'Scottish' salmon? @ScottishEPApic.twitter.com/S6d45qnsTx
Let this sink in, 27,000 tonnes of dead salmon, toxic waste full of pesticides and disease, some buried on the lovely shore in North Uist, the rest taken in lorries to be given a dose of formic acid and turned into sludge. Is this really our future, @Ianblackford_MP ? https://t.co/nWLXqld425pic.twitter.com/Y8nQ1BfXaQ
Reality check: High fish mortalities: Over the last decade, Mowi had the highest amount of fish mortalities out of the top salmon producers. Since 2010, 50 million salmon (a quarter of a million tonnes) have died or escaped from Mowi farms – worth $1.7 bn https://t.co/bUhhsb4jd6pic.twitter.com/Q5WnNmfgfG
Meet the toxic team peddling 'organic' salmon pharming in Scotland - farmed off the Isle of Skye using the lobster-killing chemical Deltamethrin & owned by Dutch, Canadian & Norwegian investors. 'Scottish' & 'organic' salmon is a scam! https://t.co/wHt1aKc7G7#Toxic@timbrouwer89pic.twitter.com/mmcx5ereG5
Speaking to the Mail on Sunday earlier this week I commented (as Director of Scottish Salmon Watch):
"The SNP's lobbying on behalf of disease-ridden salmon farms is toxic politics at its very worst. Organic Sea Harvest is a sham, scam and consumer con. So-called 'organic' salmon farming is an oxymoron and a figment of the marketing men's toxic imagination. Shame on the Soil Association for allowing the lobster-killing chemical Deltamethrin to be used on organic salmon farms. Mass mortalities and lice infestations are already plaguing OSH's 'organic' operations and further expansion will only exacerbate the problem. 'Organic' Sea Harvest is merely a front for Dutch, Canadian and Norwegian investors who want to exploit Scotland's green and clean image. Consumers should boycott 'organic' salmon embalmed in toxic chemicals"
I had the opportunity to spend today with Organic Sea Harvest at their two fish farms off the coast of Staffin in North Skye. I was very much impressed with their operation and the professionalism the company brings to producing organic salmon off the coast of Skye. pic.twitter.com/MQE2zRBwnm
Organic Scamon: Villa Seafood changed their name to Organic Sea Harvest in May - it's co-owned by Dutch (Visscher), Canadian (DOM) & Norwegian (Villa) investors making $almoney off $cotland's green image. Neither 'Scottish' nor 'Organic'! #Organic#Scamhttps://t.co/kUmrCCNR0Rpic.twitter.com/u4UXeJWP8U
I love all things Irish but why is Mowi importing 'organic' salmon smolts from Altan in Ireland to on-grow on Skye as 'Scottish' salmon? Were the smolts quarantined? https://t.co/jeTujWIArt I read that Mowi breached their licence in Lough Altan in 2019 https://t.co/9p6iXdECr0pic.twitter.com/zF7SR3D9Ed
Scottish Salmon Watch revealed in March 2021 that 'Organic' Sea Harvest had reported disease and mass mortality problems at their Soil Association certified organic salmon farming operations (including 11,671 morts in one week in July/August 2020).
It beggars belief that salmon doused in toxic chemicals and ridden with infectious diseases can be marketed as 'organic' and certified by the Soil Association.
Record numbers of foreign salmon eggs are being imported by Scottish fish farms - @TheGAAIA in today’s Scottish Mail on Sunday: pic.twitter.com/wdACZSgpgh
"Anyone visiting the four museums when they reopen will notice that farmed salmon has been banished entirely from its cafes and restaurants" @Tatehttps://t.co/bVjSq41j8M@MSNBC@CookingSections Please join the global boycott against farmed salmon!
"If it's less than 5k, Mowi can handle it" says @MowiScotlandLtd Director of Comms offering to buy off Ness District Salmon Fishery Board for £3,800 plus VAT. "Just request a Mowi logo on the side in the shape of a red hot flame (kidding)". "Looks schnazzy" says Ian Roberts pic.twitter.com/H2JxBxYYtB
