Green Around the Gills

Exposed: 10 Million Morts at RSPCA Assured Mowi Since 2019!

 

 

Revealed: 10 Million Salmon Morts @MowiScotlandLtd Since 2019! @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua
Served @sainsburys @Tesco @AldiUK @LidlGB & other green-washed retailers with a side order of infectious diseases, toxic chemicals & antibiotics @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/2yUq4oAE4C pic.twitter.com/mQnz8ZP8nW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 13, 2022

 

 

 

Official data published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate on 4 May shows that Norwegian giant Mowi - certified as 'responsibly sourced' via RSPCA Assured and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council - has reported nearly 10 million dead farmed salmon in Scotland since it was rebranded in January 2019 (Mowi changed their name due to what their CEO admitted was "negative consumer perception" in the name Marine Harvest). 

 

 

 

Since January 2019 (data published up to the early April 2022), Mowi has filed 516 'Mortality Event Reports' with the Scottish Government detailing 9,814,763 dead farmed salmon with over 1.74 million farmed salmon morts already in 2022 (data on dead cleaner fish which is estimated at several million per year at Mowi is shamefully not reported).  Here's the largest mass mortality reports headed by Mowi's Lochailort and Inchmore hatcheries (note that not all dead farmed salmon are reported - only mass mortality incidents over 1% - due to industry lobbying in 2013 arguing that disclosure of all mortalities would be 'commercially damaging'): 

 

 

 

 

Mowi are blaming poor quality imported ova (eggs) for their mortality problems.  Fish Farming Expert reported (11 May 2022):

 

 

 

In October 2018, The Sunday Mail reported that 500,000 farmed salmon had died at Mowi's flagship hatchery at Inchmore - opened only a few months earlier by Scotland's Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy, Fergus Ewing.

 

 

 

 

Despite Mowi's appalling track record, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council recently awarded 'responsibly farmed' certification at Mowi's salmon farms in Loch Alsh (at Ardintoul and Sron). 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Ardintoul salmon farm - accredited by the ASC on 20 April 2022 - has filed 27 'Mortality Event Reports' since January 2019 totalling 420,561 dead farmed salmon.  Here's the most recent 'Mortality Event Reports' which also detail the use of antibiotics, toxic chemicals and infectious diseases:

 

 

 

 

 

When Scottish Salmon Watch visited Mowi's disease-ridden salmon farm at Ardintoul in Loch Alsh 'Special Area of Conservation' on 2 November 2019 we discovered bins full of dead salmon.  

 

 

 

Mowi's other salmon farm in Loch Alsh (Sron) - certified by the ASC on 28 March 2022 - has filed 12 'Mortality Event Reports' since January 2019 totalling 138,318 dead farmed salmon:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deaths in Loch Alsh have not been restricted to farmed salmon and cleaner fish but have sadly extended to seals and even Mowi's own workers.  

 

Norwegian-owned Marine Harvest renamed itself Mowi on 1 January 2019 due to negative consumer perception https://t.co/UM7XEnEmLZ With all the dead bodies piling up @MowiScotlandLtd it may have to think about re-branding itself again @MCA_media @H_S_E @MowiCanadaWest @FWMowinckel pic.twitter.com/Vv0aYu6cSj

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 26, 2020

 

 

Tourist operator Nigel Smith has reported seals slaughtered in Loch Alsh (a Special Area of Conservation and Marine Protected Area) with shocking photos of dead seals naming and shaming Marine Harvest (since renamed Mowi).  

 

 

 

 

 

The Ross-shire Journal reported (8 May 2022):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earlier this month (4 May 2022), $camon $cotland filed a complaint against Mowi's ASC-certified salmon with the Advertising Standards Authority.

 

 

 

Complaint filed @asa_uk Vs @sainsburys for deceptive advertising of "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon @ASC_aqua @rspcaassured
"Sainsbury’s is clearly guilty of deceptive advertising and should be forced to remove all adverts" writes Scamon Scotland https://t.co/vomcYIZ4Cd pic.twitter.com/v16obcf4IA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Earlier this month (3 May 2022), the ASC and Mowi scooped the prestigious 'Greenwasher of the Year' award. 

 

Breaking News: Norwegian giant Mowi and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council share the shameless 'Greenwasher of the Year' award at this year's Scamons! https://t.co/DTVAlbNivP @MowiScotlandLtd @ASC_aqua @aquacultureuk @sainsburys @Tesco pic.twitter.com/ATY696uEt3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 3, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Netflix's global hit 'Seaspiracy' features shocking video footage shot at Mowi's RSPCA Assured (and ASC-certified) salmon farm at Gorsten in Loch Linnhe. 

 

Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' Exposes Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon – As Sponsored by the RSPCA & Aquaculture Stewardship Council! https://t.co/NiySHYotBu@seaspiracy @rspcaassured @ScotlandMowi @ASC_aqua @vivacampaigns @Ecohustler @SSPOsays @iamalitabrizi @media_ciwf @philip_ciwf pic.twitter.com/32CcvHUUKH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 31, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

In July 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch filmed at Mowi's RSPCA Assured Loch Greshornish salmon farm on the Isle of Skye. 

 

 

 

Meet the team behind Mowi's disease-ridden pharmed salmon https://t.co/pFRNRc8fu4 "Our ethos rests on the belief that we can sustainably and responsibly produce healthy, nutritious and affordable food, now and for future generations" @MowiScotlandLtd #Bollocks #Bullshit #Scamon pic.twitter.com/ZtZtiH3jHt

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 17, 2021

 

 

 

The Press & Journal reported (16 February 2022):

 

Delve into Mowi's Q4 2021 financial report and presentation and the "woes" in Scotland become clearer - Mowi's Q4 2021 report (16 February 2022) includes:

 

Mowi's Q4 2021 Presentation (16 February 2022) includes:

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported yesterday (12 May 2022):

 

Mowi Scotland reports a 42% fall in Q1 production from 2021 to 2022. "The overall biological situation is more challenging than in 2021, mainly related to AGD and gill issues. CMS also remains at a relatively high rate of detection" @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/nWtY8GzkTJ pic.twitter.com/ASgtu4Qsh3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 12, 2022

 

 

 

Read more via:

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - over 8 million morts reported last year & over half a million in first two weeks of 2022!!

Charitable Warning: Mowi's Salmon Wagon is Hitting the Road Again - there's no such thing as a free farmed fish lunch!

Mowi's "Woes in Scotland" - Disease & Deaths Cause £5.6 Million Losses!

Over 80% Mortality at The Scottish Salmon Company!!!

ASC-Certified/Audited Mass Mortalities Pile Up at Lousy Mowi & Scottish Sea Farms!

New Mortality Data for Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon - 700,000+ in the first two weeks of December!

Dead in the Water - Scottish Salmon's Mortality Mountain Piles Ever Higher in 2021!

Mass Mortalities - 66% in one month at The Scottish Salmon Company on the Isle of Gigha!

Lousy 'Scottish' Salmon - the most lice-infested salmon farms named & shamed!

Irresponsible Scottish Salmon Exposed: 'Scotland's Aquaculture' Publishes Data on Toxic Chemicals Use, Morts & Biomass Breaches

STV News: "Thousands of rotting salmon ‘stink out’ village after mass death at farm"

X-Rated Video: 90% Mortality at The Faroese/Norwegian 'Scottish' Salmon Company?!

Video Nasties of Dead Farmed Salmon Pile Up All Over the World!

Videos of Mort Disposal by The Scottish Salmon Company - like a serial killer disposing of dead bodies before the police arrive!

Demand for moratorium on new fish farms after mortality rates revealed

"The shocking death rates on Scotland's salmon farms revealed"

2020: The Year of Diseased Scottish Salmon - 27,000 Tonnes of Dead Fish, the Worst On Record!

Stop the Scottish Salmondemic - please avoid disease-ridden farmed salmon like the proverbial plague!

Taking the Fish - Illegal Salmon Dump Caught Taking Diseased Fish from the Mainland Despite 'Derogation'!

FOI Lifts Lid on the Stench of Scottish Salmon: Government Legal Department Target Illegal Dumping of Diseased Salmon

The Times: "Fish graveyard ‘severely hampers’ life for islanders, officials claim"

Update: Mortality Rate Over 36% At RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon!

Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon 

Update: 25 Million Mass Mortalities on Scottish Salmon Farms

52 million deaths in Norway - how many millions died on Scottish salmon farms in 2020?

The Case Against Scottish Salmon - An Update on Diseases & Mass Mortalities!

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

Mass Mortalities Continue to Plague Scottish Salmon

Alexa, how many salmon die each year on Scottish salmon farms? 42 million* (but we don't know for sure as the answer is deemed "commercially damaging")!

Over One Million Morts for Scottish Salmon in September 2020!

Survival of the Unhealthiest Scottish Salmon - New data reveals shocking mortality rates!

Dead in the Water - New Data Reveals Mass Mortalities & Disease on Scottish Salmon Farms

The Ferret: "Farmed salmon deaths from disease reach record high"

The Killing Farms - Scottish Salmon's Horror Story Continues!

Solving Scottish Salmon's Multi-Million Mortality Problem

 

 

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - 8m morts reported last year & half a million in first two weeks of 2022!! https://t.co/tBz56oIRHK @ScotlandSalmon @tavishscott
Anyone for yummy "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon? @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation pic.twitter.com/K8cU8Bo64Y

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 18, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revealed: 10 Million Salmon Morts @MowiScotlandLtd Since 2019! @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua
Served @sainsburys @Tesco @AldiUK @LidlGB & other green-washed retailers with a side order of infectious diseases, toxic chemicals & antibiotics @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/2yUq4oAE4C pic.twitter.com/mQnz8ZP8nW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 13, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Revealed: 10 Million Salmon Morts @MowiScotlandLtd Since 2019! @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua
Served @sainsburys @Tesco @AldiUK @LidlGB & other green-washed retailers with a side order of infectious diseases, toxic chemicals & antibiotics @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/2yUq4oAE4C pic.twitter.com/mQnz8ZP8nW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 13, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Despite Mowi's appalling track record, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council recently awarded 'responsibly farmed' certification at Mowi's salmon farms in Loch Alsh (at Ardintoul and Sron). 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Ardintoul salmon farm - accredited by the ASC on 20 April 2022 - has filed 27 'Mortality Event Reports' since January 2019 totalling 420,561 dead farmed salmon.  Here's the most recent 'Mortality Event Reports' which also detail the use of antibiotics, toxic chemicals and infectious diseases:

 

 

 

 

 

When Scottish Salmon Watch visited Mowi's disease-ridden salmon farm at Ardintoul in Loch Alsh 'Special Area of Conservation' on 2 November 2019 we discovered bins full of dead salmon.  

 

 

 

Mowi's other salmon farm in Loch Alsh (Sron) - certified by the ASC on 28 March 2022 - has filed 12 'Mortality Event Reports' since January 2019 totalling 138,318 dead farmed salmon:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deaths in Loch Alsh have not been restricted to farmed salmon and cleaner fish but have sadly extended to seals and even Mowi's own workers.  

 

Norwegian-owned Marine Harvest renamed itself Mowi on 1 January 2019 due to negative consumer perception https://t.co/UM7XEnEmLZ With all the dead bodies piling up @MowiScotlandLtd it may have to think about re-branding itself again @MCA_media @H_S_E @MowiCanadaWest @FWMowinckel pic.twitter.com/Vv0aYu6cSj

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 26, 2020

 

 

Tourist operator Nigel Smith has reported seals slaughtered in Loch Alsh (a Special Area of Conservation and Marine Protected Area) with shocking photos of dead seals naming and shaming Marine Harvest (since renamed Mowi).  

 

 

 

 

 

The Ross-shire Journal reported (8 May 2022):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earlier this month (4 May 2022), $camon $cotland filed a complaint against Mowi's ASC-certified salmon with the Advertising Standards Authority.

 

 

 

Complaint filed @asa_uk Vs @sainsburys for deceptive advertising of "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon @ASC_aqua @rspcaassured
"Sainsbury’s is clearly guilty of deceptive advertising and should be forced to remove all adverts" writes Scamon Scotland https://t.co/vomcYIZ4Cd pic.twitter.com/v16obcf4IA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Earlier this month (3 May 2022), the ASC and Mowi scooped the prestigious 'Greenwasher of the Year' award. 

 

Breaking News: Norwegian giant Mowi and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council share the shameless 'Greenwasher of the Year' award at this year's Scamons! https://t.co/DTVAlbNivP @MowiScotlandLtd @ASC_aqua @aquacultureuk @sainsburys @Tesco pic.twitter.com/ATY696uEt3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 3, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Netflix's global hit 'Seaspiracy' features shocking video footage shot at Mowi's RSPCA Assured (and ASC-certified) salmon farm at Gorsten in Loch Linnhe. 

 

Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' Exposes Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon – As Sponsored by the RSPCA & Aquaculture Stewardship Council! https://t.co/NiySHYotBu@seaspiracy @rspcaassured @ScotlandMowi @ASC_aqua @vivacampaigns @Ecohustler @SSPOsays @iamalitabrizi @media_ciwf @philip_ciwf pic.twitter.com/32CcvHUUKH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 31, 2021

 

 

Mowi's other salmon farm in Loch Alsh (Sron) - certified by the ASC on 28 March 2022 - has filed 12 'Mortality Event Reports' since January 2019 totalling 138,318 dead farmed salmon:

 

 

 

Revealed: 10 Million Salmon Morts @MowiScotlandLtd Since 2019! @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua
Served @sainsburys @Tesco @AldiUK @LidlGB & other green-washed retailers with a side order of infectious diseases, toxic chemicals & antibiotics @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/2yUq4oAE4C pic.twitter.com/mQnz8ZP8nW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 13, 2022

 

 

 

ASC-Certified & RSPCA Assured Mowi Hit by Disease & Mass Mortalities!

 

MOWI: Profits down due to bad imported eggs and gill disease, cardiomyopathy syndrome, pancreas disease & Pasturella.

Are wild salmon somehow immune to these infectious diseases as they swim past the filthy cages?@CVOScotland @MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllanhttps://t.co/JIJB4gLVom

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) May 12, 2022

 

Mowi's Q1 2022 financial results make grim reading for Scotland.

 

Mowi Scotland reports a 42% fall in Q1 production from 2021 to 2022. "The overall biological situation is more challenging than in 2021, mainly related to AGD and gill issues. CMS also remains at a relatively high rate of detection" @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/nWtY8GzkTJ pic.twitter.com/ASgtu4Qsh3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 12, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fish Farmer reported (11 May 2022):

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Advertising Complaint Vs Sainsbury's "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon
• Greenwasher of the Year - Mowi & the ASC share the spoiled Scottish salmon!
• Death of Mowi Worker Clive Hendry Makes International Waves on Memorial Day
• Media Backgrounder: "Mowi's Increasing Disease Problems Drives Increases in Antibiotic Use"
• Bullshit Called on Mowi's "Sustainability" Claims!
• Mowi's Pure Bullshit (#1 in a regular series): "hardly any chemical treatments at all"
• Open letter to the ASC: Please cancel all certification of Mowi's toxic Scottish salmon!
• Mowi's 'Host' With the Most....Toxic Chemicals & Antibiotics (certified as "responsibly farmed" by the ASC)!

 

 

 

 

Open letter to the ASC: Please cancel all certification of Mowi's toxic Scottish salmon! https://t.co/N9MwDaN0kQ @ASC_aqua @MowiScotlandLtd @fms_scotland @SalmonTroutCons
Scottish salmon is farmed irresponsibly not responsibly! @rspcaassured @ASA_UK @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB pic.twitter.com/3L76as7mTY

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

Darth Vader Takes the Pledge Not to Eat Pharmed Salmon - May the Force Be With You!

 

 

 

 

Salmon farming is such a toxic and ethically bankrupt industry that even Darth Vader wouldn't eat farmed salmon! 

 

 

 

On Star Wars Day - and every day - please boycott farmed salmon! https://t.co/VIX2qQBc0I@Tesco @ASC_aqua @MowiScotlandLtd #StarWarsDay #MayThe4thBeWithYou pic.twitter.com/xSOZR2jXuU

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

 

 

On Star Wars Day (May 4th) and every day henceforth please pledge to boycott farmed salmon - take the salmon pledge now!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The tide has turned against salmon pharming.   In December 2021, over 70,000 people signed a petition against "responsibly sourced" salmon sold by Sainsbury's:  

 

70,000 people sign petition vs "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon sold by Sainsbury's! @sainsburys https://t.co/X7JfKVeSil@SumOfUs @ChangingMarkets @SainsburysNews

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 19, 2021

 

 

Farmed salmon sold by @Sainsburys has a dreadful impact on coastal communities half a world away. #FishingTheFeed pic.twitter.com/WhKO7V9ajg

— SumOfUs (@SumOfUs) December 15, 2021

 

 

 

 

In November 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch filed complaints against "responsibly farmed" and "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon sold by supermarkets in the UK with Trading and Advertising Standards.

 

Irresponsibly Farmed Scottish Salmon - Complaints Filed Vs Supermarkets with Advertising & Trading Standards! @ASA_UK @CMAgovUK @TSScot @NTSscamsteam @wirraltsd @CEC_TS @GlasgowCC @SalmonScotland @ScotlandSalmon @Ecohustler @animal_concern @ClientEarth https://t.co/XjkuDA7WsB pic.twitter.com/d4dp6VURvU

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 22, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in October 2021:

 

Climavore spawns boycott of farmed salmon across the UK - take the pledge not to eat Scottish salmon today! https://t.co/zLYzqghPIh @SSPOsays @MowiScotlandLtd @sainsburys @LidlGB @salmon_scottish @scotseafarms @Tesco @asda @Morrisons @marksandspencer @waitrose @coopuk https://t.co/tc9TA0Xwsw pic.twitter.com/sRRiW4utBk

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 12, 2021

 

 

 

Here's ocean advocate Katie Tunn from the Isle of Skye explaining her 10 reasons to boycott farmed salmon:

 

 

 

 

Read more reasons to boycott pharmed salmon online here

 

 

Want to end the nightmare of salmon farming? Please join the global boycott against farmed salmon! https://t.co/FpKosacuJq @pamfoundation @seashepherd_uk pic.twitter.com/4whTg61z2n

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 2, 2021

 

 

Farmed Salmon? No Thanks! https://t.co/srvE2G4DEs
Proudly display your opposition to salmon farming - take the salmon pledge today! #Boycott #Farmed #Salmon pic.twitter.com/9QnqGQMJ4V

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 5, 2021

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Advertising Complaint Vs Sainsbury's "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon
• Greenwasher of the Year - Mowi & the ASC share the spoiled Scottish salmon!
• Death of Mowi Worker Clive Hendry Makes International Waves on Memorial Day
• NowThis: "Salmon farming has lost the war on sea lice"
• Press Statement: "Death Becomes Scottish Salmon"
• Coming Clean on Welfare Abuse of Cleaner Fish - FOI lifts lid on 100% mortality of wrasse at The Scottish Salmon Company (& over half a million dead salmon)!
• Make a Video Pledge to Boycott Farmed Salmon Today!
• Take the Salmon Pledge - please join the boycott against farmed salmon!
• Salmon Pledge Goes Wild Around the World! 

 

 

Complaint filed @asa_uk Vs @sainsburys for deceptive advertising of "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon @ASC_aqua @rspcaassured
"Sainsbury’s is clearly guilty of deceptive advertising and should be forced to remove all adverts" writes Scamon Scotland https://t.co/vomcYIZ4Cd pic.twitter.com/v16obcf4IA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even Darth Vader does not eat farmed salmon! https://t.co/FpKosacuJq #StarWarsDay #MayThe4thBeWithYou pic.twitter.com/QwDfTLhyNh

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

 

 

 

The Herald: "The toxic salmon farm chemicals that are a risk to swimmers"

 

What a report into toxic salmon farm pesticides on open water swimmers says - and why I wouldn't swim near these farms https://t.co/GQ5m1deHyW

— Vicky Allan (@vicky_allan) May 3, 2022

 

The Herald reported (3 May 2022):

 

 

 

Exposed: 40 Million+ Litres of Toxic Hydrogen Peroxide Used on ‘Responsibly Farmed’, RSPCA Assured & ‘Organic’ Scottish Salmon Since 2016! @SoilAssociation @ASC_aqua @rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @LochDuartSalmon @ScottishEPA @scotgov https://t.co/4JUGpQLv8J pic.twitter.com/79IQSZ3ujI

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 15, 2022

 

 

 

Read more via The Ferret (1 May 2022):

 

A report - commissioned from consultants by a fish farming industry body - concluded that levels of hydrogen peroxide in salmon cages could be 28 times higher than those considered safe for swimmers.https://t.co/5j2s97lAxV

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) May 1, 2022

 

 

 

 

Read more on the use of toxic chemicals and antibiotics on salmon farms in Scotland via:

Toxic Salmon: FOI Reveals Lobbying To Use Banned Neonicotinoid in Scotland - will trials of Imidacloprid take place this year?

"Novichok for Insects" Unleashed on Scottish Salmon This Summer?

Exposed: 40 Million+ Litres of Toxic Hydrogen Peroxide Used on ‘Responsibly Farmed’, RSPCA Assured & ‘Organic’ Scottish Salmon Since 2016!

The Ferret/Sunday National: "Use of Drugs At Fish Farms Rises 50 Times in Six Years"

Drug Addict Alert: Scottish Salmon's Fifty-Fold Increase in Antibiotics Since 2016!

Media Backgrounder: "Mowi's Increasing Disease Problems Drives Increases in Antibiotic Use"

Toxic Scottish Salmon - Chemical Use Doubles Since 2018!

Slicegate: How SEPA Opened the Floodgates to Toxic Scottish Salmon (Following Intense Lobbying from the Salmafia)!

Mowi's 'Host' With the Most....Toxic Chemicals & Antibiotics (certified as "responsibly farmed" by the ASC)!

 

 

Toxic Salmon: FOI Reveals Lobbying To Use Banned Neonicotinoid in Scotland - will trials of Imidacloprid take place this year? @ScottishEPA @marinescotland @MowiScotlandLtd @sustain_aqua @WeAreBenchmark @LeroySeafood @scotseafarms @vmdgovuk @scotgphttps://t.co/fO4qj5HUfh #BMK08 pic.twitter.com/G345o5I8DW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 16, 2022

 

 

 

Advertising Complaint Vs Sainsbury's "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon

 

Complaint filed today vs Sainsbury's for falsely advertising "responsibly sourced salmon" @ASA_UK
"No amount of greenwashing can hide the fact that Scottish salmon farming is inherently unsustainable and irresponsible" @sainsburys @ASC_aqua @rspcaassured https://t.co/vomcYIZ4Cd pic.twitter.com/ZMQQDMiLFn

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

$camon Scotland today (4 May 2022), filed a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority against Sainsbury's for falsely advertising "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon - read the complaint in full online here.

 

Big ad for "responsibly sourced salmon" in this weekend's @theipaper . No mention of in 2014 460,000 tonnes of wild-caught fish were used to produce 179,000 tonnes of salmon in Scotland. What's sustainable about that? @rspcaassured @TheGAAIA @SainsburysNews pic.twitter.com/wI5wMp1KEr

— Sue Everett (@suesustainable) April 24, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

"How can ASC-certified Scottish salmon be advertised and marketed by Sainsbury’s (and other retailers) as 'responsibly sourced' when mortality rates, disease problems, toxic chemical use and use of antibiotics are so high?" wrote $camon Scotland.   "How can it be deemed 'responsible' to source from salmon farms infested with parasites which peer-reviewed science has shown can be lethal to wild fish?"

 

 

"In conclusion, $camon $cotland reiterates the hard evidence submitted in November 2021 and alerts the ASA to new data on the irresponsible use of antibiotics and chemicals; mass mortalities of farmed salmon and cleaner fish; and lice infestation on ASC-certified salmon farms," concluded the complaint to the ASA (4 May 2022).  "Sainsbury’s is clearly guilty of deceptive advertising and should be forced to remove all adverts claiming to source from “responsible” salmon farms in newspapers, Facebook and other media.  Please send Sainsbury’s the crystal clear message that they cannot continue misleading consumers about the provenance of farmed salmon.  No amount of greenwashing by the ASC, RSPCA Assured and supermarket advertisers can hide the fact that Scottish salmon farming is inherently unsustainable and irresponsible."

 

 

 

Read the ASA complaint in full online here

 

 

 

 

Complaint filed @asa_uk Vs @sainsburys for deceptive advertising of "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon @ASC_aqua @rspcaassured
"Sainsbury’s is clearly guilty of deceptive advertising and should be forced to remove all adverts" writes Scamon Scotland https://t.co/vomcYIZ4Cd pic.twitter.com/v16obcf4IA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

 

Yesterday (3 May 2022), the ASC and Mowi won the prestigious 'Greenwasher of the Year' award.

 

Breaking News: Norwegian giant Mowi and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council share the shameless 'Greenwasher of the Year' award at this year's Scamons! https://t.co/DTVAlbNivP @MowiScotlandLtd @ASC_aqua @aquacultureuk @sainsburys @Tesco pic.twitter.com/ATY696uEt3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 3, 2022

 

 

 

In January 2022, Scottish Salmon Watch wrote an open letter to the ASC calling for an end to the certification of Scottish salmon.

 

Open letter to the ASC: Please cancel all certification of Mowi's toxic Scottish salmon! https://t.co/N9MwDaN0kQ @ASC_aqua @MowiScotlandLtd @fms_scotland @SalmonTroutCons
Scottish salmon is farmed irresponsibly not responsibly! @rspcaassured @ASA_UK @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB pic.twitter.com/3L76as7mTY

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

 

 

In November 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch filed complaints against Sainsbury's and other supermarkets with the ASA and Trading Standards.

 

Irresponsibly Farmed Scottish Salmon - Complaints Filed Vs Supermarkets with Advertising & Trading Standards! @ASA_UK @CMAgovUK @TSScot @NTSscamsteam @wirraltsd @CEC_TS @GlasgowCC @SalmonScotland @ScotlandSalmon @Ecohustler @animal_concern @ClientEarth https://t.co/XjkuDA7WsB pic.twitter.com/d4dp6VURvU

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 22, 2021

 

 

 

In March 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch reported that Mowi had moved the goalposts on ASC certification.

 

Mowi move goalposts on @ASC_aqua certification - first they pledged 100% ASC certification by 2020, then moved it to 2025 & now they expand to @ourGSSI recognised standards including @BAP_Aquaculture @GLOBALGAP & @BordIascMhara https://t.co/sGg4fT1MIR @MowiScotlandLtd #Greenwash pic.twitter.com/t0WEhnHPdO

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 26, 2021

 

 

In other words, the industry-dominated ASC is moving the goalposts to allow more salmon farms to meet their ever weakening and widening salmon standard.

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Greenwasher of the Year - Mowi & the ASC share the spoiled Scottish salmon!

Exposed: 40 Million+ Litres of Toxic Hydrogen Peroxide Used on ‘Responsibly Farmed’, RSPCA Assured & ‘Organic’ Scottish Salmon Since 2016!

1.8 Million Morts Reported on Scottish Fish Farms Already in 2022!

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - over 8 million morts reported last year & over half a million in first two weeks of 2022!!

Media Backgrounder: "Mowi's Increasing Disease Problems Drives Increases in Antibiotic Use"

Bullshit Called on Mowi's "Sustainability" Claims!

Mowi's Pure Bullshit (#1 in a regular series): "hardly any chemical treatments at all"

Complaint vs Ocado & Sainsbury's 'Organic' Scottish Salmon "Farmed Responsibly" by Mowi Filed with Trading & Advertising Standards

ASC-Certified/Audited Mass Mortalities Pile Up at Lousy Mowi & Scottish Sea Farms!

Open letter to the ASC: Please cancel all certification of Mowi's toxic Scottish salmon!

Mowi's 'Host' With the Most....Toxic Chemicals & Antibiotics (certified as "responsibly farmed" by the ASC)!

ASC cancel Mowi certifications due to exceedances of antibiotics use, escape & "administrative reasons"!

Mass mortalities at ASC-certified Mowi!

Greenwashing 'Sustainable' Salmon - how supermarkets brand themselves as "responsible" via ClientEarth!

Irresponsibly Farmed Scottish Salmon - Complaints Filed Vs Supermarkets with Advertising & Trading Standards!

Complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority Vs ‘Responsibly Farmed’ Mowi Scottish salmon as advertised by Tesco & Sainsbury’s

Media Backgrounder: Irresponsibly Farmed Scottish Salmon

Complaint to the Competition & Markets Authority and Trading Standards Vs Supermarkets (Aldi, ASDA, Lidl, M&S, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco & Waitrose) for deceptive marketing of ‘Responsibly Farmed’ & ‘Responsibly Sourced’ Scottish Salmon

Hard Evidence Submitted with CMA & Trading Standards Complaint

Supermarkets Investigated by Competition and Markets Authority - "Responsibly Farmed/Sourced" Green Claims Questioned!

Bullshit Called on M&S's "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon!

Gotcha: Mowi's "Responsibly Farmed" Scottish Salmon Caught in Advertising Standards Net!

ASC endorses banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in salmon farming

Anyone for Norwegian Salmon Marinaded in the Banned Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (don't worry it's ASC-approved)?!

Mowi's 'Healthy' RSPCA Assured & ASC-Certified Salmon Farm at Gorsten (as featured in Seaspiracy)

Mowi Moves Goalposts on ASC Certification

ASC-Certified Scottish Salmon Dead in the Water!

Anyone for ASC-Certified Scottish Salmon Doused in Carcinogenic Formaldehyde?

ASC-Certified Shellfish Killers (not to mention seals, diseases, lice, pollution etc)

EXPOSED: Scottish Salmon's Sustainability Scam 

Lipstick on a Pig - WWF's Makeover At Marine Harvest

WWF Greenwashes Marine Harvest

The Abominable Salmon Council - Buyer Beware!

Pepé Le Pew Loves Farmed Salmon!

 

 

 

 

 

Complaint filed @ASA_UK today Vs @sainsburys for deceptive advertising of "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon @ASC_aqua @rspcaassured https://t.co/vomcYIZ4Cd Thanks for posting the newspaper advert - any more? pic.twitter.com/8I6tAVvKys

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

 

 

Addendum:

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 4, 2022 at 6:43 AM
Subject: Complaint Vs Sainsbury's
To: Celia Howarth <celiah@asa.org.uk>, David Barber <davidb@asa.org.uk>

 

Please find attached a complaint to the ASA re. Sainsbury's.

 

Also online via: ASA Complaint Vs Sainsbury's "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon

 

Please acknowledge receipt of this complaint. 

 

Thanks,

 

Don Staniford

 

Director of $camon $cotland (formerly Scottish Salmon Watch)

Greenwasher of the Year - Mowi & the ASC share the spoiled Scottish salmon!

 

Breaking News: Norwegian giant Mowi and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council share the shameless 'Greenwasher of the Year' award at this year's Scamons! https://t.co/DTVAlbNivP @MowiScotlandLtd @ASC_aqua @aquacultureuk @sainsburys @Tesco pic.twitter.com/ATY696uEt3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 3, 2022

 

At this year's 'Scamons' (the alternative to tomorrow's Aquaculture Awards held in Aviemore) there was particularly fierce competition between salmon farming companies, supermarkets and certification bodies desperate to brand 'Scottish' salmon as "responsible" and "sustainable".  In the end, it was just too close to call with Mowi and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council sharing the 'Greenwasher of the Year' award. 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's stream of utter bullshit continued unabated during 2021 and the first quarter of 2022 (despite rising use of antibiotics, mass mortalities, lice infestation and toxic chemicals):

 

 

Bullshit Alert: "Sustainability is deeply engrained in the Mowi culture and at the heart of everything we do," claims Mowi's CEO Ivar Vindheim. "Mowi is at the forefront when it comes to sustainable food production" https://t.co/s1726IolTd pic.twitter.com/SqN5v02hzT

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 16, 2022

 

 

 

"We are leading the world.....in sustainable and responsible food production" (Ben Hadfield in September 2021 as quoted in a Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation press release)

 

 

 

 

 

Not to be outdone, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council is doing their damndest to surpass their sister organisation (the Marine Conservation Society) in their shameless greenwashing.  

 

Open letter to the ASC: Please cancel all certification of Mowi's toxic Scottish salmon! https://t.co/N9MwDaN0kQ @ASC_aqua @MowiScotlandLtd @fms_scotland @SalmonTroutCons
Scottish salmon is farmed irresponsibly not responsibly! @rspcaassured @ASA_UK @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB pic.twitter.com/3L76as7mTY

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

 

 

"ASC will play a crucial role in ensuring a growing supply of environmentally sustainably and socially responsible food from the aquaculture industry" (Ally Dingwall in November 2021 as quoted in Fish Farming Expert)

 

 

 

The ASC's stamp of approval comes in the wake of rising use of antibiotics and toxic chemical use. 

 

 

 

 

And mass mortalities piling up faster than you can say: "The ASC salmon standard is not worth the paper it's written on". 

 

 

 

 

A decade ago back in 2012 I exposed how the Aquaculture Stewardship Council - dubbed the Abominable Salmon Council - had been corrupted by commercial forces intent on watering down the standards to accommodate farmed salmon.    As I wrote in April 2012:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The last decade has seen Mowi desperately try every trick in the book - from bending the rules, watering down the standards and moving the goalposts - to force Scottish salmon into the ASC.   Scottish Salmon Watch reported in March 2021: 

 

Mowi move goalposts on @ASC_aqua certification - first they pledged 100% ASC certification by 2020, then moved it to 2025 & now they expand to @ourGSSI recognised standards including @BAP_Aquaculture @GLOBALGAP & @BordIascMhara https://t.co/sGg4fT1MIR @MowiScotlandLtd #Greenwash pic.twitter.com/t0WEhnHPdO

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 26, 2021

 

 

In other words, the industry-dominated ASC is moving the goalposts to allow more salmon farms to meet their ever weakening and widening salmon standard.

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Q4 2021 Report included:

 

The key person driving the certification of 'Scottish' salmon as "responsible" via the ASC is Ally Dingwall who used to work for Marine Harvest (renamed Mowi in 2018) and Sainsbury's. 

 

 

 

Alistair Dingwell from @ASC_aqua gave a very informative talk today about Navigating the Pathway to Social Licence for Aquaculture at day one of #aquacultureuk today. Don’t forget to stop by stand 199 to visit the International Aquafeed team! pic.twitter.com/EVNSqFx6Wf

— The Aquaculturists (@IAFmagazine) May 3, 2022

 

 

Next up in the conference tent:

Navigating the pathway to social licence for aquaculture | Alastair Dingwall - @ASC_aqua | 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM.

See you there! pic.twitter.com/hf6JnsJbMg

— Aquaculture UK (@aquacultureuk) May 3, 2022

 

 

In December 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch exposed how the 'Sustainable Seafood Coalition' had greenwashed Scottish salmon.

 

Greenwashing 'Sustainable' Salmon - how supermarkets brand themselves as "responsible" via ClientEarth! https://t.co/aTzLjczZcp @SSC_seafood @ClientEarth @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation @GSA_Seafood @ourGSSI @ScotlandSalmon @SalmonTroutCons @Ecohustler @ASA_UK @CMAgovUK pic.twitter.com/rAWoDpGjRH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 25, 2021

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

The Worst Salmon Toilets in Scotland (even worse than Trainspotting)!

The Scamons: Voting Now Open for 'Best Supporting Bullshit' Award!

Awards Alert: Nominations Open for the 'Scamons'!

Camera Shy at The Scamons!

Live from 'The Scamons' in Norway!

The Scamons & Sockeyes - Aquaculture Academy Awards 2013

The Sockeyes - Oscar Loves Wild Salmon!

 

 

Voting is now open for 'Best Supporting Bullshit' at The Scamons (held in Aviemore on May 4) @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @ScotlandSalmon @ScottishSPCA @ASC_aqua
Voting closes on 30 April - more details via https://t.co/fjF3wYBa0o @aquacultureuk @DiversifiedUK @MacAviemore pic.twitter.com/1qy8yLLu1w

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 21, 2022

 

 

 

 

Not to be outdone, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council is doing their damndest to surpass their sister organisation (the Marine Conservation Society) in their shameless greenwashing.  

 

Open letter to the ASC: Please cancel all certification of Mowi's toxic Scottish salmon! https://t.co/N9MwDaN0kQ @ASC_aqua @MowiScotlandLtd @fms_scotland @SalmonTroutCons
Scottish salmon is farmed irresponsibly not responsibly! @rspcaassured @ASA_UK @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB pic.twitter.com/3L76as7mTY

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

 

 

"ASC will play a crucial role in ensuring a growing supply of environmentally sustainably and socially responsible food from the aquaculture industry" (Ally Dingwall in November 2021 as quoted in Fish Farming Expert)

 

 

 

The ASC's stamp of approval comes in the wake of rising use of antibiotics and toxic chemical use. 

 

 

 

 

And mass mortalities piling up faster than you can say: "The ASC salmon standard is not worth the paper it's written on". 

 

 

 

 

A decade ago back in 2012 I exposed how the Aquaculture Stewardship Council - dubbed the Abominable Salmon Council - had been corrupted by commercial forces intent on watering down the standards to accommodate farmed salmon.    As I wrote in April 2012:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The last decade has seen Mowi desperately try every trick in the book - from bending the rules, watering down the standards and moving the goalposts - to force Scottish salmon into the ASC.   Scottish Salmon Watch reported in March 2021: 

 

Mowi move goalposts on @ASC_aqua certification - first they pledged 100% ASC certification by 2020, then moved it to 2025 & now they expand to @ourGSSI recognised standards including @BAP_Aquaculture @GLOBALGAP & @BordIascMhara https://t.co/sGg4fT1MIR @MowiScotlandLtd #Greenwash pic.twitter.com/t0WEhnHPdO

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 26, 2021

 

 

In other words, the industry-dominated ASC is moving the goalposts to allow more salmon farms to meet their ever weakening and widening salmon standard.

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Q4 2021 Report included:

 

The key person driving the certification of 'Scottish' salmon as "responsible" via the ASC is Ally Dingwall who used to work for Marine Harvest (renamed Mowi in 2018) and Sainsbury's. 

 

 

 

Alistair Dingwell from @ASC_aqua gave a very informative talk today about Navigating the Pathway to Social Licence for Aquaculture at day one of #aquacultureuk today. Don’t forget to stop by stand 199 to visit the International Aquafeed team! pic.twitter.com/EVNSqFx6Wf

— The Aquaculturists (@IAFmagazine) May 3, 2022

 

 

 

Not to be outdone, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council is doing their damndest to surpass their sister organisation (the Marine Conservation Society) in their shameless greenwashing.  

 

Open letter to the ASC: Please cancel all certification of Mowi's toxic Scottish salmon! https://t.co/N9MwDaN0kQ @ASC_aqua @MowiScotlandLtd @fms_scotland @SalmonTroutCons
Scottish salmon is farmed irresponsibly not responsibly! @rspcaassured @ASA_UK @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB pic.twitter.com/3L76as7mTY

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

 

 

"ASC will play a crucial role in ensuring a growing supply of environmentally sustainably and socially responsible food from the aquaculture industry" (Ally Dingwall in November 2021 as quoted in Fish Farming Expert)

 

 

 

The ASC's stamp of approval comes in the wake of rising use of antibiotics and toxic chemical use. 

 

 

 

 

And mass mortalities piling up faster than you can say: "The ASC salmon standard is not worth the paper it's written on". 

 

 

 

 

A decade ago back in 2012 I exposed how the Aquaculture Stewardship Council - dubbed the Abominable Salmon Council - had been corrupted by commercial forces intent on watering down the standards to accommodate farmed salmon.    As I wrote in April 2012:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The last decade has seen Mowi desperately try every trick in the book - from bending the rules, watering down the standards and moving the goalposts - to force Scottish salmon into the ASC.   Scottish Salmon Watch reported in March 2021: 

 

Mowi move goalposts on @ASC_aqua certification - first they pledged 100% ASC certification by 2020, then moved it to 2025 & now they expand to @ourGSSI recognised standards including @BAP_Aquaculture @GLOBALGAP & @BordIascMhara https://t.co/sGg4fT1MIR @MowiScotlandLtd #Greenwash pic.twitter.com/t0WEhnHPdO

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 26, 2021

 

 

In other words, the industry-dominated ASC is moving the goalposts to allow more salmon farms to meet their ever weakening and widening salmon standard.

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Q4 2021 Report included:

 

The key person driving the certification of 'Scottish' salmon as "responsible" via the ASC is Ally Dingwall who used to work for Marine Harvest (renamed Mowi in 2018) and Sainsbury's. 

 

 

 

Alistair Dingwell from @ASC_aqua gave a very informative talk today about Navigating the Pathway to Social Licence for Aquaculture at day one of #aquacultureuk today. Don’t forget to stop by stand 199 to visit the International Aquafeed team! pic.twitter.com/EVNSqFx6Wf

— The Aquaculturists (@IAFmagazine) May 3, 2022

Death of Mowi Worker Clive Hendry Makes International Waves on Memorial Day

 

"It haunts me that Clive could have been saved if marine laws were tightened so that big companies put their staff’s lives before profit" says Catriona Lockhart "I am here today to fight like hell for the living" @ScottishHazards @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/OXPPzlDOv2 pic.twitter.com/qTALvcAhlb

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 29, 2022

 

The Press & Journal reported (28 April 2022):

 

 

 

 

 

Partner of fish farm worker crushed by boats makes International Workers' Memorial Day pledge @pressjournal @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/pku9bG56Ku via @pressjournal

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 28, 2022

 

 

 

Scottish Hazards posted on Facebook (28 April 2022):

 

 

 

 

BBC Alba reported (28 April 2022):

 

 

 

 

The West Highland Free Press reported (29 April 2022):

 

 

 

The Times reported in November 2021:

 

 

 

 

Salmon Business reported (23 November 2021):

 

 

 

 

Watch a report from the BBC's Isla Todd featuring Catriona Lockhart (broadcast on BBC Scotland on 26 May 2021):

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Hazards posted on Facebook in May 2021:

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

The Times: "Woman suing fish farm after partner was crushed"

Mowi Legal Battle Vs Widow of Dead Worker Clive Hendry Looms in Scotttish Court of Session!

Video Shows Mowi Acting Recklessly & Dangerously - a licence to kill?

Mowi has blood on its hands over horrific death of Clive Hendry - how much will Mowi be fined for negligence?

Complaint re. MOWI's reckless behaviour & subsequent fatality in Loch Alsh

Deadly Mowi - the Horror Story Continues!

Probe launched following death of Highland fish farm worker

"Leave Our Farms Alone" Demand Mowi. Here's What They're Hiding & Why Mowi Want the Public to Keep Away!

Fighting Mowi's Legal Action Over Filming at Salmon Farms

Caught on Camera - Mowi's Reckless Breaches of Health & Safety in Loch Alsh

 

 

The Times: "I want justice and an apology. I truly believe that Clive would be here today if Mowi had done what they were meant to" https://t.co/9JCg1KyiX9 @thetimes @MowiScotlandLtd @ScottishHazards @maibgovuk @H_S_E @WHFP1 @Rossnews @Folketrygdfond @ScotlandSalmon

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 23, 2021

 

Lopatinsky's Lawsuit Dead in the Water?

 

 

Back in June 2019, I was served with a legal threat - a 'letter before court action' I think they call it in the world of law - by a law firm (Woods Whur) representing Yuri Lopatinsky (also known as Yuriy Lopatynskyy).  The legal threat followed the publication of a report I wrote in February 2019 called '$cottish $camon' which was featured in The Ferret and The Sunday National.  The letter was dated 30 May 2019 but it was not served on me - delivered to my home address by a legal representive who made me sign for it to prove that I had received the threat - until 28 June 2019.  Here's the letter (I blackened out my address to stop salmon farmers from throwing rotten fish at my windows):

 

 

 

 

As a 'veteran' campaigner I'm used to legal threats and have fought more than my fair share of lawsuits (win, lose, draw and ongoing).   To be honest, I read the Woods Whur letter a few times and then went back to the offending '$cottish $camon' report and did not see anything "ill-founded" or "defamatory".   I did not consult with a lawyer and I did not remove the report as Woods Whur law firm had demanded.  In March 2019, I'd even recorded a video outside Yuri Lopatinsky's properties in Charlotte Square in Edinburgh which quite literally surround the First Minister of Scotland's residence at Bute House. 

 

 

 

 

I put the legal threat in a drawer and pretty much forgot all about Yuri Lopatinsky's legal threat - occasionally citing the letter in various blogs: in November 2020 when questioning the 'provenance' of Scottish salmon and in November 2021 when it was revealed that The Scottish Salmon Company had hired a private investigator to spy on Corin Smith and myself. 

 

An ‘intelligence report’ @salmon_scottish recommends surveillance of Smith and the other individual - whose name is redacted - for 48 hours before and after fish farming events https://t.co/Ei3CjzPPHQ @FerretScot pic.twitter.com/LeoHy06VBv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 28, 2021

 

 

 

I didn't think much of Yuri Lopatinsky - especially since he had sold his ownership in The Scottish Salmon Company to Faroese/Norwegian giant Bakkafrost in 2019 for a profit of EUR 370 million - until I was phoned up last month by Gordon Blackstock of The Sunday Mail.  To cut a long story short - the spy story is still being told with many more Russian skeletons to come out in the wash -  it turns out that Yuri Lopatinsky is closely connected to the Russian security agencies, the FSB and SVR (the new KGB) and enough dirty Russian money and oligarchs to fill a Siberian gulag with.    Here's the front page story published in The Sunday Mail (27 March 2022):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The photograph of Yuri Lopatinsky - confirmed by Bill Browder (who wrote about Yuri Lopatinsky as his Moscow broker in the first edition of his 2015 book 'Red Notice' - his name is mysteriously changed in the second edition you can buy in bookshops) - was sourced from this 2019 video from Joli Vin which also features Angus MacMillan (formerly an 'organic' salmon farmer in the Outer Hebrides):

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a video update explaining more about Yuri Lopatinsky's legal threat; Liam Byrne's outing of Lopatinsky as closely connected to Russian security agencies and money laundering revelations via the AVISMA fraud scandal:

 

 

 

 

 

Now it seems that Yuri Lopatinsky's lawyers have changed.   Here's an email from Andrew Woods at Woods Whur:

 

From: Andrew Woods <andrew@woodswhur.co.uk>
Date: Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 3:09 PM
Subject: RE: Lopatinsky's Laundromat (Part 2): Dishonour Among Thieves
To: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>, Paddy Whur <paddy@woodswhur.co.uk>, Amanda Usher <Amanda@woodswhur.co.uk>, Christopher Rees-Gay <chris@woodswhur.co.uk>
Cc: Andrew Woods <andrew@woodswhur.co.uk>

Don

Further to the below I am e mailing to confirm that we do not act for/represent the above (However the surname is spelt) and he is not a client of the firm. Mr Thompson left the firm in November 2020.

Regards
Andrew

Andrew Woods

 

Woods Whur  2014 Ltd
Tel: +44 (0)113 234 3055
Mobile: 07738 170138

andrew@woodswhur.co.uk

St James House, 28 Park Place, Leeds LS1 2SP

 

 

Legal Victory? Back in 2019, lawyers @WoodsWhur representing Yuri Lopatinsky threatened me with legal action for what they claimed was an "ill-founded" & "defamatory" report called $cottish Scamon. Today Andrew Woods said Yuri Lopatinsky was not a client https://t.co/TU8IUCHeoT pic.twitter.com/IDLudJJZ22

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 27, 2022

 

 

 

This email was in response to:

 

From: Don Staniford [mailto:salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 11:16
To: Andrew Woods <andrew@woodswhur.co.uk>; Paddy Whur <paddy@woodswhur.co.uk>; Amanda Usher <Amanda@woodswhur.co.uk>; Colin Manchester <colin@woodswhur.co.uk>; Christopher Rees-Gay <chris@woodswhur.co.uk>
Subject: Lopatinsky's Laundromat (Part 2): Dishonour Among Thieves

Does Woods Whur still represent money launderer Yuri Lopatinsky?

A press release has just been issued via: Lopatinsky's Laundromat - More Dirt on the "Mysterious Millionaire Oligarch With Links to Russian Spy" & Russian spy agencies!

Download report in full via: Lopatinsky's Laundromat (Part 2): Dishonour Among Thieves (26 April 2022)

$camon Scotland sent a letter today to Scottish Ministers and the UK Government on the public monies trousered by Lopatinsky's companies:

Letter/FOI request to Scottish Ministers & UK Government on Public Monies Given to Yuri Lopatinsky's Companies

Tweet via: https://twitter.com/TheGAAIA/status/1518881702478761984

Best fishes,

Don

 

 

And this email:

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:06 AM
Subject: Yuri Lopatinsky - is he still a Woods Whur client?
To: <andrew@woodswhur.co.uk>, <paddy@woodswhur.co.uk>, <Chris@woodswhur.co.uk>, <amanda@woodswhur.co.uk>, <colin@woodswhur.co.uk>

 

Further to previous correspondence on Yuri Lopatinsky, I've drafted:

 

Lopatinsky's Laundromat (Part 1): AVISMA - A Case Study in Corruption, Corporate Fraud & Money Laundering (15 April 2022)

Yuri Lopatinsky: His Story (Chronology/Biography) (12 April 2022)

Yuri Lopatinsky: The $py Who Laundered $almoney for the Russian/Norwegian $almafia UPDATED with abstract but a few gaps (8 April 2022)

 

Any information - especially in relation to money laundering and fraud - would be much appreciated.  Did Woods Whur perform all the necessary money laundering checks before being instructed by Yuri Lopatinsky in 2019?

Is Yuri Lopatinsky still a Woods Whur client?

Please pass this email onto James Thomspson - author of the threatening letter sent on Woods Whur letterhead in May 2019 (served in June 2019). 

 

 

Best fishes,

Don Staniford

Director, $camon $cotland

 

 

 

I emailed back via:

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: Lopatinsky's Laundromat (Part 2): Dishonour Among Thieves
To: Andrew Woods <andrew@woodswhur.co.uk>
Cc: Paddy Whur <paddy@woodswhur.co.uk>, Amanda Usher <Amanda@woodswhur.co.uk>, Christopher Rees-Gay <chris@woodswhur.co.uk>

 

Thanks - but Woods Whur did act for Yuri Lopatinsky (Yuriy Lopatynskyy) in May 2019 when James Thompson sent the threatening letter?

 

What money laundering checks did Woods Whur carry out on your client Mr Lopatinsky/Lopatynskyy?

 

 

 

 

And here's the reply:

 

From: Andrew Woods <andrew@woodswhur.co.uk>
Date: Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 6:14 PM
Subject: RE: Lopatinsky's Laundromat (Part 2): Dishonour Among Thieves
To: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Cc: Paddy Whur <paddy@woodswhur.co.uk>, Amanda Usher <Amanda@woodswhur.co.uk>, Christopher Rees-Gay <chris@woodswhur.co.uk>, Andrew Woods <andrew@woodswhur.co.uk>

Don

I will not be providing any further information which is confidential. We do not act for or represent this person.

Regards
Andrew

Andrew Woods

 

Woods Whur  2014 Ltd
Tel: +44 (0)113 234 3055
Mobile: 07738 170138

andrew@woodswhur.co.uk

St James House, 28 Park Place, Leeds LS1 2SP

 

 

 

As if to hammer home the threatening point, Yuri Lopatinsky's solicitor James Thompson is an expert in the area of "violent and unnatural deaths".  Here's a press release issued in October 2018 by Woods Whur:

 

 

 

 

Here's the LinkedIn profile of James Thompson:

 

 

 

 

Further information on the sinister nay spooky case of Yuri Lopatinsky was published yesterday (26 April 2022):

 

Follow the Russian money!
More Dirt on the "Mysterious Millionaire Oligarch With Links to Russian Spy" & closely connected to the SVR/FSB (Yuri Lopatinsky) - owner of @asl_seafoods & @LochFyneOysters & neighbour of the First Minister of #Scotland @scotgov https://t.co/BvukeX1nKr pic.twitter.com/fNEsGifgAH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 26, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday (26 April 2022), $camon $cotland sent a letter to Scottish Ministers and the UK Government asking for more information on Yuri Lopatinsky including the amount of public monies given to his companies:

 

 

 

Why did @scotgov dish out £177,452 of public money to companies owned by Yuri Lopatinsky (outed @liambyrnemp @HouseofCommons as closely connected to Russian spy agencies & dirty Russian money)? @asl_seafoods @LochFyneOysters https://t.co/89L4RPc6sT @scotgoveconomy @_KateForbes pic.twitter.com/W9I5QQ2GUh

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 26, 2022

 

 

How can 'Team Scotland' legitimately "fly the flag for Scotland" with two players (@asl_seafoods & @LochFyneOysters) owned by Yuri Lopatinsky (outed @HouseofCommons as closely connected to the SVR/FSB & dirty Russian money)? https://t.co/HgHy34DPIo @KeithFindlay1 @pressjournal

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 26, 2022

 

 

How much public money has been dished out to Yuri Lopatinsky's companies? "Financial viability of the scheme necessitated grant assistance @scotent with whom we worked closely to negotiate a multi-million pound support package" @ScotDevInt @_KateForbes https://t.co/5ywe9mWKzI pic.twitter.com/d2Cbw8dbsa

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 27, 2022

 

 

 

 

It seems that pressure is building against the 'Moscow broker'.  The Ferret reported (27 March 2022):

 

 

 

Scottish Labour MSP Sarah Boyack told The Sunday Mail (27 March 2022): “This is a worrying revelation. Every effort must be made to counter the influence of Russian and Russian-aligned millionaires in Scotland and the rest of the UK.”

 

 

 

 

Here's Liam Byrne MP's comments under parliamentary privilege in the House of Commons on 17 January 2022:

 

 

 

 

“Parliament will be ruthless in demanding our Foreign Secretary sanctions every single profiteer from Putin’s regime. Now is the time for Mr Lopatynskyy to put his cards on the table or face MPs using parliamentary privilege to lay out the full dossiers” @liambyrnemp @Sunday_Mail pic.twitter.com/S5EocIqWml

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 29, 2022

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Lopatinsky's Laundromat - More Dirt on the "Mysterious Millionaire Oligarch With Links to Russian Spy" & Russian spy agencies!
• Letter/FOI request to Scottish Ministers & UK Government on Public Monies Given to Yuri Lopatinsky's Companies
• EXPOSED: Lopatinsky's Laundromat - How Dirty Russian Money Corrupted $cottish $almon!
• Lopatinsky's Laundromat (Part 2): Dishonour Among Thieves
• Lopatinsky's Laundromat (Part 1): AVISMA - A Case Study in Corruption, Corporate Fraud & Money Laundering
• Yuri Lopatinsky: His Story (Chronology/Biography)
• Yuri Lopatinsky: The $py Who Laundered $almoney for the Russian/Norwegian $almafia (& is a neighbour of the First Minister of Scotland)?
• Channel 4 News on Scottish Salmon Spying on Corin Smith!
• Salmongate: Corin Smith's 'Subject Access Requests' to the Salmafia Reveal Spying by Scottish Salmon!
• The Spy Who Loved 'Scottish' Salmon - from Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Norway & the Faroes with Love for Salmoney!
• Corin Smith - interview with the man who is being spied upon by 'Scottish' salmon!
• Herald/Ferret: "Scottish Salmon Company chief hired investigator to 'snoop' on fish farming critic"

 

 

EXPOSED: Lopatinsky's Laundromat - How Dirty Russian Money Corrupted $cottish Salmon https://t.co/h1gBFHcRrd
Lopatinsky was ‘instrumental’ in “an immense Russian bank money-laundering scheme” in the 1990s. The 'Moscow broker' still owns @asl_seafoods @LochFyneOysters @rrspink pic.twitter.com/wQf1dJyWFd

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 19, 2022

 

NowThis: "Salmon farming has lost the war on sea lice"

 

‘Salmon farming has lost the war on sea lice’ — This activist claims underwater factory farms are fighting a losing battle against sea lice, which now pose a greater threat to the ecosystem pic.twitter.com/gzwgLFUZX6

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 27, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Lopatinsky's Laundromat - More Dirt on the "Mysterious Millionaire Oligarch With Links to Russian Spy" & Russian spy agencies!

 

Follow the Russian money!
More Dirt on the "Mysterious Millionaire Oligarch With Links to Russian Spy" & closely connected to the SVR/FSB (Yuri Lopatinsky) - owner of @asl_seafoods & @LochFyneOysters & neighbour of the First Minister of #Scotland @scotgov https://t.co/BvukeX1nKr pic.twitter.com/fNEsGifgAH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 26, 2022

 

$camon $cotland today published further information on Yuri Lopatinsky - the secret owner of a significant portion of the 'Scottish' seafood industry, neighbour of the First Minister of Scotland and closely connected to Russian spy agencies:

 

 

 

Read in full via Press Release: Lopatinsky's Laundromat - more dirt on the "mysterious millionaire oligarch with links to Russian spy" & Russian security agencies comes out in the wash (26 April 2022)

 

 

Will @RBSBusiness be dishing out more ££££s to companies owned by Yuri Lopatinsky (outed @HouseofCommons as closely connected to Russian spy agencies & dirty Russian money)? @asl_seafoods @rrspink @LochFyneOysters @moraychamber @KeithFindlay1 @pressjournal https://t.co/BvukeX1nKr https://t.co/d7qMx2Pvwp

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 26, 2022

 

 

Download report in full via:

Lopatinsky's Laundromat (Part 2): Dishonour Among Thieves (26 April 2022)

 

 

Matlin joined an investors' meeting back in 1998 in relation to the AVISMA/VSMPO fraud in Russia along with @Billbrowder, KGB contact Yuri Lopatinsky & a representive of billionaire Kenneth Dart https://t.co/BvukeX1nKr
Thanks to @LucyKomisar for digging out the legal documents https://t.co/eUHk2icY61 pic.twitter.com/0aUVW2n7K6

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 26, 2022

 

 

More via:

Letter/FOI request to Scottish Ministers & UK Government on Public Monies Given to Yuri Lopatinsky's Companies (26 April 2022)

 

 

 

Why did @scotgov dish out £177,452 of public money to companies owned by Yuri Lopatinsky (outed @liambyrnemp @HouseofCommons as closely connected to Russian spy agencies & dirty Russian money)? @asl_seafoods @LochFyneOysters https://t.co/89L4RPc6sT @scotgoveconomy @_KateForbes pic.twitter.com/W9I5QQ2GUh

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 26, 2022

 

 

 

How can 'Team Scotland' legitimately "fly the flag for Scotland" with two players (@asl_seafoods & @LochFyneOysters) owned by Yuri Lopatinsky (outed @HouseofCommons as closely connected to the SVR/FSB & dirty Russian money)? https://t.co/HgHy34DPIo @KeithFindlay1 @pressjournal

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 26, 2022

 

 

How much public money has been dished out to Yuri Lopatinsky's companies? "Financial viability of the scheme necessitated grant assistance @scotent with whom we worked closely to negotiate a multi-million pound support package" @ScotDevInt @_KateForbes https://t.co/5ywe9mWKzI pic.twitter.com/d2Cbw8dbsa

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 27, 2022

 

 

When Roman Abramovich visited the West coast of Scotland in his super-yacht 'Eclipse' in 2015 (with Davidovich, Shvidler, Polezhaev & Yaroslavsky in his entourage) did he meet with KGB contacts Yuri Lopatinsky & Yevgeniy Strzhalkovskiy? #Abramovich #Russia https://t.co/oqOI2c8su6 pic.twitter.com/40zECfKPik

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 27, 2022

 

 

Read more via:

• Lopatinsky's Laundromat (Part 2): Dishonour Among Thieves
• EXPOSED: Lopatinsky's Laundromat - How Dirty Russian Money Corrupted $cottish $almon!
• Lopatinsky's Laundromat (Part 1): AVISMA - A Case Study in Corruption, Corporate Fraud & Money Laundering
• Yuri Lopatinsky: His Story (Chronology/Biography)
• Yuri Lopatinsky: The $py Who Laundered $almoney for the Russian/Norwegian $almafia (& is a neighbour of the First Minister of Scotland)?
• Channel 4 News on Scottish Salmon Spying on Corin Smith!
• Salmongate: Corin Smith's 'Subject Access Requests' to the Salmafia Reveal Spying by Scottish Salmon!
• The Spy Who Loved 'Scottish' Salmon - from Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Norway & the Faroes with Love for Salmoney!
• Corin Smith - interview with the man who is being spied upon by 'Scottish' salmon!
• Herald/Ferret: "Scottish Salmon Company chief hired investigator to 'snoop' on fish farming critic"

 

 

EXPOSED: Lopatinsky's Laundromat - How Dirty Russian Money Corrupted $cottish Salmon https://t.co/h1gBFHcRrd
Lopatinsky was ‘instrumental’ in “an immense Russian bank money-laundering scheme” in the 1990s. The 'Moscow broker' still owns @asl_seafoods @LochFyneOysters @rrspink pic.twitter.com/wQf1dJyWFd

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 19, 2022

 

EXPOSED: Lopatinsky's Laundromat - How Dirty Russian Money Corrupted $cottish $almon!

 

EXPOSED: Lopatinsky's Laundromat - How Dirty Russian Money Corrupted $cottish Salmon https://t.co/h1gBFHcRrd
Lopatinsky was ‘instrumental’ in “an immense Russian bank money-laundering scheme” in the 1990s. The 'Moscow broker' still owns @asl_seafoods @LochFyneOysters @rrspink pic.twitter.com/wQf1dJyWFd

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 19, 2022

 

 

 

Download a press release online here

 

 

 

 

When @KennyRKemp @Insidermag reported in 2019 how "the Ukrainian developer Yury Lopatinsky had arrived from Russia with a large pot of investment money" why did nobody stop to think if it was dirty Russian money? https://t.co/0QgV9nColQ@InvestEdinburgh @BusinessScotMag @sbnscot pic.twitter.com/a7lYHPQjpy

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 19, 2022

 

 

When @MarkWHerald @heraldscotland reported @asl_seafoods had secured £3.2 million funding @ETocher @RBS_Help where was the money laundering due dilgence on owner Yuri Lopatinsky (outed as closely connected to Russian spies & dirty money)?https://t.co/YB0ehXYvOQ @_KateForbes pic.twitter.com/PZAR2Bj78d

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 19, 2022

 

 

When @BBCNews @BBCScotlandNews reported on a £2.7m investment @asl_seafoods & dozens of new jobs why didn't they report on owner Yuri Lopatinsky (outed as connected to Russian spies & dirty Russian money)? https://t.co/XabenhLrDC #JustSaying #SloppyShoddyJournalism #BBC #Scotland

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 19, 2022

 

 

When @TheScotsman reported on "the publicity-shy businessman" Yuri Lopatinsky "behind a string of big-money purchases in the capital's Charlotte Square" why didn't they follow the dirty money back to Russia? @scot_business @ScotEntNews @Insidermag https://t.co/I2l2aZrgCD pic.twitter.com/WTT7XahuaB

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 19, 2022

When @KeithFindlay1 @pressjournal reported on RR Spink & Sons @rrspink being eaten by Lossie Seafoods @asl_seafoods why didn't anyone bother to follow the dirty Russian money back to Yuri Lopatinsky? https://t.co/Cobs0zyMtd @mgoldenmsp @scotgoveconomy @moraychamber

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 19, 2022

 

 

When @anguscpress reported on the "new owners" for @rrspink @asl_seafoods why didn't they inform their readers that their new owner was Yuri Lopatinsky (outed @liambyrnemp as connected to Russian spy agencies & a web of Russian tycoons)? #SloppyJournalism https://t.co/OoWeGXgr8v pic.twitter.com/8nkONwzXqW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 19, 2022

 

 

When @greigcameron @thetimesscot reported on business going "swimmingly" for @salmon_scottish in 2018 why no mention of their 'publicity shy' owner Yuri Lopatinsky (outed @liambyrnemp as closely connected to Russian spies & dirty Russian money)? https://t.co/zQVitNOpoc

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 19, 2022

 

 

When @greigcameron @heraldscotland reported @LochFyneOysters had been "bought out by new investors for an undisclosed seven-figure sum" in 2012 perhaps it would have been good journalism to report that the new investor was Russian-linked Yuri Lopatinsky?https://t.co/IZ4QT9uSaX

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 19, 2022

 

Read more on Yuri Lopatinsky via:

Lopatinsky's Laundromat (Part 1): AVISMA - A Case Study in Corruption, Corporate Fraud & Money Laundering (17 April 2022)

Yuri Lopatinsky: His Story (Chronology/Biography) (12 April 2022)

Yuri Lopatinsky: The $py Who Laundered $almoney for the Russian/Norwegian $almafia (& is a neighbour of the First Minister of Scotland)? (8 April 2022)

 

 

 

Here's a video of Yuri Lopatinsky at his 'organic' vineyard in France with former salmon farmer Angus MacMillan:

 

 

 

 

The Sunday Mail reported last month (27 March 2022):

 

Exposed: Scottish Salmon's Spy - Yuri Lopatinsky (former owner @salmon_scottish & owner of Scottish Seafood Investments @LochFyneOysters @asl_seafoods & owner of the Charlotte Square Collection @IndigoScotland) https://t.co/RKl4TV9XGg @Sunday_Mail @GordoBlackstock @liambyrnemp pic.twitter.com/vPeZpU5BBT

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 29, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ferret reported (27 March 2022):

 

A British property tycoon with Scottish businesses has denied links to Russia’s security agencies after opposition parties called for a Scottish Government probe, https://t.co/Aenz4WJCzz

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) March 27, 2022

 

 

Yuri Lopatinsky, originally from Ukraine, was linked to the Russian state agencies by an MP. Lopatinsky controls a company headquartered at Charlotte Square. Bute House, the First Minister’s official residence, is number six on the square.

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) March 27, 2022

 

 

Read more via:

• Channel 4 News on Scottish Salmon Spying on Corin Smith!
• Salmongate: Corin Smith's 'Subject Access Requests' to the Salmafia Reveal Spying by Scottish Salmon!
• The Spy Who Loved 'Scottish' Salmon - from Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Norway & the Faroes with Love for Salmoney!
• Corin Smith - interview with the man who is being spied upon by 'Scottish' salmon!
• Herald/Ferret: "Scottish Salmon Company chief hired investigator to 'snoop' on fish farming critic"

 

 

 

 

 

Press Statement: "Death Becomes Scottish Salmon"

 

"Scottish salmon is dead in the water. Millions of farmed salmon & cleaner fish are dying on feedlots across Scotland - ravaged by lice infestations, infectious diseases, viruses, pathogens & welfare problems" https://t.co/LT9NovbI15@rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation pic.twitter.com/2O7rotCDOv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 18, 2022

 

 

 

"Scottish salmon is dead in the water," said Don Staniford, Director of Scamon Scotland (formerly Scottish Salmon Watch).  "Shame on supermarkets for greenwashing disease-ridden Scottish salmon as 'responsibly sourced', RSPCA Assured, 'organic' and 'farmed responsibly'.   The fact is that millions of farmed salmon and cleaner fish are dying on feedlots across Scotland - ravaged by lice infestations, infectious diseases, viruses, pathogens and welfare problems.  Consumers should boycott the welfare nightmare of Scottish salmon like the proverbial plague."

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Salmon Company, owned by Bakkafröst in the Faroes, reports shocking low welfare related mortality across a high proportion of its harvesting sites in Scotland. Losses as high as 82% on some feedlots.@MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllan @CVOScotland https://t.co/5g58AtfDjc pic.twitter.com/SQATzbwhRu

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) March 18, 2022

 

 

 

Scamon Scotland reported this morning (18 March 2022):

 

A FOI disclosure @APHAgovuk has exposed 100% mortality of cleaner fish - and over half a million dead salmon - at The Scottish Salmon Company's Taranaish salmon farm near Breasclete in Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis @salmon_scottish @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/kPQzvvpvVH @WHFP1 pic.twitter.com/9pDjpC9NY6

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 18, 2022

 

 

 

Scamon Scotland reported last week (7 March 2022):

 

Breaking News: 715,592 dead fish reported at The Scottish Salmon Company's Applecross/Russel Burn Hatchery in 6 incidents during 2022! @salmon_scottish @Folketrygdfond @ScotlandSalmon
"Systemic investigation ongoing" reports @marinescotland @ScotGovRural https://t.co/DqDKfxGm84 pic.twitter.com/h8M0e8XElw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 7, 2022

 

A whistleblower told Scottish Salmon Watch in January that 600,000 farmed salmon had died in a welfare disaster @salmon_scottish's Applecross Hatchery - today @marinescotland reported 715,592 farmed salmon had died with a "systemic investigation ongoing"! https://t.co/DqDKfxFOiw pic.twitter.com/Hbb6bOPH2k

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 7, 2022

 

 

Scamon Scotland reported last month (15 February 2022):

 

Breaking News: 82.1% mortality rate (i.e. four out of every five fish dying) @salmon_scottish in Druimyeon Bay; 66% (i.e. two out of every three fish dying) at Vacasay on Lewis & 50% mortality @LochDuartSalmon in the Sound of Harris @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/kjNDyAMgKa pic.twitter.com/l2umcA571d

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 15, 2022

 

 

Data for mortalities during December 2021 (which includes cummulative mortality rates over the whole harvest cycle) have just been posted by Salmon Scotland - download online here

 

 

Scamon Scotland reported (1 February 2022):

 

EXPOSED: Salmon Scotland's Dirty Trade in Cleaner Fish https://t.co/Rt1GYWAoxV
Scottish salmon farming – along with millions of cleaner fish – is dead in the water! @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @marinescotland @onekindtweet @mcsuk @TheOpenSeas @ciwf @scotgp pic.twitter.com/xzuCm6fycp

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 1, 2022

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in January 2022:

 

Fresh Scottish Salmon anyone? Here's freshly published photos of disease-ridden fish farmed @salmon_scottish off Skye & the Isle of Gigha @marinescotland
Please boycott Scottish salmon! @Folketrygdfond @waitrose @coopuk @coopukpress @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/WK0SjATflz pic.twitter.com/MIBNEityBk

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 12, 2022

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in December 2021:

 

Death Becomes Bakkafrost (Faroese/Norwegian owner of The 'Scottish' Salmon Company) - £20 million losses due to mortalities in Scotland! @salmon_scottish @ScotlandSalmon @Folketrygdfond @NFdep @fiskeridir #Bakkafrost https://t.co/JFxXweHMIH pic.twitter.com/DEKvxDWXW3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 23, 2021

 

 

 

Bakkafrost is registered in the Faroe Islands but the largest shareholder is the Norwegian Government.

 

 

Anyone for 'Scottish' salmon? Imported as eggs from Norway & Iceland and bankrolled by £££$$€€s in #Norway, #Faroes, #USA, #Denmark & #Belgium
'Exclusively from Scotland' claims @salmon_scottish "Provenance guaranteed" @waitrose @wjhm93 @Folketrygdfond https://t.co/NusyErqUWk pic.twitter.com/H2CZUVJEjD

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 13, 2020

 

 

 

In November 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch wrote to the Norwegian Government asking them to divest from the their unethical and irresponsible ownership of The Scottish Salmon Company (and other salmon farming companies operating in Scotland).

 

Did you know that the Norwegian Government's Pension Fund (derived from Norway's oil revenues) is the largest or 2nd largest shareholder in companies which account for 80% of 'Scottish' salmon farming? @Folketrygdfond @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish https://t.co/4P1m3g2CvT pic.twitter.com/Sl6bFlcwaK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 30, 2020

 

 

 

Read more via:

Coming Clean on Welfare Abuse of Cleaner Fish - FOI lifts lid on 100% mortality of wrasse at The Scottish Salmon Company (& over half a million dead salmon)!

Closing the Net on Welfare Abuse on Salmon Farms - Scottish Veterinary Service replaces APHA

54 Million Farmed Fish Died in Norway in 2021 - How Many Farmed Salmon Died in Scotland?

1.8 Million Morts Reported on Scottish Fish Farms Already in 2022!

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - over 8 million morts reported last year & over half a million in first two weeks of 2022!!

Over 80% Mortality at The Scottish Salmon Company!!!

Scottish Salmon Exposed - Photos highlight the disease & welfare nightmare at The Scottish Salmon Company!

Mass Mortalities - 66% in one month at The Scottish Salmon Company on the Isle of Gigha!

Death Becomes Bakkafrost (Faroese/Norwegian owner of The 'Scottish' Salmon Company) - £20 million losses due to mortalities in Scotland!

Channel 4 News on Scottish Salmon Spying on Corin Smith!

Bakkafrost (Faroese/Norwegian owner of The 'Scottish' Salmon Company) set for hefty fine in the Faroes!

Dead in the Water - Scottish Salmon's Mortality Mountain Piles Ever Higher in 2021!

Salmongate: Corin Smith's 'Subject Access Requests' to the Salmafia Reveal Spying by Scottish Salmon!

The Spy Who Loved 'Scottish' Salmon - from Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Norway & the Faroes with Love for Salmoney!

Herald/Ferret: "Scottish Salmon Company chief hired investigator to 'snoop' on fish farming critic"

Video of France 5s 'The Truth About Salmon' featuring Mowi & The Scottish Salmon Company

'Scottish' Salmon Company Lose €600 million

Result: 'Scottish' Salmon Company Lose Arran Appeal!

STV News: "Thousands of rotting salmon ‘stink out’ village after mass death at farm"

X-Rated Video: 90% Mortality at The Faroese/Norwegian 'Scottish' Salmon Company?!

The 'Scottish' Salmon Company Haemorrhages Salmoney!

Rick Stein's 'Frankenstein' Faroese Salmon - please stop sourcing farmed salmon from the bloody Faroes!

Faroese Salmon Farmer Condemns Slaughter of Dolphins - Why is Rick Stein's Supplier of Faroese Farmed Salmon Silent?

Lousy 'Scottish' Salmon - Hydrolicer Wages War in Lice-Infested Loch Carron!

Video Nasty: Scottish Salmon's Toxic Soup in Loch Carron!

Update on welfare inspection at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron?

Videos of Mort Disposal by The Scottish Salmon Company - like a serial killer disposing of dead bodies before the police arrive!

Breaking News: "Horror Videos Reveal Welfare Abuse Inside Scottish Salmon & Trout Cages"

Videos of Welfare Abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron (West Strome salmon farm)

Photos of Welfare Abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron (West Strome salmon farm)

Norwegian Government Asked to Divest from 'Unethical' & 'Irresponsible' Scottish Salmon!

The Norwegian, Faroese, Swedish, Ukrainian & Swiss Salmoney Behind the 'Scottish' Salmon Company 

Over 5 Million Dead 'Scottish' Salmon Since 2017 - Sponsored by Investors from Norway, the Faroes etc!

The Camera Never Lies About Scottish Salmon! 

"No Unauthorised Access - Keep 15m Away" warn Scottish Salmon Company. Nothing to See Here (Honest)!

The Severely Damaged Scottish Salmon Company - For Sale Now!

Maaey day for the Scottish Salmon Company

 

 

 

 

 

Anyone for 'Scottish' salmon? Imported as eggs from Norway & Iceland and bankrolled by £££$$€€s in #Norway, #Faroes, #USA, #Denmark & #Belgium
'Exclusively from Scotland' claims @salmon_scottish "Provenance guaranteed" @waitrose @wjhm93 @Folketrygdfond https://t.co/NusyErqUWk pic.twitter.com/H2CZUVJEjD

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 13, 2020

Coming Clean on Welfare Abuse of Cleaner Fish - FOI lifts lid on 100% mortality of wrasse at The Scottish Salmon Company (& over half a million dead salmon)!

 

A FOI disclosure @APHAgovuk has exposed 100% mortality of cleaner fish - and over half a million dead salmon - at The Scottish Salmon Company's Taranaish salmon farm near Breasclete in Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis @salmon_scottish @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/kPQzvvpvVH @WHFP1 pic.twitter.com/9pDjpC9NY6

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 18, 2022

 

A Freedom of Information disclosure has exposed 100% mortality of cleaner fish - and over half a million dead salmon - at The Scottish Salmon Company's Taranaish salmon farm near Breasclete in Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis. 

 

 

 

 

Last month (4 February 2022) Scamon Scotland wrote to the UK Government raising the issue of welfare abuse of cleaner fish on salmon farms in Scotland - here's their FOI reply dated 14 March 2022:

 

 

 

 

The Appendix of disclosed information included:

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is no salmon farm at Braesclate but The Scottish Salmon Company services salmon farms in Loch Roag out of Breasclete Pier - including Vacasay salmon farm and Taranaish salmon farm (both are licensed for salmon, lumpsuckers and wrasse):

 

 

 

 

Mortality data published by Salmon Scotland reveals that Vacasay, Taranaish and Vuia Mor salmon farms in Loch Roag experienced mass mortalities in late 2021 - with Vacasay reporting a staggering 49% monthly mortality in October 2021 and 26% monthly mortality in November 2021 before harvesting out in December 2021 with a cummulative mortality of 66% whilst Taranaish reported 49% monthly mortality in December 2021 and 57% monthly mortality in November 2021 (data for January 2022 is still not published):

 

 

 

Breaking News: 82.1% mortality rate (i.e. four out of every five fish dying) @salmon_scottish in Druimyeon Bay; 66% (i.e. two out of every three fish dying) at Vacasay on Lewis & 50% mortality @LochDuartSalmon in the Sound of Harris @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/kjNDyAMgKa pic.twitter.com/l2umcA571d

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 15, 2022

 

 

 

Mortality data published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate on 7 March 2022 details a staggering 522,553 morts at Taranaish salmon farm via 14 'Mortality Event Reports' and 38,856 morts at Vacasay salmon farm via 8 'Mortality Event Reports' since October 2021.  "Site inspected on the 7/12/2021 with diagnostioc samples taken, IPNv identified, recent issues reported onsite include AGD, PRV, SAV, Tenacibaculum," reported The Scottish Salmon Company on 20 December 2021 detailing 66,000 farmed salmon mortalities (no mention is made of dead lumpsuckers or wrasse) at Taranaish in Loch Roag.   A further 129,650 morts were reported on 6 December 2021 and 92,891 more morts on 22 November 2021 at Taranaish salmon farm:

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the Fish Health Inspectorate's report on Taranaish salmon farm detailing the inspection on 7 December 2021 (Additional case 20210553) - including over 7,000 ballan wrasse mortalities and 100% mortality (i.e. all the wrasse died) by Week 45 (sadly there are no photos of the dead ballan wrasse):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Given 100% mortality in cleaner fish & half a million+ farmed salmon morts since October, maybe the Scottish Animal Welfare Commission should visit @salmon_scottish in Loch Roag? Here's photos from a visit @APHAgovuk & @marinescotland in December@Folketrygdfond @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/l2hv2yEk02 pic.twitter.com/vQPNlNZKBU

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 18, 2022

 

 

Here's the Fish Health Inspectorate Visit Report dated 25 January 2021 which reports 100% cleaner fish mortality at The Scottish Salmon Company's Taranaish salmon farm in Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis - as well as a host of infectious diseases, pathogens and viruses (as well as antibiotic resistance) in farmed salmon:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Following the Fish Health Inspectorate's visit to Taranaish salmon farm on 7 December 2021, The Scottish Salmon Company [name redacted but their phone number is 0131 718 8500 which is The Scottish Salmon Company's head office in Edinburgh] wrote to APHA on 10 December 2021 providing more information on wrasse mortalities:

 

 

 

Here's the Excel spreadsheet for mortality of cleaner fish at Taranaish salmon farm in 2021 (download online here): 

 

 

 

 

APHA replied in an email to The Scottish Salmon Company on 13 December 2021:

 

The Scottish Salmon Company wrote to APHA on 11 January 2022 outlining improvements to cleaner fish welfare:

 

 

 

 

 

Dead salmon and wrasse are not the only dead animals on show at The Scottish Salmon Company's Taranaish salmon farm - photos disclosed last year to Scottish Salmon Watch via FOI detailed a dead seal at Taranaish salmon farm in Loch Roag:

 

Scottish salmon served with a side of dead seal anyone? https://t.co/88Kn1lZwpx @salmon_scottish @Try_Lochlander @coopuk @SSPOsays @Sygazette @WHFP1 @pressjournal @BBCScotlandNews @HebridesNews @strandings @marinescotland pic.twitter.com/doOXwCeKAy

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 8, 2021

 

 

Next time you see Scottish salmon in the supermarket please think of 1,000+ seals killed on salmon farms since 2011. If you buy Scottish salmon you have blood on your hands! https://t.co/88Kn1lZwpx @salmon_scottish @SSPOsays @Try_Lochlander @coopuk @ciwf @PETAUK @onekindtweet pic.twitter.com/0IJ7kz67Rb

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 8, 2021

 

 

The Scottish Salmon Company's Vacasay salmon farm was the scene of another mass mortality and welfare disaster back in the Summer of 2018 exposed by Corin Smith of Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots - as featured on the BBC's 'One Show' in September 2018:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's Scamon Scotland's FOI request and letter dated 4 February 2022:

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 12:02 PM
Subject: Letter & FOI request to Secretary of State re. cleaner fish mortalities on salmon farms in Scotland
To: <defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk>, <george.eustice.mp@parliament.uk>
Cc: <scottish.ministers@gov.scot>, SM-APHA-Enquiries APHA <enquiries@apha.gov.uk>, <APHA.Scotland@apha.gsi.gov.uk>, APHA Corporate Correspondence <apha.corporatecorrespondence@apha.gsi.gov.uk>

 

Please pass another letter and FOI request onto the Secretary of State (this is copied to Scottish Ministers and APHA) - download online here

 

It is also available online via:

50 Million Cleaner Fish Die Each Year on Norwegian Salmon Farms - how many millions die on Norwegian-owned salmon farms in Scotland (& Ireland)?

 

 

Please note that Scottish Salmon Watch's letter of 20 April 2021 has still not been replied to - it is enclosed with today's letter from Scamon Scotland (formerly Scottish Salmon Watch) along with a letter to Scottish Ministers dated 1 February 2022. 

 

Please consider this a formal request for information via the relevant FOI and Environmental Information regulations.

 

Please provide the information electronically.

 

Please provide a receipt for this letter and FOI request.

 

Thanks,

 

Don Staniford

 

Director, Scamon Scotland

 

 

 

 

 

The letter and FOI request to George Eustace as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs demanded site specific data on mortalities of wrasse and lumpfish on salmon farms as well as welfare inspections to monitor welfare abuse as legislated via the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 (Section 19: Unnecessary Suffering and Section 24: Ensuring Welfare of Animals).

 

  

50+ Million Cleaner Fish Die Each Year on Norwegian Salmon Farms - how many millions die on Norwegian-owned salmon farms in Scotland (& Ireland)? @DefraGovUK @APHAgovuk @scotgov @ScotGovNetZero @marinescotland @fiskeridir @NFdep @InfoMattilsynet @Sciencenorwayno @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/UbcFhIeldv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 4, 2022

 

 

 

Last month (1 February 2022), Scamon Scotland wrote to Scottish Ministers asking for welfare abuse of cleaner fish on salmon farms to be tackled:

 

Scottish Ministers must establish a public register of shipments of cleaner fish; report monthly mortalities & test for infectious diseases on salmon farms https://t.co/faHC5W6D8n
Scottish salmon’s dirty trade in cleaner fish must stop now! @ScotlandSalmon @scotgov @scotgp pic.twitter.com/gxGAumIsgP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 1, 2022

Why is @scotgov turning a blind eye to welfare abuse of 'cleaner fish' on salmon farms? @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @scotseafarms https://t.co/Rt1GYWAoxV
Please end the welfare nightmare! @scotgp @ciwf @PETAUK @HSIGlobal @Animallawyersuk @onekindtweet pic.twitter.com/n3SID7Iy7B

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 1, 2022

 

 

 

Here's video footage of dead farmed salmon and cleaner fish at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Fyne and at Toward on Loch Striven: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 'Scottish' Salmon Company is owned by Norwegian and Faroese investors - including the Norwegian Government's Ministry of Trade. 

Did you know that the Norwegian Government's Pension Fund (derived from Norway's oil revenues) is the largest or 2nd largest shareholder in companies which account for 80% of 'Scottish' salmon farming? @Folketrygdfond @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish https://t.co/4P1m3g2CvT pic.twitter.com/Sl6bFlcwaK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 30, 2020

Anyone for 'Scottish' salmon? Imported as eggs from Norway & Iceland and bankrolled by £££$$€€s in #Norway, #Faroes, #USA, #Denmark & #Belgium
'Exclusively from Scotland' claims @salmon_scottish "Provenance guaranteed" @waitrose @wjhm93 @Folketrygdfond https://t.co/NusyErqUWk pic.twitter.com/H2CZUVJEjD

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 13, 2020

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Salmon Company, owned by Bakkafröst in the Faroes, reports shocking low welfare related mortality across a high proportion of its harvesting sites in Scotland. Losses as high as 82% on some feedlots.@MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllan @CVOScotland https://t.co/5g58AtfDjc pic.twitter.com/SQATzbwhRu

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) March 18, 2022

 

 

 

Read more via:

 

Closing the Net on Welfare Abuse on Salmon Farms - Scottish Veterinary Service replaces APHA

 

50 Million Cleaner Fish Die Each Year on Norwegian Salmon Farms - how many millions die on Norwegian-owned salmon farms in Scotland (& Ireland)?

 

Letter to Scottish Ministers: Please Come Clean on the Dirty Trade in Wrasse & Lumpfish by Salmon Farms!

Dirty Secrets Exposed: Stop Scottish Salmon's Deadly Trade in 'Cleaner Fish'!

Game Ova for Imports & Exports: Close the Borders to Stop the Spread of Diseases & Genetic Pollution!

Cleaner Fish - Dead in the Water at Lice-Infested Mowi Scotland!

The Ferret: "Fish that eat lice off farmed salmon suffer, says report"

Sunday Times: "Scots salmon farmers ‘put English waters under threat’"

Sunday Times: "‘Clean fish’ bring danger of disease to salmon farms"

 

 

Why is @scotgov turning a blind eye to welfare abuse of 'cleaner fish' on salmon farms? @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @scotseafarms https://t.co/Rt1GYWAoxV
Please end the welfare nightmare! @scotgp @ciwf @PETAUK @HSIGlobal @Animallawyersuk @onekindtweet pic.twitter.com/n3SID7Iy7B

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 1, 2022

 

 

 

 

Closing the Net on Welfare Abuse on Salmon Farms - Scottish Veterinary Service replaces APHA

 

 

The creation of the Scottish Veterinary Service is "a major step forward for animal welfare but only if it's fully resourced & empowered to properly police all sectors of animal agriculture in Scotland" @SRUCVets @CVOScotland @ScotGovRural @animal_concernhttps://t.co/7HHnQsjXwa pic.twitter.com/sPl1Y0bwLD

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 18, 2022

 

 

 

Surveillance and scrutiny of welfare abuse inside salmon farms cannot possibly get any worse but it may be about to take a significant turn for the better with the creation of a new animal health and welfare agency in Scotland.    The Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA) is dead, long live the Scottish Veterinary Service (SVS)!  The issue of the APHA being replaced by the SVS was the subject of a letter from John Robins of Animal Concern to the Scottish Government sent last month (18 February 2022):

 

Mairi Gougeon MSP

Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands

The Scottish Government

St Andrew's House

Regent Road

Edinburgh

EH1 3DG

                                                                                                                                                               

Dear Minister,

I write concerning the proposed Scottish Veterinary Service which will take over the duties of the APHA in Scotland.

This would be a major step forward for animal welfare but only if the SVS is fully resourced and empowered to properly police all sectors of animal agriculture in Scotland. That would mean providing the SVS with its own transport to conduct unannounced inspections of salmon farms.

At the moment I understand that any (if any) visits to salmon farms are facilitated using boats operated by the owners of the farms. Knowing a visitor is expected I’m sure that like anyone preparing for a guest, the farms make sure everything is spic and span before arrival.

It would also be sensible to request that responsibility for the welfare of animals in research laboratories in Scotland be devolved from the Home Office to the Scottish Government and the SVS.  Can you tell me if the Scottish Government is considering seeking transfer of this responsibility?

I’d be grateful if you would tell me who is on the Board which is meeting for the first time later this month to decide on the format and future workings of the SVS. If necessary please regard this as a request under Freedom of Information legislation.

Yours sincerely,

John F. Robins,

For Animal Concern

 

 

 

Similar sentiments were expressed by John Robins of Animal Concern in a letter published in the Edinburgh Evening News (17 February 2022):

 

 

 

 

Here's a reply from the Scottish Government dated 9 March 2022:

 

 

 

The Scottish Government announced the creation of a new Scottish Veterinary Service in a press release on 12 February 2022:

 

 

Maybe the SVS should kick-off by visiting salmon farms across Scotland starting with @salmon_scottish which is experiencing mass mortalities in farmed salmon & cleaner fish? APHA is clearly not fit for purpose @APHAgovuk @ScotGovRural @MairiGougeon https://t.co/7HHnQsjXwa pic.twitter.com/uCGcedS7iF

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 18, 2022

 

 

Back in April 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch exposed the woeful lack of surveillance by APHA with respect to salmon farms in Scotland with a letter sent to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (20 April 2021). 

 

Whitewashing Welfare Abuse of Scottish Salmon!
Read the inside story - sourced via FOI - into how @APHAgovuk 'inspect' millions of farmed fish & turn a blind eye to welfare abuse @SSPOsays @scotseafarms @kamesfishfarm @rspcaassured @marksandspencer https://t.co/vgp2qsSSsQ pic.twitter.com/APUPVisONy

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 15, 2021

 

 

 

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_ciwf pic.twitter.com/jMBQsCJZUF

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 20, 2021

 

 

 

The need for greater scrutiny and surveillance of welfare problems endemic in salmon farming has been highlighted by secret filming inside cages by Scottish Salmon Watch, Compassion in World Farming and Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots since 2018.   

 

 

 

 

Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' has brought the issue of welfare abuse, lice infestation and infectious diseases on Scottish salmon farms into the living rooms of millions of people around the world. 

 

 

Seaspiracy features covert video footage shot at Mowi's Gorsten salmon farm in Loch Linnhe - a site accredited as 'welfare friendly' via RSPCA and marketed as "responsibly farmed" by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council.

 

 

 

Norwegian salmon giant Mowi has reacted to Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' by publishing videos claiming to show healthy farmed salmon at their @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua salmon farm in Loch Linnhe which featured in @seaspiracy @ScotlandMowi @SSPOsays @iamalitabrizi https://t.co/DXJ6gnAUgl pic.twitter.com/Xf0W4GGlQg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 16, 2021

 

 

 

Seaspiracy also features shocking video footage shot by Corin Smith of Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots inside The Scottish Salmon Company's lice-infested salmon farm at Vacasay in Loch Roag (a site shamefully endorsed by the SSPCA whose chair, quelle horreur, is a salmon farmer). 

 

 

 

 

In November 2021, France 5 broadcast shocking video footage of welfare abuse shot inside salmon farms operated by The Scottish Salmon Company and Mowi:

 

Video of French TV's 'The Truth About Salmon' featuring Mowi & The Scottish Salmon Company https://t.co/PIwqhztqhu @France5tv @hugoclement @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @ScotlandSalmon @Folketrygdfond @Try_Lochlander @waitrose @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB @AldiUK @SaumonLabel pic.twitter.com/u16uaGZ97K

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 21, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

In October 2021, STV News reported on mass mortalities at The Scottish Salmon Company off the Isle of Gigha (using drone footage published by Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots):

 

Thousands of rotting salmon ‘stink out’ village after mass death at farm.https://t.co/hOoOmXr0n7

— STV News (@STVNews) October 20, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Photos published by the Scottish Government in January 2022 showed the extent of the welfare abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company:

 

Fresh Scottish Salmon anyone? Here's freshly published photos of disease-ridden fish farmed @salmon_scottish off Skye & the Isle of Gigha @marinescotland
Please boycott Scottish salmon! @Folketrygdfond @waitrose @coopuk @coopukpress @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/WK0SjATflz pic.twitter.com/MIBNEityBk

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 12, 2022

 

 

 

In the abscence of welfare inspections by APHA, it is photographic evidence sourced from Scottish Government inspectors and video evidence from secret filming which has exposed systemic welfare abuse on salmon farms across Scotland.

 

Edie Bowles @Animallawyersuk said the dossier, compiled by Don Staniford, a critic of salmon farming, indicated “systemic and obvious” pain & suffering that could justify legal action against @scotgov @MairiGougeon @SSPOsays https://t.co/ZuzAis8gEr @SundayTimesScot @ciwf @scotgp pic.twitter.com/RPVIAL3KlS

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 2, 2020

 

 

 

 

In September 2021, the Kate Winslet-narrated film 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' quite literally lifted the lid on welfare abuse endemic in salmon farming in Scotland.

 

Watch the lid lifted on the horror that is 'Scottish' salmon as "Eating Our Way to Extinction" streams on You Tube @EatingOur @YouTubehttps://t.co/keIk4fLgoa @SSPOsays @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @scotseafarms @HamishMacdonell @tavishscott pic.twitter.com/s7CVHLKWfG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 21, 2021

 

 

 

Undercover footage showing the extent of welfare abuse, mortalities, chemical use.

“This is what the industry doesn’t want us to see”@MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllan @MathesonMichael #COP26 pic.twitter.com/o9OAKjjuxm

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) October 22, 2021

 

 

Video footage shot inside The Scottish Salmon Company's West Strome salmon farm in September 2021 exposed horrific welfare abuse:

 

 

 

 

 

Video footage shot in September 2021 inside a fish farm operated by Kames Fish Farming at Shuna Castle in the Sound of Jura exposed welfare abuse and mass mortalities of Steelhead trout:

 

Video Exclusive: secret filming inside @rspcaassured Kames Fish Farming in the Sound of Jura reveals lice-infested farmed trout https://t.co/0ZqAG6B8Iz @kamesfishfarm @obantimes @british_trout @DFSeafoods @FarmInvicta @coopuk @sainsburys @Tesco @asda @LidlGB @AldiUK pic.twitter.com/AvWdU7sbU1

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 12, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mass mortalities at Dawnfresh in Loch Etive in August 2021 - exposed via drone surveillance by Dip in the Blue - also raised the issue of welfare abuse on trout farms. 

 

 

 

 

 

Secret filming by Scottish Salmon Watch exposed welfare abuse at Mowi salmon farms around the Isle of Shuna near Oban in July 2021.

 

Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Mowi - Campaigners call for Mowi to be fined & RSPCA certification rescinded! https://t.co/dhVFllDjXX@rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd @marinescotland @APHAgovuk @MairiGougeon @SSPCA_Kirsteen pic.twitter.com/jzo2fi13xK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2021

 

 

 

 

"What is happening on salmon farms is not just cruel, it is a criminal offence" says John Robins of Animal Concern https://t.co/dhVFllDjXX
Please boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish salmon @rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd @sainsburys @LidlGB @AldiUK @SSPOsays @MairiGougeon @philip_ciwf pic.twitter.com/ub0zPWsqcI

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2021

 

 

 

Seaspiracy's Instagram page broadcast the shocking video footage to over one million people - many of whom took the 'Salmon Pledge' never to eat Scottish salmon ever again. 

 

 

 

Seaspiracy's video shocker on @rspcaassured Scottish salmon @MowiScotlandLtd is approaching 1 million views - and has over 36,000 likes! @seaspiracy https://t.co/I80mzoym6j
Please boycott Scottish salmon! #Boycott #Scottish #Salmon pic.twitter.com/iagrnIMjFM

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 4, 2021

 

In May 2021, secret filming in Loch Spelve exposed welfare abuse and disease problems at Scottish Sea Farms - and triggered a Scottish Government inspection which found Infectious Salmon Anaemia leading to an official report being filed to the World Organization for Animal Health.

 

Secret Filming Exposes RSPCA ‘Abused’ Scottish Salmon - Welfare Complaint Filed Against M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms https://t.co/FcNmyXrwxD @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @LeroySeafood @APHAgovuk @marinescotland @SSPCA_Mike @SSPCA_Kirsteen @Folketrygdfond pic.twitter.com/D212vYCn9z

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 13, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

In March 2021, damning video evidence published by Compassion in World Farming and OneKind exposed endemic welfare abuse in salmon farms across Scotland.

 

 

 

A new report - "Underwater Cages, Parasites & Dead Fish" - featuring welfare abuse on salmon farms is a must read! https://t.co/rwypa1sg8y
Stop salmon suffering by banning salmon farming in #Scotland NOW! @ciwf @onekindtweet @CIWF_EU @media_ciwf @rspcaassured @SSPCA_Mike @scotgp pic.twitter.com/rDFDpGMYcz

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 23, 2021

 

Photographic evidence compiled by Compassion in World Farming is available online here

 

 

 

 

An undercover investigation by Animal Equality published in February 2021 exposed welfare abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company's slaughter facility at Arnish near Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis:

 

 

 

DATA REVEALED: Orchestrated visit by Scotlands Chief Vet to a salmon farm AFTER nearly 30,000 dead, diseased or moribund fish & an undisclosed number not fit for the visit were removed.

How can animals be protected when devious salmon farmers are not being held accountable? https://t.co/y7Z0GWI6tI pic.twitter.com/W3OHd57xlY

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) February 17, 2022

 

In December 2020, BBC 'Countryfile' featured welfare abuse inside Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Creran (a farm certified as 'welfare friendly' by RSPCA Assured and marketed as 'responsibly sourced' by M&S):

 

RSPCA claim they "did everything they reasonably could" with respect to welfare abuse @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @SSPOsays in Loch Creran @BBCCountryfile @joe_crowley https://t.co/G4dXeILsTk
Surely it is reasonable to question why @rspcaassured still certify salmon farms? pic.twitter.com/lfVVFa5GE8

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 7, 2020

 

 

 

 

26% mortality rate on Scottish salmon farms (in just the sea phase of production) - that means one in four RSPCA certified salmon are dying a horrible death! @rspcaassured @SSPOsays @marinescotland https://t.co/G4dXeILsTk @BBCCountryfile @joe_crowley @SalmonTroutCons @scotgp pic.twitter.com/4Nm8CV3fLA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 7, 2020

 

 

 

Secret filming by Scottish Salmon Watch uncovered welfare abuse at Kames Fish Farming in Loch Tralaig in September 2020.

 

Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Kames @kamesfishfarm @rspcaassured @MairiGougeon @APHAgovuk @ProfCMDwyer @LynneUSneddon @Animallawyersuk @SSPCA_Mike @SSPOsays @GreenerScotland @SaveOurLochs @andrholder @obantimes @strathearnrose https://t.co/Dtc6rSKG1L pic.twitter.com/7VEmiyUsUA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 24, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

The lack of welfare surveillance is not only a problem for farmed salmon and trout but also for 'cleaner fish' which are dying in their millions inside salmon farms.  Scamon Scotland reported last month (1 February 2022):

 

EXPOSED: Salmon Scotland's Dirty Trade in Cleaner Fish https://t.co/Rt1GYWAoxV
Scottish salmon farming – along with millions of cleaner fish – is dead in the water! @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @marinescotland @onekindtweet @mcsuk @TheOpenSeas @ciwf @scotgp pic.twitter.com/xzuCm6fycp

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 1, 2022

 

 

50+ Million Cleaner Fish Die Each Year on Norwegian Salmon Farms - how many millions die on Norwegian-owned salmon farms in Scotland (& Ireland)? @DefraGovUK @APHAgovuk @scotgov @ScotGovNetZero @marinescotland @fiskeridir @NFdep @InfoMattilsynet @Sciencenorwayno @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/UbcFhIeldv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 4, 2022

 

 

 

When APHA has investigated salmon farms it has often been triggered by welfare complaints - as was the case when Scottish Salmon Watch filmed at Mowi's 'Bay of the Dead Heads' salmon farm in the Sound of Jura in July 2019. 

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch's video evidence of dead and dying 'cleaner fish' - in this case lumpsuckers - littering the surface of Mowi's salmon farm at the aptly named 'Bay of the Dead Heads' led to an inspection by APHA and Marine Scotland which led to a 'warning letter' in September 2019 where Mowi were deemed to have broken welfare laws.    The Ferret/Sunday National reported in November 2019:

 

 

 

Here's APHA's letter to Mowi dated 16 September 2019 - obtained via Freedom of Information in April 2020:

 

 

Censored: Welfare Abuse on Salmon Farms - redacted FOI documents reveal welfare breaches of Animal Health & Welfare Act @rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/oJ5ad7XxZw @APHAgovuk @marinescotland @ProfCMDwyer @SSPCA_Mike @SSPOsays @ChrisGPackham @markruskell @scotgp pic.twitter.com/7Fr5ANyTC4

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 23, 2020

 

 

 

 

Scamon Scotland can only hope that the Scottish Veterinary Service actually upholds the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 rather than continuing APHA's policy of turning a blind eye to welfare abuse on salmon farms.

 

Revealed: Salmon farmers tipped off BEFORE 'inspections' by welfare agency @APHAgovuk @DefraGovUK @rspcaassured @GreenerScotland @FergusEwingSNP @BenMacpherson @scotgp @kamesfishfarm @obantimes @ProfCMDwyer @AlisonJohnstone @CGrahameMSP @GriegShetland https://t.co/vUKNjDsPIR pic.twitter.com/vFdC16gTec

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 22, 2021

 

 

Uncovered: How 'inspectors' whitewash away welfare abuse on salmon farms https://t.co/vgp2qsSSsQ
Freedom of Information exposes how systemic failures @APHAgovuk allow salmon farms to slip through the inspection net @DefraGovUK @marinescotland @GreenerScotland @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/Z84JXOEPfU

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 22, 2021

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Coming Clean on Welfare Abuse of Cleaner Fish - FOI lifts lid on 100% mortality of wrasse at The Scottish Salmon Company (& over half a million dead salmon)!

The Worst Salmon Toilets in Scotland (even worse than Trainspotting)!

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - over 8 million morts reported last year & over half a million in first two weeks of 2022!!

50 Million Cleaner Fish Die Each Year on Norwegian Salmon Farms - how many millions die on Norwegian-owned salmon farms in Scotland (& Ireland)?

EXPOSED: Salmon Scotland's Dirty Trade in Cleaner Fish

Scottish Salmon Exposed - Photos highlight the disease & welfare nightmare at The Scottish Salmon Company!

Video of France 5s 'The Truth About Salmon' featuring Mowi & The Scottish Salmon Company

Caught on Camera - How the Go Pro Dealt the Death Blow to Salmon Farming

Video Nasties of Dead Farmed Salmon Pile Up All Over the World!

Backgrounder: Secret Filming Exposes the Welfare Nightmare of Factory Fish Farming

Videos of Welfare Abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron (West Strome salmon farm)

Breaking News: "Horror Videos Reveal Welfare Abuse Inside Scottish Salmon & Trout Cages"

Photos of Welfare Abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron (West Strome salmon farm)

Videos of Welfare Abuse at Kames Fish Farming in the Sound of Jura (Shuna Castle)

Welfare Complaint Vs The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron (7 September 2021)

Rest Assured - the RSPCA has been captured, co-opted & corrupted by the Salmafia

Mail on Sunday: "Revealed, the nauseating underbelly of Scotland's £1 billion salmon farms: fish eaten alive by lice, awash with faeces, dead salmon left to rot"

Press Release: "Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Mowi - Campaigners call for Mowi to be fined & RSPCA certification rescinded"

RSPCA Sponsored Welfare Abuse of Salmon Farms - A Guide to Getting Away with Mass Murder (Theriocide)!

Letter to Secretary of State re. Welfare Abuse at Scottish Salmon Farms

Whitewashing Welfare Abuse of Scottish Salmon (as sponsored via RSPCA, SSPCA & APHA)

Revealed: The Farmed Salmon Crisis

Media Backgrounder: The Welfare Nightmare of Scottish Salmon (Updated)

Covid measures ‘didn’t affect farmed salmon welfare’ claim Marine Scotland Science (who were not allowed to inspect farms for half of 2020)!

Ongoing welfare abuse & unnecessary suffering on salmon farms - why no prosecutions?

RSPCA Suspend Salmon Farm Inspections

Censored: Welfare Abuse on Salmon Farms

Photo Dossier of Diseased, Deformed & Abused Scottish Salmon

Welfare Abuse on Scottish Salmon Farms - Legal Action Vs Scottish Ministers & Salmon Farming Companies

Welfare Abuse at Scottish Salmon Farms - Why No Legal Enforcement Or Prosecutions?

Legal Complaint Vs Breaches of Animal Health & Welfare (Scotland) Act

 

 

Be Sure to Boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon! https://t.co/61yIroIUBp Shocking new photos published of Mowi's disease-ridden North Shore feedlot in Loch Erisort @marinescotland @MowiScotlandLtd "visibly moribund fish" & "significant lice damage" @sainsburys @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/gjLaeqpcFz

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 7, 2020

 

 

All Sorts of Problems for RSPCA Assured Mowi in Loch Erisort (Yet Again)! https://t.co/K1AzBjwv9e @MowiScotlandLtd @APHAgovuk @rspcaassured @SSPCA_Mike @marinescotland @HebridesNews @WHFP1 @Sygazette @KateForbesMSP @FergusEwingMSP @BBCScotlandNews @sainsburys @LidlGB @AldiUK pic.twitter.com/KhYMx9wwCN

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 28, 2020

 

Toxic Salmon: FOI Reveals Lobbying To Use Banned Neonicotinoid in Scotland - will trials of Imidacloprid take place this year?

 

Toxic Salmon: FOI Reveals Lobbying To Use Banned Neonicotinoid in Scotland - will trials of Imidacloprid take place this year? @ScottishEPA @marinescotland @MowiScotlandLtd @sustain_aqua @WeAreBenchmark @LeroySeafood @scotseafarms @vmdgovuk @scotgphttps://t.co/fO4qj5HUfh #BMK08 pic.twitter.com/G345o5I8DW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 16, 2022

 

 

 

A Freedom of Information disclosure by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency raises alarm bells that the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (hidden behind the trade names Ectosan Vet and BMK08) will be used on salmon farms in Scotland.   An email from the Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre to SEPA in November 2021 referred to a ‘catch up on SAIC’s funded Cleantreat project and technology, which Benchmark are developing’ (CleanTreat is the vehicle for the delivery of Imidacloprid - known as BMK08/Ectosan Vet).  “It would be beneficial to understand SEPA’s position in terms regulation of the equipment’s use following this instrument development and testing phase,” wrote SAIC (name redacted).  “There is interest from the sector in utilizing the technology in the future to best manage chemical lice treatments, and who wish to better understand the practical detail in the potential steps to proceed with this technology”.

 

 

 

 

 

Another email from Benchmark to SEPA in October 2021 referred to “an update around SEPA’s position regarding the Cleantreat project, specifically how the technology and discharge might be regulated”.

 

 

 

 

Note that Norwegian-owned Benchmark is the company pushing the use of Imidacloprid in salmon farming with a team of new hires waiting to unleash the banned neonicotinoid in Scotland. 

 

Meet the toxic team behind the use of the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in Scottish salmon pharming! https://t.co/AvF9wXoiNh @WeAreBenchmark @FerdOwner @marinescotland @ScottishEPA @MairiMcAllan @MairiGougeon @GreenerScotland #Imidacloprid #BMK08 #Neonicotinoid #SEPA #Toxic pic.twitter.com/pH4c2aAZre

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 21, 2021

 

 

The banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid "is understood to be keenly awaited by salmon farmers in Scotland, where the technology was developed" @salmonfarming1 https://t.co/p9JBdD1KGP@DaveGoulson @FerdOwner @WeAreBenchmark
@PAN_UK @PFreeScotland @GraceOSllvn
@europeangreen

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 16, 2021

 

 

 

An email from SEPA (named redacted) to Benchmark (name redacted) in November 2021 cited a “summary of the regulatory requirements applying where the discharge is made from a second vessel at the site rather than from the wellboat in which the fish are treated”.   “The permit holder will need to apply for a simple, administration variation,” wrote SEPA.  “The variation will amend the permit to provide for the discharge to be made from any vessel at the site rather than restricting it (as at present) to being made from the wellboat”.  “We expect to begin the process of transferring all farm permits onto a new, simpler permit template before the end of 2021/2022.  If the trial is carried out after this transfer, the application for variation referred to in (a) above will not be required.   We expect to determine applications for variations within a maximum of 4 months.   Simple administrative variations can be processed very quickly.  We would be happy to liaise with you and the operators concerned to ensure we understand timings and can plan accordingly.”

 

 

 

 

Data published last week (8 March 2022) by the Norwegian Veterinary Institute details use of Imidacloprid (dubbed 'Novichok for insects' by Professor Dave Goulson) on salmon farms across Norway during 2021. 

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported in December 2021 that the banned neonicotinoid "was keenly awaited by salmon farmers in Scotland, where the technology was developed". 

 

Imidacloprid - the bee-killing chemical dubbed "Novichok for insects" - is "keenly awaited by salmon farmers in Scotland"! https://t.co/YAt9VvUo8m
When will the banned neonicotinoid be used on salmon farms? @scotgov @marinescotland @ScottishEPA @salmon_scottish @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/C3vZgCPh3t

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 16, 2021

 

 

 

The Ferret revealed in May 2021 that the Scottish Government backed the use of the banned neonicotinoid in salmon farming in Scotland.

 

Internal emails reveal that Turpie told colleagues she would “help with engagement” with environmental regulators so the treatment could “navigate through the system”.

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) May 21, 2021

 

 

 

The Ferret reported in July 2021 that the Scottish Environment Protection Agency helped Benchmark avoid disclosure of documents via Freedom of Information:

 

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

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) July 19, 2021

 

 

 

 

In August 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch revealed that SEPA had not yet received an application to use Imidacloprid:

 

 

 

 

An internal email to SEPA staff in May 2021 (names redacted) “confirmed that no neonicotinoids are currently licensed for use and we have no applications pending”.  Media lines provided by SEPA (understood to be to The Guardian who published an article – ‘Novichok for insects’ may be approved for Scottish fish farms’ – the following day) included: “If an application is made to discharge a new medicine we require, among other things, the applicant to provide the scientific evidence to identify the no effect concentration for that medicine in the environment, and information on how they will ensure that this concentration is met”.   

 

 

 

FOI disclosure by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (22 February 2022):

Summary: FOI Backgrounder

Letter from SEPA dated 22 February 2022 EIR Response F0193236 FINAL

SEPA Board question related media response 26 May 2021

Benchmark 'catch up on CleanTreatSAIC project' with SEPA October 2021

SAIC Project update on CleanTreat with SEPA December 2021

SAIC email to SEPA re. CleanTreat position October 2021

SEPA Benchmark Discussion in June 2021

The Guardian Novichok for insects may be approved for Scottish fish farms_R_Redacted

Substances for SEPA consents FINAL

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in May 2020 that SEPA had been asked by Mowi to support a field trial of Imidacloprid (Ectosan) in Loch Ailort:

 

Secret Trials: 'Royal' Salmon Doused with Bee-Killing Insecticide Imidacloprid? https://t.co/S1ovGqCpu7 FOI reveals proposed 'field trial' of toxic neonicotinoid @MowiScotlandLtd at Ardnish in Loch Ailort @ScottishEPA @WeAreBenchmark @marinescotland @FerdOwner @vmdgovuk #BMK08 pic.twitter.com/iUl9lk7XPv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 20, 2020

 

 

Scottish Greens "deeply concerned" at Mowi's field trial of Neonicotinoid @markruskell @strathearnrose @scotgp @FergusEwingMSP @SP_ECCLR @ScottishEPA "Imidacloprid has been classed as an environmental hazard" @WeAreBenchmark @MowiScotlandLtd @vmdgovuk https://t.co/KTgbs4GnNM pic.twitter.com/ESCXnu1TOM

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 21, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in October 2020:

 

How much of the toxic neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (BMK08/Ectosan) has been used in Scottish salmon farming (either legally or illegally) since @WeAreBenchmark registered a patent in 2011? @SSPOsays @MowiScotlandLtd @marinescotland @vmdgovuk @scotseafarms https://t.co/CdAEYD4QzO pic.twitter.com/GY8uP0Us1v

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 26, 2020

 

 

How much of the toxic neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (BMK08/Ectosan) has been used in Scottish salmon farming - either legally or illegally - since Norwegian-owned Benchmark via the Inverness-based Fish Vet Group registered a patent back in 2011?  That's the killer question Scottish Salmon Watch is trying to track down via Freedom of Information (FOI) requests including an ongoing review with the Scottish Information Commissioner.  

 

Secret Salmon - On the Trail of Imidacloprid Use in Scotland https://t.co/u2ulxotaTN Has the toxic neonicotinoid been used illegally @WeAreBenchmark @FAIfarms at Ardtoe marine laboratory? @ScottishEPA @marinescotland @vmdgovuk @FerdOwner @MowiScotlandLtd @FergusEwingMSP #BMK08 pic.twitter.com/LwP1twMoQW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 4, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

In August 2020, an Editorial in British Wildlife by Professor Dave Goulson of the University of Sussex questioned the use of Imidacloprid (banned by the European Union for use in terrestrial agriculture in 2018) in salmon farming.

 

Editorial in British Wildlife: "Neonics in Salmon Farming - Alarm Bells Are Ringing" @britwildlife @DaveGoulson https://t.co/hn6DHZmS9D @FerdOwner @WeAreBenchmark @FergusEwingMSP @strathearnrose @salmonfarming1 @IntraFishNorge @thefishsite @nature_scot @MasumiYamamuro @scotgp pic.twitter.com/kcIrtdhB0I

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 24, 2020

 

 

 

In May 2021, Professor Dave Goulson - author of 'Silent Earth' - dubbed Imidacloprid 'Novichok for insects' in an article in The Guardian.

 

 

"It’s like the wild west" said @DaveGoulson "These chemicals are incredibly poisonous – the novichok for insects. It takes a billionth of a gram to harm aquatic life, so even tiny traces would have major impacts on marine life" @guardian @WeAreBenchmark https://t.co/OzouYaXCEk

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 27, 2021

 

 

 

The Veterinary Record reported (9/16 October 2021):

 

 

 

"The risk that Imidacloprid presents to ecosystems when used in the marine environment is too great, and the precautionary principle must be applied" @Vet_Record @DaveGoulson @WeAreBenchmark @ScottishEPA @marinescotland @MairiGougeon @SSPOsays @MowiScotlandLtd @scotgp @FerdOwner pic.twitter.com/6Xy6GbYNyE

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 13, 2021

 

 

 

Read more via:

• "Novichok for Insects" Unleashed on Scottish Salmon This Summer?
• Benchmark Gears Up for Imidacloprid Use in Norway: "keenly awaited by salmon farmers in Scotland"!
• Vets & Scientists Voice Concerns Vs Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Pharming - Letter published in Veterinary Record
• ASC endorses banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in salmon farming
• "SEPA has not received an application to use Imidacloprid" admits Scottish Government
• Private Eye: "Toxic Relationship"
• Norway Deploys Banned Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid - Scotland, Chile & Canada Next in Firing Line!
• The Ferret: "Watchdog helped pesticide firm avoid freedom of information"
• Toxic Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Collared by Legal Petition in US - are investors in Ectosan Vet/BMK08/D-10 Aquatic Blast feeling hot under the collar?
• Scottish Government backtracks on neonicotinoid use in salmon pharming: "there is no planned imminent approval of Imidacloprid"
• Dirty Secrets Exposed: FOI Disclosure by SEPA on Benchmark's Banned Neonicotinoid Ectosan/BMK08 (Imidacloprid)
• Salmon Pharming's 'Silent Spring' of the Sea
• "New weapon against salmon lice" reports Norwegian media (failing to mention Ectosan is the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid)
• Norway Approves Banned Bee-Killing Neonicotinoid for Use on Norwegian Salmon - Scotland, Chile & Canada Next In Firing Line!
• Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Dogged by Lawsuits, Bans & Deaths - Is Benchmark's BMK08 in the doghouse or will it be unleashed?
• Canadian field trials of the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid on salmon farms?
• Norwegian Environment Agency FOI reply lifts lid on banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid
• Interferencia: "Salmon Farming - Norwegian company seeks to commercialize in Chile a pesticide banned by the EU for being 'very toxic' to aquatic life"
• Anyone for Norwegian Salmon Marinaded in the Banned Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (don't worry it's ASC-approved)?!
• "EU deals potential setback to Benchmark’s rollout of new sea lice treatment"
• Fish Farmer: "MEPs condemn new lice treatment: who's right" "
• "EU setback for novel lice treatment"
• Breaking News: Victory in Europe - Parliament votes against the use of the toxic neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in farmed salmon!
• Fish Farming Expert: "Novel lice treatment threatened by European Parliament vote"
• Wave of European Opposition to Benchmark's Imidacloprid (BMK08) - the tide turns against neonicotinoids in salmon pharming!
• European Opposition to Neonicotinoid Contamination of Farmed Salmon - is BMK08 (Imidacloprid) dead in the water?
• The Guardian: "‘Novichok for insects’ may be approved for Scottish fish farms"
• Who are the toxic team lurking behind Benchmark's BMK08 (Imidacloprid) in Scottish salmon pharming?
• The Ferret: "Bee-killing pesticide treatment for fish farms backed by Scottish Government"
• Cleaning Tox-Sick Scottish Salmon - Benchmark's magic trick making the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid disappear!
• Rumsfeldian Fish Philosophy - Things We Know We Know, Things We Now Know We Don't Know & Things We Don't Know We Don't Know About 'Scottish' Salmon!
• SEPA ordered by Commissioner to Disclose 'Commercially Confidential' Information on CleanTreat & BMK08 (Imidacloprid) by 7 June
• Warning: Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming "Clears Another Hurdle" With European MRL
• Warning: Imidacloprid Moves A Step Closer to Commercial Use in Salmon Farming
• Nasty Neonicotinoid Plagues Salmon Farming in 2021
• Toxic Neonicotinoid "Close to Commercial Launch" in Salmon Farming!
• New Science Dogs Approval of Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid for Scottish Salmon!
• Imidacloprid Use in Scottish Salmon Farming?
• Secret Salmon - On the Trail of Imidacloprid Use in Scotland!
• British Wildlife: "Neonics in Salmon Farming - Alarm Bells Are Ringing"
• Caveat Chile - toxic neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (BMK08) coming soon!
• Toxic Politics - Meet the Scottish Government's Minister for Sinister Chemicals
• Imidacloprid Licensed for Use by Mowi in Loch Ailort?
• Further Scientific Opposition to Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming
• Patent lifts lid on neonicotinoid use in salmon farming
• Horrible History: Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming
• Scientific Opposition to Neonicotinoid Use in Salmon Farming
• Backgrounder: "Imidacloprid - A Neonicotinoid Insecticide Toxic to Aquatic Life"
• BBC Farming Today on "Neonicotinoids in Salmon Farming"
• Sunday Times: "Outlawed insecticide may be used on Scottish salmon"
• FOI letter on Scientific Concerns re. Imidacloprid Use in Scottish Salmon Farming
• Scottish Greens "Deeply Concerned" at Mowi's Field Trial of Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in Loch Ailort
• Letter to the Prince of Wales re. bee-killing Imidacloprid use at royal warrant holder Mowi
• Secret Trials: 'Royal' Salmon Doused with Bee-Killing Insecticide Imidacloprid?
• Follow the Salmoney - the Norwegian tobacco billionaire behind the Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid
• ENDS Report: "Calls for greater transparency over ‘toxic’ new fish farm product"
• Letter to SEPA: Please Come Clean on Imidacloprid!
• Letter to Scottish Ministers, SEPA & the VMD re. Imidacloprid
• FOI requests on Imidacloprid to SEPA, VMD & the Scottish Government
• Revealed: Toxic Neonicotinoid Insecticide Used to 'CleanTreat' Lousy Salmon
• Please Come Clean on BMK08!
• Sunday Times: "Official fears revealed over toxic threat of salmon trade"
• Cleaning Tox-Sick Scottish Salmon
• CleanTreat FOI Disclosures by the Scottish Government to Scottish Salmon Watch
• Media Backgrounder: Chemically Embalmed Scottish Salmon
• All is Not Well With Sick Scottish Salmon

 

 

Red Alert: Is Norwegian-owned Benchmark gearing up to unleash 'Novichok for insects' (the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid) on salmon farms in Scotland this Summer? @ScottishEPA @marinescotland @WeAreBenchmark @MairiMcAllan @ScotGovRural @ScotGovNetZero @ScotlandSalmon @scotgp pic.twitter.com/GI4eqkBo8M

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 11, 2022

 

 

 

Addendum:

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 12:45 PM
Subject: FOI re. CleanTreat & Imidacloprid (Ectosan Vet/BMK08)
To: <info@sustainableaquaculture.com>

 

Please provide information on CleanTreat and Imidacloprid (Ectosan Vet/BMK08) since 1 January 2021.

 

Please include any details of SAIC’s funded Cleantreat project and technology as referred to in the email below (obtained from SEPA via FOI):

 

 

 

 

Please provide any correspondence with Benchmark - as indicated in the email below - as well as other parties including SEPA, Nature Scotland, VMD, Salmon Scotland (SSPO), the Scottish Government, Mowi, Leroy, Scottish Sea Farms and any other parties on the subject of CleanTreat and Imidacloprid (BMK08/Ectosan Vet):

 

 

More background is presented via: Toxic Salmon: FOI Reveals Lobbying To Use Banned Neonicotinoid in Scotland - will trials of Imidacloprid take place this year?

 

 

Please consider this a FOI request under the relevant FOI and Environmental Information regulations.

 

Please provide the information electronically.

 

Please provide a receipt for this FOI request.

 

Thanks,

 

Don Staniford

 

Director, Scamon Scotland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 12:58 PM
Subject: FOI re. CleanTreat & Imidacloprid (Ectosan Vet/BMK08) since 17 April 2021
To: <CEU@gov.scot>

Please provide any information on Imidacloprid (BMK08/Ectosan), CleanTreat and Benchmark since 17 April 2021 (i.e. since a FOI filed on that date: https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202100195003/).  

 

Please include any media lines, internal discussions, replies to journalists, Cabinet Briefings, emails, letters and other information relating to Imidacloprid (BMK08/Ectosan), CleanTreat and Benchmark since 17 April 2021.  

 

Please include any details of SAIC’s funded Cleantreat project and technology as referred to in the email below (obtained from SEPA via FOI):

 

 

 

 

Please provide any correspondence with Benchmark as well as other parties including SAIC, SEPA, Nature Scotland, VMD, Salmon Scotland (SSPO), the Scottish Government, Mowi, Leroy, Scottish Sea Farms and any other parties on the subject of CleanTreat and Imidacloprid (BMK08/Ectosan Vet).   It is understood that Benchmark and SAIC are actively seeking approval to use Imidacloprid via the CleanTreat system:

 

 

More background is presented via: Toxic Salmon: FOI Reveals Lobbying To Use Banned Neonicotinoid in Scotland - will trials of Imidacloprid take place this year?

 

 

Scamon Scotland is interested in the Scottish Government's position on the use of Imidacloprid (BMK08/Ectosan Vet) following last year's revelations in The Ferret: https://theferret.scot/pesticide-treatment-fish-farms-scottish-government/

 

And via the Scottish Government's FOI disclosure in May 2021:

https://donstaniford.typepad.com/my-blog/2021/05/cleaning-tox-sick-scottish-salmon-benchmarks-magic-trick-making-the-banned-neonicotinoid-imidaclopri.html

 

 

Please consider this a FOI request under the relevant FOI and Environmental Information regulations.

 

Please provide the information electronically.

 

Please provide a receipt for this FOI request.

 

Thanks,

 

Don Staniford

 

Director, Scamon Scotland

Exposed: 40 Million+ Litres of Toxic Hydrogen Peroxide Used on ‘Responsibly Farmed’, RSPCA Assured & ‘Organic’ Scottish Salmon Since 2016!

 

Exposed: 40 Million+ Litres of Toxic Hydrogen Peroxide Used on ‘Responsibly Farmed’, RSPCA Assured & ‘Organic’ Scottish Salmon Since 2016! @SoilAssociation @ASC_aqua @rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @LochDuartSalmon @ScottishEPA @scotgov https://t.co/4JUGpQLv8J pic.twitter.com/79IQSZ3ujI

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 15, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Named & Shamed: the toxic salmon companies using millions of litres of shellfish-killing Hydrogen Peroxide in Scottish lochs! https://t.co/4JUGpQLv8J @ScottishEPA @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @GriegShetland @scotseafarms @LochDuartSalmon @CookeScotland pic.twitter.com/AY2AFcACr0

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 17, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Download press release and media backgrounder in full online here

 

 

Please boycott toxic salmon! Since 2015 an eye-popping 60 million litres of Hydrogen Peroxide (shown to kill shellfish, seaweed & salmon) has been used on @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation @ScotlandSalmon salmon farms in #Scotland https://t.co/4JUGpQLv8J @ScottishEPA pic.twitter.com/EXPt8ZOXuR

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 16, 2022

 

 

 

Key documents disclosed by SEPA on 1 March 2022:

SEPA FOI reply letter 1 March 2022 Hydrogen Peroxide Use on Salmon Farms EIR Response F0192861

Excel #1 Hydrogen Peroxide 2021

Excel #2 Hydrogen Peroxide 2020

Excel #3 Hydrogen Peroxide 2016 to 2019

Excel #4 Marine Scotland Wellboats Treatments 2020

 

 

Read more via:

The Ferret/Sunday National: "Use of Drugs At Fish Farms Rises 50 Times in Six Years"

Drug Addict Alert: Scottish Salmon's Fifty-Fold Increase in Antibiotics Since 2016!

Media Backgrounder: "Mowi's Increasing Disease Problems Drives Increases in Antibiotic Use"

Toxic Scottish Salmon - Chemical Use Doubles Since 2018!

Slicegate: How SEPA Opened the Floodgates to Toxic Scottish Salmon (Following Intense Lobbying from the Salmafia)!

Mowi's 'Host' With the Most....Toxic Chemicals & Antibiotics (certified as "responsibly farmed" by the ASC)!

"Antibiotics use in Scottish farmed salmon doubles" (The Fish Site)

Named & Shamed: Increasing Antibiotic Use by Salmon Pharms in Scotland - just say no to drugs, say no to Scottish salmon!

The Sunday Times: "Record chemical use ‘of concern’ to salmon giant"

Press Release: "Sky-Rocketing Chemical Use on Scottish Salmon Farms"

 

 

RSPCA sponsored welfare abuse: 136,339 dead salmon at Ardintoul in 2022 @MowiScotlandLtd @rspcaassured
"Salmonid Rickettsial Septicaemia confirmed on site & treated with antibiotics". Hydrogen Peroxide dousing "aborted following increased mortalities" https://t.co/oZtlH0CRpV

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 10, 2022

 

 

Revealed: 1.5 million litres of shellfish-killing Hydrogen Peroxide doused @LochDuartSalmon since 2016 according to FOI disclosure @ScottishEPA
Why is Loch Duart endorsed @rspcaassured @friendofthesea @GLOBALGAP @lloydsregister @Creelers2 @UKAS @ScotlandSalmon @SaumonLabel? pic.twitter.com/7NdmsbnrRc

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 10, 2022

 

 

Here's data obtained @ScottishEPA via FOI which shows over 75,000 litres of Hydrogen Peroxide used by Wester Ross Fisheries in Loch Broom, Little Loch Broom & Ardmair Bay since 2018! @WesterRossSalmo @AilsaMcL @UllapoolCraic @SaversSea @FinlayPringle @klondyker @liusaidhbeattie pic.twitter.com/adHgbG8dWK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 9, 2022

 

 

Breaking: Hydrogen Peroxide use on salmon farm figures from @ScottishEPA :

Since 2015: 60 Million Litres pumped or poured straight into the environment.

Fishy: Figures missing from lockdown period - why?@MairiMcAllan @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/BTKP8MfK2A

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) February 22, 2022

 

 

 

Salmon farmers use Paramove 49.5% as an ectoparasiticide.
Many, if not all will have lice damage, cage or seal damage including open wounds. These fish will be near the surface. pic.twitter.com/WY3x1tKg8O

— Donald Johnson (@SalmonPharming) February 23, 2022

 

 

 

 

54 Million Farmed Fish Died in Norway in 2021 - How Many Farmed Salmon Died in Scotland?

 

"This week, @vetinst_no presented its report on fish health. It was a saddening read. What else can you say about a report that establishes 54 million fish die annually in our fish farms" @Arne_O_Holm @HighNorthNews https://t.co/Jb9onIgXF7
How many farmed salmon die in Scotland? pic.twitter.com/9whW7ze2i6

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 11, 2022

 

 

 

Download the report (in Norwegian - but an English version will be published in May/June) online here (the 2020 report is online here)

 

 

 

Includes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Download an English version of the 2020 Fish Health report published in 2021 online here

 

 

 

 

I reported in March 2021 (when last year's Norwegian report was published):

 

Salmon deaths (52 million) too high says Norway fisheries minister @fiskeridir @NFdep @LeroySeafood https://t.co/THs6N2Sgu3
How many die in Scotland? @FergusEwingSNP @SSPOsays @strathearnrose @ScotlandMowi @scotseafarms @salmon_scottish @GriegShetland @marinescotland

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 11, 2021

 

 

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? @ScottishEPA pic.twitter.com/S6d45qnsTx

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 11, 2021

 

 

 

The disclosure of specific mortality numbers on Norwegian salmon farms is particularly interesting since salmon farmers in Scotland - ca. 80% of which is controlled/owned by Norwegian investors including the Norwegian Government - successfully lobbied against disclosure in 2013 arguing that publication of mortality numbers would be 'commercially damaging'.

 

 

 

 

If you're looking for data on numbers of @rspcaassured dead farmed salmon in Scotland they don't exist - in 2013 @SSPOsays lobbied @ScottishEPA not to disclose mortalities as it was deemed commercially damaging! https://t.co/cDEyvS04dO @strathearnrose @salmon_scottish @scotgp pic.twitter.com/FICRbrpGXJ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 2, 2020

 

 

"We must confront the arguments where they lack fact" says @tavishscott @HolyroodDaily https://t.co/iIpHiZNRyE
How many mortalities does @SSPOsays report each year?
Fact - zero (disclosure would be "commercially damaging") @ScottishEPA @TerryAHearn https://t.co/RJ4HGLLBWx pic.twitter.com/0LmEKS5zRA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 1, 2020

 

 

 

Read more via:

1.8 Million Morts Reported on Scottish Fish Farms Already in 2022!

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - over 8 million morts reported last year & over half a million in first two weeks of 2022!!

Over 80% Mortality at The Scottish Salmon Company!!!

ASC-Certified/Audited Mass Mortalities Pile Up at Lousy Mowi & Scottish Sea Farms!

New Mortality Data for Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon - 700,000+ in the first two weeks of December!

Dead in the Water - Scottish Salmon's Mortality Mountain Piles Ever Higher in 2021!

Mass Mortalities - 66% in one month at The Scottish Salmon Company on the Isle of Gigha!

Lousy 'Scottish' Salmon - the most lice-infested salmon farms named & shamed!

Irresponsible Scottish Salmon Exposed: 'Scotland's Aquaculture' Publishes Data on Toxic Chemicals Use, Morts & Biomass Breaches

STV News: "Thousands of rotting salmon ‘stink out’ village after mass death at farm"

X-Rated Video: 90% Mortality at The Faroese/Norwegian 'Scottish' Salmon Company?!

Video Nasties of Dead Farmed Salmon Pile Up All Over the World!

Videos of Mort Disposal by The Scottish Salmon Company - like a serial killer disposing of dead bodies before the police arrive!

Demand for moratorium on new fish farms after mortality rates revealed

"The shocking death rates on Scotland's salmon farms revealed"

2020: The Year of Diseased Scottish Salmon - 27,000 Tonnes of Dead Fish, the Worst On Record!

Stop the Scottish Salmondemic - please avoid disease-ridden farmed salmon like the proverbial plague!

Taking the Fish - Illegal Salmon Dump Caught Taking Diseased Fish from the Mainland Despite 'Derogation'!

FOI Lifts Lid on the Stench of Scottish Salmon: Government Legal Department Target Illegal Dumping of Diseased Salmon

The Times: "Fish graveyard ‘severely hampers’ life for islanders, officials claim"

Update: Mortality Rate Over 36% At RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon!

Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon 

Update: 25 Million Mass Mortalities on Scottish Salmon Farms

52 million deaths in Norway - how many millions died on Scottish salmon farms in 2020?

The Case Against Scottish Salmon - An Update on Diseases & Mass Mortalities!

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

Mass Mortalities Continue to Plague Scottish Salmon

Alexa, how many salmon die each year on Scottish salmon farms? 42 million* (but we don't know for sure as the answer is deemed "commercially damaging")!

Over One Million Morts for Scottish Salmon in September 2020!

Survival of the Unhealthiest Scottish Salmon - New data reveals shocking mortality rates!

Dead in the Water - New Data Reveals Mass Mortalities & Disease on Scottish Salmon Farms

The Ferret: "Farmed salmon deaths from disease reach record high"

The Killing Farms - Scottish Salmon's Horror Story Continues!

Solving Scottish Salmon's Multi-Million Mortality Problem

 

 

 

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - 8m morts reported last year & half a million in first two weeks of 2022!! https://t.co/tBz56oIRHK @ScotlandSalmon @tavishscott
Anyone for yummy "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon? @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation pic.twitter.com/K8cU8Bo64Y

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 18, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alexa, how many salmon die each year on Scottish salmon farms? 42 million* https://t.co/jRQzhheju6
Sadly we don't know for sure as the answer is deemed "commercially damaging" by @sspo!
Will @ScottishEPA & @marinescotland force disclosure? @salmon_scottish @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/fua9nkM6g3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 11, 2020

 

"Novichok for Insects" Unleashed on Scottish Salmon This Summer?

 

Red Alert: Is Norwegian-owned Benchmark gearing up to unleash 'Novichok for insects' (the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid) on salmon farms in Scotland this Summer? @ScottishEPA @marinescotland @WeAreBenchmark @MairiMcAllan @ScotGovRural @ScotGovNetZero @ScotlandSalmon @scotgp pic.twitter.com/GI4eqkBo8M

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 11, 2022

 

Norwegian-owned Benchmark is desperately trying to promote the global use of the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid - dubbed 'Novichok for insects' - without daring to mention it by name (instead hiding behind its trade name, Ectosan Vet).  Here's a press release issued by Benchmark on 23 February 2022:

 

 

"I am most proud about being part of the team that achieved the authorisation for Ectosan® Vet" says Jamie Dawson @WeAreBenchmark failing to mention the fact that Ectosan Vet is the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid! https://t.co/j8wqkMlBIp pic.twitter.com/FCuTk7aHdc

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 11, 2022

 

 

 

 

The deployment of Imidacloprid in Norwegian salmon farming has driven up revenues for Benchmark.  Fish Farmer reported (22 February 2022):

 

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported (22 February 2022):

 

 

"Ectosan Vet was developed by @WeAreBenchmark in Scotland but is currently only authorised for use in Norway. Benchmark said it will apply for authorisation in other countries in due course" https://t.co/AESPBqtNkF
Has Benchmark applied in Scotland? @ScottishEPA @marinescotland

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 11, 2022

 

 

Data on the use of Imidacloprid on Norwegian salmon farms - along with other toxic chemicals - was published earlier this week (8 March 2022) by the Norwegian Veterinary Institute:

 

 

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported (15 December 2021):

 

 

 

 

Meet the toxic team at Benchmark behind the drive to use the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in salmon pharming:

 

 

 

 

Meet the filthy rich Norwegian tobacco billionaire @FerdOwner desperate to 'CleanTreat' parasite-infested pharmed salmon with the toxic neonicotinoid insecticide Imidacloprid (BMK08/Ectosan) @WeAreBenchmark https://t.co/ORQS4EAeDS #Salmoney #Salmonopoly https://t.co/u5aJ4cQ1eS pic.twitter.com/2zh6cxBdeg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 18, 2020

 

 

Meet 'Ethics Man' (tobacco billionaire Johan Andresen), Chair of Norway's Council on Ethics which polices 'ethical' investment @FerdOwner @Folketrygdfond https://t.co/4P1m3g2CvT
He is a shareholder in salmon farming companies & via @WeAreBenchmark wants to use neonicotinoids! pic.twitter.com/yDq7CeSDvu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 30, 2020

 

 

Meet the toxic team behind deploying the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (marketed as Ectosan & BMK08) in salmon pharming. Anyone for pharmed salmon embalmed in 'Novichok for insects'? https://t.co/xCNwzQbQHy @e24 @lageb @FerdOwner @WeAreBenchmark @Seafood_Norway pic.twitter.com/OSGInsEMhC

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 9, 2021

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Benchmark Gears Up for Imidacloprid Use in Norway: "keenly awaited by salmon farmers in Scotland"!
• Vets & Scientists Voice Concerns Vs Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Pharming - Letter published in Veterinary Record
• ASC endorses banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in salmon farming
• "SEPA has not received an application to use Imidacloprid" admits Scottish Government
• Private Eye: "Toxic Relationship"
• Norway Deploys Banned Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid - Scotland, Chile & Canada Next in Firing Line!
• The Ferret: "Watchdog helped pesticide firm avoid freedom of information"
• Toxic Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Collared by Legal Petition in US - are investors in Ectosan Vet/BMK08/D-10 Aquatic Blast feeling hot under the collar?
• Scottish Government backtracks on neonicotinoid use in salmon pharming: "there is no planned imminent approval of Imidacloprid"
• Dirty Secrets Exposed: FOI Disclosure by SEPA on Benchmark's Banned Neonicotinoid Ectosan/BMK08 (Imidacloprid)
• Salmon Pharming's 'Silent Spring' of the Sea
• "New weapon against salmon lice" reports Norwegian media (failing to mention Ectosan is the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid)
• Norway Approves Banned Bee-Killing Neonicotinoid for Use on Norwegian Salmon - Scotland, Chile & Canada Next In Firing Line!
• Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Dogged by Lawsuits, Bans & Deaths - Is Benchmark's BMK08 in the doghouse or will it be unleashed?
• Canadian field trials of the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid on salmon farms?
• Norwegian Environment Agency FOI reply lifts lid on banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid
• Interferencia: "Salmon Farming - Norwegian company seeks to commercialize in Chile a pesticide banned by the EU for being 'very toxic' to aquatic life"
• Anyone for Norwegian Salmon Marinaded in the Banned Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (don't worry it's ASC-approved)?!
• "EU deals potential setback to Benchmark’s rollout of new sea lice treatment"
• Fish Farmer: "MEPs condemn new lice treatment: who's right" "
• "EU setback for novel lice treatment"
• Breaking News: Victory in Europe - Parliament votes against the use of the toxic neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in farmed salmon!
• Fish Farming Expert: "Novel lice treatment threatened by European Parliament vote"
• Wave of European Opposition to Benchmark's Imidacloprid (BMK08) - the tide turns against neonicotinoids in salmon pharming!
• European Opposition to Neonicotinoid Contamination of Farmed Salmon - is BMK08 (Imidacloprid) dead in the water?
• The Guardian: "‘Novichok for insects’ may be approved for Scottish fish farms"
• Who are the toxic team lurking behind Benchmark's BMK08 (Imidacloprid) in Scottish salmon pharming?
• The Ferret: "Bee-killing pesticide treatment for fish farms backed by Scottish Government"
• Cleaning Tox-Sick Scottish Salmon - Benchmark's magic trick making the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid disappear!
• Rumsfeldian Fish Philosophy - Things We Know We Know, Things We Now Know We Don't Know & Things We Don't Know We Don't Know About 'Scottish' Salmon!
• SEPA ordered by Commissioner to Disclose 'Commercially Confidential' Information on CleanTreat & BMK08 (Imidacloprid) by 7 June
• Warning: Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming "Clears Another Hurdle" With European MRL
• Warning: Imidacloprid Moves A Step Closer to Commercial Use in Salmon Farming
• Nasty Neonicotinoid Plagues Salmon Farming in 2021
• Toxic Neonicotinoid "Close to Commercial Launch" in Salmon Farming!
• New Science Dogs Approval of Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid for Scottish Salmon!
• Imidacloprid Use in Scottish Salmon Farming?
• Secret Salmon - On the Trail of Imidacloprid Use in Scotland!
• British Wildlife: "Neonics in Salmon Farming - Alarm Bells Are Ringing"
• Caveat Chile - toxic neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (BMK08) coming soon!
• Toxic Politics - Meet the Scottish Government's Minister for Sinister Chemicals
• Imidacloprid Licensed for Use by Mowi in Loch Ailort?
• Further Scientific Opposition to Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming
• Patent lifts lid on neonicotinoid use in salmon farming
• Horrible History: Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming
• Scientific Opposition to Neonicotinoid Use in Salmon Farming
• Backgrounder: "Imidacloprid - A Neonicotinoid Insecticide Toxic to Aquatic Life"
• BBC Farming Today on "Neonicotinoids in Salmon Farming"
• Sunday Times: "Outlawed insecticide may be used on Scottish salmon"
• FOI letter on Scientific Concerns re. Imidacloprid Use in Scottish Salmon Farming
• Scottish Greens "Deeply Concerned" at Mowi's Field Trial of Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in Loch Ailort
• Letter to the Prince of Wales re. bee-killing Imidacloprid use at royal warrant holder Mowi
• Secret Trials: 'Royal' Salmon Doused with Bee-Killing Insecticide Imidacloprid?
• Follow the Salmoney - the Norwegian tobacco billionaire behind the Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid
• ENDS Report: "Calls for greater transparency over ‘toxic’ new fish farm product"
• Letter to SEPA: Please Come Clean on Imidacloprid!
• Letter to Scottish Ministers, SEPA & the VMD re. Imidacloprid
• FOI requests on Imidacloprid to SEPA, VMD & the Scottish Government
• Revealed: Toxic Neonicotinoid Insecticide Used to 'CleanTreat' Lousy Salmon
• Please Come Clean on BMK08!
• Sunday Times: "Official fears revealed over toxic threat of salmon trade"
• Cleaning Tox-Sick Scottish Salmon
• CleanTreat FOI Disclosures by the Scottish Government to Scottish Salmon Watch
• Media Backgrounder: Chemically Embalmed Scottish Salmon
• All is Not Well With Sick Scottish Salmon

 

 

Imidacloprid - the bee-killing chemical dubbed "Novichok for insects" - is "keenly awaited by salmon farmers in Scotland"! https://t.co/YAt9VvUo8m
When will the banned neonicotinoid be used on salmon farms? @scotgov @marinescotland @ScottishEPA @salmon_scottish @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/C3vZgCPh3t

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 16, 2021

 

 

 

  

 

Anyone for Norwegian Salmon Marindaded in Banned Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (don't worry it's ASC-approved)?! https://t.co/fn6TWu9qo4#BMK08 #Ectosan #D10AquaticBlast @WeAreBenchmark @FerdOwner @ASC_aqua
Is toxic Norwegian salmon reaching consumers? @seafoodnorway @REMA1000 pic.twitter.com/BpytMop4U2

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 17, 2021

 

Dirty Video from Iceland Reveals Waste Impacts of Salmon Farms!

 

Dirty Video from Iceland Reveals Waste Impacts of Salmon Farms! https://t.co/c6sEdQtetV
Please join the global boycott against filthy farmed salmon!

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 8, 2022

 

 

 

A new video from Iceland by Veiga Grétarsdóttir is well worth a watch (it has English subtitles if your Icelandic is a little rusty):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch video footage shot under salmon farms in Norway and Scotland (as featured in the video above):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video footage shot by Veiga Grétarsdóttir inside a salmon farm in Iceland last Summer is enough to put you off farmed salmon for life!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nothing to see here - just a farmed salmon missing half its face. All perfectly normal in the world of "responsibly sourced" salmon. Move along now #SalMar #Arnarlax #ArcticFish #NorwayRoyalSalmon #Iceland https://t.co/X0oVELF61d pic.twitter.com/vyyofcaJzu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 30, 2021

 

 

 

 

NowThis News featured the shocking state of salmon farming in Iceland in a video published last week (1 March 2022):

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Video nasty of the dead zone under a salmon farm in Iceland!

The Worst Salmon Toilets in Scotland (even worse than Trainspotting)!

Iceland: A Hotbed of Disease & Death - Give Icelandic Salmon the Cold Shoulder!

Photos/Video of Skinless Dead Salmon Makes Splash in Icelandic Press!

Caught on Camera - How the Go Pro Dealt the Death Blow to Salmon Farming

Video Nasties of Dead Farmed Salmon Pile Up All Over the World!

Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse Inside Salmon Cages in Iceland & Scotland

Icelandic Salmon Farming Exposed by Secret Filming

The Go Pro Camera Never Lies (Unlike Salmon Farmers)

 

 

 

Wanted: Whistleblowers of the world - do you have any video footage of farmed salmon 'morts' being dumped in pits or skips, floating inside feedlots or dead at the bottom of nets? https://t.co/AfqxVJajJC pic.twitter.com/CIoQpXEsZG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2021

 

 

 

Big shout out to the pioneers of secret filming & all the brave warriors who dared lift the lid on disease-ridden salmon farming - the underwater filming with Go Pro cameras started @alex4salmon in 2016 has turned the tide! https://t.co/ozbDedwAG6 @seashepherd @CaptPaulWatson pic.twitter.com/S1PPpCd3X9

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 15, 2021

 

1.8 Million Morts Reported on Scottish Fish Farms Already in 2022!

 

Breaking News: 715,592 dead fish reported at The Scottish Salmon Company's Applecross/Russel Burn Hatchery in 6 incidents during 2022! @salmon_scottish @Folketrygdfond @ScotlandSalmon
"Systemic investigation ongoing" reports @marinescotland @ScotGovRural https://t.co/DqDKfxGm84 pic.twitter.com/h8M0e8XElw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 7, 2022

 

Damning data on mass mortalities on fish farms across Scotland was slipped out earlier today (7 March 2022) by the Scottish Government:

 

 

 

The mortality data - sourced from data returns submitted by salmon farming companies to the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate - details 90 'Mortality Event Reports' totalling 1,811,299 dead farmed fish reported thus far in 2022 (data up to mid-February) - including 715,592 dead farmed salmon in six incidents at The Scottish Salmon Company's Applecross Smolt Unit at Russel Burn on the shore of Loch Kishorn:

 

 

 

A whistleblower told Scottish Salmon Watch in January that 600,000 farmed salmon had died in a welfare disaster @salmon_scottish's Applecross Hatchery - today @marinescotland reported 715,592 farmed salmon had died with a "systemic investigation ongoing"! https://t.co/DqDKfxFOiw pic.twitter.com/Hbb6bOPH2k

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 7, 2022

 

 

Hey taxpayer, @MairiGougeon gave £5MILLION of your cash to Faroese company Bakkafrost to build a salmon hatchery - in the name of “sustainable growth”.

☠️ 715,000 baby salmon just died there ☠️

Please tell her to stop this madness. https://t.co/wU1KZIYxc8

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) March 8, 2022

 

 

In January 2022, Scottish Salmon Watch were tipped off by a whistleblower that The Scottish Salmon Company's Applecross/Russel Burn Hatchery was suffering a welfare disaster and filed a welfare complaint with the Scottish Government and the Animal & Plant Health Agency:

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 10:11 AM
Subject: Welfare Complaint re. Applecross/Russel Burn Hatchery (The Scottish Salmon Company) - 600,000 dead?
To: <MS.fishhealth@gov.scot>, SM-APHA-Enquiries APHA <enquiries@apha.gov.uk>, <APHA.Scotland@apha.gsi.gov.uk>

 

I received a distressing phone call at 9am this morning from someone with a relative working at The Scottish Salmon Company's Applecross Hatchery (understood to be also called Russel Burn) in Kishorn. 

 

The tip-off claimed that 600,000 fish had died due to sulphite in the pipes/water and that there was an ongoing welfare disaster.  The person who provided the information said that they could not sleep last night worrying about the welfare problems at the hatchery and they were clearly extremely concerned.  They said that morts were piling up at the site - with 600,000 morts given as an estimate.  

 

Based on such intelligence would it be possible to conduct an inspection ASAP to allay any welfare concerns?

 

Scottish Salmon Watch understands that this is the same facility which was awarded £5 million in public sector funding last month: https://www.insider.co.uk/news/scottish-salmon-company-receives-5-25647318

 

Fish Farmer also reported last month that The Scottish Salmon Company had issued a profit warning reporting “extraordinary mortality” with a loss of 174.6 Danish kroner (DKK) – or £20m – during October and November: https://www.fishfarmermagazine.com/news/bakkafrost-profits-warning-after-high-mortality-in-scotland/

 

Mortality data published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate on 12 January 2022 (data up to the end of November 2021) details significant mortality at the Applecross/Russel Burn hatchery and the nearby Loch Damph facility operated by The Scottish Salmon Company during November 2021 (data for December 2021 and January 2022 has presumably been received by FHI but not yet published): https://www.gov.scot/publications/fish-health-inspectorate-mortality-information/

 

 

'Case Information' for an inspection of Russel Burn and The Scottish Salmon Company's nearby Couldoran Hatchery (understood to be also called Appleburn) is still "awaiting publication": https://www.gov.scot/publications/fish-health-inspectorate-case-information-2021/

 

 

 

A swift site inspection would assist in ground-truthing the claim that 600,000 fish had died.

 

Thanks,

 

 

Don Staniford

 

Director of Scottish Salmon Watch

 

 

 

"Systemic investigation ongoing" by @marinescotland @APHAgovuk at The Scottish Salmon Company's Applecross Hatchery at Loch Kishorn following the deaths of over 700,000 farmed salmon! @salmon_scottish @ScotlandSalmon @Folketrygdfond https://t.co/DqDKfxFOiw
Nothing to see here! pic.twitter.com/AwVXS8F3g4

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 8, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

When Scottish Salmon Watch visited The Scottish Salmon Company's Applecross/Russel Burn Hatchery in June 2019 we filmed a stash of cancer-causing chemicals (Formaldehyde):

 

 

 

 

 

In total, The Scottish Salmon Company has already reported a staggering 911,499 dead farmed fish in 37 incidents during 2022 including:

 

 

 

 

When Scottish Salmon Watch filmed inside The Scottish Salmon Company's disease-ridden salmon farm at West Strome in Loch Carron in September 2021 we found lice-infestation and diseased salmon clearly suffering unnecessarily:

 

 

 

When Scottish Salmon Watch visited The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron in September we found serious welfare abuse, mortalities and lice infestationhttps://t.co/1G3dwUuxaa pic.twitter.com/1HeoFhcbWQ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 4, 2022

 

 

 

 

Norwegian giant Mowi has already reported 668,235 dead farmed salmon in 38 incidents during 2022 (data up to mid-February 2022) - including mass mortalities at Ardintoul, Seaforth, Grey Horse Channel and Greshornish due to Complex Gill Diseases, Salmonid Rickettsial Septicaemia, Amoebic Gill Disease, Heart & Skeletal Muscle Inflammation and Pasteurella Skyensis leading to medication with antibiotics:

 

 

 

 

 

Mowi report 668,235 dead fish in 38 incidents in 2022 - including mass morts at Ardintoul, Seaforth, Grey Horse Channel & Greshornish due to Salmonid Rickettsial Septicaemia, Amoebic Gill Disease, Heart & Skeletal Muscle Inflammation & Pasteurella Skyensis https://t.co/DqDKfxGm84 pic.twitter.com/x8HNGfyTO1

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 9, 2022

 

 

 

 

Mowi's @rspcaassured salmon farm at Ardintoul - currently being audited @ASC_aqua - reported 69,704 dead salmon with "Complex gill diseases & Salmonid Rickettsial Septicaemia". "Fish are being treated with antibiotics" says @marinescotland https://t.co/oZtlH0CRpV @ScotGovRural

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 9, 2022

 

Anyone for @rspcaassured "responsibly sourced" salmon sold @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB @AldiUK? Fresh from Loch Seaforth where 50,689 fish died of Pasteurella skyensis infection. "Fish are being medicated with antibiotics" @marinescotland @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/oZtlH0CRpV

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 10, 2022

 

Revealed: 222,575 @rspcaassured salmon have been reported dead by @MowiScotlandLtd on one salmon farm (Loch Seaforth) in 2022. "Mechanical treatment losses /Pasteurella skyensis infection" reports @marinescotland "Fish are being medicated with antibiotics" @sainsburys @Tesco pic.twitter.com/U5TtnLESUQ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 10, 2022

 

RSPCA sponsored welfare abuse: 136,339 dead salmon at Ardintoul in 2022 @MowiScotlandLtd @rspcaassured
"Salmonid Rickettsial Septicaemia confirmed on site & treated with antibiotics". Hydrogen Peroxide dousing "aborted following increased mortalities" https://t.co/oZtlH0CRpV

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 10, 2022

 

 

Last month (27 February 2022), Scamon Scotland reported on Mowi's mammoth increase in the use of antibiotics.

 

Mowi's drug addiction is in the class of Amy Winehouse! "They tried to make me go to Rehab, But I said no, no, no" @MowiScotlandLtd @ScotlandSalmon @Folketrygdfond @ScottishEPA @vmdgovuk
Boycott pharmed salmon! https://t.co/ZkLRz68zys pic.twitter.com/6zWdkYxB2y

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 28, 2022

 

"Scottish salmon is a hopeless drug addict that surely belongs on the floor with the Trainspotting junkies not welcomed into your kitchen & served as ‘healthy’ food. Norwegian giant Mowi should check itself into rehab to curb their drug dependency" https://t.co/T3qavQYEUR pic.twitter.com/irjTlZ6EFq

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 27, 2022

 

 

 

 

In April 2021, Salmon Scotland's chief executive Tavish Scott denied that farmed salmon were dying of infectious diseases:

 

Lobbyist for 'Scottish' Salmon Caught Telling Pack of Lies on BBC Scotland! https://t.co/L0V3L4ubNu @tavishscott @SSPOsays @mmgeissler @BBCScotNine @marinescotland @salmon_scottish @seaspiracy
Maybe Tavish Scott should just stop talking bollocks? pic.twitter.com/Kz2vNM0NvE

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 7, 2021

 

 

MILLIONS of farmed salmon are dying from lice infestations, chlamydia, heart disease, anaemia etc.

The CEO of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation @SSPOsays, Mr @TavishScott says it's a

"Pack of lies".

Make up you own mind who's the LIAR here. pic.twitter.com/C0T1aId4pn

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) April 19, 2021

 

 

 

Even faced with the facts - including data published by the Scottish Government sourced from returns submitted by salmon farming companies - Tavish Scott struggles to grasp the lethal reality of salmon farming in Scotland. 

 

 

Mortalities at disease-ridden 'Scottish' salmon farms are piling up higher than Tavish Scott's bullshit! https://t.co/tBz56oIRHK
Since last April's denial @tavishscott @BBCScotNine that salmon were dying of infectious diseases https://t.co/LKYZtFDWmP over 8 million have died! pic.twitter.com/zfzAzuyJPn

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 21, 2022

 

 

"I don't recognise your figure (26% mortality)" says @tavishscott to @joe_crowley @BBCCountryfile https://t.co/orFCNlIgG7
Even Mr Magoo would recognise the fact that over a quarter of all Scottish salmon are dying in just the sea-phase of production! @marinescotland @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/OwDboVoqgA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 7, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - over 8 million morts reported last year & over half a million in first two weeks of 2022!!

Over 80% Mortality at The Scottish Salmon Company!!!

ASC-Certified/Audited Mass Mortalities Pile Up at Lousy Mowi & Scottish Sea Farms!

New Mortality Data for Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon - 700,000+ in the first two weeks of December!

Dead in the Water - Scottish Salmon's Mortality Mountain Piles Ever Higher in 2021!

Mass Mortalities - 66% in one month at The Scottish Salmon Company on the Isle of Gigha!

Lousy 'Scottish' Salmon - the most lice-infested salmon farms named & shamed!

Irresponsible Scottish Salmon Exposed: 'Scotland's Aquaculture' Publishes Data on Toxic Chemicals Use, Morts & Biomass Breaches

STV News: "Thousands of rotting salmon ‘stink out’ village after mass death at farm"

X-Rated Video: 90% Mortality at The Faroese/Norwegian 'Scottish' Salmon Company?!

Video Nasties of Dead Farmed Salmon Pile Up All Over the World!

Videos of Mort Disposal by The Scottish Salmon Company - like a serial killer disposing of dead bodies before the police arrive!

Demand for moratorium on new fish farms after mortality rates revealed

"The shocking death rates on Scotland's salmon farms revealed"

2020: The Year of Diseased Scottish Salmon - 27,000 Tonnes of Dead Fish, the Worst On Record!

Stop the Scottish Salmondemic - please avoid disease-ridden farmed salmon like the proverbial plague!

Taking the Fish - Illegal Salmon Dump Caught Taking Diseased Fish from the Mainland Despite 'Derogation'!

FOI Lifts Lid on the Stench of Scottish Salmon: Government Legal Department Target Illegal Dumping of Diseased Salmon

The Times: "Fish graveyard ‘severely hampers’ life for islanders, officials claim"

Update: Mortality Rate Over 36% At RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon!

Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon 

Update: 25 Million Mass Mortalities on Scottish Salmon Farms

52 million deaths in Norway - how many millions died on Scottish salmon farms in 2020?

The Case Against Scottish Salmon - An Update on Diseases & Mass Mortalities!

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

Mass Mortalities Continue to Plague Scottish Salmon

Alexa, how many salmon die each year on Scottish salmon farms? 42 million* (but we don't know for sure as the answer is deemed "commercially damaging")!

Over One Million Morts for Scottish Salmon in September 2020!

Survival of the Unhealthiest Scottish Salmon - New data reveals shocking mortality rates!

Dead in the Water - New Data Reveals Mass Mortalities & Disease on Scottish Salmon Farms

The Ferret: "Farmed salmon deaths from disease reach record high"

The Killing Farms - Scottish Salmon's Horror Story Continues!

Solving Scottish Salmon's Multi-Million Mortality Problem

 

 

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - 8m morts reported last year & half a million in first two weeks of 2022!! https://t.co/tBz56oIRHK @ScotlandSalmon @tavishscott
Anyone for yummy "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon? @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation pic.twitter.com/K8cU8Bo64Y

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 18, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alexa, how many salmon die each year on Scottish salmon farms? 42 million* https://t.co/jRQzhheju6
Sadly we don't know for sure as the answer is deemed "commercially damaging" by @sspo!
Will @ScottishEPA & @marinescotland force disclosure? @salmon_scottish @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/fua9nkM6g3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 11, 2020

 

Charitable Warning: Mowi's Salmon Wagon is Hitting the Road Again - there's no such thing as a free farmed fish lunch!

 

We’re now accepting applications from charities interested in having the Mowi Salmon Wagon attend their event in 2022! To apply, please visit: https://t.co/juPWbLWJIk#SalmonForGood #Mowi #MowiSalmonWagon pic.twitter.com/tr0xekH3yq

— Mowi Scotland Limited (@MowiScotlandLtd) February 14, 2022

 

 

My eight year old daughter is currently is reading 'Ratburger' by David Walliams - a book which leaves you with a nasty taste in the mouth (you may have watched the movie which would have put you off dodgy burger vans for life).  

 

 

 

Warning: Mowi's Salmon Wagon hits the road this summer serving 'healthy' Scottish salmon - I'd rather eat a ratburger served by David Walliams! @davidwalliams
There's no such thing as a free lunch @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/FNwnE0L88A pic.twitter.com/CCqHHDB7xh

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 3, 2022

 

 

I can't help but thinking of 'Ratburger' when reading news of Mowi's 'Salmon Wagon' serving 'healthy' burgers to unsuspecting punters at charity events this Summer.   

 

 

Applications are open! Apply to have the Mowi Salmon Wagon at your charity event in 2022. Applications close on Monday 28th February - don’t miss out! https://t.co/juPWbLWJIk#SalmonForGood #Mowi #MowiSalmonWagon pic.twitter.com/mpjBG3fu14

— Mowi Scotland Limited (@MowiScotlandLtd) February 1, 2022

 

 

𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 2022 | We are excited to start making plans to have the Salmon Wagon back on the road for 2022. 🍣

Applications go live during February – sign up here https://t.co/UCM90eUDmk pic.twitter.com/ChDjL4TfY8

— Mowi Scotland Limited (@MowiScotlandLtd) January 14, 2022

 

 

Scottish Ministers Kate Forbes and Fergus Ewing were famously pictured in 2019 promoting disease-ridden Mowi salmon. 

 

 

 

 

The photo of Fergus Ewing tucking into Mowi salmon at the Lochaber Show (pictured with Kate Forbes MSP, another Scottish Minister busy prom0ting Norwegian-owned 'Scottish' salmon) brought back memories of John Gummer (then the UK Minister of Agriculture) feeding his daughter a bite of British beef at the height of the BSE scandal. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's no denying the money raised by Mowi's 'Salmon Wagon' for charity.

 

 

 

 

As Smashey and Nicey would say: "It's for charity, mate"!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's also no denying the wonderful publicity the 'Salmon Wagon' generates for disease-ridden Mowi.

 

 

 

Mowi's 'Salmon Wagon' hits the road to donate loadsa $almoney to charities - this time next year they'll be millionaires! https://t.co/FNwnE12J08 @MowiScotlandLtd @AST_Salmon @FoundationScot @fms_scotland @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/n5PYaqhFR9

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 3, 2022

 

 

Sadly, applications by charities for the use of Mowi's 'Salmon Wagon' have now closed - applicants will be notifed by 25 March if they've been 'successful'.   If charities are still on the look out for a burger van, David Walliams can be contacted via his agent online here - the Ratburger van may well be available for your event.  I'd rather eat a ratbuger than one of Mowi's salmon burgers!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scamon Scotland is also looking into hiring a van to take on the road this Summer and is hoping that Del Boy Trotter's old van will be available to tour Scotland. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last month (18 February 2022), Scamon Scotland reported that Mowi was experiencing huge disease and mortality problems:

 

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - 8m morts reported last year & half a million in first two weeks of 2022!! https://t.co/tBz56oIRHK @ScotlandSalmon @tavishscott
Anyone for yummy "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon? @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation pic.twitter.com/K8cU8Bo64Y

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 18, 2022

 

 

 

According to the Fish Health Inspectorate data published on 7 February 2022, Norwegian giant Mowi has reported 3.1 million mortalities since 1 January 2021 (data up to mid-January 2022) via 184 'Mortality Event Reports' - here's the biggest mass mortalities in sea cages or freshwater cages headed by over 100,000 dead salmon at Grey Horse Channel Outer in North Uist:

 

 

 

 

Revealed: 222,575 @rspcaassured salmon have been reported dead by @MowiScotlandLtd on one salmon farm (Loch Seaforth) in 2022. "Mechanical treatment losses /Pasteurella skyensis infection" reports @marinescotland "Fish are being medicated with antibiotics" @sainsburys @Tesco pic.twitter.com/U5TtnLESUQ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 10, 2022

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in January 2022:

 

All sorts of problems in Loch Erisort for @rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd! Data published @marinescotland reveals 117,414 dead lumpfish (49% mortality), lice infestation, Heart & Skeletal Muscle Inflammation, Yersinia (Black Death) & Cardiomyopathy syndrome https://t.co/DYF8JPYEoO pic.twitter.com/29ttoKeebH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 12, 2022

 

EXPOSED: Mowi's ASC-certified salmon farm off the Isle of Rum experienced 160,000 morts with anaemic "fish bleeding out during lice counts" in a four week period in Sept/Oct 2021 @marinescotland - how can @ASC_aqua still certify @MowiScotlandLtd as "farmed responsibly"? pic.twitter.com/GIaw6leVuh

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 11, 2022

 

 

 

In August 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch reported:

 

Mowi's Mortality Nigthmare - Farmed Salmon Is Dead in the Water https://t.co/psbmcoVanz
New data reveals 234,000 dead salmon in June with 118,000 dead due to "lack of oxygen" at Mowi's @rspcaassured Inchmore hatchery @MowiScotlandLtd @APHAgovuk @marinescotland @SSPOsays #Salmon pic.twitter.com/XurlBSPGqc

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 31, 2021

 

 

 

 

In July 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch exposed the lice-infested nature of Mowi's Scottish salmon:

 

 

 

 

Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Mowi - Campaigners call for Mowi to be fined & RSPCA certification rescinded! https://t.co/dhVFllDjXX@rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd @marinescotland @APHAgovuk @MairiGougeon @SSPCA_Kirsteen pic.twitter.com/jzo2fi13xK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2021

The mother of all salmon splashes in today's Mail on Sunday - beauty and the beast! https://t.co/oKrvmkUNAx @EmiliaClarkeTM @emiliaclarke @GameOfThrones @MowiScotlandLtd @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/xyubBSQAFC

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 25, 2021

 

 

Millions around the world have watched 'Seaspiracy' on Netflix which quite literally lifts the lid on Mowi's disease-ridden salmon (but don't worry, it's certified as welfare-friendly by RSPCA Assured and "farmed responsibly" by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council):

 

Norwegian salmon giant Mowi has reacted to Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' by publishing videos claiming to show healthy farmed salmon at their @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua salmon farm in Loch Linnhe which featured in @seaspiracy @ScotlandMowi @SSPOsays @iamalitabrizi https://t.co/DXJ6gnAUgl pic.twitter.com/Xf0W4GGlQg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 16, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In November 2021, France 5 broadcast shocking video footage of lice-infested Mowi salmon:

 

Video of French TV's 'The Truth About Salmon' featuring Mowi & The Scottish Salmon Company https://t.co/PIwqhztqhu @France5tv @hugoclement @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @ScotlandSalmon @Folketrygdfond @Try_Lochlander @waitrose @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB @AldiUK @SaumonLabel pic.twitter.com/u16uaGZ97K

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 21, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

And if you love your pharmed salmon with a side order of antibiotics, then you're in luck.  The Sunday National and The Ferret reported last week (27 February 2022):

 

Today's Sunday National & The Ferret report on how the use of drugs at fish farms has leapt 50 times in six years! @ScotNational @FerretScot @robedwards53 https://t.co/H2a3KO0y1H @MowiScotlandLtd @ScotlandSalmon @scotseafarms @marinescotland @ScottishEPA @vmdgovuk @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/m54c8jesPQ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 27, 2022

 

 

 

 

Scamon Scotland reported (27 February 2022):

 

"Scottish salmon is a hopeless drug addict that surely belongs on the floor with the Trainspotting junkies not welcomed into your kitchen & served as ‘healthy’ food. Norwegian giant Mowi should check itself into rehab to curb their drug dependency" https://t.co/T3qavQYEUR pic.twitter.com/irjTlZ6EFq

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 27, 2022

 

 

 

A media backgrounder (27 February 2022) included:

 

 

Mowi's drug addiction is in the class of Amy Winehouse! "They tried to make me go to Rehab, But I said no, no, no" @MowiScotlandLtd @ScotlandSalmon @Folketrygdfond @ScottishEPA @vmdgovuk
Boycott pharmed salmon! https://t.co/ZkLRz68zys pic.twitter.com/6zWdkYxB2y

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 28, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Certification of @MowiScotlandLtd salmon farms has been cancelled @ASC_aqua "Carradale was cancelled due to an escape event; Cairidh due to administrative reasons; Maol Ban & Sconser Quarry because they were projected to exceed the permitted antibiotic treatments number" pic.twitter.com/byKk6EYukC

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in January 2022:

 

Revealed: Mowi's toxic salmon - farms currently being audited @ASC_aqua as "responsibly farmed" have reported over a dozen doses of lobster-killing Deltamethrin, Azamethiphos & Emamectin benzoate since 2019! @MowiScotlandLtd @rspcaassured @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/cxEj1GFxlh pic.twitter.com/My2mwNlmBg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Media Backgrounder: "Mowi's Increasing Disease Problems Drives Increases in Antibiotic Use"

Mowi's "Woes in Scotland" - Disease & Deaths Cause £5.6 Million Losses!

The Worst Salmon Toilets in Scotland (even worse than Trainspotting)!

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - over 8 million morts reported last year & over half a million in first two weeks of 2022!!

Kick-Ass New Campaign: "Mowi is Madness, Mowi is Badness" (Save the Date - May 4th)

ASC-Certified/Audited Mass Mortalities Pile Up at Lousy Mowi & Scottish Sea Farms!

Lice-Infested RSPCA Assured Mowi Salmon - all sorts of problems in Loch Erisort!

Mowi's 'Host' With the Most....Toxic Chemicals & Antibiotics (certified as "responsibly farmed" by the ASC)!

Mass mortalities at ASC-certified Mowi!

Gotcha: Mowi's "Responsibly Farmed" Scottish Salmon Caught in Advertising Standards Net!

Video of France 5s 'The Truth About Salmon' featuring Mowi & The Scottish Salmon Company

Video: Please Boycott RSPCA Assured Mowi Salmon - avoid the lice-infested welfare nightmare like the proverbial plague!

Mowi's Mortality Nigthmare - Farmed Salmon is Dead in the Water!

Mail on Sunday: "Revealed, the nauseating underbelly of Scotland's £1 billion salmon farms: fish eaten alive by lice, awash with faeces, dead salmon left to rot"

The Times: "Fish farm investigation after video shows salmon riddled with lice"

Press Release: "Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Mowi - Campaigners call for Mowi to be fined & RSPCA certification rescinded"

Video/Photo Exclusive: Mowi's RSPCA Assured Welfare Nightmare - complaints filed for breaches of welfare laws

Ministers Gorge on Scottish Salmon à la John Gummer

 

 

Mowi's "responsibly farmed" Scottish salmon sold by @tesco & @sainsburys is subject of a complaint filed by campaigners with advertising & trading standards @ASA_UK @CMAgovUK @TSScot @SSC_seafood https://t.co/XjkuDA7WsB
Scottish salmon is irresponsibly farmed! @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/PzmQeFu5D3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 22, 2021

 

 

Meet the team behind Mowi's disease-ridden pharmed salmon https://t.co/pFRNRc8fu4 "Our ethos rests on the belief that we can sustainably and responsibly produce healthy, nutritious and affordable food, now and for future generations" @MowiScotlandLtd #Bollocks #Bullshit #Scamon pic.twitter.com/ZtZtiH3jHt

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 17, 2021

 

Video nasty of the dead zone under a salmon farm in Iceland!

 

Video nasty of the dead zone under a salmon farm in Iceland https://t.co/XoQpJ7BWi6 via @stundin@forsaetisradun @MFAIceland @katrinjak
Please boycott farmed salmon!

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 1, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch video footage under salmon farms in Scotland and Norway here:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ferret/Sunday National: "Use of Drugs At Fish Farms Rises 50 Times in Six Years"

 

 

Today's Sunday National & The Ferret report on how the use of drugs at fish farms has leapt 50 times in six years! @ScotNational @FerretScot @robedwards53 https://t.co/H2a3KO0y1H @MowiScotlandLtd @ScotlandSalmon @scotseafarms @marinescotland @ScottishEPA @vmdgovuk @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/m54c8jesPQ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 27, 2022

 

 

The Sunday National/Ferret reported (27 February 2022):

 

 

 

 

 

Read article in full via The Ferret online here

 

 

 

Antibiotics given to caged salmon to combat diseases at over 50 farms around Argyll, the highlands and islands have risen from 147 kilograms in 2016 to 7,476 kilograms in 2021. https://t.co/adsjFAdW5Y

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) February 27, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a follow-up letter published by The Sunday National (6 March 2022):

 

 

 

"Fundamentally, anyone who confines a sea-going animal in a cage, treats them with chemicals, causes them stress through various procedures and interventions, has lost the caring argument" https://t.co/5QukVYdbwD @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @ciwf @onekindtweet @peta

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 7, 2022

 

 

 

Read more via:

Drug Addict Alert: Scottish Salmon's Fifty-Fold Increase in Antibiotics Since 2016!

Media Backgrounder: "Mowi's Increasing Disease Problems Drives Increases in Antibiotic Use"

Toxic Scottish Salmon - Chemical Use Doubles Since 2018!

Slicegate: How SEPA Opened the Floodgates to Toxic Scottish Salmon (Following Intense Lobbying from the Salmafia)!

Salmon Pharming's 'Silent Spring' of the Sea

Fury as fish farm pesticide pollution rises 72% in a year

Public Register of Toxic Chemicals Used in Scottish Salmon Farming?

Toxic Scottish salmon

Sunday Times: "Outlawed insecticide may be used on Scottish salmon"

Anyone for ASC-Certified Scottish Salmon Doused in Carcinogenic Formaldehyde?

The Ferret: "Toxic fish farm pesticide polluted ten lochs across Scotland"

REVEALED: Carcinogenic Chemical Formaldehyde Flooding Scottish Lochs

More toxic pesticides to be used by salmon farmers

Under the Cloak of Coronavirus: SEPA open the floodgates to lobster-killing chemicals!

Sunday Times: "Chemical fears at Scots fish farms"

Scottish fish farms using cancer-linked embalming fluid as disinfectant

Salmon farming giant Mowi probed over chemical use

Mapped: the 45 lochs polluted by fish farm pesticides

The Sunday Times: "Salmon industry toxins soar by 1000 per cent"

Scottish Salmon's Lethal Legacy - Ten-fold Increase in Toxic Chemical Use in Ten Years

Scientific Backgrounder: Ecotoxicity & Chemical Resistance

Media Backgrounder: Scotland's 'Silent Spring' of the Sea

Daily Mail: "The toxic chemicals in farmed salmon straight from the loch"

Scottish fish farmers use record amounts of parasite pesticides

 

 

 

 

 

"Scottish salmon is a hopeless drug addict that surely belongs on the floor with the Trainspotting junkies not welcomed into your kitchen & served as ‘healthy’ food. Norwegian giant Mowi should check itself into rehab to curb their drug dependency" https://t.co/T3qavQYEUR pic.twitter.com/irjTlZ6EFq

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 27, 2022

 

 

 

 

Drug Addict Alert: Scottish Salmon's Fifty-Fold Increase in Antibiotics Since 2016!

 

"Scottish salmon is a hopeless drug addict that surely belongs on the floor with the Trainspotting junkies not welcomed into your kitchen & served as ‘healthy’ food. Norwegian giant Mowi should check itself into rehab to curb their drug dependency" https://t.co/T3qavQYEUR pic.twitter.com/irjTlZ6EFq

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 27, 2022

 

 

 

Download press release and media backgrounder dated 27 February 2022 in full online here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Download press release and media backgrounder in full online here

Download SEPA's FOI disclosure dated 10 February 2022 online here (Excel)

Download SEPA's covering letter dated 10 February 2022 online here

 

 

 

Salmon pharms in Scotland used 7,476 kg of antibiotics (Florfenicol & Oxytetracycline) in 2021 - that's a shocking 51-fold increase since 2016 according to a FOI disclosure! @ScottishEPA https://t.co/T3qavQYEUR
Please boycott Scottish pharmed salmon! @sainsburys @Tesco @AldiUK pic.twitter.com/O9hhgLpUbk

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 28, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported last month (6 January 2022):

 

Please boycott Scottish salmon certified as "farmed responsibly" @ASC_aqua
Mowi's "responsibly farmed" @rspcaassured Scottish salmon sold @sainsburys & @Tesco uses a cocktail of toxic chemicals - it should be labelled as "farmed irresponsibly"! @ASA_UK https://t.co/cxEj1GFxlh pic.twitter.com/asBtEY7mMy

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

 

Here's the largest users of Aquatet (Oxytetracycline) between 2015 and 2019 - the list is dominated by Marine Harvest/Mowi (Marine Harvest changed their name to Mowi on 1 January 2019 due to "negative consumer perception") who is responsible for 22 out of the 23 doses:

 

 

 

Here's the largest users of Florocol (Florfenicol) between 2015 and 2019 - with Marine Harvest/Mowi responsible for 39 of the 71 reported doses followed by Grieg Seafood (15), Cooke (12), Kames (4) and Loch Duart (1).  By far the biggest dose of Florfenicol was by Mowi in Loch Duich - a Special Area of Conservation and a contentious site which Mowi claimed in 2019 would be closed down and a site which is currently being audited for ASC certification!

 

 

 

Read more on Scottish salmon's drugs addiction via "Toxic Scottish Salmon - Chemical Use Doubles Since 2018!" and "Salmon Pharming's 'Silent Spring' of the Sea"

 

 

 

Whilst salmon farmers in Scotland are using more and more antibiotics, the trade press still blindly ignores Scottish salmon's drugs addiction.  Fish Farmer reported on 31 December 2021:

 

 

 

 

Thankfully, some trade press outlets are not afraid to report the bitter truth about all the pills being taken by Scottish salmon (and cleaner fish).  The Fish Site reported (9 December 2021):

 

Antibiotics use in Scottish farmed salmon doubles @thefishsite https://t.co/aaJkhBU2FY @ScotlandSalmon @vmdgovuk @MowiScotlandLtd @GriegShetland @PFreeScotland @PAN_UK @SeafoodWatch @ScotGovNetZero

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 9, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported (9 December 2021):

 

Antibiotic use doubles on Scottish salmon farms in a year! 5.6 tonnes of Oxytetracycline & Florfenicol used in 2020 according to @vmdgovuk report published in November 2021 @ScotlandSalmon
Just say no to drugs, say no to Scottish pharmed salmon! @MowiScotlandLtd @GriegShetland pic.twitter.com/X4vB8A35GR

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 9, 2021

 

 

A Freedom of Information request disclosed by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (F0192000) reveals increasing use of antibiotics on marine salmon farms in Scotland spearheaded by Norwegian giant Mowi.  Between 2015 and 2019 the use of Aquatet (Oxytetracycline) and Florocol (Florfenicol) increased 14-fold from 144kg to 2084kg (that's 2.1 tonnes)! 

 

Antibiotic use on marine salmon farms in Scotland leapt like a disease-ridden fish from 144kg in 2015 to 2084kg in 2019. That's a 14-fold increase in 5 years with 2.1 tonnes of Oxytetracycline and Florfenicol used in 2019. Data obtained from @ScottishEPA by @SeafoodWatch pic.twitter.com/WsOJ8CVIJK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 9, 2021

 

 

 

Here's the data for 2015 to 2019 presented in Seafood Watch's report on salmon farming in Scotland published on 6 December 2021:

 

 

Site specific data for 2020 and 2021 is not yet available (a cyber-attack on SEPA last year impacted operations) but the UK Veterinary Antibiotic Resistance and Sales Surveillance Report published in November 2021 (p49-51) details increasing use of antibiotics on salmon farms during 2020 (the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation - renamed Salmon Scotland on 1 November 2021 - claimed that the use of antibiotics decreased in the freshwater phase of production whilst conceding an increase in the use of antibiotics on marine salmon farms):

 

 

 

Seafood Watch's report on samon farming in Scotland (6 December 2021) - which ranked Scottish salmon farming regions (Western Isles, Southwest & Northwest) as the worst in the world - included:

 

 

 

The data presented by Seafood Watch - and disclosed by SEPA via F0192000 - does not include use of antibiotics in salmon hatcheries.   For example, a Fish Health Inspectorate report for January 2020 detailed disease problems ("likely Flavobacterium" - the causative agent of Bacterial Cold Water Disease) at Landcatch's Ormsary Smolt Unit including use of the antibiotic Florfenicol (Floricol), the antimicrobial Bronopol (Cress) and the carcinogenic chemical Formalin.

 

 

 

Anyone for disease-ridden Scottish salmon fresh from Landcatch marinaded in antibiotic & cancer-causing Formalin? https://t.co/rSvO6Hz6V7 @HGSalmonUK @salmon_scottish New 'Case Information' published today @marinescotland The horror of #Scottish #Salmon @ciwf @PETAUK @APHAgovuk pic.twitter.com/NWDVRGdb4Y

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 6, 2020

 

 

Carcinogenic chemical Formalin used "twice a week" @HGSalmonUK Ormsary Hatchery along with antibiotic Florocol. "Lesions" & "Fungus" with Flavobacterium & Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis virus. 54,629 mortalities reported @marinescotland due to "shock morts" & "deformities". pic.twitter.com/llYriEi2R7

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 6, 2020

 

 

 

Salmon Scotland report on their website:

 

 

 

The Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture reported in February 2017:

 

 

Download the press release in full as a PDF online here

 

 

 

The Press & Journal reported (20 February 2017):

 

 

 

 

Information disclosed by the Scottish Government in March 2017 via Freedom of Information (FoI/17/00293) detail use of antibiotics on cleaner fish:

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported in February 2017 that the increase in antibiotics in Norwegian salmon farming was driven by cleaner fish:

 

 

 

Read more via:

The Ferret/Sunday National: "Use of Drugs At Fish Farms Rises 50 Times in Six Years"

Media Backgrounder: "Mowi's Increasing Disease Problems Drives Increases in Antibiotic Use"

Toxic Scottish Salmon - Chemical Use Doubles Since 2018!

Slicegate: How SEPA Opened the Floodgates to Toxic Scottish Salmon (Following Intense Lobbying from the Salmafia)!

Mowi's 'Host' With the Most....Toxic Chemicals & Antibiotics (certified as "responsibly farmed" by the ASC)!

"Antibiotics use in Scottish farmed salmon doubles" (The Fish Site)

Named & Shamed: Increasing Antibiotic Use by Salmon Pharms in Scotland - just say no to drugs, say no to Scottish salmon!

Antibiotic-ridden Scottish salmon

 

 

 

Download the press release in full as a PDF online here

Media Backgrounder: "Mowi's Increasing Disease Problems Drives Increases in Antibiotic Use"

 

Mowi's drug addiction is in the class of Amy Winehouse! "They tried to make me go to Rehab, But I said no, no, no" @MowiScotlandLtd @ScotlandSalmon @Folketrygdfond @ScottishEPA @vmdgovuk
Boycott pharmed salmon! https://t.co/ZkLRz68zys pic.twitter.com/6zWdkYxB2y

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 28, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First official photos of lumpfish on salmon farms published by @marinescotland Infected with Aeromonas salmonicida (Furunculosis), Vibrio & Shewanella @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/qr0tO3BMVR 17,000 dead leading to treatment with antibiotic (Aquatet/Oxytetracycline) @APHAgovuk pic.twitter.com/nYXDBnWfkx

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 27, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Certification of @MowiScotlandLtd salmon farms has been cancelled @ASC_aqua "Carradale was cancelled due to an escape event; Cairidh due to administrative reasons; Maol Ban & Sconser Quarry because they were projected to exceed the permitted antibiotic treatments number" pic.twitter.com/byKk6EYukC

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

 

 

 

Today's press release also includes:

 

 

 

Download media backgrounder and press release in full online here

 

 

"Scottish salmon is a hopeless drug addict that surely belongs on the floor with the Trainspotting junkies not welcomed into your kitchen & served as ‘healthy’ food. Norwegian giant Mowi should check itself into rehab to curb their drug dependency" https://t.co/T3qavQYEUR pic.twitter.com/irjTlZ6EFq

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 27, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more on Scottish salmon's drugs addiction via:

The Ferret/Sunday National: "Use of Drugs At Fish Farms Rises 50 Times in Six Years"

Drug Addict Alert: Scottish Salmon's Fifty-Fold Increase in Antibiotics Since 2016!

Mowi's "Woes in Scotland" - Disease & Deaths Cause £5.6 Million Losses!

Kick-Ass New Campaign: "Mowi is Madness, Mowi is Badness" (Save the Date - May 4th)

Bullshit Called on Mowi's "Sustainability" Claims!

Mowi's Pure Bullshit (#1 in a regular series): "hardly any chemical treatments at all"

Toxic Scottish Salmon - Chemical Use Doubles Since 2018!

Mowi's 'Host' With the Most....Toxic Chemicals & Antibiotics (certified as "responsibly farmed" by the ASC)!

ASC cancel Mowi certifications due to exceedances of antibiotics use, escape & "administrative reasons"!

Slicegate: How SEPA Opened the Floodgates to Toxic Scottish Salmon (Following Intense Lobbying from the Salmafia)!

Salmon Pharming's 'Silent Spring' of the Sea

Fury as fish farm pesticide pollution rises 72% in a year

Public Register of Toxic Chemicals Used in Scottish Salmon Farming?

Toxic Scottish salmon

Sunday Times: "Outlawed insecticide may be used on Scottish salmon"

Anyone for ASC-Certified Scottish Salmon Doused in Carcinogenic Formaldehyde?

The Ferret: "Toxic fish farm pesticide polluted ten lochs across Scotland"

REVEALED: Carcinogenic Chemical Formaldehyde Flooding Scottish Lochs

More toxic pesticides to be used by salmon farmers

Under the Cloak of Coronavirus: SEPA open the floodgates to lobster-killing chemicals!

Sunday Times: "Chemical fears at Scots fish farms"

Scottish fish farms using cancer-linked embalming fluid as disinfectant

Salmon farming giant Mowi probed over chemical use

Mapped: the 45 lochs polluted by fish farm pesticides

The Sunday Times: "Salmon industry toxins soar by 1000 per cent"

Scottish Salmon's Lethal Legacy - Ten-fold Increase in Toxic Chemical Use in Ten Years

Scientific Backgrounder: Ecotoxicity & Chemical Resistance

Media Backgrounder: Scotland's 'Silent Spring' of the Sea

Daily Mail: "The toxic chemicals in farmed salmon straight from the loch"

Scottish fish farmers use record amounts of parasite pesticides

 

 

 

Organic Scamon - The Soil Association's List of Shame!

 

Organic Scamon - The Soil Association's List of Shame! https://t.co/1IVXbipCco @SoilAssociation @SoilAssocScot @MowiScotlandLtd @CookeScotland
Find out which salmon farms are being greenwashed as "organic" - shame on the Soil Association for watering down their principles! pic.twitter.com/zUninjDAYy

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 24, 2022

 

 

Organic Scamon – the List of Shame!

- Soil Association Certified Salmon Farms & Salmon Farming Businesses (as of 23/3/2022) 

Note that this list is sourced from the Soil Association’s ‘Organic Certificate Checker’ and may not be a complete list (the Soil Association has so far refused to provide a full list) - download as a PDF online here

 

 

Soil Association Producer Aquaculture On Growing Sites: 

- Marine Salmon Farms: 

Mowi Scotland Limited - Invasion Bay (Loch Sunart)

Mowi Scotland Limited – Leven (Callert)

Mowi Scotland Limited - Loch Harport (Portnalong)

Mowi Scotland Limited – Sconser (Isle of Skye)

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland - Bay of Holland (Orkney)

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland - East of Skelwick (Orkney)

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland – Hoy (Orkney)

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland - Mill Bay (Orkney)

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland - South Cava (Orkney)

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland – Turness (Orkney)

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland Ltd - Bay of Vady (Orkney)

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland Ltd – Westray

Organic Sea Harvest Ltd – Culnacnoc (Skye)

Organic Sea Harvest Ltd – Invertote (Skye)

Rysa Salmon Farm* – Lyness (Hoy, Orkney)

* unclear if it is a freshwater or a marine salmon farm (it looks like a marine site)

 

- Freshwater Salmon Farms:

Mowi Scotland Limited - Loch Arkaig (Lochaber)

Mowi Scotland Limited - Loch Garry (Lochaber)

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland - Loch Garasdale (Argyll)

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland - Loch Shin (Sutherland)

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland Ltd - Quoys Hatchery (Orkney)

 

EU Producer Aquaculture On Growing Sites: 

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland – Turness (Orkney)

 

Soil Association Producer Aquaculture Hatcheries: 

Mowi Scotland Limited - Inverpolly Hatchery (Sutherland)

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland - Cairndow Hatchery (Argyll)

Highland Salmon Company Ltd - Wester Fearn Fish Farm (Ardgay, Ross-shire)

 

Soil Association: Feed Processor: 

Mowi Scotland Ltd (Mowi Feed Plant, Kyleakin)

 

Soil Association Food Processor:  

Mowi Scotland Ltd - Blar Mhor (Fort William)

Mowi Scotland Ltd - Registered Head Office (Rosyth)

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland - Yell Packing Station (Shetland)

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland Ltd - Orkney Packing Station (Kirkwall)

Aquascot Ltd (Alness, Ross and Cromarty)

Scottish Sea Farms Ltd (South Shian, Argyll)

Loch Duart Ltd (Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty)

Organic Sea Harvest Sales Ltd – Invergordon (Ross and Cromarty)

SB Smoked Salmon Ltd Trading as Smokin Brothers - Daylesford Organic (Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire)

St James Salmon Farms & Smokehouse Ltd – Annan (Dumfries & Galloway)

 

French AB Logo:

Mowi Scotland Ltd - Blar Mhor (Fort William)

Mowi Scotland Ltd - Registered Head Office (Rosyth)

 

EU Organic Wholesaler: 

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland Ltd – Sales (Belshill, Strathclyde)

 

EU Organic Processor:

Aquascot Ltd (Alness, Ross and Cromarty)

 

 

 

 

 

Download a list of the salmon farms (including marine and freshwater), hatcheries, processing plants and salmon farming companies certified as "organic" by the Soil Association (as of 23 February 2022) online here

 

 

 

 

The supplier list does not specify salmon farms which may have had their 'organic' certification status suspended, withdrawn or cancelled (unlike the Aquaculture Stewardship Council which provides this information online - including Mowi certifications cancelled due to exceedances of antibiotics use, escape & "administrative reasons"). 

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Which salmon farms have had their 'organic' certification suspended, withdrawn or cancelled? @SoilAssociation @SoilAssocScot
Did lice infestation at Mowi's Loch Harport salmon farm lead to 'organic' status being pulled? @MowiScotlandLtd @SalmonTroutCons https://t.co/1IVXbipCco https://t.co/AF3VqSKzBO pic.twitter.com/TElwGMaXUr

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 24, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Note that you need the name of the company or farm to use the search function so unless you know the names of all the companies farming salmon 'organically' then some sites may slip through the net.  If you search for the following companies here's what comes up via the 'Organic Certificate Checker':

 

 

The public can make a 'supplier list request' via an online form but it requires signing a waiver including: "1. The List supplied will be used only once and will not be copied or re-mailed without express permission. 2. The list will be used for this request only and only for the purpose specified. 3. The list will not be passed onto third parties".  And the Soil Association points out: "Please be aware, due to the ongoing changing nature of the data we hold, the list supplied may not be completely exhaustive".

 

 

 

 

Last week (16 February 2022), Scamon Scotland requested a list of all salmon farms certified as "organic" from the Soil Association following a complaint filed with Trading Standards against Soil Association-certified 'organic' salmon sold by Ocado and Sainsbury's:

 

"Complaints against ‘organic’ Scottish salmon will only increase as the industry – especially Norwegian behemoth Mowi – target increased production of ‘organic’ salmon in a desperate attempt to greenwash their toxic business" https://t.co/DZVQ9cEB83@SoilAssociation @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/XaYmcY4H20

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 16, 2022

 

 

From: Ian Ayling <iayling@soilassociation.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022, 15:34
Subject: RE: Complaint vs Soil Association certified 'organic' Scottish salmon sold by Ocado & Sainsbury's
To: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>

Hello Don

Thank you for drawing this trading and advertising standards complaint to our attention

I noted that you are keen to get a list of Soil Association certified salmon farms in Scotland

If you can click through this link and complete your request then we have a way to share this information with you

https://www.soilassociation.org/certification/find-a-licensee/organic-certificate-checker/

We both know we don’t agree with each other on the level of change that you want to see in farming salmon. We remain committed to working hard to make the practices the best they can be

Kind regards

Ian

 

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Sent: 16 February 2022 12:28
To: Ian Ayling <iayling@soilassociation.org>
Cc: Helen Browning <HBrowning@soilassociation.org>; Soil Association Certification <cert@soilassociation.org>; Contact <contact@soilassociation.org>
Subject: Complaint vs Soil Association certified 'organic' Scottish salmon sold by Ocado & Sainsbury's

Please note a complaint filed this morning: Complaint vs Ocado & Sainsbury's 'Organic' Scottish Salmon "Farmed Responsibly" by Mowi Filed with Trading & Advertising Standards

If you would like to provide any substantive evidence to back up the Soil Association's claims that 'organic' salmon farming is 'responsible' please feel free to pass on. 

Scamon Scotland (formerly Scottish Salmon Watch) politely asks for a list of all Soil Association certified 'organic' salmon farms in Scotland. 

Please note that 'organic' salmon farming production has trebled over the last year (2020 to 2021): Scottish 'Organic' Scamon Leaps 181% - 4,462 tonnes to 12,528 tonnes from 2019 to 2020!

Fish Farming Expert reported in December 2021:

"Mowi Scotland’s Invasion Bay farm in Loch Sunart has received organic certification from the UK Soil Association. The site is Mowi Scotland’s fourth seawater farm to attain Soil Association certification in just over a year. Its Loch Leven site gained certification towards the end of last year, and the Sconser and Harport sites on Skye were certified in March and April 2021 respectively. The company is now working on additional sites to add to the organic portfolio": https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/article/mowi-scotland-growing-organically/

Mowi's Loch Ewe salmon farm was certified by the Soil Association in 2020: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/article/first-salmon-harvested-at-mowi-scotland-organic-site/

And Fish Farming Expert reported in August 2021:

"Salmon farmer Cooke Aquaculture Scotland today announced that its newest seawater site, at Bay of Holland in Stronsay, Orkney has become its tenth site to achieve Soil Association organic certification": https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/article/cooke-scotland-unveils-10th-organic-salmon-farm/

In addition to Cooke's Bay of Holland, could you please list all the other salmon farms currently certified as 'organic' by the Soil Association?

The 'Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2020' - published by the Scottish Government on 30 September 2021 - details only nine 'organic' salmon farms:

 

As today's complaint includes: "Scamon Scotland recommends that the Soil Association withdraw from certifying salmon farms as ‘organic’".

This was Tweeted this morning via https://twitter.com/TheGAAIA/status/1493855621749391368 

If the Soil Association is going to continue to certify salmon farms as 'organic' then perhaps you should change the packaging to reflect the reality of salmon farming?

Tweeted via https://twitter.com/TheGAAIA/status/1493833997406937090/photo/1

Best fishes,

Don

 

 

Complaint filed vs @Ocado & @sainsburys for deceptive marketing of "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon with Trading Standards @CMAgovUK
Breach of the 'Green Claims Code' over marketing of @MowiScotlandLtd 'organic' salmon @SoilAssociation @SoilAssocScot https://t.co/DZVQ9cEB83 pic.twitter.com/9EvfLvCv8l

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 16, 2022

 

 

 

Today (24 February 2022), Scamon Scotland reiterated the request for a full list of all salmon farms and salmon farming businesses certified as 'organic' by the Soil Association as well asking for information on salmon farms which have had their 'organic' certification cancelled or withdrawn:

 

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 9:27 AM
Subject: Full list of salmon farms certified as 'organic' by the Soil Association?
To: Ian Ayling <iayling@soilassociation.org>
Cc: Helen Browning <HBrowning@soilassociation.org>, <cert@soilassociation.org>, <contact@soilassociation.org>

To reiterate: Is it possible to have a full list of all salmon farms currently certified by the Soil Association?

 

Scamon Scotland has produced a list of Soil Association certified salmon farming facilities (as of 23 February 2022) online here and published it via a blog:

 

Organic Scamon - The Soil Association's List of Shame!

 

However, since you need the name of the company or the site to search the Soil Association's 'Organic Certificate Checker' it is impossible to be sure that all sites have been included.  Could you please provide a full list of salmon farms certified by the Soil Association as 'organic'?

 

Secondly, could you please also indicate if the sites are marine or freshwater (they are all currently grouped together as 'Aquaculture On-growing Sites')?

 

For example, it is unclear if Rysa Salmon Farm is marine or freshwater (it seems to be the former although there is a land-based hatchery called Rysa too).

 

Thirdly, could you please provide a list of all the 'organic' salmon farms which have had their Soil Association certification withdrawn, cancelled, suspended or any other terminology used for no longer being 'organic'? 

 

For example, it is understood that Mowi's Loch Ewe salmon farm was certified as 'organic' but it no longer appears in the list (presumably as the Loch Ewe salmon farm has been decommissioned). 

 

And it seems that Mowi's Loch Harport (Portnalong) salmon farm may have had their Soil Association certification suspended, withdrawn or cancelled at some point.  The Loch Harport salmon farm is currently certified as 'organic' by the Soil Association but a press release issued by Salmon & Trout Conservation on 2 February 2022 raised question marks:

 

Mowi’s Harport salmon farm loses organic status (article now deleted but a version which was published online up until 23 February 2022 is attached for reference). 

 

Salmon Business also reported on 2 February 2022: "Mowi salmon farm stripped of organic status" (article deleted a few hours after publication).

 

The Fish Site also reported on 2 February 2022: "Mowi's Harport salmon farm loses organic status" (article deleted a few hours after publication)

 

 

Finally, Scamon Scotland is concerned that the Soil Association is not being transparent in terms of making a list of salmon farms certified as 'organic' available to the public.  If a member of the public formally requests a supplier list via the Soil Association's 'Organic Certificate Checker' then they have to sign a waiver that: "1. The List supplied will be used only once and will not be copied or re-mailed without express permission. 2. The list will be used for this request only and only for the purpose specified. 3. The list will not be passed onto third parties".  

 

 

 

 

Such privacy and protection of data outside the public domain raises serious questions, especially since it is the public who are supposed to trust the Soil Association's certification system and it is the public who make purchasing decisions based upon this information.  If consumers do not have all the information then surely they are being misled?  Scamon Scotland certainly thinks 'organic' farmed salmon - as certified by the Soil Association - is a scam, sham and consumer con.  The Soil Association should be ashamed of itself for certifying Scottish salmon as 'organic' and in hiding information from the public.

 

Answers to the questions above would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Don

 

 

 

Has organic certification for @MowiScotlandLtd been withdrawn by @SoilAssociation for their lice-infested Loch Harport salmon farm? @SoilAssocScot https://t.co/OJK52PoSgB

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 4, 2022

 

 

Read more via:

• Complaint vs Ocado & Sainsbury's 'Organic' Scottish Salmon "Farmed Responsibly" by Mowi Filed with Trading & Advertising Standards
• Mowi Challenged to Back Up 'Green Claims' (After Ocado Pass the Buck)!
• Mowi's "100% Scottish" Salmon Imported from Ireland - 100% 'Organic' Bullshit!
• Organic Scamon: Ocado Challenged Over Mowi's 'Responsibly' Farmed Salmon - 100% Bullshit not 100% Scottish!
• Mowi's Pure Bullshit (#1 in a regular series): "hardly any chemical treatments at all"
• Ocean Rebellion Protest at Sainsbury's Against 'Toxic' Scottish Salmon Farming!
• Victory: The Pished Fish Sobers Up to False Claims Over "Sustainable" Scottish Salmon!
• Scamon Alert: The Pished Fish Challenged Over "Sustainably Sourced" Scottish Salmon
• 70,000 Sign Petition Vs "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon Sold by Sainsbury's!
• Ocean Rebellion protest vs M&S's "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon!
• Greenwashing 'Sustainable' Salmon - how supermarkets brand themselves as "responsible" via ClientEarth!
• Gotcha: Mowi's "Responsibly Farmed" Scottish Salmon Caught in Advertising Standards Net!
• Supermarkets Investigated by Competition and Markets Authority - "Responsibly Farmed/Sourced" Green Claims Questioned!
• Bullshit Called on M&S's "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon!
• Media Backgrounder: Irresponsibly Farmed Scottish Salmon
• Irresponsibly Farmed Scottish Salmon - Complaints Filed Vs Supermarkets with Advertising & Trading Standards!
• Scottish 'Organic' Scamon Leaps 181% - 4,462 tonnes to 12,528 tonnes from 2019 to 2020!
• 'Organic' Salmon Fit for the Queen? Not Even Fit for Her Dogs!
• Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles
• Scottish salmon is so not organic!
• Organic Salmon Belongs in the Bin Not Your Shopping Basket!
• Norwegian Government Asked to Divest from 'Unethical' & 'Irresponsible' Scottish Salmon!
• Dutch TV slams "organic" salmon
• EXPOSED: Scottish 'Organic' Scamon
• Organic” farmed salmon – let’s get real
• Loch Duart drops "sustainable" claim after advertising ruling
• Organic Scamon - The Greenwashing of Toxic Farmed Salmon
• Why organic salmon is causing a nasty smell
• Concern over organic salmon farms
• "Organically Farmed Salmon Is An Oxymoron" (The Organic Standard, 2001)

 

 

Revealed: Mowi's "100% Scottish" Salmon Imported from Ireland! @MowiScotlandLtd
100% 'Organic' Bullshit! @SoilAssociation @SoilAssocScot @Ocado @ASA_UK @CMAgovUK @TheGrocer @JoannaBlythman https://t.co/OodTP3UEB5 pic.twitter.com/LTPYJ8hM0t

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 8, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Addendum:

 

On 7 March 2022, Scamon Scotland requested further information and clarification on the 'organic' status of salmon farms in a letter sent to the Soil Association - download in full as a PDF online here

 

 

The 21 page letter ended with:

 

 

 

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Full list of salmon farms certified as 'organic' by the Soil Association?
To: Ian Ayling <iayling@soilassociation.org>, Soil Association Certification <cert@soilassociation.org>, <contact@soilassociation.org>, Helen Browning <hbrowning@soilassociation.org>

 

Please find attached a letter to the Soil Association on the issue of salmon farms.

 

Clarification and further information would be much appreciated.

 

Scamon Scotland is attempting to cross-reference toxic chemical use data and mortality/disease data with 'organic' salmon farms but requires site-specific information to narrow down the exact location and names of all the Cooke Aquaculture salmon farms.

 

We also notice that Mowi's Sconser salmon farm is no longer listed on the Soil Association's 'Organic Certificate Checker' (it was there last month when we checked).  Could you please explain why this site no longer appears in your database? 

 

Our letter is also online via: Letter to Soil Association on toxic chemicals and sites 7 March 2022

 

Best fishes,

 

Don Staniford

Director, Scamon Scotland

 

 

 

 

 

Cooke change their 'organic' web-page from "all our sites are accredited by the Soil Association" to "all our organic sites are accredited by the Soil Association" (at 7 farms in Orkney) @SoilAssocScot @SoilAssociation https://t.co/4jvVMAD43i @cookeseafood @CookeScotland #Crook https://t.co/sxlrP9bn5Y pic.twitter.com/lokyLnFhBB

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 2, 2021

 

The Worst Salmon Toilets in Scotland (even worse than Trainspotting)!

 

Trainspotting shocked the world with the worst toilet in Scotland - dare to take a peek inside the worst salmon toilets in Scotland? https://t.co/fA5Qihm1tJ#Trainspotting #Scottish #Salmon pic.twitter.com/WxFqCbmdnP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 22, 2022

 

 

In the 1996 film 'Trainspotting', Ewan McGregor descended into "the worst toilet in Scotland" to fish out his opium suppositories (shoved up his bum to combat his heroin withdrawal). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In my own personal hell, I've visited filthy feedlots across Scotland and the toxic toilets where salmon companies dump tonnes and tonnes of disease-ridden Scottish salmon (many killed by overdosing on drugs such as Azamethiphos, Deltamethrin and Hydrogen peroxide and where antibiotics such as Oxytetracycline and Florfenicol have been used on site).  

 

The Worst Salmon Toilets in Scotland (even worse than Trainspotting)! https://t.co/fA5Qihm1tJ
Scottish salmon farming is a video nasty - as sponsored @ScotlandSalmon @VisitScotland @marinescotland @scotgov @rspcaassured @SoilAssociation @ASC_aqua @MowiScotlandLtd pic.twitter.com/B1dSIWVOK1

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 22, 2022

 

 

 

You may have seen Mowi's toxic toilet overflowing with disease-ridden Scottish salmon in Netflix's 'Seaspiracy':

 

 

 

Norwegian salmon giant Mowi has reacted to Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' by publishing videos claiming to show healthy farmed salmon at their @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua salmon farm in Loch Linnhe which featured in @seaspiracy @ScotlandMowi @SSPOsays @iamalitabrizi https://t.co/DXJ6gnAUgl pic.twitter.com/Xf0W4GGlQg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 16, 2021

 

 

 

Or you may have caught sight of The Scottish Salmon Company's toxic toilet at Strondoir Bay in Loch Fyne as featured in the Kate Winslet-narrated film 'Eating Our Way to Extinction'. 

 

Watch the lid lifted on the horror that is 'Scottish' salmon as "Eating Our Way to Extinction" streams on You Tube @EatingOur @YouTubehttps://t.co/keIk4fLgoa @SSPOsays @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @scotseafarms @HamishMacdonell @tavishscott pic.twitter.com/s7CVHLKWfG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 21, 2021

 

 

 

Undercover footage showing the extent of welfare abuse, mortalities, chemical use.

“This is what the industry doesn’t want us to see”@MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllan @MathesonMichael #COP26 pic.twitter.com/o9OAKjjuxm

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) October 22, 2021

 

 

 

No wonder Leonardo DiCaprio (who endorsed 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' and is an active environmental campaigner) cautions against the consumption of farmed salmon in his Netflix smash hit 'Don't Look Up':

 

#don’t look up ⁦@LeoDiCaprio⁩ thank you for using your shopping scene to highlight how bad farmed salmon is. As in real life, scientists are discredited for telling the truth and the people are fooled - so look up @TheGAAIA @alex4salmon #corinsmith pic.twitter.com/RAYkYGcbal

— Kathleen (@lovingourlochs) December 26, 2021

 

 

Don't look down is the cautionary warning if you don't want to vomit on 'Scottish' salmon - here are some stomach-churning videos of the worst toxic toilets found at salmon farms across Scotland:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video footage of the mort disposal operation @salmon_scottish "The dead boat – absolutely packed to the gunnels with death: at least thirty tonnes of dead salmon on there today”.
Like a serial killer burying the dead bodies before the police arrive! https://t.co/jhrwnsC7Sk

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 13, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

What do tourists make of the stench of Scottish salmon? @Dunvegan_Castle @VisitSkye @SkyeforAll @VisitScotland @VisitScotNews @FergusEwingMSP @KateForbesMSP @Ianblackford_MP @WhatsOnSkye @WHFP1 @3_Chimneys #Skye https://t.co/gTWglPQbV4

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 18, 2020

 

 

Or welfare abuse uncovered by secret filming inside a harvesting station:

 

 

 

 

Sometimes the filth from Scottish salmon farms spills onto the road (like all those tourists in Scotland defacating by the roadside):

 

 

 

 

 

Or disease-ridden Scottish salmon is dumped illegally:

 

Today's Daily Mail: "Dumped into the dunes....thousands of rotten, disease ridden salmon" https://t.co/xDT5tACcb1 @cne_siar @marinescotland @MairiMcAllan @_KateForbes @MairiGougeon @GreenerScotland @ScottishEPA @joe_crowley @APHAgovuk @ewangkennedy @SalmonTroutCons @DailyMailUK pic.twitter.com/KFTHMw4yJo

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 28, 2021

 

 

 

 

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

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) March 21, 2021

 

 

 

 

The dumping of diseased farmed salmon in the Outer Hebrides was exposed by the BBC One Show in 2018:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video footage of dead farmed salmon piled up at the bottom of cages in Scotland was also broadcast by BBC Panorama in May 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

Video footage of dead salmon at Mowi's Poll Na Gille salmon farm was posted by David Ainsley in 2017:

 

 

 

 

Further video footage of morts being disposed of at Mowi's 'Bay of the Dead Heads' salmon farm near Craobh Haven were posted in September 2019:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Such is the horror of Scottish salmon farming that it could feature in a fishy follow up to 'Apocalypse Now':

 

 

 

 

Please join actor and Sea Shepherd activist Martin Sheen (he starred in Apocalypse Now) in pledging not to eat farmed salmon!

 

 

 

Want to end the nightmare of salmon farming? Please join the global boycott against farmed salmon! https://t.co/FpKosacuJq @pamfoundation @seashepherd_uk pic.twitter.com/4whTg61z2n

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 2, 2021

 

 

 

 

Tourists visiting Scotland don't want to see or smell the filth of Scottish salmon.

 

There is hardly a pier on the #IsleOfSkye that hasn't been appropriated by the toxic #salmon industry. Once a beautiful, peaceful place, #LochPooltiel pier is now home to stinking mort bins and trash. pic.twitter.com/cMHNwtcC5c

— SST-T (@ScotSalmonTank) September 6, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a quaint video from the Highlands of Scotland with Scottish salmon leaping out of the haulage truck onto the A86. What a lovely sight & smell for tourists driving through the slick of diseased fish! https://t.co/RvKXv3GDD8 @st_alliance @12distilleries @lagganwolftrax pic.twitter.com/8nM8HGDE2J

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 14, 2019

 

 

 

Interesting fact - the music played over the 'worst toilet in Scotland' scene in Trainspotting is Brian Eno's 'Deep Blue Day': 

 

 

 

 

Brian Eno is sadly involved in the greenwashing of toxic Scotish salmon via Client Earth (Brian Eno is a trustee of Client Earth where he is listed as "an active campaigner for human rights and the environment").

 

Greenwashing 'Sustainable' Salmon - how supermarkets brand themselves as "responsible" via ClientEarth! https://t.co/aTzLjczZcp @SSC_seafood @ClientEarth @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation @GSA_Seafood @ourGSSI @ScotlandSalmon @SalmonTroutCons @Ecohustler @ASA_UK @CMAgovUK pic.twitter.com/rAWoDpGjRH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 25, 2021

 

 

 

Scamon Scotland has invited Brian Eno to visit salmon farms this Summer and see for himself the worst toilets in Scotland.  

 

 

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 6:49 AM
Subject: FAO Brian Eno - trustee of Client Earth
To: <info@clientearth.org>, <press@clientearth.org>

 

Brian,

 

I love your music and have blogged today using the 'worst toilet in Scotland' scene from Trainspotting (which used your song 'Deep Blue Day'):

The Worst Salmon Toilets in Scotland (even worse than Trainspotting)!

 

Suffice to say that Client Earth's involvement in greenwashing toxic Scottish salmon via the Sustainable Seafood Coalition is shameless - read more via: Greenwashing 'Sustainable' Salmon - how supermarkets brand themselves as "responsible" via ClientEarth!

 

Is this an issue which you could raise directly with Client Earth?  Your good name, as a trustee of Client Earth, is in danger of being dragged down into the gutter along with the Trainspotting toilet and disease-ridden Scottish salmon. 

 

Scamon Scotland would like to invite you to Scotland this Summer to see for yourself the toxic nature of salmon farming and explain why Client Earth should flush Scottish salmon down the toilet instead of greenwashing it via the Sustainable Seafood Coalition. 

 

More background explaining why Scottish salmon is not "responsibly sourced" (as championed by Client Earth) is detailed via:

Irresponsibly Farmed Scottish Salmon - Complaints Filed Vs Supermarkets with Advertising & Trading Standards!

 

Recently published data by the Scottish Government also illustrates the lethal nature of salmon farming in Scotland: Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - over 8 million morts reported last year & over half a million in first two weeks of 2022!!

 

And there's data on the increasing use of toxic chemicals on salmon farms across Scotland (most endorsed as "responsibly sourced" via Client Earth) via:

Toxic Scottish Salmon - Chemical Use Doubles Since 2018!

 

If you're into movies, then Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' and Kate Winslet's 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' feature the sordid side of Scottish salmon farming (even Leonardo DiCaprio cautions against fatty farmed salmon in his film 'Don't Look Up'). 

 

 

I am on 07771 541826 if you would like to talk about toxic toilets and schedule a visit to Scotland.

 

Thanks,

 

 

Don Staniford

 

Director, Scamon Scotland

 

 

 

@dark_shark Would Brian Eno be interested in visiting the worst salmon toilets in Scotland (even worse than the one featured in Trainspotting)? Details via https://t.co/fA5Qihm1tJ pic.twitter.com/ulpghlbmYc

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 22, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Take a deep blue dive under a salmon farm and you're in for a nasty surprise Brian!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

The Scamons: Voting Now Open for 'Best Supporting Bullshit' Award!

Awards Alert: Nominations Open for the 'Scamons'!

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - over 8 million morts reported last year & over half a million in first two weeks of 2022!!

Caught on Camera - How the Go Pro Dealt the Death Blow to Salmon Farming

Video Nasties of Dead Farmed Salmon Pile Up All Over the World!

Backgrounder: Secret Filming Exposes the Welfare Nightmare of Factory Fish Farming

The Go Pro Camera Never Lies (Unlike Salmon Farmers)

 

 

Big shout out to the pioneers of secret filming & all the brave warriors who dared lift the lid on disease-ridden salmon farming - the underwater filming with Go Pro cameras started @alex4salmon in 2016 has turned the tide! https://t.co/ozbDedwAG6 @seashepherd @CaptPaulWatson pic.twitter.com/S1PPpCd3X9

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 15, 2021

 

 

 

Wanted: Whistleblowers of the world - do you have any video footage of farmed salmon 'morts' being dumped in pits or skips, floating inside feedlots or dead at the bottom of nets? https://t.co/AfqxVJajJC pic.twitter.com/CIoQpXEsZG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2021

 

 

 

The Scamons: Voting Now Open for 'Best Supporting Bullshit' Award!

 

Voting is now open for 'Best Supporting Bullshit' at The Scamons (held in Aviemore on May 4) @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @ScotlandSalmon @ScottishSPCA @ASC_aqua
Voting closes on 30 April - more details via https://t.co/fjF3wYBa0o @aquacultureuk @DiversifiedUK @MacAviemore pic.twitter.com/1qy8yLLu1w

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 21, 2022

 

 

The last year has witnessed some truly magnificent bullshit from the salmon farming sector which will be rewarded at the 'Scamons' in May. 

 

 

 

 

It is with great pleasure that Scamon Scotland officially opens the voting in the 'Best Supporting Bullshit' Award (the 'Scamons' award ceremony will take place outside the MacDonald Aviemore Hotel on May 4). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ladies first of course.   The first nominee is Anne Anderson - who left the Scottish Environment Protection Agency in 2018 to join the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisatioon before being poached by Scottish Sea Farms as their 'Sustainability Champion' in March 2021. 

 

 

"As someone who cares passionately about protecting our environment, I believe strongly in salmon farming as a low carbon food producer and have seen first-hand just how much those working in the sector care about farming sustainably, in every sense of the term" (Anne Anderson, March 2021 as quoted in Fish Farming Expert)

 

How greenwashing works - Anne Anderson leaves @ScottishEPA in 2018 to join @SSPOsays (after being wined and dined by lobbyists https://t.co/PYSHIAfAcU) and now joins Norwegian salmon farming giant @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood https://t.co/WeEvq6Xe6m

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 29, 2021

 

 

 

Next up (and considered a lock by many industry insiders) is Tavish Scott, chief executive of Salmon Scotland (formerly called the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation). 

 

 

"Scottish salmon is also the best, healthiest and most nutritious product that we can present to consumers whether here in the UK or around the world" (Tavish Scott, January 2022 as quoted in The Scotsman)

 

 

Mortalities at disease-ridden 'Scottish' salmon farms are piling up higher than Tavish Scott's bullshit! https://t.co/tBz56oIRHK
Since last April's denial @tavishscott @BBCScotNine that salmon were dying of infectious diseases https://t.co/LKYZtFDWmP over 8 million have died! pic.twitter.com/zfzAzuyJPn

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 21, 2022

 

 

 

 

Outgoing chair of the SSPCA and head vet for Scottish Sea Farms is Ronnie Soutar.  Dr Soutar is retiring as chair of the SSPCA in May so it would be fitting if he walked away with some silverware for his sterling efforts whitewashing welfare abuse on RSPCA Assured salmon farms. 

 

 

"No-one wants to see any fish potentially suffering but thankfully, those occasions are rare. By selectively publicising those very few images, CIWF are being hugely misleading. Those pictures do not reflect my experience of the extraordinarily high standards Scotland's fish farmers are setting" (Ronnie Soutar in March 2021 as quoted in a press release issued by the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation) 

 

 

How is the SSPCA benefiting from the "expert animal welfare knowledge" of @scotseafarms head vet Ronnie Soutar? https://t.co/OT4gnLMESQ
As Chairperson of the SSPCA surely he should be preventing not promoting animal cruelty?@SSPCA_Kirsteen @SSPCA_Mike @Gilly_SSPCA @ScottishSPCA pic.twitter.com/seUpJLYSBc

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 1, 2020

 

 

 

 

Ben Hadfield, CEO of Mowi Scotland, needs no introduction to those following the salmon farming sector's steady stream of bullshit over the last few decades. 

 

Mowi's 'Million Dollar' Man Ben Hadfield trousers £528,153 in profit from share scheme @ScotlandMowi https://t.co/dzqFoOYxqA
Will he use the £££££s to pay compensation for genetic pollution via escapes @ScotGovNetZero or maybe lobby @ScottishEPA to use neonicotinoids? #Salmafia pic.twitter.com/JLCIOleEam

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 23, 2021

 

"We are leading the world.....in sustainable and responsible food production" (Ben Hadfield in September 2021 as quoted in a Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation press release)

 

 

 

 

Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Mowi - Campaigners call for Mowi to be fined & RSPCA certification rescinded! https://t.co/dhVFllDjXX@rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd @marinescotland @APHAgovuk @MairiGougeon @SSPCA_Kirsteen pic.twitter.com/jzo2fi13xK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2021

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Ian Roberts is a master in polishing turds and in spreading scientific doubt and his long service to both Marine Harvest and Mowi would make him a worthy winner of this year's coveted trophy. 

 

 

 

"Specific to salmon aquaculture, it seems that as science and facts prove the sustainability of aquaculture, anti-salmon farming activists have become more and more desperate to control their narrative by blocking dialogue" (Ian Roberts in October 2021 as quoted in SeaWest News)

 

 

Mowi's Director of Communications @BBCTheOneShow: "We've entered into a 2-year comprehensive study to make sure that we understand if there are any long term impacts....we're talking about a potential risk but we just don't know. What we need is science" https://t.co/YxeLot9XGc pic.twitter.com/5L4cDUsf1X

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 12, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

The sixth and final nomination is Ally Dingwall - formerly of Marine Harvest and Sainsbury's but since November 2021 he's been Senior Director of Technical Operations at the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (aka the Abominable Salmon Council). 

 

 

 

"ASC will play a crucial role in ensuring a growing supply of environmentally sustainably and socially responsible food from the aquaculture industry" (Ally Dingwall in November 2021 as quoted in Fish Farming Expert)

 

 

Open letter to the ASC: Please cancel all certification of Mowi's toxic Scottish salmon! https://t.co/N9MwDaN0kQ @ASC_aqua @MowiScotlandLtd @fms_scotland @SalmonTroutCons
Scottish salmon is farmed irresponsibly not responsibly! @rspcaassured @ASA_UK @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB pic.twitter.com/3L76as7mTY

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

 

 

 

Tomorrow will see voting open for the 'Worst Salmon Farm of the Year' award which is once again packed with disease-ridden salmon and mass mortalities.  Loch Spelve (Scottish Sea Farms) - where Infectious Salmon Anaemia was reported to the World Organization for Animal Health in September 2021 - is an early front-runner with the judging panel. 

 

Loch Spelve. The farm supplying @marksandspencer and the one which Scottish Sea Farms is up for an award from @VIBES_Awards under the auspices of @ScottishEPA @TerryAHearn https://t.co/YOglO1dXL8

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) September 21, 2021

 

 

 

Other salmon farms sure to make the shortlist include The Scottish Salmon Company's lice-infested cess-pit at West Strome in Loch Carron. 

 

 

The Go Pro camera never lies - unlike salmon farmers! https://t.co/noxn89oEZO @salmon_scottish pic.twitter.com/QdpCNIADym

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 12, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's disease-ridden salmon farms at SW Shuna and Poll Na Gille around the Island of Shuna near Craobh Haven seem certain to figure too.

 

 

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 @rspcaassured https://t.co/dWHR2Vyr3n

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 26, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You may have seen Mowi's lice-infested salmon farms - along with The Scottish Salmon Company's West Strome salmon farm - broadcast on French TV in November 2021:

 

 

Video of French TV's 'The Truth About Salmon' featuring Mowi & The Scottish Salmon Company https://t.co/PIwqhztqhu @France5tv @hugoclement @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @ScotlandSalmon @Folketrygdfond @Try_Lochlander @waitrose @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB @AldiUK @SaumonLabel pic.twitter.com/u16uaGZ97K

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 21, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Salmon Company's salmon farm at Meall Mhor in Loch Fyne is also tipped to feature following secret filming by Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots in May 2021:

 

 

 

 

 

For more details on the awards and protests on May 4 please keep track online here

 

 

 

New campaign launched against Norwegian giant https://t.co/mnTlXCTVne
"Mowi is Madness, Mowi is Badness"
May the 4th Protest Against Toxic Salmon - may the force of wild salmon be with you! @MowiScotlandLtd @ScotlandMowi @ScotlandSalmon @aquacultureuk @DiversifiedUK #Mowi

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 16, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Awards Alert: Nominations Open for the 'Scamons'!

Kick-Ass New Campaign: "Mowi is Madness, Mowi is Badness" (Save the Date - May 4th)

Bullshit Called on Mowi's "Sustainability" Claims!

Complaint vs Ocado & Sainsbury's 'Organic' Scottish Salmon "Farmed Responsibly" by Mowi Filed with Trading & Advertising Standards

Mowi's Pure Bullshit (#1 in a regular series): "hardly any chemical treatments at all"

Victory: The Pished Fish Sobers Up to False Claims Over "Sustainable" Scottish Salmon!

Scamon Alert: The Pished Fish Challenged Over "Sustainably Sourced" Scottish Salmon

Greenwashing 'Sustainable' Salmon - how supermarkets brand themselves as "responsible" via ClientEarth!

Supermarkets Investigated by Competition and Markets Authority - "Responsibly Farmed/Sourced" Green Claims Questioned!

Bullshit Called on M&S's "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon!

Irresponsibly Farmed Scottish Salmon - Complaints Filed Vs Supermarkets with Advertising & Trading Standards!

Media Backgrounder: Irresponsibly Farmed Scottish Salmon

Telegraph: "Cop26 organisers roasted for serving ‘environmentally unfriendly’ salmon"

Scottish 'Organic' Scamon Leaps 181% - 4,462 tonnes to 12,528 tonnes from 2019 to 2020!

National Geographic: "Why you might not be getting the salmon you paid for"

Rest Assured - the RSPCA has been captured, co-opted & corrupted by the Salmafia

'Organic' Salmon Fit for the Queen? Not Even Fit for Her Dogs!

Net Tightens on Lawsuits vs 'Salmafia' - Cooke "unable to quash lawsuit over deceptive marketing practices"

Result - Applecross Smokehouse deletes "sustainable fisheries" claim following complaint!

 

RSPCA Assured Scottish Scamon from Applecross Smokehouse - Another Case of Deceptive Marketing for Trading Standards!

 

Trading Standards Victory: "Our salmon is farm reared" admit Belhaven Smokehouse after complaint!

 

Bullshit Called On 'Boutique' Farmed Salmon from the Faroes - Rick Stein Deletes "Boutique" & "Truly Stunning" Claims from Web-Site!

BBC News: "Rick Stein's shop changes description of smoked salmon after complaint"

Victory: Rick Stein Forced to Advertise Faroese Farmed Salmon After Trading Standards Investigation

Mowi Settles Class Action Lawsuit for $1.3 million - prohibited from using phrases "sustainably sourced" & "all natural"

Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles

Scottish salmon is so not organic!

Organic Salmon Belongs in the Bin Not Your Shopping Basket!

Norwegian Government Asked to Divest from 'Unethical' & 'Irresponsible' Scottish Salmon!

Camera Shy at The Scamons!

Live from 'The Scamons' in Norway!

The Scamons & Sockeyes - Aquaculture Academy Awards 2013

The Sockeyes - Oscar Loves Wild Salmon!

 

 

 

Bullshit Alert: "Sustainability is deeply engrained in the Mowi culture and at the heart of everything we do," claims Mowi's CEO Ivar Vindheim. "Mowi is at the forefront when it comes to sustainable food production" https://t.co/s1726IolTd pic.twitter.com/SqN5v02hzT

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 16, 2022

 

 

 

Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) Report "Biological Challenges" (i.e. Deaths & Disease)!

 

 

 

Fish Farmer reported (18 February 2022):

 

 

 

SalMar's Q4 2021 report included:

 

 

 

 

 

Scamon Scotland reported (18 February 2022):

 

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - 8m morts reported last year & half a million in first two weeks of 2022!! https://t.co/tBz56oIRHK @ScotlandSalmon @tavishscott
Anyone for yummy "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon? @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation pic.twitter.com/K8cU8Bo64Y

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 18, 2022

 

 

According to the Fish Health Inspectorate data published on 7 February 2022, Norwegian-owned Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk) reported 815,746 mortalities since 1 January 2021 (data up to mid-January 2022) via 135 'Mortality Event Reports' - including mass mortalities at Toyness and Westerbister (sites which are currently being audited for certification by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council) and in Loch Spelve where secret filming by Scottish Salmon Watch in May 2021 exposed welfare abuse and led to an official report of Infectious Salmon Anaemia to the World Organization for Animal Health in September 2021:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyone for M&S’s Virus-Laden Scottish Salmon (don’t worry, it’s “responsibly sourced” & @rspcaassured)?!https://t.co/A1AHbV9xFs @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @RSPCA_PATeam @Ecohustler
How many ISA-ridden Scottish salmon have been sold by M&S? #marksandspencer pic.twitter.com/kkNz7OcV1F

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 14, 2022

 

 

 

 

Scamon Scotland wrote to M&S (who sources "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon from Scottish Sea Farms) last week:

 

 

 

How many @marksandspencer Scottish salmon @scotseafarms are infected with diseases, pathogens & viruses such as Infectious Salmon Anaemia, Piscine Reovirus, Proliferative Gill Disease (Piscichlamydia) & Salmon Gill Poxvirus? https://t.co/A1AHbV9xFs @rspcaassured @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/a1nilFBfcx

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 14, 2022

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported last month (11 January 2022):

 

EXPOSED: Over 100,000 dead farmed salmon @scotseafarms in one month at Toyness in Orkney @marinescotland - surely @ASC_aqua "farmed responsibly" certification is dead in the water? @Acoura_UK @lloydsregister @The_Orcadian @LeroySeafood @Folketrygdfond https://t.co/sl7E4vmN5y pic.twitter.com/XoH5hkCsqu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 11, 2022

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in December 2021:

 

 

'Scottish' Sea Farms (real name Norskott Havbruk @LeroySeafood) claim an annual mortality rate of 9%* @scotseafarms yet data @ScotlandSalmon shows average cummulative mortality at farms harvested out in 2020 & 2021 was 14% with 41% in Loch Kishorn! https://t.co/YP7xPmmrFt pic.twitter.com/zOmL4I5G4S

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 13, 2021





 

Fish Farmer reported (10 December 2021):

 

 

 

SalMar - co-owner of @scotseafarms with @LeroySeafood - hit by Infectious Salmon Anaemia in Norway with ISA suspected at Grieg @GriegShetland https://t.co/A0O8E1lBpj @InfoMattilsynet @fishfarmermag
How many hidden cases of ISA are in Scotland? @ScotlandSalmon @marinescotland pic.twitter.com/H9Wd1rJe3d

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 10, 2021

 

 

 

 

In July 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch asked if ISA was back again in Scotland:

 

Leroy (co-owner of Norskott Havbruk) is plagued by Infectious Salmon Anaemia in #Norway @LeroySeafood @InfoMattilsynet https://t.co/XrE2BNkqxF @LeroySeafood
Scottish Sea Farms (Hydro Seafoods) spread ISA around #Scotland in the 1990s causing £100m losses - is ISA back again? pic.twitter.com/HooqhsxNU3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 6, 2021

 

 

 

 

Scamon Scotland reported earlier this month (10 February 2022):

 

 

 

It’s Official: Infectious Salmon Anaemia Back to Haunt 'Scottish' Salmon - reported to the World Organization for Animal Health for the first time since 2012! https://t.co/pVdSQENcpZ @OIEAnimalHealth @marinescotland @DefraGovUK @ScotlandSalmon @scotseafarms @MairiMcAllan @scotgp pic.twitter.com/gBsig4qlc9

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 10, 2022

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in March 2021:

 

"Scottish Sea Farms is bringing the whole sordid salmon farming industry further into disrepute" said Scottish Salmon Watch "The lack of transparency over mortality reporting of Scottish salmon is a scandal" https://t.co/pvZAMsdhqC@scotseafarms @rspcaassured @Folketrygdfond pic.twitter.com/sdWnSWlbxP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 9, 2021

 

 

Revealed: Scottish Sea Farms fail to report mortality numbers in 61% of 'Mortality Event Reports' @marinescotland - that's 167 missing cases which could be over 2 million @rspcaassured farmed salmon! @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @LeroySeafood @SSPOsays https://t.co/pvZAMsdhqC pic.twitter.com/vWsKR4apLC

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 9, 2021

 

 

 

In October 2020, lice-infested farmed salmon swimming inside Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Creran was published by Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots:

 

 

 

 

 

The shocking video footage was broadcast by BBC 's Countryfile in December 2020:

 

RSPCA claim they "did everything they reasonably could" with respect to welfare abuse @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @SSPOsays in Loch Creran @BBCCountryfile @joe_crowley https://t.co/G4dXeILsTk
Surely it is reasonable to question why @rspcaassured still certify salmon farms? pic.twitter.com/lfVVFa5GE8

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 7, 2020

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported on mass mortalities at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Spelve in February 2020:

 

Does the RSPCA still certify Loch Spelve? @rspcaassured @scotseafarms A 6% survival rate is truly shocking - out of 382,344 salmon stocked in the farm only 24,000 were harvested! How can the RSPCA condone such cruelty & suffering? @RSPCA_Frontline @RSPCA_official @RSPCAChris https://t.co/nAUVPrV1oQ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 12, 2020

 

 

Telephone inspection of @scotseafarms by @marinescotland in Loch Spelve - 366,000+ fish die (199,124 culled & 177,588 morts). Fish start dying on 16 Sept & site is fallowed on 29 Oct yet 'Mortality Event Reports' are dated 14 Nov with zero 'inspection' until phone call on 15 Nov pic.twitter.com/AHzlw7SrTo

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 12, 2020

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in January 2020:

 

Lice-infested & disease-ridden Scottish Salmon anyone? https://t.co/1CWQ6GdcT5 "Over 50" lice per fish @scotseafarms in Loch Kishorn states @marinescotland inspection report. Were these fish sold as Lochmuir & RSPCA Assured? @marksandspencer @rspcaassured @SSPOsays @LeroySeafood pic.twitter.com/9qxUjLl3FT

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2020

 

 

Photo: Lice-infested salmon farmed by Scottish Sea Farms

 

 

 

The Fish Health Inspectorate did not take photos from their inspection of Scottish Sea Farms lice-infested feedlot in Loch Kishorn in September 2019 (photos from previous inspections of Scottish Sea Farms are available online here and online here).

 

 

 

 

The BBC One Show broadcast video footage of mass mortalities at Loch Kishorn in December 2017.

 

 

 

 

 

Here's more photos of disease-ridden salmon farmed by Scottish Sea Farms (obtained via FOI despite threats by lawyers acting for Scottish Sea Farms and The Scottish Salmon Company):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edie Bowles @Animallawyersuk said the dossier, compiled by Don Staniford, a critic of salmon farming, indicated “systemic and obvious” pain & suffering that could justify legal action against @scotgov @MairiGougeon @SSPOsays https://t.co/ZuzAis8gEr @SundayTimesScot @ciwf @scotgp pic.twitter.com/RPVIAL3KlS

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 2, 2020

 

 

Scottish Sea Farms is one of the ugly faces of RSPCA Assured Scottish salmon!

 

Why does @rspcaassured certify 70% of Scottish salmon farms as welfare-friendly when there is systemic suffering & abuse? @RSPCA_official @RSPCA_Frontline @AnimalLawCon @Animal_Alliance @animalpharm @AnimalEquality @AnimalAid @media_ciwf @PETAUK @HSIUKorg https://t.co/ZuzAis8gEr pic.twitter.com/1rWDdk5Hsc

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 2, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in June 2021 that Scottish Sea Farms had quietly dropped ther 'Lochmuir' fake branding in favour of the much-maligned RSPCA Assured certification:

 

M&S "phase out" Lochmuir fake brand in favour of RSPCA Assured - out of the frying pan into the fire!https://t.co/rufoN76EJl @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @rspcaassured
Thanks to @feedbackorg & @Ecohustler for campaigning against fake farmed salmon! @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/UaQKUBAW5x

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 17, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fish Farmer magazine reported in November 2019:

 

 

 

Sick Scottish Sea Farms (real name - Norskott Havbruk) "affected by an earlier than planned harvest of fish due to illness" https://t.co/SKqUC4BKVQ @fishfarmermag @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood https://t.co/q0iRAIMRra @markruskell @FergusEwingMSP @marinescotland @KateForbesMSP pic.twitter.com/aDXVMtlBIm

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 14, 2019

 

 

 

 

Read more on the Norwegian money behind 'Scottish Scamon' online here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Anyone for M&S’s Virus-Laden Scottish Salmon (don’t worry, it’s “responsibly sourced” & RSPCA Assured)?!

It’s Official: Infectious Salmon Anaemia Back to Haunt Scottish Salmon - reported to the World Organization for Animal Health for the first time since 2012!

ASC-Certified/Audited Mass Mortalities Pile Up at Lousy Mowi & Scottish Sea Farms!

Dead in the Water - Scottish Salmon's Mortality Mountain Piles Ever Higher in 2021!

ISA hits Scottish Sea Farms owner SalMar in Norway - how many hidden cases are lurking on salmon farms in Scotland?

Breaking News: ISA reported at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms on the Isle of Mull

Damning Disease Report for RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Spelve

M&S "phase out" Lochmuir fake brand in favour of RSPCA Assured - out of the frying pan into the fire!

Intrafish: "RSPCA suspends M&S farmed salmon supplier's eco-label for alleged welfare violations"

Herald On Sunday: "Scottish M&S supplier blames seals for salmon wounds as RSPCA Assured status is suspended"

RSPCA Suspends Spelve Salmon Farm & 'Urgently Investigates' M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms!

Secret Filming Exposes RSPCA ‘Abused’ Scottish Salmon - Welfare Complaint Filed Against M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

The Killing Farms - Scottish Salmon's Horror Story Continues!

Caveat Emptor - M&S's Fake 'Lochmuir' Scottish Salmon (sourced from Norwegian-owned Scottish Sea Farms)

"Over 50" Lice Per Fish at Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Kishorn

EXPOSED: Photo Disclosures Opens Floodgates to More Diseased & Deformed Scottish Salmon

Welfare Warning for Scottish Salmon - stormy waters & prolonged periods of pain forecast!

Herald: "Scottish salmon found in ‘sickening’ conditions across Scotland as sea lice problem escalates"

Video Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured salmon farm sourced by M&S 'Lochmuir'

 

 

Bullshit Called on M&S's "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon! @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @Folketrygdfond @ScotlandSalmon @CMAgovUK @ASA_UK @TSScot @Ecohustler https://t.co/xw85ROAlM8 pic.twitter.com/qx1JoGZbg1

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 23, 2021

 

 

 

Update:

 

Meet the Norwegian Salmoney behind 'Scottish' Sea Farms - here's an article published in Fish Farmer (10 March 2022):

 

 

 

 

 

Meet the Norwegian Salmoney behind 'Scottish' Sea Farms (aka Norskott Havbruk): "It has been a tale with more twists & turns than TV’s media tycoon drama Succession – or an old Norse saga. As in all such tales one man came out on top. It was Gustav Witzøe"https://t.co/8bOHUlDxfy pic.twitter.com/VdqOZHcMYK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 11, 2022

 

Awards Alert: Nominations Open for the 'Scamons'!

 

Don’t miss your chance to put forward a supplier that has gone above and beyond. Entries for the Aquaculture Awards close 28 Feb!

Enter > https://t.co/qndajR5IqZ

Aquaculture Supplier of the Year is sponsored by @stingraynews #AquacultureAwards #aquaculture pic.twitter.com/By3PcXyji6

— Aquaculture UK (@aquacultureuk) February 16, 2022

 

Awards season is in full swing and the 'Scottish' salmon farming industry has opened up entries for self-congratulatory gongs to be presented at an awards dinner at Aquaculture UK in Aviemore on 4 May (Scamon Scotland will be organising a protest outside the event - watch this space for details).  

 

Award Alert - nominations for 'The Scamons' (to be held in Aviemore on May 4th) were launched today. Nominate your favourite greenwashers & toxic polluters in categories such as "Most Unsustainable Supermarket', 'Animal Welfare Abuse' & 'Rising Bullshit'! https://t.co/Fz4IxIaVbA pic.twitter.com/e3Xv8cjwap

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 21, 2022

 

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported (4 February 2022):

 

 

 

Scamon Scotland today (21 February 2022) unveiled the award categories for the 'Scamons' which will take place on the pavement outside the Aquaculture Awards 2022 on May 4 (think of the Razzies vs the Oscars). 

 

 

 

 

Gerald Ratner and Del Boy Trotter have been invited to present awards at the lavish ceremony in Aviemore.

 

 

 

The prestigious awards - made from 100% bullshit - include 'Worst Salmon Farming Company of the Year' (expected to be a bloody fight between Norwegian giant Mowi and Faroese/Norwegian-owned The Scottish Salmon Company), 'Most Unsustainable Supermarket of the Year' (Sainsbury's, Tesco and M&S are all in the running but Ocado is the dark horse following a recent complaint to Trading Standards), the 'Environmental Impact Award' (Scottish Sea Farms, Cooke Aquaculture, Loch Duart and Kames could fight this one out but 'Organic' Sea Harvest could surprise), 'Greenwasher of the Year' (RSPCA Assured, the Soil Association and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council have this category covered), the 'Animal Welfare Abuse Award' (The Scottish Salmon Company and Mowi look set to go lice-infested head to lice-infested head) and the 'Rising Bullshit Award' (Ben Hadfield, Ian Roberts, Ally Dingwall, Ronnie Soutar and Anne Anderson have put in some impressive performances over over the course of the year but Tavish Scott is odds-on favourite with Betfair after his 'Pack of Lies' performance on BBC Scotland's 'The Nine' in April and his 'Spygate' appearance on Channel 4 News in December):

 

 

 

 

"You can put lipstick on a Scottish salmon but it's still a pharmed salmon," said Don Staniford, Director of Scamon Scotland (formerly Scottish Salmon Watch).  "All the greenwashing in the world - whether it is via RSPCA Assured, the Soil Association or the Aquaculture Stewardship Council - cannot alter the view that farming salmon is inherently unsustainable and an irresponsible choice for consumers.   Salmon Scotland seem to abide by the maxim: 'you can’t polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter'.   The 'Scamons' will showcase so-called 'Scottish' salmon - 99% of which is controlled by foreign companies -  as a scam, sham and a consumer con.  We're calling on the public and whistleblowers working inside the toxic industry to submit nominations and any supportive evidence to back up their choices.  With all the bullshit being spewed by Mowi, The Scottish Salmon Company, Scottish Sea Farms, Grieg Seafood, Loch Duart, Kames, 'Organic' Sea Harvest and Cooke Aquaculture it's going to be one hell of a contest."   

 

 

 

 

Sponsors of the Aquaculture Awards include MSD Animal Health (who sells the shellfish-killing chemical Emamectin benzoate), Solvtrans (an operator of well boats which transports disease-ridden salmon), M&S (who sells irresponsibly sourced Scottish salmon), Hendrix Genetics (who reported Infectious Salmon Anaemia at their Ormsary Hatchery in Argyll in November 2021) and Cargill (dubbed 'the Worst Company in the World'): 

 

 

 

 

Scamon Scotland is particularly looking forward to the 'Environmental Impact Award' sponsored by Cargill:

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the 'Animal Welfare Award' sponsored by MSD Animal Health:

 

 

 

 

 

Scamon Scotland has invited environmental and welfare groups to sponsor particular awards.

 

 

 

[NEW INVESTIGATION] Salmon are dying every day on Scottish salmon factory farms because of disease and parasites.

Please take action today and sign our open letter to the Scottish Government. ⬇️ #ScottishSalmonScandalhttps://t.co/F3uM2eKtOn

— Compassion in World Farming (@ciwf) March 23, 2021

 

 

 

 

Scamon Scotland has fore-warned the organisers of the Aquaculture Awards 2022 and will liaise with police before the peaceful protest on May 4th.  Here's an email sent to Aquaculture UK last week:

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 7:30 PM
Subject: Protest outside Aquaculture UK on May 4
To: <carvonio@divcom.co.uk>, <ktyler@divcom.co.uk>, <rrandall@divcom.co.uk>, <info@aquacultureuk.com>

 

Just a quick heads up that Scamon Scotland will be organising a protest outside the Aquaculture Awards 2022 in Aviemore on May 4. 

 

There's a blog and video online now via Kick-Ass New Campaign: "Mowi is Madness, Mowi is Badness" (Save the Date - May 4th)

 

I just Tweeted: https://twitter.com/TheGAAIA/status/1494027038138810370

 

I wish to reassure you way in advance that this will be a peaceful protest and I will liaise with the Police and the MacDonald Aviemore Resort.  If you have any concerns nearer the time I can be contacted on 07771 541826. 

 

I co-ordinated a protest in Edinburgh back in 2017 outside an SSPO (Salmon Scotland) industry event - it was also in a MacDonald hotel near the Scottish Parliament and we liaised with the hotel manager.  Here's photos to show the peaceful and fun nature of the protest: https://donstaniford.typepad.com/my-blog/2017/03/photos-of-scottish-salmon-protest-in-edinburgh-.html

 

I certainly won't be dumping dead farmed or throwing blood at delegates.  I've seen Deacon Blue several times in concert and would not want to fish off Dougie Vipond.

 

We may 'hand out' alternative awards - think of The Razzies - and invite the award winners to collect their 'Scamons'.  But the protest will not interfere with your event. 

 

Subject to consultation with the Police we may just stand outside the resort gate:

 

 

I would be happy to meet on May 3 to run through any plans.  

 

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.  

 

Best fishes,

 

Don Staniford

 

Director, Scamon Scotland: https://scottishscamon.co.uk/

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a reply:

 

From: Carsten Holm <cholm@divcom.co.uk>
Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 9:26 AM
Subject: Protest outside Aquaculture UK on May 4
To: salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Cc: Cheri Arvonio <CArvonio@divcom.co.uk>, David Maguire <dmaguire@divcom.co.uk>, Katie Tyler <KTyler@divcom.co.uk>, Richard Randall <rrandall@divcom.co.uk>

Dear Don

Thank you for your email and for letting us know about your planned protest outside Aquaculture UK in Aviemore in May.          

Agriculture, farming, aquaculture and other means of feeding the world are all highly sensitive issues on which many people have strong opinions, and I very much respect your and your organisation’s right to your views and your right to peacefully demonstrate to express them. 

Similarly, I can see from your email that you respect that others may hold different views, but it is important that we are able to respectfully debate our differences to reach a better understanding of each other’s views.  As recent events have shown all too clearly, the peaceful route is always the best, and I am glad to see that you agree with that principle.  I will therefore ask that you respect the exhibitors and visitors right to participate at their industry event and that you avoid interfering directly with the event or those taking part in it, which I believe is your intention.

I also appreciate you informing the MacDonald Hotel and the local police of your intentions.

Best regards

Carsten

Carsten Holm | Managing Director 
+44 (0)1273 645114 | cholm@divcom.co.uk

Diversified Communications UK 
Brighton office: The Brinell Building, 30 Station Road, Brighton, BN1 4RB 
T: +44 (0)1273 645110 
www.divcom.co.uk

 

 

 

 

Nominations are now open for the 'Free-Range Farmed Salmon Bullshit' award in honour of former boss @ScotlandSalmon Julie Hesketh-Laird (now deputy CEO @FSScot). Will @rspcaassured & @ScottishSPCA sponsor this year's prestigious prize? @ciwf @onekindtweet @PETAUK @Animallawyersuk https://t.co/Yhjw6gc8Mj pic.twitter.com/nYq9NlHzPC

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 21, 2022

 

 

 

 

The Scamons are back after a nine-year hiatus. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back in 2013, Grieg Seafood carried off the coveted 'Scam of the Year' award at the inaugral Scamons held in Bergen in Norway for their Skuna Bay "craft-raised" salmon and the "Lord Voldemort" award for killing sea lions and seals in Canada and Scotland. 

 

 

 

 

 

Former salmon farmer Donal Maguire, who was promoting a 15,000 tonne "organic" salmon farm in Galway Bay on behalf of the Irish Government, hid under his coat and then put up his hand to block a photo being taken when presented with his "Best Supporting Government Agency" award.

 

 

 

 

Cermaq CEO Jon Hindar, winner of the "When In a Hole Keep Digging" award, at least smiled for the camera and said "My kids would love this!" when he was presented with his Scamon whilst checking out of his room at the Radisson Hotel. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marine Harvest owner John Fredriksen sadly failed to show up to collect his "Super-Size Salmon Scamon" award (Marine Harvest was renamed Mowi in 2019 due to what their CEO admitted was "negative consumer perception" in the name Marine Harvest).

 

 

 

 

 

And Marine Harvest's CEO Alf-Helge Aarskog ducked out of a side door as soon as his financial presentation had finished leaving his "Marine Harmfest" award gathering sea lice and infectious diseases in the conference hall. 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Kick-Ass New Campaign: "Mowi is Madness, Mowi is Badness" (Save the Date - May 4th)

Bullshit Called on Mowi's "Sustainability" Claims!

Complaint vs Ocado & Sainsbury's 'Organic' Scottish Salmon "Farmed Responsibly" by Mowi Filed with Trading & Advertising Standards

Mowi's Pure Bullshit (#1 in a regular series): "hardly any chemical treatments at all"

Victory: The Pished Fish Sobers Up to False Claims Over "Sustainable" Scottish Salmon!

Scamon Alert: The Pished Fish Challenged Over "Sustainably Sourced" Scottish Salmon

Greenwashing 'Sustainable' Salmon - how supermarkets brand themselves as "responsible" via ClientEarth!

Supermarkets Investigated by Competition and Markets Authority - "Responsibly Farmed/Sourced" Green Claims Questioned!

Bullshit Called on M&S's "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon!

Irresponsibly Farmed Scottish Salmon - Complaints Filed Vs Supermarkets with Advertising & Trading Standards!

Media Backgrounder: Irresponsibly Farmed Scottish Salmon

Telegraph: "Cop26 organisers roasted for serving ‘environmentally unfriendly’ salmon"

Scottish 'Organic' Scamon Leaps 181% - 4,462 tonnes to 12,528 tonnes from 2019 to 2020!

National Geographic: "Why you might not be getting the salmon you paid for"

Rest Assured - the RSPCA has been captured, co-opted & corrupted by the Salmafia

'Organic' Salmon Fit for the Queen? Not Even Fit for Her Dogs!

Net Tightens on Lawsuits vs 'Salmafia' - Cooke "unable to quash lawsuit over deceptive marketing practices"

Result - Applecross Smokehouse deletes "sustainable fisheries" claim following complaint!

 

RSPCA Assured Scottish Scamon from Applecross Smokehouse - Another Case of Deceptive Marketing for Trading Standards!

 

Trading Standards Victory: "Our salmon is farm reared" admit Belhaven Smokehouse after complaint!

 

Bullshit Called On 'Boutique' Farmed Salmon from the Faroes - Rick Stein Deletes "Boutique" & "Truly Stunning" Claims from Web-Site!

BBC News: "Rick Stein's shop changes description of smoked salmon after complaint"

Victory: Rick Stein Forced to Advertise Faroese Farmed Salmon After Trading Standards Investigation

Mowi Settles Class Action Lawsuit for $1.3 million - prohibited from using phrases "sustainably sourced" & "all natural"

Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles

Scottish salmon is so not organic!

Organic Salmon Belongs in the Bin Not Your Shopping Basket!

Norwegian Government Asked to Divest from 'Unethical' & 'Irresponsible' Scottish Salmon!

Camera Shy at The Scamons!

Live from 'The Scamons' in Norway!

The Scamons & Sockeyes - Aquaculture Academy Awards 2013

The Sockeyes - Oscar Loves Wild Salmon!

 

 

 

Bullshit Alert: "Sustainability is deeply engrained in the Mowi culture and at the heart of everything we do," claims Mowi's CEO Ivar Vindheim. "Mowi is at the forefront when it comes to sustainable food production" https://t.co/s1726IolTd pic.twitter.com/SqN5v02hzT

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 16, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Oscar worthy @JulieHL is hotly tipped to reel in an Academy Award for Best Actress: "It's more akin to free-range farming than anything else I think I could compare it to" @SSPOsays @HamishMacdonell https://t.co/agO7W9ZXkQ @rspcaassured @SSPCA_Mike @ptfss #Oscars @TheAcademy pic.twitter.com/OGtImk5dgQ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 3, 2020