Green Around the Gills

The Ferret/Herald: "Over 40 fish farms ‘unsatisfactory’, says government watchdog"

 

Over 40 fish farms ‘unsatisfactory’, says government watchdog https://t.co/o1vluv6wwt via @ferretscot @ScottishEPA @SSPOsays @scotseafarms @MowiScotlandLtd @scottish_salmon

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 19, 2021

 

 

 

The Ferret reported (19 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

 

 

Which 40+ fish farms broke environmental rules? Is there a list anywhere other than on the Dark Web? @SSPOsays @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @salmon_scottish @tavishscott @HamishMacdonell

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 19, 2021

 

 

Which salmon farms are currently failing SEPA's compliance assessment? Here's data naming & shaming failing fish farms in 2016 & earlier https://t.co/5GE4Q8xGWk Are less salmon farms failing or more? @SSPOsays @tavishscott @TerryAHearn @MowiScotlandLtd @robedwards53 @FerretScot pic.twitter.com/abAndTCzAh

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 19, 2021

 

 

 

The Herald reported (19 October 2021):

 

Leaked data reveals over 40 fish firms 'unsatisfactory' over environmental breaches @heraldscotland @SalmonTroutCons @JohnAitchison1 @HamishMacdonell @GuyLinleyAdams @tavishscott @MairiGougeon @markruskell https://t.co/Bl9CQjxxdf

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 19, 2021

 

 

Tuesday's Herald.
Day 1 of our investigation series "How green is Scotland?"

More than 400 industrial sites have been damned as “unsatisfactory” on pollution, according to data from Scotland’s environmental watchdog.#TomorrowsPapersToday
Subscribe: https://t.co/Ms01UHkxsw pic.twitter.com/oo8mBLTL3q

— The Herald (@heraldscotland) October 19, 2021

 

 

Front page in today's @heraldscotland - how green is Scotland? pic.twitter.com/2QGgYZ1BIU
How green is 'Scottish' salmon farming? @SSPOsays @ScottishEPA @TerryAHearn @nature_scot @MairiGougeon @HamishMacdonell @robedwards53
Which 40 fish farms are breaching environmental rules? pic.twitter.com/njoDSroO69

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 19, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Misleading: "Scotland's worst polluters named-and-shamed" screams @heraldscotland https://t.co/ntqR3FEAYn
But why are 40+ fish farms not named & shamed? @ScottishEPA @robedwards53 @SSPOsays
Which companies are responsible? @salmon_scottish @CookeScotland @DFSeafoods pic.twitter.com/loCntnqxSw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 19, 2021

 

 

 

 

The latest data available details the following fish farms which failed SEPA's compliance assessment in 2018 - including two salmon farms rated as 'Very Poor' and over 30 fish farms rated as 'Poor':

 

 

 

Here's the latest compliance data @ScottishEPA detailing failing fish farms @SSPOsays - including two "Very Poor" salmon farms @GriegShetland & 30+ "Poor" fish farms across Scotland @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @HGSalmonUK @CookeScotland
Why are the companies not named? pic.twitter.com/7OFSgQPYJE

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 19, 2021

 

 

 

The Times reported in October 2018:

 

 

 

 

 

 

STV News reported (5 October 2018):

 

 

 

STV News on the "nightmares" for @sspo following a damning report by @ScottishEPA (with Scottish Salmon Watch saying the industry was "riding roughshod over regulations") https://t.co/20XkzD7tX8 (starts at 3 min 35 secs) @STVNews @SSPOsays @JulieHL @scotgp @ScotSalmonTank pic.twitter.com/zRGsQU6zrN

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 5, 2018

 

 

 

BBC News reported (5 October 2018):

 

 

 

 

The Daily Mail reported in July 2018:

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in July 2018:

 

Failing Fish Farms: Scotland's Worst Salmon Farms Named & Shamed

 

- 51 sites including Marine Harvest's Loch Leven salmon farm promoted by Prince Charles & Scotland's first salmon farm to be certified by the ASC (now expired) 

Documents disclosed by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) via Freedom of Information (FOI) expose the poor practices of Scotland's worst salmon farms.  In February, BBC News revealed that 51 fish farms in Scotland were failing to comply with environmental protection measures yet SEPA failed to name the companies responsible.  In July, SEPA finally disclosed documents naming and shaming the salmon farming companies guilty of non-compliance during 2016 [1]. 

Scottish Salmon Watch can now reveal that Scottish salmon's worst operator is Norwegian-owned Scottish Sea Farms with 10 fish farms failing SEPA's compliance assessment in 2016 (with 9 farms assessed as "Poor" and one as "Very Poor").  Norwegian-owned Marine Harvest and Canadian-owned Cooke Aquaculture closely follow both with 9 failing fish farms and Jersey-registered and Swiss-owned the Scottish Salmon Company with 6 failing fish farms (all are members of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation). 

One of Marine Harvest's 9 salmon farms rated as "Poor" was Loch Leven - the first salmon farm in Scotland to be certified by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council and one of only two ASC-certified farms in Scotland before its certification expired in February 2018.  Marine Harvest's other ASC-certified site in Loch Linnhe has had its certification "cancelled" according to the ASC and expires in November - with another three salmon farms operated by Marine Harvest (Duich, Loch Alsh & Ardintoul) also having their ASC-certification "cancelled" [2].  Marine Harvest's farm in Loch Leven was visited by Prince Charles in 2016 who said it "has set the benchmark" and described the operations as "sustainable". 

 

Photo: Prince Charles preaching about "sustainability" on his web-site using a photo of himself standing in front of Marine Harvest's of Loch Leven salmon farm (rated as "Poor" by SEPA)

 

 

Marine Harvest's salmon farm in Loch Duich - a Special Area of Conservation supposedly protected under EU Law - was ranked "Poor" by SEPA due to a significant failure for contamination of sediments with residues of the toxic chemical Emamectin benzoate. 

Two of Scottish Sea Farms' 10 salmon farms rated as "Very Poor" or "Poor" were located at  Fishnish in the Sound of Mull - the site of the killing a humpback whale in 2014 and exceedance of lice limits in January 2018.  Fishnish A salmon farm "failed repeatedly" according to SEPA with "6 consecutive unsatisfactory surveys since 2006" and Fishnish B had "3 consecutive unsatisfactory surveys since 2010" leading to SEPA imposing a conditional reduction in biomass on both sites. 

Another Scottish Sea Farm site in Loch Spelve at Balure on the Isle of Mull was rated "Very Poor" due to exceedance of the Environmental Quality Standard for residues of Emamectin benzoate (a toxic chemical known to kill lobsters) and evidence of drug over-dosing.  

One of the Scottish Salmon Company's 6 salmon rated as "Poor" was Gometra salmon farm off the Isle of Mull - a site controversially approved back in 2012 despite a campaign calling it "dangerous" and a "blight on the horizon".  Another "Poor" salmon farm operated by the Scottish Salmon Company is located at Inch Kenneth in Loch na Keal on the Isle of Mull - described by SEPA as failing all benthic surveys since 2002. 

Cooke Aquaculture's hatchery in Furnace was rated "Poor" for effluent discharge failures into Loch Fyne whilst Wester Ross Fisheries - a company with a long history of pollution breaches - had two salmon farms assessed by SEPA as "Poor" due to 'unsatisfactory' benthic pollution in Little Loch Broom and Loch Broom.

Here's the list of 42 salmon farms rated as "Poor" or "Very Poor" in 2016 - download Excel spreadsheet obtained from SEPA via Operators List

 

 

 

"Salmon farms across Scotland are riding roughshod over environmental regulations," said Don Staniford, Director of Scottish Salmon Watch.  "Even the best salmon farm Scotland has to offer  - Marine Harvest's Loch Leven farm championed by Prince Charles and certified by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council - has been officially ranked by SEPA as 'Poor'.  How embarrassing - shame on Scottish salmon!"

 

HRH Prince Charles visits Scottish salmon farm #sustainability HRH Prince Charles and MH Steve Bracken. Marine Harvest Loch Leven Site. pic.twitter.com/ki2H5kTKnj

— william dowds (@fishfarmerwd) November 3, 2016

Download in full with Background and Notes to Editors via:

Press Release: "Failing Fish Farms: Scotland's Worst Salmon Farms Named & Shamed" (27 July 2018) (PDF)

 

 

 

 

The Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture reported in February 2017:

 

Failing Fish Farms

- 18% rated "poor" by SEPA in 2015

 

Exclusive information obtained via FOI from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) lifts the lid on the "poor" performance of Scotland's marine salmon farms - with almost a fifth (18%) classified by SEPA as failing and responsible for "at least one significant breach".  Norwegian-owned Marine Harvest, Scotland's largest salmon farming company, is the worst operator with 13 "failing" salmon farms in 2015 (that's 27% of the 49 marine salmon farms operated by Marine Harvest Scotland). 

The number of marine salmon farms assessed by SEPA as "poor" rose from 37 in 2014 to 51 in 2015 (the worst year on record).  Failures reported in 2015 included "biomass exceedance", "chemical residue exceedance", "insufficient monitoring", "chemical use exceedance" and "unsatisfactory seabed surveys". 

In November 2016 SEPA published their  'Compliance Assessment' scheme which rated 58 fish farms as "poor" in 2015 (an increase from 2014 when there were 42 fish farms assessed as "poor").  Importantly, the data did not name the operators prompting a FOI request from GAAIA. 

SEPA stated in a press release (10 November 2016): "Scotland’s fish-farming sector has seen a drop from 86% to 82% compliance over the past year, and SEPA is presently engaging with industry representatives to improve this." 

However, compliance for freshwater cage fish farms, tanks and hatcheries was much higher with 98% of freshwater cage fish farms classified as being 'Excellent' or 'Good' in 2011 and 99% of tank farms and hatcheries classified as 'Excellent' or 'Good' in 2011 [1].

Based upon documents disclosed by SEPA in February 2017 (via F0187239 and F0187139), GAAIA can now reveal:

• 18% of marine cage fish farms were rated "poor" in 2015
• 2015 is the worst year with 51 rated as "poor" (up from 37 in 2014)
• Marine Harvest is the worst operator followed by the Scottish Salmon Company, Scottish Seafarms, Cooke Aquaculture, Hjaltland Seafarms (Grieg Seafood) and Loch Duart
• The 16 worst salmon farms (who all "failed" for three years out of the five years of SEPA's compliance assessment) included four sites operated by Cooke Aquaculture, four by the Scottish Salmon Company, three by Grieg Seafood, three by Marine Harvest, one by Scottish Seafarms and one by Wester Ross Fisheries

 

 

Download the non-compliance data for 2011-2015 as an Excel spreadsheet online here 

 

 

In November 2016, the Ferret published the following table of "Scotland's polluting industries" with fish farms ranked 2nd worst:

 

Read more via "Exposed: the 383 plants that pollute Scotland" and "Mapped: the hundreds of firms condemned for ‘poor’ pollution performance"

 

 

Download press release and media backgrounder as a PDF online here

 

 

 

How many fish farms have failed environmental rules since 2011 & which companies have the worst record? Data is published online but it's now dated - does new data exist or was it hacked by cyber-terrorists? https://t.co/5GE4Q8xGWk @ScottishEPA @SSPOsays @robedwards53 @scotgp pic.twitter.com/dgX9vOqOeW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 19, 2021

 

 

 

Read more via: 

• Times: "Fears for environment as more fish farms fail to comply with standards"  
• BBC News: "One in five Scottish fish farms 'not meeting standards'"
• BBC Good Evening Shetland on Failing Fish Farms
• BBC Radio Scotland's 'Newsdrive' on Failing Fish Farms
• Marine Harvest’s ASC-certified site ranked ‘poor’ in 2016 environmental protection report
• Shetland News: "Isles salmon farms rated 'poor' by SEPA"
• P&J: "Salmon farms accused of poor environmental practices"
• Failing Fish Farms: Scotland's Worst Salmon Farms Named & Shamed
• Failing Fish Farms - 18% rated "poor" by SEPA in 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daily Record: "Call to dump 'hypocrite' Charles from fish charity"

 

"Call to dump 'hypocrite' Charles from fish charity" @Daily_Record https://t.co/p8HzvmLBTV@AST_Salmon @ClarenceHouse @SalmonTroutCons @SoilAssociation #Organic #Scamon @MowiScotlandLtd @SoilAssocScot @rspcaassured @SSPOsays

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 18, 2021

 

 

 

The Daily Record reported (18 October 2021):

 

 

 

Today's Daily Record: "Call to dump 'hypocrite' Charles from fish charity" https://t.co/PnTJ4x4llw @ClarenceHouse @AST_Salmon @SalmonTroutCons @SoilAssociation @fms_scotland @Daily_Record @OrganicConsumer @OrganicTrade @LawWoodward @peterk69 @JoannaBlythman #Organic #Scamon pic.twitter.com/NVotEEpBAL

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 18, 2021

 

 

 

Read more via:

Sunday Times: "Prince Charles is a ‘hypocrite’ for promoting organic salmon"

Herald: "Fish farmers 'should face penalties and even criminal charges for mass escapes'"

Call to Close Down Salmon Farms in Scotland!

Paxo stuffs salmon farming The Daily Mail!

Prince Charles's slap in face after 'organic' salmon farm refused planning: Why does the AST patron give the royal seal of approval to salmon pharming?

Scottish 'Organic' Scamon Leaps 181% - 4,462 tonnes to 12,528 tonnes from 2019 to 2020!

"We Won the Battle": Campaigners Celebrate as 'Organic' Salmon Farm Refused Planning Permission on Skye!

'Organic' Salmon Fit for the Queen? Not Even Fit for Her Dogs!

Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles

 

 

Can Prince Charles continue as patron of ⁦@SalmonTroutCons⁩ while continuing to support farmed organic salmon? @TheGAAIA are among those who think not… https://t.co/6IAyRd1A4z

— Mark Macaskill (@macca808) October 17, 2021

 

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

 

Another lousy day in Loch Carron - a Marine Protected Area - as a Hydrolicer arrives from Norway to torture thousands more lice-infested 'Scottish' salmon @salmon_scottish @Folketrygdfond @SSPOsays @MairiGougeon @nature_scot @ScottishEPA @MairiMcAllan https://t.co/h2Ej1rN1x6 pic.twitter.com/R305kksnA1

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 18, 2021

 

Here's the Norwegian-registered Hydro Pioneer on the war path in Loch Carron this morning (18 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

Salmon Business reported in September 2019:

 

 

 

 

Here's video footage of a hydrolicer in operation at a salmon farm courtesy of Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots:

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in June 2020:

 

REVEALED: Over Half a Million Salmon Tortured to Death by De-Licers! https://t.co/ItJDnGHzdB @marinescotland @FergusEwingMSP @scotgp @Animallawyersuk @MairiGougeon @ProfCMDwyer @MowiScotlandLtd @GriegShetland @scotseafarms @salmon_scottish @rspcaassured @ciwf @onekindtweet pic.twitter.com/Rwj3HSkxfo

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 10, 2020

 

 

A Scottish Parliamentary reply by Fergus Ewing in March 2020 revealed that over half a million (522,702) farmed salmon died shocking deaths due to the operation of the Thermolicer, Hydrolicer and Optilicer from 2016 to 2019.  The Hydrolicer is the most lethal with 269,674 farmed salmon mortalities followed by the Thermolicer (177,601 deaths) and the Optlicer (75,427 deaths):

 

 

 

Here's the yearly breakdown of deaths each year due to the Thermolicer, Hydrolicer and Optilicer:

2016: 137,448

2017: 168,243

2018: 58,968

2019: 158,044

Total: 522,702

 

 

Over half a million (522,702) farmed salmon died shocking deaths due to the Hydrolicer (269,674 deaths), Thermolicer (177,601 deaths) & Optilicer (75,427 deaths) https://t.co/ItJDnGHzdB @FergusEwingMSP @GreenerScotland @scotgp @markruskell @MairiGougeon @ProfCMDwyer @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/89o17zCUHD

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 10, 2020

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported last month (24 September 2021):

 

"This is the scum - all the salmon fat polluting our waters," says Jamie Moyes in a video from West Strome salmon farm @salmon_scottish "Absolutely disgusting, stinking. Oh my God, it is thick. It is a toxic soup - it makes you sick the smell" @SSPOsays https://t.co/6VlzcwKJh5 pic.twitter.com/RffPTrp9eg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 24, 2021

 

 

Video footage from The Scottish Salmon Company's West Strome salmon farm in Loch Carron has been shared with Police Scotland's Wildlife Crime Unit, the Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA), the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).  

 

 

 

Breaking News: "Horror Videos Reveal Welfare Abuse Inside Scottish Salmon & Trout Cages" https://t.co/T4hSvF6HHZ @salmon_scottish @kamesfishfarm @SSPOsays @rspcaassured @Try_Lochlander @SaumonLabel#Boycott #Scottish #Salmon #Trout pic.twitter.com/T3yUbxbrb3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 12, 2021

 

 

 

SEPA wrote last month (23 September 2021) to Jamie Moyes that the Fish Health Inspectorate "have already attended the site":

From: Steel, Andrew <Andrew.Steel@sepa.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 4:39:35 PM
To: jamie moyes <jamieinmaleny@hotmail.com>
Cc: MacPherson, Alison <alison.macpherson@sepa.org.uk>
Subject: RE: SEPA: Pollution event, Loch Carron

 

OFFICIAL – BUSINESS

Dear Mr Moyes,

 

On 13 September you contacted SEPA about concerns for material on the sea surface and in suspension as a result of discharges at the West Strome fish farm site in Loch Carron, where a moored vessel was operating and discharging. Your emails to Alison MacPherson included links to two videos, which your email indicates were recorded on 8 September 2021. You also state that a report had been submitted to SEPA on 5 September. Please advise how the 5 September report to SEPA was made and include any supporting information that you have, emails or screen grabs etc.

Since 13 September Stuart Baird, an Area Manager for SEPA, has tried to contact you by telephone to discuss this matter further. Contact details for Stuart were left by voicemail, but he has not received any response. He can be contacted on 07809 041899, or stuart.baird@sepa.org.uk.

 

We have contacted the operators at Strome and they have advised on treatments undertaken at the site, which includes hydrolicer operations being undertaken on 4 to 8 September 2021 inclusive. Freshwater treatments took place on 5 and 6 September, and bath treatment on 5 September. We understand that around the time of these treatments there was a level of fish mortality at the site, however SEPA do not receive numbers on specific events, as this is reported to the Fish Health Inspectorate.

 

Regarding the material you observed on the sea surface and in suspension, hydrolicers use low pressure water jets to create turbulence that dislodges sea lice from the fish as they are drawn into a treatment chamber on the delousing vessel using pumps.  The material observed is likely to have been residue from the physical treatment and foam which is generated when sea water containing organic matter is agitated. Foams and debris can occur naturally during storms when organic matter is agitated. In the West Strome case, the organic matter agitated by the treatment vessel will have been a combination of mucus and organic matter from the fish being treated in the hydrolicer and organic matter in the seawater pumped through the hydrolicer. The material you observed may have been influenced by the presence of dead fish in the cages, some of which may have passed through the hydrolicer, or by the presence of decomposing fish in the cage being agitated by the flow discharged by the hydrolicer. Given the nature of the material and its expected rapid dispersion, we have no reason to believe it posed a significant pollution risk, however we acknowledge that odour and discolouration was apparent in the area around the fish farm cage group.

Information on a dead fish falling from the net into the sea during loading of the vessel as observed in the video, was reported to the Fish Health Inspectorate, who have already attended the site to review the report. The email of 13 September 2021 @ 17:25 states that you have a video recording of salmon being pumped directly into the sea, however this is not shown or described in the two videos provided. If you do have video of this, please send this to us and we will forward it to the Fish health Inspectorate, as that is within their remit.

Kind regards,

Andrew Steel

Environment Protection Officer, e: andrew.steel@sepa.org.uk, web: www.sepa.org.uk

 

 

SEPA on @salmon_scottish scum: "Hydrolicers use low pressure water jets to create turbulence that dislodges sea lice...the organic matter agitated by the treatment vessel will have been a combination of mucus & organic matter" https://t.co/6Vlzcx2k8D @ScottishEPA @TerryAHearn

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 24, 2021

 

 

 

The latest lice data is available via 'Scotland's Aquaculture' - with The Scottish Salmon Company's West Strome salmon farm ranked as the 10th highest for September 2021:

 

 

 

 

Lousy Scottish Salmon - check out which farms have the highest lice-infestation. Loch Duart top the September chart (i.e. worst) racking up an 'enforcement notice' @marinescotland @LochDuartSalmon with @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish & @GriegShetland https://t.co/sepjr13xkD pic.twitter.com/OEhZqmOmuI

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 18, 2021

 

 

 

Search the lice data online here

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Video Nasty: Scottish Salmon's Toxic Soup in Loch Carron!
• "Campaigners bring fresh abuse claims" (Fish Farmer)
• Press Release: "Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse Inside Salmon Cages in Iceland & Scotland"
• Update on welfare inspection at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron?
• Winslet Film Exposes Salmon Farming's Titanic-Sized Secrets - in cinemas now!
• 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)

Sunday Times: "Greenwashing claim over effect of fish farming"

 

Greenwashed scottish salmon @SundayTimesScot https://t.co/h3jLWn2Mch @SalmonTroutCons @SSPOsays @MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllan

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 17, 2021

 

 

 

The Sunday Times reported (17 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our team in Scotland call for Scottish Government to substantiate its claim that #salmonfarming is "sustainable". Their failure to do so will mean that Scottish Government is guilty of blatant greenwash.

Read more here 👉 https://t.co/vxKS5Df4Up

— Salmon & Trout Conservation (@SalmonTroutCons) September 30, 2021

 

 

 

Follow Salmon & Trout Conservation on Twitter:

 

Join us and say no to open-net #salmonfarming in Scotland. In the face of the Scottish Government's encouragement of the salmon farming industry, we will now oppose the continued operation of all open-net salmon farms. Pledge your support https://t.co/v7J2BlkfmX pic.twitter.com/JOA9k0nRwH

— Salmon & Trout Conservation (@SalmonTroutCons) October 13, 2021

 

 

Jeremy Paxman on wild #salmon and the enduring insidious threat of #salmonfarming https://t.co/ZPelXQQHAo

— Salmon & Trout Conservation (@SalmonTroutCons) October 11, 2021

 

 

 

 

National Geographic reported last month (24 September 2021):

 

 

 

National Geographic: “It’s a toxic industry” says Don Staniford, director of the environmental activism group Scottish Salmon Watch, who regularly sneaks onto Scottish salmon farms, including some owned by Mowi, to record video of dead and dying salmon" https://t.co/McmY9IY6nM pic.twitter.com/yJrTarmFG2

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 24, 2021

 

 

 

Intrafish reported (1 July 2021):

 

 

 

 

Net Tightens on Lawsuits vs 'Salmafia' - Crook er I mean Cooke "unable to quash lawsuit over deceptive marketing practices" @cookeseafood @CookeScotland @TrueNorthSeafd @IntraFishNorge @AnimalOutlookhttps://t.co/VWdEJqUuy2 @seafoodnorway @NorwaySeafoodUS pic.twitter.com/8JIpU14iQb

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 5, 2021

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in March 2021:

 

Looking forward to more honest advertising by Mowi following their class action lawsuit settlement which outlaws "sustainably sourced" & "all natural" marketing messages @DucktrapRiver @mowisalmon_us https://t.co/Kvw5DI49iy@MowiCanadaWest @ScotlandMowi @TheCounter @natlawreview pic.twitter.com/mFC5c3d5Gr

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 22, 2021

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported (19 March 2021):

 

 

 

 

Intrafish reported (18 March 2021):

 

 

 

 

Intrafish's Drew Cherry wrote (18 March 2021):

 

 

 

 

The hardest job in the world - Fish Health Director for Mowi! Meritxell Diez-Padrisa has taken on an impossible challenge @rspcaassured @ScotlandMowi https://t.co/6ZuI6uw2aM
"Mowi is Goodness" claims Mowi's marketing - yet more deceptive advertising! https://t.co/Kvw5DI49iy pic.twitter.com/mgwbCIpzzR

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 23, 2021

 

 

 

The Counter reported in August 2020:

 

 

 

 

 

In 2019, Loch Duart was forced to drop their 'Sustainable' salmon branding after a ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority.

 

 

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported (29 March 2021):

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Watch out for a new report - 'Greenwashing Scottish Salmon' - out in early 2022:

 

 

 

Please open your eyes to the horrors of factory salmon farming - don't be deceived by glossy marketing & artificial colourings. Boycott pharmed salmon with a fake tan! https://t.co/VLfQDbl6hA @rspcaassured @SSPOsays @ScotlandMowi @salmon_scottish @scotseafarms @ASC_aqua #Scamon pic.twitter.com/gwce6IUkf6

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 5, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salmon farming in Scotland "ranks among the worst environmental disasters in western Europe" says @SalmonTroutCons @SundayTimesScot https://t.co/h3jLWn2Mch @MairiGougeon @SSPOsays @tavishscott @HamishMacdonell @janicemacgregor

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 17, 2021

 

 

Prince Charles outed as a 'hypocrite' for promoting "organic" salmon in The Sunday Times & the Scottish Government accused of "greenwashing" over 'sustainable' salmon farming @SundayTimesScot @ClarenceHouse @scotgov @SoilAssociation @AST_Salmon @fms_scotland @SSPOsays @scotgp pic.twitter.com/VlRvUEmzE2

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 18, 2021

 

Sunday Times: "Prince Charles is a ‘hypocrite’ for promoting organic salmon"

 

Can Prince Charles continue as patron of ⁦@SalmonTroutCons⁩ while continuing to support farmed organic salmon? @TheGAAIA are among those who think not… https://t.co/6IAyRd1A4z

— Mark Macaskill (@macca808) October 17, 2021

 

The Sunday Times reported (17 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prince Charles has a history of being badly advised and poorly equipped when it comes to building business liaisons.
His meeting with the grovelling “Organic” Sea Harvest is yet another poor taste decision.@_KateForbes @SSPOsays @ClarenceHouse https://t.co/DnC6yvcbX6 pic.twitter.com/TWl4mAKjQ6

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) October 17, 2021

 

Prince Charles outed as a 'hypocrite' for promoting "organic" salmon in The Sunday Times & the Scottish Government accused of "greenwashing" over 'sustainable' salmon farming @SundayTimesScot @ClarenceHouse @scotgov @SoilAssociation @AST_Salmon @fms_scotland @SSPOsays @scotgp pic.twitter.com/VlRvUEmzE2

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 18, 2021

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported earlier this week (11 October 2021):

 

Prince Charles's slap in face after 'organic' salmon farm refused planning: Why does the @AST_Salmon patron give the royal seal of approval to salmon pharming? @ClarenceHouse @SoilAssociation @SoilAssocScot @SalmonTroutCons @fms_scotland @JeremyPaxman https://t.co/STXdJXFVIu pic.twitter.com/nhze5sHc7k

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2021

 

 

 

 

Prince Charles's patronage of salmon farming interests via the Atlantic Salmon Trust raises serious questions.    Scottish Salmon Watch reported in September 2020:

 

Judas sold out Jesus for thirty pieces of silver - it seems the Atlantic Salmon Trust are willing to sell the King of Fish down the river for £300,000 https://t.co/H5siw5DAlq @AST_Salmon @ScotlandMowi @MowiScotlandLtd @fms_scotland @marinescotland @HamishMacdonell @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/NlLqvH9cCM

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 28, 2020

 

 

 

Sadly, HRH the Prince of Wales's notion of 'sustainability' is Mowi's disease-ridden salmon farms!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Daily Mail reported in July 2015:

 

 

 

 

 

 

His Royal Highness and the rest of the royal family should maybe sit down together in front of the telly tonight to watch the Kate Winslet-narrated film 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' which features footage of farmed salmon being tortured by a Thermolicer in Loch Leven (a farm now certified as 'organic' by the Soil Association). 

 

 

Eating Our Way to Extinction - narrated by Kate Winslet - "aims to influence a sea-change in eating habits and to convince viewers to boycott farmed salmon" https://t.co/YQ07ck6yDI @SundayTimesScot @EatingOur #eating2extinction #eowte #Boycott #Scottish #Salmon @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/H9aolC5z9P

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 29, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported last week (8 October 2021):

 

The scam that is 'organic' Scottish salmon - aka 'Organic Scamon' - has almost trebled in a year: increasing from 4,462 tonnes of 'organic' salmon reported in 2019 to 12,528 tonnes in 2020. That's a leap of 181% in a single year! https://t.co/VdswDPek3E @SoilAssociation pic.twitter.com/U6A3Isa3Hv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in March 2021:

As Royal Patron of @SoilAssociation why is the use of the toxic chemical Deltamethrin - show by recent science to be lethal to lobsters - allowed for use on 'organic' salmon farms? @ClarenceHouse @dimbleby_jd @Charlotcostume @SoilAssocScot @HelenBOrganic @JoannaBlythman @peterk69 https://t.co/9mKOkQZA2u

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 20, 2021

 

 

 

On Friday (15 October 2021), a lobbyist for the Norwegian-owned salmon farming industry made the case for cooperation, compromise and conciliation between wild and pharmed salmon interests.

 

"The salmon is Scotland, whether it is a wild fish pulled from a fast-flowing river on a single fly or whether it is farmed, smoked, packaged & sold in shops around the world" @HamishMacdonell @SSPOsays @fishfarmermag https://t.co/TVuJREVivl
No difference at all!! #ScottishScamon pic.twitter.com/wlJ0XSizix

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 16, 2021

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Herald: "Fish farmers 'should face penalties and even criminal charges for mass escapes'"

Call to Close Down Salmon Farms in Scotland!

Paxo stuffs salmon farming The Daily Mail!

Prince Charles's slap in face after 'organic' salmon farm refused planning: Why does the AST patron give the royal seal of approval to salmon pharming?

Scottish 'Organic' Scamon Leaps 181% - 4,462 tonnes to 12,528 tonnes from 2019 to 2020!

"We Won the Battle": Campaigners Celebrate as 'Organic' Salmon Farm Refused Planning Permission on Skye!

'Organic' Salmon Fit for the Queen? Not Even Fit for Her Dogs!

Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles

The Oban Times: "Mowi takes anti-salmon farming campaigner to court"

 

"Mowi takes anti-salmon farming campaigner to court" @obantimes "I will be defending @MowiScotlandLtd's legal action in the strongest terms. Thankfully, the truth always wins out in the end. I look forward to debating these vital issues in open court" https://t.co/CbAgHqNdBO pic.twitter.com/ks2PPZ9XNQ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 16, 2021

 

 

 

The Oban Times reported (14 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

I will be defending Mowi's legal action in the strongest terms - the truth always wins out in the end! @IntraFish https://t.co/griR3K3N6a @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @Folketrygdfond @tavishscott

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Pyrrhic Victory or Legal Loss - Mowi's 'asymmetric war' is doomed to failure!
• Mowi Ignores Newton's 'Third Law of Motion' - for every action, there's an equal & opposite reaction!
• Censored: Trade Press Ignore 'Droit de Response' (Right of Reply) - until politely asked to do so!
• "The People Are Disgusted With Mowi's Legal Action Against Don Staniford - Stop Buying Mowi Salmon!"
• Mowi Actively Courts Trade Press Backlash Vs 'Irrational' & 'Fanatical' Activist!
• STV News: "Salmon farm firm takes legal action against animal welfare campaigner"
• Intrafish Editor's Picks: "Mowi fed up with salmon farming activist"
• Mowi Whistleblower Leaks Photos & Video: "fish farming is a disgusting industry"!
• Video Shows Mowi Acting Recklessly & Dangerously - a licence to kill?
• Press statement on lawsuit vs Mowi
• Mowi press release: "Court order sought to protect health and safety"
• "Mowi takes long-time salmon farming opponent to court" (Intrafish)

 

 

 

In filing a lawsuit & issuing a press release publicising their legal action against me, Mowi's lawyers have ignored basic science. I flunked physics at school but understand Newton's 'Third Law of Motion': For every action, there is an equal & opposite reaction! @MowiScotlandLtd pic.twitter.com/h7GUFRzHzw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 12, 2021

 

 

 

@TheGAAIA has done more to expose the environmental & welfare problems caused by salmon farms in Scotland than anyone else - @rspcaassured doesn't even bother checking. You are trying to hide the truth and stop legitimate investigation - all of which is in the public interest.

— Colin McPherson (@colin_mcp) October 16, 2021

 

Herald: "Fish farmers 'should face penalties and even criminal charges for mass escapes'"

 

"We believe that the problems associated with aquaculture in Scotland are so severe that it is necessary for the Scottish Parliament to consider creating not just regulatory penalties but also criminal offences" @ScotGamekeepers @heraldscotland https://t.co/9u9nPo5ozg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 16, 2021

 

 

The Herald reported (16 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Far from Fine: Mowi Recaptures Less Than 1% of Escapees in Scotland!

Fines, Lost Licences & Prison Sentences for Repeat Escape Offenders!

Scottish Salmon's Great Escape

Call to jail fish-farm bosses who allow escapes

 

 

Greenpeace goes to court to close down Mowi salmon farm after escape in Chile https://t.co/I9WvJUnztc What action is @fms_scotland @marinescotland @AST_Salmon @ScotLINK @SalmonTroutCons @ArranCoast @strathearnrose @scotgp taking against @MowiScotlandLtd for escapes in Scotland?

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 1, 2020

 

 

Mowi was fined $6.6 million for an escape of 690,000 salmon #Chile - how much will the Scottish Government fine @MowiScotlandLtd for the recent escape of 49,000 #Scotland? https://t.co/HMBZcuXDWL Mowi Scotland boss Ben Hadfield earns $1 million #Salmoney #Salmafia #Salmonopoly pic.twitter.com/cY8SbjsFGs

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 28, 2020

 

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

 

Halloween has come early at the Faroese/Norwegian owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company - video reveals mass mortalities & infectious diseases ravaging Isle of Gigha @salmon_scottish @SSPOsays
Why is the Norwegian Government still investing? @Folketrygdfond https://t.co/OzmwVhMj6p pic.twitter.com/O2lbyCxURe

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 16, 2021

 

Halloween has come early at The Faroese/Norwegian-owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company.   Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots posted on Facebook (15 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

We surveyed @salmon_scottish Gigha farms a couple months ago and were using Acoustic Deterrent Devices illegally without EPS license and now trying to skip 500,000 diseased and dying fish before the Fish Health Inspectorate turn up. What definition of sustainable is this? pic.twitter.com/1XMbd4hiUx

— david nairn (@ClydePorpoise) October 15, 2021

 

Here's photo stills from the video footage:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Isle of Gigha - in Old Norse it means "God's island" or "good island" - has been hit by another Viking invasion in the shape of the Norwegian/Faroese-owned 'Scottish' Salmon Co. @salmon_scottish
What the hell are you doing? @Folketrygdfond @SSPOsays https://t.co/OzmwVhMj6p pic.twitter.com/F1wVVPyoGC

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 18, 2021

 

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots posted on Facebook (18 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

Earlier this month (14 October 2021), Scottish Salmon Watch shared gruesome video footage of morts being disposed of at a salmon farm in the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Canada:

 

Video Nasties of Dead Farmed Salmon Pile Up All Over the World! https://t.co/J2Y7MiNXnE @ClayoquotAction @CermaqCan @ClayoquotFriend @claybiotrust @CCUNESCO @BCSalmonFarmers @Cermaq @WesterlyNews

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported last month (19 September 2021):

 

 

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported last month (10 September 2021):

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported earlier this month (6 October 2021):

 

The Faroese-owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company blames "biology", Brexit & Covid for £19.4 million loss https://t.co/C1FEXXZAui
It was obviously nothing to do with welfare abuse, lice infestations, overstocking & rampant disease! @salmon_scottish @SSPOsays @Folketrygdfond #Bakkafrost pic.twitter.com/z7OdXCDPXl

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 6, 2021

 

 

 

In September 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch published shocking video footage of mass mortalities, lice infestation and welfare abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company's West Strome salmon farm in Loch Carron (a 'Special Area of Conservation'):

 

"This is the scum - all the salmon fat polluting our waters," says Jamie Moyes in a video from West Strome salmon farm @salmon_scottish "Absolutely disgusting, stinking. Oh my God, it is thick. It is a toxic soup - it makes you sick the smell" @SSPOsays https://t.co/6VlzcwKJh5 pic.twitter.com/RffPTrp9eg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 24, 2021

 

 

“Scottish salmon leaves me sick to the stomach,” said Jamie Moyes, a vegan activist who acted as boat support to Scottish Salmon Watch when we filmed inside The Scottish Salmon Company's West Strome salmon farm on 6 September 2021. “I used to work as a salmon farmer and I am ashamed that the Scottish Salmon Company is causing such horrific distress and suffering. Anyone who watches this video footage will be put off eating Scottish salmon for life. The Scottish Government needs to take immediate action to end the torture of thousands of farmed salmon dying in the cages in Loch Carron”.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

The new film 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' (streaming now on AppleTV, Amazon, iTunes and You Tube) narrated by Kate Winslet features stomach-churning footage of the Titanic-sized disaster that is RSPCA Assured Scottish salmon farming.

 

Eating Our Way to Extinction - narrated by Kate Winslet - "aims to influence a sea-change in eating habits and to convince viewers to boycott farmed salmon" https://t.co/YQ07ck6yDI @SundayTimesScot @EatingOur #eating2extinction #eowte #Boycott #Scottish #Salmon @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/H9aolC5z9P

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 29, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Here's more video nasties shot at The Scottish Salmon Company's disease-ridden salmon farms in Loch Fyne:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in July 2021:

 

New Data: It's official - Scottish salmon is the worst ever! https://t.co/8w3aNU5XSp @ScottishEPA
27,000 tonnes of mortalities - almost four times more than the 7,000 tonnes officially reported in 2010!
Please boycott @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation & @SaumonLabel pic.twitter.com/i0BFh6eCRT

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2021

 

 

Here's the worst monthly mortalities (by weight) reported on salmon farms during 2020 - headed by the Faroese/Norwegian owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company followed by Isle of Skye Salmon (owned by Norway's Grieg Seafood) and Norwegian-owned giants Mowi and Scottish Sea Farms.

 

 

 

Six out of the top twenty monthly mortalities since 2002 when data was made available were reported during 2020 - with The Scottish Salmon Company's salmon farm at Sgian Dubh in Loch Striven in August 2020 heading the list of shame.

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Named & Shamed: here's the worst mass mortalities since 2002 & worst during 2020 according to official data @ScottishEPA https://t.co/8w3aNU5XSp @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @GriegShetland @scotseafarms @CookeScotland @LochDuartSalmon @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/3St570gNuk

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2021

 

 

 

In April 2019, Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots published video footage of morts being taken away in a convoy of yellow Billy Bowie trucks from the same salmon farm at Quarry Point: 

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Salmon Company is even less Scottish than Donald Trump - it is owned by Faroese company Bakkafrost whose largest shareholder is the Norwegian Government Pension Fund controlled by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade. 

 

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

 

Oops - Bakkafrost wrongly gives #Sweden not #Norway as the origin of Norwegian Government Pension Fund @Folketrygdfond
"This is clearly a mistake from our side – apologies for that. Folketrygdfondet is Norwegian and this will be corrected on our webpage" https://t.co/NusyErqUWk pic.twitter.com/Yq47zE5wMg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 13, 2020

 

 

 

In November 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch wrote to the Norwegian Government asking them to divest from The Scottish Salmon Company - and other salmon farming companies - as it was unethical and irresponsible.

 

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

 

As largest shareholder in Bakkafrost, @Folketrygdfond should surely divest @salmon_scottish or exert influence to end welfare abuse! Norway's Pension Fund demands ethical & environmental investmenthttps://t.co/NusyErqUWk @NorwayMFA @fiskeridir @NFdep @erna_solberg @Stortinget pic.twitter.com/Fcc06y5hPD

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 13, 2020

 

 

 

Last month, Bakkafrost sought to distance itself from the bloody slaughter of dolphins and whales in the Faroes:

 

 

Hyprocrisy @salmon_scottish - Bakkafrost (Faroese owners of 'Scottish' Salmon Co) condemn slaughter of 1,500 dolphins as “totally unacceptable” yet condone welfare abuse of millions of farmed salmon & use of noisy ADDs which harm cetaceans!https://t.co/fI6y3IPk8W @ClydePorpoise

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 17, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported (14 September 2021):

 

Caught on candid camera - The Scottish Salmon Company claim to have an EPS licence to use ADDs at their salmon farm at West Strome in Loch Carron https://t.co/vvP9mJfXF1
I thought there were no EPS licences issued for ADDs on salmon farms! @nature_scot @marinescotland @SSPOsays

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 13, 2021

 

 

 

The Sunday National and The Ferret reported (27 June 2021):

 

Probe launched over claims of ‘sonic torture’ at Scots fish farms @ScotNational @FerretScot @ClydePorpoise
"Can communities and the Scottish Government really trust what the salmon farming industry says?" @salmon_scottish @SSPOsays @marinescotland https://t.co/1eoZNmbW7X

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 27, 2021

 

Surveying for Acoustic Deterrent Devices in Loch Fyne & Loch Striven found almost every active salmon farm using ADDs. Every farm was operated by Faroese/Norwegian-owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company @salmon_scottish @Folketrygdfond @Try_Lochlander @SSPOsays https://t.co/wcTHtY3oSO pic.twitter.com/J6zsOzrzOA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 29, 2021

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in September 2019 (just before Bakkafrost bought The 'Scottish' Salmon Company from Ukrainian banker Yuriy Lopatynskyy):

 

 

Photographs taken by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate - slipped out unnoticed in April 2019 - reveal severely damaged farmed salmon at The Scottish Salmon Company's Strondoir Bay salmon farm in Loch Fyne in February 2019. 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in August 2019:

 

It's no surprise to read that The Scottish Salmon Company - registered in Jersey, floated on the Norwegian stock exchange and whose largest shareholder is listed as an anonymous account on the Swiss stock exchange believed to be controlled by Ukrainian businessman Yuriy Lopatinskyy who literally has a residence in Edinburgh next to the First Minister of Scotland - is "considering sale offers".  

 

 

 

 

Buyers beware, however.   Before you buy 'Scottish' salmon please take a hard look at the disease-ridden horror story. 

 

 

 

Do you really want to buy a company farming blind salmon plagued by boils (not to mention infested with lice and riddled with infectious diseases, pathogens and viruses)?

 

 

 

Investors and consumers alike are encouraged to read the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate recently published report on The Scottish Salmon Company's salmon farm at Aird in Loch Shieldaig.  The damning report - along with video footage shot by Scottish Salmon Watch in June and previous FHI reports - is enough to put you off Scottish salmon for life. 

 

 

 

Given the horrific nature of their salmon farming business, it is little wonder that lawyers acting for The Scottish Salmon Company threatened legal action in 2018 to prevent the disclosure of damning photos of disease-ridden Scottish salmon.

 

 

 

 

Here's some of the photos - obtained by Scottish Salmon Watch via Freedom of Information - The Scottish Salmon Company did not want the public the see (published in June 2018 by The Ferret). 

 

 

 

 

And more photos (sourced from Scottish Government Fish Health Inspections in 2017 and 2018) published by Scottish Salmon Watch in June 2018 and in August 2018)

 

 

 

 

And here's more stomach-churning photos of diseased salmon at The Scottish Salmon Company in 2016 (published by Scottish Salmon Watch in August 2018 - and sourced from the Scottish Government Fish Health Inspectorate surveillance):

 

 

 

 

The Ferret also reported in September 2018 on shocking images published by photographer Corin Smith from The Scottish Salmon Company's lice-infested salmon farm at Vacasay in Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis:

 

 

 

 

 

Gruesome footage of lice-ridden salmon captured by photographer Corin Smith at The Scottish Salmon Company was featured on the BBC's 'One Show' in September 2018 and also used in a recent video message by Sir David Attenborough. 

 

 

 

The Daily Mail reported in September 2018:

 

 

 

 

Back in February 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch revealed that 99% of 'Scottish' salmon farming production was controlled/owned by six foreign companies including The Scottish Salmon Company (then owned/controlled by Ukrainian banker Yuri Lopatinsky via Northern Link and an anonymous account registered at the Swiss Stock Exchange). 

 

 

 

 

The Ferret reported in February 2019:

 

 

 

In June 2019, lawyers representing The Scottish Salmon Company's controlling shareholder Yuriy Lopatynskyy threatened legal action against Scottish Salmon Watch for publishing information via 'Scottish Scamon'.   Here's the legal threat served in June 2019:

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch did not remove the offending report and stands by the published information.    Find out more about the scam, sham and consumer con that is 'Scottish Scamon' online here.

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

• 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!
• Call to Close Down Salmon Farms in Scotland!
• Climavore spawns boycott of farmed salmon across the UK - take the pledge today!
• The 'Scottish' Salmon Company Haemorrhages Salmoney!
• Video Nasty: Scottish Salmon's Toxic Soup in Loch Carron!
• "Campaigners bring fresh abuse claims" (Fish Farmer)
• Press Release: "Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse Inside Salmon Cages in Iceland & Scotland"
• Update on welfare inspection at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron?
• Winslet Film Exposes Salmon Farming's Titanic-Sized Secrets - in cinemas now!
• 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)

 

 

"No Unauthorised Access - Keep 15m Away" warn The Scottish Salmon Company. Nothing to See Here (Honest)! https://t.co/MI8Ui8POaf@salmon_scottish @Folketrygdfond pic.twitter.com/ZUD7Cnaywb

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 6, 2020

 

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

 

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

 

 

When Alexandra Morton pioneered secret filming inside salmon farms in 2016 I'd never even heard of a Go Pro camera - now five years later the Go Pro has dealt salmon farming the death blow in Canada and turned the tide against the disease-ridden industry in Scotland and Iceland.    Alexandra Morton's 'Hard Evidence' was difficult to ignore when it was published in August 2016:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Further filming inside salmon farms published by Sea Shepherd Society in 2017 shocked the world:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filming by Ernest Alfred and George Quocksister inside salmon farms across British Columbia in 2017 made waves in the global press and on social media. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In October 2017, CTV News broadcast horrific video footage shot inside salmon farms in British Columbia:

 

 

 

 

In 2017, Swedish film-maker Mikael Frödin swam out to a Grieg owned salmon farm in Altafjord armed with a Go Pro on an extendable pole.

 

 

 

 

 

His shocking footage of lice damage and welfare abuse was broadcast in 2018 on Swedish TV and on Norwegian TV.

 

 

 

 

 

"They're all sick, look at them," said Frödin as he filmed inside the Grieg salmon farm:

 

 

Frödin's footage featured in the 2019 film 'Artifishal'.

 

 

 

 

 

In Scotland, Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots (Corin Smith) and Scottish Salmon Watch both started secret filming inside salmon farms in the Summer of 2018 (independently and initially unknown to each other).   Gruesome video footage shot by Corin Smith inside a salmon farm in Loch Roag in August 2018 was broadcast by the BBC One Show and The Ferret in September 2018:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 2019, Sea Shepherd Society published further video footage gathered by Go Pro cameras inserted into salmon farms in British Columbia - including by Pamela Anderson - which has helped turn the tide of public opinion and government policy against salmon farming:

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Scotland, STV News and The Ferret broadcast video footage filmed by Scottish Salmon Watch inside a salmon farm operated by The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Shieldaig in June 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In May 2019, BBC Panorama broadcast video footage shot inside and under salmon farms in Scotland (as well as wild salmon near salmon farms infested with lice).

 

 

 

In December 2020, BBC Countryfile exposed lice-infested and RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Creran (a 'Special Area of Conservation'):

 

This is what Scottish salmon has become.

Why is anyone eating it?@FoodUnwrappedTV @GreggAWallace @JohnTorode1 @ChefTomKerridge @CorrigansFood @TomKitchin @GordonRamsay @raymond_blanc @NickNairn @michelrouxjr @marcuswareing @Alain_Ducasse1 @jc_novelli @ArpegeLive @ScottishSPCA pic.twitter.com/JwcMaeBhrO

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) December 7, 2020

 

 

Watch lice-infested 'Scottish' salmon on BBC Countryfile last night https://t.co/C51W8wp9cz Starts at 11 mins 30 secs@BBCCountryfile @joe_crowley @SSPOsays @marinescotland @SalmonTroutCons @AST_Salmon @tavishscott @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @Folketrygdfond @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/1rFihm3PL9

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 7, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

In May 2021, Italian TV used video footage shot inside farms to expose the underbelly of Scottish salmon on prime time:

 

 

 

 

 

The watershed moment for secret filming inside salmon farms came when 'Seaspiracy' was first aired on Netflix in March 2021 - with video footage shot by Corin Smith inside The Scottish Salmon Company's lice-infested salmon farm in Loch Roag featured for millions around the world to watch in horror.  

 

 

 

 

The Sun reported (30 March 2021):

 

 

 

 

 

'Seaspiracy' quite literally lifted the lid on disease-ridden Scottish salmon when they climbed up a skip full of dead salmon at Mowi's RSPCA Assured and ASC-certified salmon farm at Gorsten in Loch Linnhe.

 

At one point in the documentary, footage obtained from a Highland fish farm shows what appears to be thousands of dead salmon in a tanker with a stench described by @iamalitabrizi as “horrifying” @heraldscotland @CaitlinHutchie @seaspiracy @SSPOsays https://t.co/0rPBVt4FHV

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 1, 2021

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Video footage shot inside nearly two dozen salmon farms across Scotland was published by Compassion in World Farming in March 2021 - the whole world was now watching the horrors inside salmon farms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

When Seaspiracy published video footage shot inside Mowi's lice-infested RSPCA Assured salmon farms in July 2021 it racked up over one million views on Instagram:

 

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

 

 

 

 

Now over one million views for a video nasty of Mowi's lice-infested Scottish salmon! @seaspiracy @instagram https://t.co/I80mzoym6j@marinescotland @APHAgovuk @rspcaassured @ciwf
The camera never lies (unlike salmon farmers)! @SSPOsays @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPCA_Kirsteen pic.twitter.com/zGuhz1LQTS

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 21, 2021

 

 

Patagonia Tweeted:

 

Bad for animal welfare and destructive for the environment. Today is a good day to end open net-cage salmon farming. https://t.co/F23KC8tX6i

— Patagonia (@patagonia) August 3, 2021

 

 

 

Meanwhile, in Iceland secret filming inside salmon farms in August 2021 was turning up the heat against salmon farming yet further. 

 

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

 

 

 

Here's photos from the secret filming:

 

 

 

 

 

 

A quick dip of the GoPro in a salmon feedlot - by Against The Current Iceland.

Look familiar?

Note lice infested, diseased lumpfish. It’s not just salmon that are dying in these cages.@SSPOsays @MairiMcAllan @_KateForbes @HamishMacdonell pic.twitter.com/9lmr643fXs

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) August 13, 2021

 

 

 

The shocking video footage featured on Icelandic TV:

 

 

 

And in Icelandic newspapers:

 

 

 

The secret filming was carried out by Veiga Grét­ars­dótt­ir who kayaks out to salmon farms:

 

 

 

Follow Veiga on Facebook's 'Against the Current Iceland':

 

 

 

Veiga posted an update on Facebook on 17 September 2021:

 

 

 

Photos of dead salmon belly up on the surface of a farm in Iceland https://t.co/xxmozhpBmm
"It has taken them up to one and half hour to pump up dead fish from each net pen, this needs to be stopped right away" says Veiga Grét­ars­dótt­ir of 'Against the Current Iceland' #Iceland pic.twitter.com/pw18FwoILJ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 17, 2021

 

 

 

In September 2021, on the back of secret filming in Iceland and Scotland, campaigners called for open net salmon cages to be closed down.

 

Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse Inside Salmon Cages in Iceland & Scotland - Go Pro cameras lift the lid on the horrors of factory fish farming! https://t.co/ve4uKy26l1
Campaigners are calling on open pen salmon farms to be closed down in the wake of horrific video footage pic.twitter.com/KLObWLqf1Y

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 18, 2021

 

 

 

 

Campaigners are calling on open pen salmon farms to be closed down in the wake of horrific video footage shot inside salmon farms in Iceland & Scotland
“Factory fish farming is a welfare nightmare which must be closed down now,” said Don Staniford https://t.co/ve4uKy26l1

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 18, 2021

 

 

 

Secret filming inside salmon and Steelhead trout farms in September 2021 exposed horrific welfare abuse and mass mortalities.

 

Breaking News: "Horror Videos Reveal Welfare Abuse Inside Scottish Salmon & Trout Cages" https://t.co/T4hSvF6HHZ @salmon_scottish @kamesfishfarm @SSPOsays @rspcaassured @Try_Lochlander @SaumonLabel#Boycott #Scottish #Salmon #Trout pic.twitter.com/T3yUbxbrb3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 12, 2021

 

 

 

 

Here's what to expect if The Scottish Salmon Company is allowed to expand on Arran! @salmon_scottish @North_Ayrshire @ArranCoast @ArranEco @arranbanner @marinescotland @scotgov @ScotGovNetZero @SSPOsays @Folketrygdfond https://t.co/T4hSvF6HHZ#Scottish #Scamon #Bakkafrost pic.twitter.com/jwwWq69VSg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 12, 2021

 

 

 

Viewers can see more secret filming video footage in the Kate Winslet-narrated film 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' now streaming on Amazon, AppleTV, You Tube and iTunes:

 

 

"The buzz kill of the week is this densely researched documentary that’s narrated by Kate Winslet and will probably make it impossible to ever again eat sushi or steak in good conscience (farmed salmon is off my menu!)" https://t.co/AJpbDpsCdb @thetimes @EatingOur #eowte

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 17, 2021

 

 

"The undersea filming of the scabby, misshapen salmon, like piscine extras in ‘The Walking Dead’, was enough to put anyone off eating farmed fish again" https://t.co/0GMN0sOgWm @RT_com @EatingOur https://t.co/dMmm9IyVy9 @SealifeA https://t.co/wuf45aa8BM pic.twitter.com/grZoeegrNj

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 21, 2021

 

 

"The filmmakers secretly visit a salmon farm in Scotland, where they are shown the awful reality of aquaculture for themselves. It will put you off eating salmon for life" https://t.co/s5f57fx6mE @M_Star_Online @EatingOur #eowte #eating2extinction #Boycott #Scottish #Salmon

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 16, 2021

 

 

So five years after Alexandra Morton so bravely stuck her telescopic pole into the lice-infested waters of a salmon cage it is the Go Pro camera who has taken centre stage in the global battle against salmon farming. 

 

“I am part of the #resistance movement against #extinction. The movement spans the globe. We are a force of nature. Like a #river, we well up, slip around, bore through and dive under obstacles. We don’t stop.

This is not the time to give up.”https://t.co/B4s9d8lWIt .

— alexandramorton (@alex4salmon) March 29, 2021

 

 

 

 

When I go into battle - armed with my trusty old Go Pro and £8.99p telescopic pole - it is the inspirational Alexandra Morton who has shown the way.

 

"The more I know … the less I can step away from this battle," said @alex4salmon "I just have to see it through" @CBCRadioCanada @cbcasithappens @CBCNews https://t.co/R4GHrfqO40

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 6, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

"I wish the rest of Canada or BC could see what we witnessed here today," said Millie Willie as she joined Alexandra Morton on one of her filming expeditions in 2016. 

 

 

 

 

"We need to step up now and do something.  This is really hard to take and I just wish that other people could see what I'm seeing.  We need to do something about these fish farms before it's too late."

 

 

 

In August 2016, Millie Willie (then a band councilor and now the newly elected Chief of the Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation) told the foreign-owned salmon farms they were trespassing on the unceded territory of her people.  "You're here illegally," she said.  "The next one will be an eviction notice if you don't get out, ok?  This is just the beginning."

 

 

 

"From what I could see from here made me absolutely sick," said Ernest Alfred.  "And I think the general public needs to know what's going on out here.  Disgusting". 

 

 

 

"They have no right to be here - they've never had persmission," said Millie Willie.  "If you will see what I see today you'll feel the same way - all of Canada would feel the same way."

 

 

 

 

Business in Vancouver reported in August 2016:

 

 

 

 

In 2017, when First Nations occupied salmon farms in British Columbia the Go Pro camera was proudly displayed as one of their most powerful weapons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

CBC News reported in August 2017:

 

 

 

During the 'occupation' of salmon farms in 2017 and 2018, further video footage was captured by Go Pro cameras inside salmon farms - here's George Quocksister and Ernest Alfred armed with Go Pro cameras mounted on a fishing rod and a telescopic pole.

 

 

 

 

"I felt really powerful with a mandate and a responsibility to report and show these images to people - my people, my families - that these fish are really sick," said Ernest Alfred in a video report published by Sea Shepherd Society in August 2017.    "These fish are polluting the environment that we call home.   The images that came out of that farm are horrifying."

 

 

 

 

"After I got off the Noola farm I snuck off to the bow of the Martin Sheen and I just cried," said Ernest Alfred.  "I had this incredible sadness."

 

 

 

 

"From afar we could see the fish were sluggish and from the water and bottom samples we could see the area was really dirty," said the R/V Martin Sheen in a Facebook post in August 2017.  "The smell was pungent.  On the sight of such a tragedy in his territorial waterways Hereditary Chief George set foot on the salmon farm to document the condition of those fish living in the pens."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuelled by secret filming footage, now the tide is turning against salmon farming in Scotland with Salmon & Trout Conservation announcing a policy shift just this week against open net cage salmon farming.

 

Join us and say no to open-net #salmonfarming in Scotland. In the face of the Scottish Government's encouragement of the salmon farming industry, we will now oppose the continued operation of all open-net salmon farms. Pledge your support https://t.co/v7J2BlkfmX pic.twitter.com/JOA9k0nRwH

— Salmon & Trout Conservation (@SalmonTroutCons) October 13, 2021

 

 

 

And a boycott of Scottish salmon - 99.9% of 'Scottish' salmon on sale in supermarkets is farmed not wild - is gathering momentum across the UK.

 

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

 

 

 

In British Columbia, fuelled by shocking video footage and the power of First Nations occupying salmon farms, open net cages are dead in the water with a phase out by 2025 championed by the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. 

 

 

 

 

 

'Global Salmon Farming Resistance' is here to stay. 

 

The global push-back against ocean-based salmonid farming is gaining momentum: "We urge you to join the growing number of countries that have said ‘no’ to open net-pen aquaculture" (letter sent today by Global Salmon Farm Resistance) https://t.co/GU3OLgRkt8 @alex4salmon pic.twitter.com/io1Qk97Tuo

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 17, 2021

 

 

And the global boycott of farmed salmon will never go away!

 

 

 

 

Friends don't let friends eat farmed salmon - please make a video pledge today! https://t.co/4aHyVQVGGA#SalmonPledge #Boycott #Farmed #Salmon pic.twitter.com/cuPmMCXLlW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 5, 2021

 

 

 

Read more via:

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)

 

 

Video Nasties of Dead Farmed Salmon Pile Up All Over the World! https://t.co/J2Y7MiNXnE @ClayoquotAction @CermaqCan @ClayoquotFriend @claybiotrust @CCUNESCO @BCSalmonFarmers @Cermaq @WesterlyNews

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 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 Go Pro Camera Never Lies (Unlike Salmon Farmers) https://t.co/v7uJHswcNK @wildfirstcanada @TryVeg @ciwf @peta @patagonia @SalmonFeedlots @SalmonTroutCons @joe_crowley @andrholder @alex4salmon @ClayoquotAction @NMF_tweet @ArranCoast @SeaShepherdSSCS @CaptPaulWatson @SealifeA pic.twitter.com/yozFwED9Xe

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 15, 2019

 

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

 

 

 

Video Nasties of Dead Farmed Salmon Pile Up All Over the World! https://t.co/J2Y7MiNXnE @ClayoquotAction @CermaqCan @ClayoquotFriend @claybiotrust @CCUNESCO @BCSalmonFarmers @Cermaq @WesterlyNews

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2021

 

 

Halloween horror is an every day occurrence on the world's disease ridden salmon farms as the mountain of mortalities pile up ever higher.   Clayoquot Action in British Columbia, Canada, posted on Facebook (7 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

On the other side of North America in Maine, Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation published just last month (21 September 2021) a photo of the disposal of salmon from Cooke Aquaculture's Black Island salmon farm (video footage is hopefully being posted soon).

 

 

 

 

Video footage of a mass mortality incident - and shocking evidence of lice infestation inside salmon cages at West Strome in Loch Carron at The Scottish Salmon Company - was also published last month.

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In September 2021, Against the Current Iceland published photos of dead farmed salmon being pumped out of a farm:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos of dead salmon belly up on the surface of a farm in Iceland https://t.co/xxmozhpBmm
"It has taken them up to one and half hour to pump up dead fish from each net pen, this needs to be stopped right away" says Veiga Grét­ars­dótt­ir of 'Against the Current Iceland' #Iceland pic.twitter.com/pw18FwoILJ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 17, 2021

 

 

 

In May 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch published stomach-churning video footage of diseased salmon being dumped in a mass graveyard in the Outer Hebrides:

 

 

 

Ewan Kennedy in today's Times: "It’s extremely concerning to learn that massive quantities of diseased fish, many dead from viruses, are still being dumped in open landfill" @thetimes @thetimesscot @ewangkennedy @_KateForbes @GreenerScotland @cne_siarhttps://t.co/PUxDL1BKl1

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 27, 2021

 

 

 

The Daily Mail reported in May 2021:

 

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

 

The Ferret reported in March 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:

 

 

 

 

 

Netflix's global hit 'Seaspiracy' - which has been watched by millions all over the world features shocking video footage of Mowi's disease-ridden fish at their RSPCA Assured and ASC-certified salmon farm at Gorsten in Loch Linnhe.

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

The new film 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' (streaming now on AppleTV, Amazon, iTunes and You Tube) narrated by Kate Winslet features stomach-churning footage of the Titanic-sized disaster that is RSPCA Assured Scottish salmon farming.

 

Eating Our Way to Extinction - narrated by Kate Winslet - "aims to influence a sea-change in eating habits and to convince viewers to boycott farmed salmon" https://t.co/YQ07ck6yDI @SundayTimesScot @EatingOur #eating2extinction #eowte #Boycott #Scottish #Salmon @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/H9aolC5z9P

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 29, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

In 2018 a whistleblower disposing of tonnes and tonnes of dead salmon at Mowi's Carradale salmon farm was so incensed that they leaked photographs of skinned Scottish salmon (the fish were flayed alive in storms - literally battered to death): 

 

Here's what Mowi's @rspcaassured salmon looked like after 300,000 died in the Beast from the East in 2018 at their Carradale farm (the same site hit yesterday by Storm Ellen) https://t.co/hyztwncvhO Skinless Scottish salmon anyone? @MowiScotlandLtd @sainsburys @LidlGB @AldiUK pic.twitter.com/xjf3JM20jG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 21, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

The Sunday Mail reported in June 2018:

 

 

 

 

In November 2019, Sea Shepherd published damning video footage of a mass farmed salmon die-off in Clayoquot Sound.

 

 

 

 

 

In September 2020, The Ferret reported:

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch also filmed mass mortalities at RSPCA Assured Kames Fish Farming in September 2020:

 

 

 

 

And again at RSPCA Assured Kames Fish Farming in September 2021:

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 2016, video footage of diseased salmon in bins was published in British Columbia, Canada:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Barents Observer reported in 2016:

 

 

 

 

 

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:

 

 

 

 

David Ainsley dived under Mowi's salmon farm at Bagh Dail Nan Ceann (in Gaelic it translates as 'Bay of the Dead Heads'):

 

 

 

He videoed dead and dying salmon at the bottom of the cages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drone footage shot in May 2019 at Mowi's ASC-certified and RSPCA Assured salmon farm show dead fish floating on the surface following a 'Thermolicer' treatment. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mass mortalities are piling up at Mowi and other salmon farming companies all over the world.  In 2019, CBC News reported on a mass farmed salmon die-off at Mowi in Newfoundland: 

 

 

 

 

"CBC News requested a site tour from Northern Harvest Sea Farms, a subsidiary of MOWI, but that request was denied," reported CBC News (2 October 2019). 

 

 

"These are obviously bad things for our reputation" admits Mowi's communications manager Eivind Nævdal-Bolstad https://t.co/X74K9wykpO @MowiScotlandLtd @MowiCanadaWest At this rate Mowi will be forced to change their name again?! #Mowi @Salmon_Business @IntraFishNorge pic.twitter.com/1GVn1Yab1C

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 3, 2019

 

 

 

When I filmed inside Mowi's salmon farm in Lough Swilly in July 2019 there were dead salmon floating on the surface of the cages. 

 

 

 

 

Back in 2003, Ireland's RTE broadcast a damning documentary on salmon farming featuring video footage of lice-infested salmon inside a salmon farm, mass mortalities under a salmon farm and illegal dumping of diseased fish:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back in 2014, The Common Sense Canadian reported:

 

 

 

 

 

In July and September 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch visited Grieg Seafood's disease-ridden salmon farming operation on the Isle of Skye:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's nearby Loch Greshornish salmon farm - certified as welfare-friendly by the R$PCA - was piled high with diseased farmed salmon when I visited in July 2020. 

 

 

 

 

Mort bins full of dead farmed Steelhead trout were piled up at nearby Loch Poolteil too in September 2020: 

 

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

 

 

 

Over in Wester Ross, when I visited Mowi's Torridon salmon farm I was close to vomiting as I climbed up another skip full of diseased salmon - no wonder Mowi's lawyers stepped up their legal threats to sue me: 

 

 

 

Mowi Scotland: "will be forced to take further action unless you co-operate with its requests & desist from further unauthorised access....no choice but to take steps to protect the Company’s Sites, and its rights in relation thereto, through the courts" https://t.co/TRIgbdBz1q pic.twitter.com/PNZpWmva3f

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 25, 2020

 

 

 

In July 2021, I filmed at more Mowi salmon farms exposing lice infestation and dead salmon floating on the surface of their RSPCA Assured farms: 

 

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

 

 

RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon is Dead in the Water! @rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @sainsburys @AldiUK @LidlGB @marinescotland @ChrisGPackham @brianblessed @BillOddie @PeterEgan6 @CarolineLucas @PETAUK @philip_ciwf @coopuk @Tesco @asda @Morrisons @waitrose pic.twitter.com/BJSded5D7X

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 19, 2021

 

 

 

The video footage of Mowi's lice-infested salmon farms has now been watched by over one million people via Seaspiracy's Instagram and Twitter social media platforms: 

 

This shocking leaked footage shows salmon being eaten alive by lice at a fish farm in Scotland! pic.twitter.com/EoUO3dv5ee

— seaspiracy (@seaspiracy) August 2, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in July 2021:

 

 

New Data: It's official - Scottish salmon is the worst ever! https://t.co/8w3aNU5XSp @ScottishEPA
27,000 tonnes of mortalities - almost four times more than the 7,000 tonnes officially reported in 2010!
Please boycott @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation & @SaumonLabel pic.twitter.com/i0BFh6eCRT

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2021

 

 

It's official - Scottish salmon is the worst ever!  Official data - published by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency via 'Scotland's Aquaculture' which is sourced from monthly returns submitted by salmon farming companies - reveals that mortalities on salmon farms during 2020 exceeded a staggering 27,000 tonnes (an estimated 20 million dead salmon).   That's more than double the 10,000 tonnes of morts reported in 2013; almost four times more than the 7,000 tonnes reported in 2010 and the worst on record (2019 and 2017 were both just over 25,000 tonnes)!

 

 

 

 

Here's the worst monthly mortalities (by weight) reported on salmon farms during 2020 - headed by the Faroese/Norwegian owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company followed by Isle of Skye Salmon (owned by Norway's Grieg Seafood) and Norwegian-owned giants Mowi and Scottish Sea Farms.

 

 

 

Mowi (who changed their name from Marine Harvest in 2019 due to "negative consumer perception") head the list of mortalities by company since 2013.  These six companies - all foreign owned/controlled - account for 99% of 'Scottish' salmon farming production.

 

  

 

The Salmafia Exposed: the big six 'Scottish' salmon companies - all foreign owned - are responsible for 150,000+ tonnes of dead salmon since 2013 acccording to official data @ScottishEPA https://t.co/8w3aNU5XSp @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @GriegShetland @SSPOsays #Salmafia pic.twitter.com/N9ZgC3LxMW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2021

 

 

Scottish Salmon Named & Shamed: here's the worst mass mortalities since 2002 & worst during 2020 according to official data @ScottishEPA https://t.co/8w3aNU5XSp @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @GriegShetland @scotseafarms @CookeScotland @LochDuartSalmon @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/3St570gNuk

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2021

 

 

 

 

To put the scale of Scottish salmon's mort mountain into perspective, over a quarter (26%) of all farmed salmon in the sea phase of production are dying before they reach harvest size.    BBC Countryfile reported in December 2020: 

 

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

 

 

 

In September 2021, the Scottish Government published new data on mortalities via the 'Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2020' detailing how the mortality rate has ranged between 15-28% over the last few decades on salmon farms in Scotland (the latest data reports survival as 75.9% i.e. 24.1% mortality):

 

 

 

From hatch to catch (i.e. from imported ova from Iceland, Norway and Ireland - through the farming process in hatcheries and freshwater lochs - to 'Scottish' farmed salmon harvested in sea cages) around half of all farmed salmon are dying!  

 

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

 

 

 

Exactly how many farmed salmon die each year on salmon farms in Scotland is currently not known.   Sadly, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency stopped reporting mortality numbers back in 2013 following lobbying by the salmon farming industry who claimed that publication would be "commercially damaging".  

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

In July 2020, The Ferret reported:

 

 

 

 

A report - "Investing in Troubled Waters" - published by the Changing Markets Foundation in July 2021 named and shamed Mowi for their staggeringly high mort mountain: 

 

Reality check: High fish mortalities: Over the last decade, Mowi had the highest amount of fish mortalities out of the top salmon producers. Since 2010, 50 million salmon (a quarter of a million tonnes) have died or escaped from Mowi farms – worth $1.7 bn https://t.co/bUhhsb4jd6 pic.twitter.com/Q5WnNmfgfG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 29, 2021

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported in August 2021: 

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reveals the shocking death rates on Scotland's salmon farms! "There are huge questions for @rspcaassured" says Corin Smith
Grieg Seafood tops the list with 78% mortality - that's four out of every five salmon dying!https://t.co/oO6wWCqTQB pic.twitter.com/tGvGEZNiaA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 3, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch has been tracking the disposal of dead farmed salmon for years - since the BBC One Show broadcast 'The Dead Salmon Run' in December 2017:

 

 

 

 

 

 

In September 2018, I climbed up a skip full of diseased farmed salmon at The Scottish Salmon Company's Quarry Point salmon farm in Loch Fyne: 

 

 

 

 

In April 2019, Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots published video footage of morts being taken away in a convoy of yellow Billy Bowie trucks from the same salmon farm at Quarry Point: 

 

 

 

 

In September 2019, video footage of diseased salmon being transported by Gogar spilled on the A86 road was published on Facebook: 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

In January 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch revealed that the dead salmon were sourced from a disease-ridden Mowi salmon farm on the Isle of Skye. 

 

"The Scottish industry has changed dramatically since the early days of fish farming at Cairidh in 1978" says @heraldscotland https://t.co/izp6mesTza
And not for the better - here's diseased farmed salmon from Cairidh in Loch Ainort spilled onto the A86 https://t.co/qbOuSXwvQn pic.twitter.com/hinYgQat57

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 10, 2021

 

 

 

In April 2020, photos of Mowi's dead salmon from the appropriately named Muck salmon farm were published:

 

 

 

 

In November 2018, The Sunday Mail published video footage of the "hell" that is RSPCA Assured Mowi: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In December 2018, investigative reporters from Latvian TV climed up a skip full of diseased salmon at Mowi's farm at Gorsten:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The mass mortalities are piled so high in disease-ridden salmon farms across Scotland that video footage of dead fish is not hard to come by!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Read more via:

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

The Go Pro Camera Never Lies (Unlike Salmon Farmers)

 

 

The Go Pro Camera Never Lies (Unlike Salmon Farmers) https://t.co/v7uJHswcNK @wildfirstcanada @TryVeg @ciwf @peta @patagonia @SalmonFeedlots @SalmonTroutCons @joe_crowley @andrholder @alex4salmon @ClayoquotAction @NMF_tweet @ArranCoast @SeaShepherdSSCS @CaptPaulWatson @SealifeA pic.twitter.com/yozFwED9Xe

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 15, 2019

 

 

 

 

David Ainsley dived under Mowi's salmon farm at Bagh Dail Nan Ceann (in Gaelic it translates as 'Bay of the Dead Heads'):

 

 

 

He videoed dead and dying salmon at the bottom of the cages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drone footage shot in May 2019 at Mowi's ASC-certified and RSPCA Assured salmon farm show dead fish floating on the surface following a 'Thermolicer' treatment. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mass mortalities are piling up at Mowi and other salmon farming companies all over the world.  In 2019, CBC News reported on a mass farmed salmon die-off at Mowi in Newfoundland: 

 

 

 

 

"CBC News requested a site tour from Northern Harvest Sea Farms, a subsidiary of MOWI, but that request was denied," reported CBC News (2 October 2019). 

 

 

"These are obviously bad things for our reputation" admits Mowi's communications manager Eivind Nævdal-Bolstad https://t.co/X74K9wykpO @MowiScotlandLtd @MowiCanadaWest At this rate Mowi will be forced to change their name again?! #Mowi @Salmon_Business @IntraFishNorge pic.twitter.com/1GVn1Yab1C

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 3, 2019

 

 

 

When I filmed inside Mowi's salmon farm in Lough Swilly in July 2019 there were dead salmon floating on the surface of the cages. 

 

 

 

 

Back in 2003, Ireland's RTE broadcast a damning documentary on salmon farming featuring video footage of lice-infested salmon inside a salmon farm, mass mortalities under a salmon farm and illegal dumping of diseased fish:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back in 2014, The Common Sense Canadian reported:

 

 

 

 

 

In July and September 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch visited Grieg Seafood's disease-ridden salmon farming operation on the Isle of Skye:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's nearby Loch Greshornish salmon farm - certified as welfare-friendly by the R$PCA - was piled high with diseased farmed salmon when I visited in July 2020. 

 

 

 

 

Mort bins full of dead farmed Steelhead trout were piled up at nearby Loch Poolteil too in September 2020: 

 

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

 

 

 

Over in Wester Ross, when I visited Mowi's Torridon salmon farm I was close to vomiting as I climbed up another skip full of diseased salmon - no wonder Mowi's lawyers stepped up their legal threats to sue me: 

 

 

 

Mowi Scotland: "will be forced to take further action unless you co-operate with its requests & desist from further unauthorised access....no choice but to take steps to protect the Company’s Sites, and its rights in relation thereto, through the courts" https://t.co/TRIgbdBz1q pic.twitter.com/PNZpWmva3f

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 25, 2020

 

 

 

In July 2021, I filmed at more Mowi salmon farms exposing lice infestation and dead salmon floating on the surface of their RSPCA Assured farms: 

 

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

 

 

RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon is Dead in the Water! @rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @sainsburys @AldiUK @LidlGB @marinescotland @ChrisGPackham @brianblessed @BillOddie @PeterEgan6 @CarolineLucas @PETAUK @philip_ciwf @coopuk @Tesco @asda @Morrisons @waitrose pic.twitter.com/BJSded5D7X

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 19, 2021

 

 

 

The video footage of Mowi's lice-infested salmon farms has now been watched by over one million people via Seaspiracy's Instagram and Twitter social media platforms: 

 

This shocking leaked footage shows salmon being eaten alive by lice at a fish farm in Scotland! pic.twitter.com/EoUO3dv5ee

— seaspiracy (@seaspiracy) August 2, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in July 2021:

 

 

New Data: It's official - Scottish salmon is the worst ever! https://t.co/8w3aNU5XSp @ScottishEPA
27,000 tonnes of mortalities - almost four times more than the 7,000 tonnes officially reported in 2010!
Please boycott @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation & @SaumonLabel pic.twitter.com/i0BFh6eCRT

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2021

 

 

It's official - Scottish salmon is the worst ever!  Official data - published by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency via 'Scotland's Aquaculture' which is sourced from monthly returns submitted by salmon farming companies - reveals that mortalities on salmon farms during 2020 exceeded a staggering 27,000 tonnes (an estimated 20 million dead salmon).   That's more than double the 10,000 tonnes of morts reported in 2013; almost four times more than the 7,000 tonnes reported in 2010 and the worst on record (2019 and 2017 were both just over 25,000 tonnes)!

 

 

 

 

Here's the worst monthly mortalities (by weight) reported on salmon farms during 2020 - headed by the Faroese/Norwegian owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company followed by Isle of Skye Salmon (owned by Norway's Grieg Seafood) and Norwegian-owned giants Mowi and Scottish Sea Farms.

 

 

 

Mowi (who changed their name from Marine Harvest in 2019 due to "negative consumer perception") head the list of mortalities by company since 2013.  These six companies - all foreign owned/controlled - account for 99% of 'Scottish' salmon farming production.

 

  

 

The Salmafia Exposed: the big six 'Scottish' salmon companies - all foreign owned - are responsible for 150,000+ tonnes of dead salmon since 2013 acccording to official data @ScottishEPA https://t.co/8w3aNU5XSp @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @GriegShetland @SSPOsays #Salmafia pic.twitter.com/N9ZgC3LxMW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2021

 

 

Scottish Salmon Named & Shamed: here's the worst mass mortalities since 2002 & worst during 2020 according to official data @ScottishEPA https://t.co/8w3aNU5XSp @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @GriegShetland @scotseafarms @CookeScotland @LochDuartSalmon @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/3St570gNuk

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2021

 

 

 

 

To put the scale of Scottish salmon's mort mountain into perspective, over a quarter (26%) of all farmed salmon in the sea phase of production are dying before they reach harvest size.    BBC Countryfile reported in December 2020: 

 

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

 

 

 

In September 2021, the Scottish Government published new data on mortalities via the 'Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2020' detailing how the mortality rate has ranged between 15-28% over the last few decades on salmon farms in Scotland (the latest data reports survival as 75.9% i.e. 24.1% mortality):

 

 

 

From hatch to catch (i.e. from imported ova from Iceland, Norway and Ireland - through the farming process in hatcheries and freshwater lochs - to 'Scottish' farmed salmon harvested in sea cages) around half of all farmed salmon are dying!  

 

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

 

 

 

Exactly how many farmed salmon die each year on salmon farms in Scotland is currently not known.   Sadly, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency stopped reporting mortality numbers back in 2013 following lobbying by the salmon farming industry who claimed that publication would be "commercially damaging".  

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

In July 2020, The Ferret reported:

 

 

 

 

A report - "Investing in Troubled Waters" - published by the Changing Markets Foundation in July 2021 named and shamed Mowi for their staggeringly high mort mountain: 

 

Reality check: High fish mortalities: Over the last decade, Mowi had the highest amount of fish mortalities out of the top salmon producers. Since 2010, 50 million salmon (a quarter of a million tonnes) have died or escaped from Mowi farms – worth $1.7 bn https://t.co/bUhhsb4jd6 pic.twitter.com/Q5WnNmfgfG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 29, 2021

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported in August 2021: 

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reveals the shocking death rates on Scotland's salmon farms! "There are huge questions for @rspcaassured" says Corin Smith
Grieg Seafood tops the list with 78% mortality - that's four out of every five salmon dying!https://t.co/oO6wWCqTQB pic.twitter.com/tGvGEZNiaA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 3, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch has been tracking the disposal of dead farmed salmon for years - since the BBC One Show broadcast 'The Dead Salmon Run' in December 2017:

 

 

 

 

 

 

In September 2018, I climbed up a skip full of diseased farmed salmon at The Scottish Salmon Company's Quarry Point salmon farm in Loch Fyne: 

 

 

 

 

In April 2019, Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots published video footage of morts being taken away in a convoy of yellow Billy Bowie trucks from the same salmon farm at Quarry Point: 

 

 

 

 

In September 2019, video footage of diseased salmon being transported by Gogar spilled on the A86 road was published on Facebook: 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

In January 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch revealed that the dead salmon were sourced from a disease-ridden Mowi salmon farm on the Isle of Skye. 

 

"The Scottish industry has changed dramatically since the early days of fish farming at Cairidh in 1978" says @heraldscotland https://t.co/izp6mesTza
And not for the better - here's diseased farmed salmon from Cairidh in Loch Ainort spilled onto the A86 https://t.co/qbOuSXwvQn pic.twitter.com/hinYgQat57

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 10, 2021

 

 

 

In April 2020, photos of Mowi's dead salmon from the appropriately named Muck salmon farm were published:

 

 

 

 

In November 2018, The Sunday Mail published video footage of the "hell" that is RSPCA Assured Mowi: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In December 2018, investigative reporters from Latvian TV climed up a skip full of diseased salmon at Mowi's farm at Gorsten:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The mass mortalities are piled so high in disease-ridden salmon farms across Scotland that video footage of dead fish is not hard to come by!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Vets & Scientists Voice Concerns Vs Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Pharming - Letter published in Veterinary Record

 

"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

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Download letter as a PDF online here

 

 

 

Private Eye reports on the "Toxic Relationship" between @ScottishEPA & Norway's @WeAreBenchmark who want to deploy the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid on salmon farms @marinescotland @CampaignFOIScot @FOIScotland @SSPOsays @PAN_UK @PrivateEyeNewshttps://t.co/gtNmuMamMq #Toxic pic.twitter.com/cXPQitBrcG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 25, 2021

 

 

 

Read more via:

• 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

 

 

 

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

 

Call to Close Down Salmon Farms in Scotland!

 

 

Join us and say no to open-net #salmonfarming in Scotland. In the face of the Scottish Government's encouragement of the salmon farming industry, we will now oppose the continued operation of all open-net salmon farms. Pledge your support https://t.co/v7J2BlkfmX pic.twitter.com/JOA9k0nRwH

— Salmon & Trout Conservation (@SalmonTroutCons) October 13, 2021

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots posted on Facebook earlier this morning (13 October 2021):

 

 

 

Here's the Salmon & Trout Conservation's landmark press release:

 

 

 

Guy Linley-Adams, solicitor to S&TCS, commented:

 

“Despite the overwhelming evidence that open-net salmon farming as practiced in Scotland is unsustainable, it has become ever more apparent that Scottish Ministers are not minded to alter their position from one of almost total support for the industry, whatever it seeks to do. The time has come to make it clear that open-net farms should be closed down as soon as is practicable. And make no mistake, the reason we feel we must make this call is due to the failure of Scottish Government to act to protect the Scottish aquatic environment and its wildlife.”

 

 

 

 

 

"The time has come to make it clear that open-net farms should be closed down as soon as is practicable" @SalmonTroutCons https://t.co/2nbqIabmdb @ScotGovNetZero @MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllan @SSPOsays @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @ScottishEPA @FergusEwingSNP @strathearnrose pic.twitter.com/HitOslhZsH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 13, 2021

 

 

 

Andrew Graham-Stewart, Director of Salmon and Trout Conservation Scotland (S&TCS), said:

 

“We have engaged with successive Scottish Governments and regulators for over 20 years in efforts to persuade them to introduce effective regulation of salmon farming, particularly to protect wild salmon and sea trout from the devastatingly negative impacts of sea lice proliferation.

“The response has been little more than lip-service whilst enabling the industry to expand production exponentially, exacerbating all the environmental problems associated with open-net farming. Scottish Government’s recent announcement of a two-year review of regulation, yet another delaying tactic, and its endorsement of the fundamentally inadequate Salmon Interactions Working Group’s report amount to conclusive confirmation that it has no intention of introducing meaningful reform. We have reached the end of the road.”

 

 

"We have reached the end of the road" says @SalmonTroutCons "We have engaged with successive Scottish Governments and regulators for over 20 years in efforts to persuade them to introduce effective regulation of salmon farming"@scotgov @SSPOsays https://t.co/2nbqIabmdb pic.twitter.com/mfYPVUQAev

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 13, 2021

 

 

Read more online here

 

 

 

 

Read S&TC's new policy

 

 

 

 

 

"To be clear, @SalmonTroutCons will now oppose both the continued operation of all existing open-net farms, as well as any proposed expansion of those existing farms or the establishment of any new farms" https://t.co/rNglmS2cCb @scotgov @ScottishEPA @SSPOsays @scotgp pic.twitter.com/QLfK36g984

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 13, 2021

 

 

 

 

In August 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch called on the Scottish Government to close down every salmon farm in Scotland by 2025.  

 

Scottish Salmon Watch is calling on the Scottish Government to close down every salmon farm in Scotland by 2025! https://t.co/A0uRlkYvCO#Boycott #Scottish #Salmon @theSNP @scotgp @scotgov @ScotGovFM @ScotGovNetZero @marinescotland @SSPOsays @tavishscott @MowiScotlandLtd pic.twitter.com/jNsJkrN8NI

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 24, 2021

 

 

 

Salmon farming is a malignant cancer on the coasts of Scotland," said Don Staniford, Director of Scottish Salmon Watch.  "If the Scottish Government is serious about protecting the marine environment then ripping out every salmon cage is a good place to start.  The new SNP-Green deal commits to 'Highly Protected Marine Areas' for inshore and offshore locations, which will cover at least 10% of Scottish waters where salmon farming will be prohibited.   The SNP-Green co-operation agreement recognises that a transitional 'phasing-out' period within HPMAs will be needed and we urge that all sea cage salmon farms in Scotland are closed down by 2025 as it already taking place in British Columbia.  The Scottish Government's plans to double salmon farming production by 2030 are dead in the water."

 

Photo: Compassion in World Farming

 

 

"The 'Scottish' salmon farming industry - 99% of which is foreign owned/controlled - claims that their marine footprint is currently just 168 hectares (less than 200 football pitches), that's 0.003% of Scottish territorial waters," continued Staniford who features in the forthcoming film 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' narrated by Kate Winslet.   "Farming disease-ridden salmon in 'Special Areas of Conservation' and 'Marine Protected Areas' such as Lochs Creran, Alsh, Duich, Laxford and Roag is anathema to marine protection.  Does Scotland want unhealthy salmon farms choking the life out of the coast or a healthy marine ecosystem which supports tourism and a sustainable marine economy?"

 

 

 

 

 

"Closing down every salmon farm littering the coast of Scotland would help halt the spread of lice infestation, the killing of marine mammals and toxic pollution as well as allow marine wildlife such as wild salmon, sea trout, harbour porpoises, whales, dolphins and shellfish the space to thrive," concluded Staniford who appears in Netflix's global hit 'Seaspiracy'.    "Tourists visiting Scotland do not want to see and smell the nauseating underbelly of Scottish salmon!"

 

 

"Salmon farming is a malignant cancer on the coasts of Scotland. Does Scotland want unhealthy salmon farms choking the life out of the coast or a healthy marine ecosystem which supports tourism and a sustainable marine economy?" https://t.co/A0uRlkYvCO pic.twitter.com/Gun7S7RNzw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 24, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Take the pledge to boycott farmed salmon today!

 

“I have taken farmed salmon completely off the menu. We don’t even have smoked salmon for breakfasts,” says chef James Coffey @IrishTimes @parkkenmare @jamescoffey1 @RelaisChateaux @salmonwatchire https://t.co/i5Y6hy6vLW#SalmonPledge

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 16, 2021

 

 

Friends don't let friends eat farmed salmon - please make a video pledge today! https://t.co/4aHyVQVGGA#SalmonPledge #Boycott #Farmed #Salmon pic.twitter.com/cuPmMCXLlW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 5, 2021

 

 

 

Find out more reasons to boycott farmed salmon online here

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

 

Climavore spawns boycott of farmed salmon across the UK - take the pledge today!

Make a Video Pledge to Boycott Farmed Salmon Today!

RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon is a Welfare Nightmare - Don't Fall for the Scam!

Joanna Blythman in The Herald: "Why I can no longer stomach Scottish farmed salmon"

Take the Salmon Pledge - please join the boycott against farmed salmon!

Salmon Pledge Goes Wild Around the World! 

5 shocking reasons not to buy farmed salmon 

25 Reasons to Boycott Scottish Salmon

 

 

 

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

 

Pyrrhic Victory or Legal Loss - Mowi's 'asymmetric war' is doomed to failure!

 

 

Pyrrhic Victory or Legal Loss - Mowi's 'asymmetric war' is doomed to failure! https://t.co/6sihQfUwKp @MowiScotlandLtd @Folketrygdfond @SSPOsays
Don't you remember McLibel @McDonaldsUK or the biblical tale of David & Goliath? #McLibel @helensteel12 @Keir_Starmer #KeirStarmer pic.twitter.com/rYFJjNiqBu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 13, 2021

 

 

 

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary:

 

 

 

The phrase 'phyrrhic victory' keeps leaping to mind when I think of the legal battle lying ahead for Norwegian giant Mowi (owned by John Fredriksen who Forbes magazine described in 2001 as a 'Viking Raider' - "a murky character notorious for rowdy drinking binges and playing rough with takeover targets").

 

 

 

 

The warning signs are there for Mowi's shareholders - who include the Norwegian Government's Pension Fund (Folketrygdfondet) and a who's who of the world's biggest banks - to see.

 

 

 

 

If Mowi Scotland's COO Ben Hadfield cannot see the dangers in fighting a legal battle on the grounds of health and safety - not to mention the graphic issue of welfare abuse inside salmon farms so controversially accredited by the RSPCA and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council - then he is even more reckless and dangerous than the staff he is responsible for. 

 

Leaked video shows Mowi acting recklessly & dangerously - three months after this video was shot, Mowi worker Clive Hendry (seen in the footage) was crushed to death at the same @MowiScotlandLtd salmon farm in Loch Alsh https://t.co/oLOASoyiH1@maibgovuk @H_S_E @SSPOsays

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2021

 

 

 

Mowi - Scotland's largest salmon farming company who changed their name from Marine Harvest in 2019 due to what their CEO admitted was "negative consumer perception" - has already been given free legal advice by solicitor Paul Kavanagh who warns of "an asymmetric war" (i.e. as Wikipedia describes: "a violent conflict between a formal military and an informal, less equipped and supported, undermanned but resilient and motivated opponent").

 

You might get your order, I've not seen your pleadings. Whenever I've advised corporates who are planning on engaging in an asymmetric war I always point them to this page. It's a brave corporate who engages in this type of action. https://t.co/m8zM8H6hfn

— Paul Kavanagh (@BirminghamKav) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

Mowi's shareholders may wish to read 'McLibel' by John Vidal. 

 

 

"Who said ordinary people can't change the world?" reported McSpotlight. 

 

 

 

 

The reference to the 'McLibel' trial is all the more appropriate given the fact that Mowi's owner (John Fredriksen) was dubbed 'McFreddy' by the Norwegian press when Mowi (then called Marine Harvest) teamed up with McDonald's to flog cheap and nasty farmed salmon. 

 

 

 

Mowi's venture with McDonald's ended badly too.

 

 

 

As I reported in a blog - "Mmm Mega-Marine Harvest: Super-Liced Salmon!" - published in 2013:

 

"Big is NOT beautiful when it comes to Marine Harvest - the McDonald's of the salmon farming world.

 

 Photo: John Fredriksen, owner of Marine Harvest, and 87th richest person in the world worth $11.5 billion according to the Forbes Rich List! 

 

 

Marine Harvest owner John Fredriksen, who looks as if he's eaten more than his fair share of farmed salmon and Big Macs, was nicknamed 'McFreddy' by the Norwegian media in 2007 following Marine Harvest's link up with McDonald's. 

 

 

 

The Norway-only trial of the 'Laksewrap' (Salmon Wrap) was meant to "catch on internationally".    "It is very exciting to cooperate with McDonalds and launch such a healty and delicious product at the fast food chain", said Arne Hjeltnes, Communication Director in Marine Harvest.

 

 

 

However, even the rabidly pro-salmon farming Norwegians found the 'Laksewrap' left a bad taste in the mouth. 

 

 

 

In 1997, McDonald's were sued when "four people, including two McDonald's employees, were hospitalized after eating tainted McLaks salmon burgers at a restaurant in Lorenskog, located in the outskirts of Oslo".  McDonald's Norway confirmed that the food poisoning materialized from a "corrupted" consignment of salmon fillets delivered by the Norwegian fish firm West Fish, based in Alesund. Separate legal actions against McDonald's were filed by the four people who claimed they became sick after consuming McLaks burgers. "At first the McLaks tasted very good, but after some minutes my mouth and throat became numb, and I experienced internal spasms," said Geir Sundberg, one of the four filing suit against McDonald's.

 

Advertising Age reported under "1997 Ad Follies":

 

"In Norway, McDonald's pulled the McLaks salmon burger off the market after four customers were treated for food poisoning. McLaks had been a hit with health-conscious Norwegians, and McDonald's had been considering expanding the product to Sweden and Denmark"

 

For more details read "McDonald's sued over McSalmon burger sickness" and "Eco-Washing McFarmed Fish"

 

 

 

Super-sized salmon farming is one sick business that even Morgan Spurlock would find stomach-churning".

 

 

 

 

Mowi's shareholders may wish to read 'McLibel' #McLibel #McFreddy @McDonaldsUK @helensteel12 https://t.co/6sihQfUwKp @MowiScotlandLtd @Folketrygdfond @SSPOsays @scotseafarms pic.twitter.com/KNbbW2KTzP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 13, 2021

 

 

If the financial backers of the Norwegian behemoth (who appropriated the name Mowi despite opposition from the Mowinckel family) don't want to read then they could simply watch 'Apocalypse Now' to see how the asymmetric war between the powerful US forces and the guerilla warfare of the Viet Cong played out. 

 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Titanic-sized disease problems have already been watched by millions via Netflix's 'Seaspricacy'.

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

And over one million people have viewed leaked video footage of lice-infested Mowi via Seaspiracy's Instagram social media platform.  

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

The Kate Winslet-narrated film 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' - streaming now on Amazon, You Tube, iTunes and AppleTV -  also features footage of Mowi torturing farmed salmon via a 'Thermolicer'.

 

Titanic splash in today's Sunday Times with Kate Winslet & Chris Packham leading the fight against Scottish salmon farms! @KateWinslet @ChrisGPackham @LeoDiCaprio @SundayTimesScot @rspcaassured @RachRSPCA @RSPCAChris @RSPCA_official @ciwf @onekindtweet @SSPOsays @HamishMacdonell pic.twitter.com/WMZkObaJ14

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 9, 2020

 

 

 

 

Mowi's million dollar management team may also wish to consult with another book: the Bible.   And in particular turn to the first book of Samuel to peruse the story of David and Goliath. 

 

 

 

 

Spoiler alert - the small guys wins. 

 

 

Mowi has been given free legal advice by solicitor @BirminghamKav who warns of "an asymmetric war" (i.e. "a violent conflict between a formal military & an informal, less equipped, undermanned but resilient & motivated opponent") https://t.co/6sihQfUwKp #David #Goliath @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/d5WiTuCgIT

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 13, 2021

 

 

But at least the Norwegian giant - controlled by Norway's richest man (according to Forbes, John Fredriksen's wealth now stands at over $11 billion) - can afford to hire the very best lawyers money can buy (even if, according to Forbes, Fredriksen may not always pay his bar bill for Champagne). 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Norwegian owner is nicknamed 'Big Wolf' (or 'Storeulv' in Norwegian) and John Fredriksen's 'Salmonopoly' extends his wealth all over the globe:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's million dollar men include CEO Ivar Vindheim and Mowi Scotland's boss Ben Hadfield who are laughing all the way to the bank.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

In March 2020, Intrafish revealed that the head of Mowi Scotland (Ben Hadfield) earned a whopping $1 million in 2019!

 

 

 

Mowi's money men rake in million$ as tens of million$ of farmed $almon die a cruel death https://t.co/2ivoCyccKX Ben Hadfield @MowiScotlandLtd is fast catching up with Steve Austin coining in a cool $1 million in 2019 #Salmoney #Salmonopoly #Salmafia @IntraFishNorge pic.twitter.com/QuYumDLUCa

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 26, 2020

 

 

Yet for all Mowi's money even before this case goes to trial - and is heard in public court - they have have already lost the PR battle and lost their social and environmental licence. 

 

The people are disgusted with @ScotlandMowi legal action against Don Staniford @TheGAAIA and attempts to use the law to hide their abhorrent animal husbandry practices and harm to #ourseas cetaceans. Stop buying MOWI salmon @Tesco @sainsburys @AmazonFresh https://t.co/CbARxLGzYd

— david nairn (@ClydePorpoise) October 12, 2021

 

 

Having met Don Staniford I know he is committed to exposing poor welfare in the salmon industry so they are forced to improve the conditions for the fish. If salmon welfare was good then there would be nothing to expose #fishwelfare https://t.co/Sb0LfqlnDx

— Lynne Sneddon (@LynneUSneddon) October 9, 2021

 

 

Adrenaline fuelled Mowi skipper calmly lights a cigarette after almost killing or injuring observers. pic.twitter.com/XhzbnQljIP

— Andrew Holder (@andrholder) October 10, 2021

 

 

 

 

When Mowi - then named Marine Harvest - won their court case against trespass in Canada in 2018 they still lost in the court of public opinion and the Canadian Government have pledged to remove salmon farms out of the sea by 2025!

 

 

 

Mowi's Canadian legal action was prompted by occupation of salmon farms by First Nations in 2017.

 

 

 

 

And by filming inside salmon farms by Alexandra Morton, George Quocksister, Pamela Anderson and Sea Shepherd: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When Swedish reporter and writer Mikael Frödin was found guilty of filming inside a salmon farm in Norway in 2017 (he was convicted of encroachment and fined 12,000 Norwegian kroner (NOK) or 24 days of incarceration, as well as being imposed court costs of NOK 3,000) he said in a press release (28 November 2018):

 

 

 

"My journalistic action was done in the general public’s interest; we are revealing environmental crime, detestable animal management, and collapsing ecosystems. Far more serious violations than the documentation led to.  I do not think that I should be the one to be sentenced, because it was my duty as a reporter to shed light on the gravity of the situation for the general public. I f the law says that you cannot look for yourself, we are dependent on the companies providing correct information.  Now that we know how it looks, we know their information does not tally." 

 

 

 

Frödin claimed in a press release that the journalistic act was a rescue action, which should be covered by the provisions within the law on necessity. His lawyer Svein Holden said:

"In our opinion this case raises several fundamental questions, which have not been tried previously by Norwegian courts of law.  Frödin’s purpose with this act was to create an environmental policy debate and contribute to a change of framework conditions for the fish farming industry.  That is why we think it is important to have the assessment of the Hålogaland court of appeal on whether his act meets the conditions inscribed in the provisions on necessity."

 

 

Swedish TV on secret filming by Mikael Frödin inside a disease-ridden Norwegian salmon farm https://t.co/BJwV9RyMCN @TV4 WWF reacts with sharp criticism against the Norwegian salmon farming industry @WWFNorge @WWFSverige pic.twitter.com/Pqqk6lxZ87

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 2, 2018

 

 

 

Frödin's shocking footage of lice damage and welfare abuse was broadcast in 2018 on Swedish TV and on Norwegian TV.

 

 

 

"They're all sick, look at them," said Frödin as he filmed inside the cage:

 

Frödin's footage features in the 2019 film 'Artifishal'. 

 

 

 

 

The North Atlantic Salmon Fund reported in October 2018:

 

 

 

 

In August 2021, secret filming in Iceland carried out by Veiga Grét­ars­dótt­ir exposed the horrific conditions inside salmon farms.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

A quick dip of the GoPro in a salmon feedlot - by Against The Current Iceland.

Look familiar?

Note lice infested, diseased lumpfish. It’s not just salmon that are dying in these cages.@SSPOsays @MairiMcAllan @_KateForbes @HamishMacdonell pic.twitter.com/9lmr643fXs

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) August 13, 2021

 

 

 

Just last month, I filmed inside The Scottish Salmon Company's lice-infested salmon farm at West Strome in Loch Carron (a 'Special Area of Conservation'):

 

Breaking News: "Horror Videos Reveal Welfare Abuse Inside Scottish Salmon & Trout Cages" https://t.co/T4hSvF6HHZ @salmon_scottish @kamesfishfarm @SSPOsays @rspcaassured @Try_Lochlander @SaumonLabel#Boycott #Scottish #Salmon #Trout pic.twitter.com/T3yUbxbrb3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 12, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Earlier in September, I filmed inside a Steelhead trout farm operated by Kames Fish Farming capturing horrific video footage of mass mortalities and lice infested fish.   

 

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

 

 

 

Kames Fish Farming claimed in a press statement to Fish Farmer that my filming represented "unlawful intrusion" but after a complaint the editor deleted the allegation. 

 

"Unlawful Intrusion" claim by Kames retracted by Fish Farmer. @kamesfishfarm challenged to back up "false, baseless & libellous" comment. "The recent footage featured by Staniford is out of context & not worthy of discussion". Nothing illegal to see here, honest! pic.twitter.com/Zdr5oZLCEI

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 27, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In July 2021, I filmed inside four Mowi salmon farms in the Sound of Jura and Sound of Shuna exposing lice infestation, mortalities and welfare abuse. 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

When STV News reported earlier this week (11 October 2021) on Mowi's legal action they included photos from Mowi's lice-infested salmon farms. 

 

STV News: "Given the gruesome nature of welfare abuse, mass mortalities & lice infestations it is not surprising that this Norwegian-owned behemoth wants to stop the public from finding out the ugly truth about Scottish salmon" https://t.co/HlRWu4RmVO @STVNews @giannilmarini pic.twitter.com/o8kveENGsj

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2021

 

 

 

When The Mail on Sunday reported in July 2021 they also featured lice-infested Mowi.

 

 

 

 

Scotland's salmon farming horror show (as sponsored by @rspcaassured) is going mainstream - here's today's Mail on Sunday https://t.co/hsagGhRtB1 @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @HamishMacdonell @tavishscott @sainsburys @LidlGB @AldiUK @ciwf @onekindtweet @MairiGougeon @seaspiracy pic.twitter.com/JcsVLHILuq

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 25, 2021

 

 

 

As The Sunday Mail alluded to in November 2018 - when featuring video footage of Mowi's disease-ridden salmon piled high in skips - Mowi is in for one hell of a time.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's press release issued on Friday (8 October 2021) publicising the court case - against the unwritten rules of the court - was keen to cite a previous court case which I lost on appeal in Canada.    In that case against Norwegian-owned Mainstream Canada (Cermaq) - now owned by Japanese giant Mitsubishi - I won in 2012.

 

 

 

But then I lost after an appeal in 2013:

 

 

 

In the eyes of many, however, I still won the case if not on matters of law but in the court of public opinion. 

 

 

 

The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation - of which Mowi is the biggest member - applauded Creative Salmon for taking me to court back in 2005 in British Columbia, Canada.

 

 

 

In that high profile court case I 'won' on appeal in 2009.

 

 

 

The Straight reported in 2009:

 

 

 

The Straight reported in 2011:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Straight reported in 2012:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Win, lose or draw, Mowi Scotland and the Norwegian-owned behemoths lurking behind them have already lost. 

 

Mowi's legal action to stop "dangerous" visits to salmon farms and prevent risks to employees & animals would hold more water if @MowiScotlandLtd was not responsible for millions of dead salmon, dozens of dead seals & even a dead worker https://t.co/55xO0wiiy3 @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/Xe18exnrM9

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

These are the reasons why Mowi don't want #DonStaniford to be poking around their salmon farms, it's definitely nothing to do with animal welfare. https://t.co/NLEwsJyDTI

— Katie Tunn (@Katie__Eden) October 12, 2021

 

 

STV News report on Mowi's legal action by using photos of their lice-infested salmon I shot inside their farms in July (the reason they're suing me) & citing an article in May where @MowiScotlandLtd was found responsible for the death of Clive Hendry https://t.co/tiY0Jw3Ofg pic.twitter.com/S0Tv6Vb3ML

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 12, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Mowi Ignores Newton's 'Third Law of Motion' - for every action, there's an equal & opposite reaction!
• Censored: Trade Press Ignore 'Droit de Response' (Right of Reply) - until politely asked to do so!
• "The People Are Disgusted With Mowi's Legal Action Against Don Staniford - Stop Buying Mowi Salmon!"
• Mowi Actively Courts Trade Press Backlash Vs 'Irrational' & 'Fanatical' Activist!
• STV News: "Salmon farm firm takes legal action against animal welfare campaigner"
• Intrafish Editor's Picks: "Mowi fed up with salmon farming activist"
• Mowi Whistleblower Leaks Photos & Video: "fish farming is a disgusting industry"!
• Video Shows Mowi Acting Recklessly & Dangerously - a licence to kill?
• Press statement on lawsuit vs Mowi
• Mowi press release: "Court order sought to protect health and safety"
• "Mowi takes long-time salmon farming opponent to court" (Intrafish)
• Breaking News: "Horror Videos Reveal Welfare Abuse Inside Scottish Salmon & Trout Cages"
• The Go Pro Camera Never Lies (Unlike Salmon Farmers)

 

 

In filing a lawsuit & issuing a press release publicising their legal action against me, Mowi's lawyers have ignored basic science. I flunked physics at school but understand Newton's 'Third Law of Motion': For every action, there is an equal & opposite reaction! @MowiScotlandLtd pic.twitter.com/h7GUFRzHzw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 12, 2021

 

 

My legal defence tactics are informed by watching Sean Connery in 'The Hunt for Red October' - turning directly into the torpedo is sometimes the right course of action. "Attack is the best form of defence" military strategists advise! https://t.co/7nnK2MCWbu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2021

 

 

 

Win, lose or draw their lawsuit, Mowi Scotland & the Norwegian-owned behemoths lurking behind have already lost in the court of public opinion! https://t.co/6sihQfUwKp @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @SSPOsays @GriegShetland @Folketrygdfond #Salmafia #Salmoney #Salmonopoly pic.twitter.com/2X4HhYqirb

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 13, 2021

 

 

 

The truth will out, Don. All the other filmers and supporters out there, please get behind Don to scour out MOWI until it goes the same way as nearly 30% of it's cruelly treated farmed salmon - to an early death!

— Niall McKillop (@Badabrach) October 15, 2021

 

Censored: Trade Press Ignore 'Droit de Response' (Right of Reply) - until politely asked to do so!

 

Trade Press Ignore 'Droit de Response' (Right of Reply) until politely asked! @Salmon_Business @SeafoodSource Still no reply @thefishsite
Thanks to @IntraFish @fishfarmermag @salmonfarming1 @SeaWestNews for including a couter-quote to @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/gltvFCu7Sm pic.twitter.com/PgHS1bmFtP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 12, 2021

 

 

We all know the trade press is biased in terms of pro-salmon farming reporting but surely even publications like The Fish Site still have to be abide by a media code of ethics which includes a droit de response (right of reply)?

 

 

 

I just emailed Seafood Source following a one-sided article by Nicki Holmyard:

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 3:53 PM
Subject: One-sided story
To: <nickiholmyard@gmail.com>, <editor@seafoodsource.com>, Cliff White <cwhite@divcom.com>

 

Nicki,

 

Isn't Seafood Source governed by a code of conduct/ethics in terms of reporting?

 

Every other trade press publication - except The Fish Site, Seafood Source and Salmon Business - contacted me to provide a quote in reply to Mowi's lawsuit (Intrafish, Fish Farmer, Fish Farming Expert, Undercurrent News and even SeaWest News).

 

Here's the press statement I issued: Press statement on lawsuit vs Mowi 

 

Thanks,

 

Don

 

 

Seafood Source's article included Mowi's press release but no counter-point:

 

 

 

Thankfully, the editor of Seafood Source immediately agreed to update the original article to at least include a quote in response to Mowi's press release:

 

From: Cliff White <CWhite@divcom.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 3:54 PM
Subject: RE: One-sided story
To: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>

Hi Don,

My apologies, I was on vacation last week and just got back into the office this morning. I will add in your statement to the piece now (we just published it around 2 minutes ago).

Cliff

 

 

 

Here's an excerpt of my statement added to the Seafood Source article:

 

 

 

 

Earlier today I emailed The Fish Site and Salmon Business (who both reported on Mowi's lawsuit without seeking a critical comment in reply:

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 2:18 PM
Subject: One-sided argument
To: <rob@hatch.blue>
Cc: <moritz@hatch.blue>

 

Rob,

 

Isn't The Fish Site governed by a code of conduct/ethics in terms of reporting?

 

Every other trade press publication - except The Fish Site and Salmon Business - contacted me to provide a quote in reply to Mowi's lawsuit (Intrafish, Fish Farmer, Fish Farming Expert, Undercurrent News and even SeaWest News).

 

I've already sent you my quote in reply to Mowi's press release which you covered in full - here it is again: Press statement on lawsuit vs Mowi 

 

Thanks,

 

Don

 

 

 

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 4:09 PM
Subject: One-sided reporting in breach of journalistic code of ethics?
To: <post@salmonbusiness.com>

Isn't Salmon Business governed by a code of conduct/ethics in terms of reporting?

 

Every other trade press publication - except The Fish Site, Seafood Business and Salmon Business - contacted me to provide a quote in reply to Mowi's lawsuit (Intrafish, Fish Farmer, Fish Farming Expert, Undercurrent News and even SeaWest News).

 

Here is my response: Press statement on lawsuit vs Mowi 

 

Thanks,

 

Don

 

 

 

 

 

Here's The Fish Site's one-side - and I think unethical - article:

 

 

 

 

 

Here's Salmon Business's biased article which failed - until earlier this evening - to include any quote from myself or right of reply to Mowi's press statement:

 

 

 

 

 

Salmon Business have now (as of 6pm on 12 October) added this sentence following my email complaining of a lack of journalistic ethics:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Society of Professional Journalists dictates via their 'Code of Ethics' that journalists:

 

 

 

 

 

The BBC reports that good, ethical practice includes "giving those criticised a ‘right of reply’":

 

 

 

 

 

The 'Opportunity to Respond' or 'Right of Reply' is written into the OFCOM Broadcasting Code referenced by Channel 4:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian reported in 2005:

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Mowi Ignores Newton's 'Third Law of Motion' - for every action, there's an equal & opposite reaction!
• "The People Are Disgusted With Mowi's Legal Action Against Don Staniford - Stop Buying Mowi Salmon!"
• Mowi Actively Courts Trade Press Backlash Vs 'Irrational' & 'Fanatical' Activist!
• STV News: "Salmon farm firm takes legal action against animal welfare campaigner"
• Intrafish Editor's Picks: "Mowi fed up with salmon farming activist"
• Mowi Whistleblower Leaks Photos & Video: "fish farming is a disgusting industry"!
• Video Shows Mowi Acting Recklessly & Dangerously - a licence to kill?
• Press statement on lawsuit vs Mowi
• Mowi press release: "Court order sought to protect health and safety"
• "Mowi takes long-time salmon farming opponent to court" (Intrafish)

 

Mowi Actively Courts Trade Press Backlash Vs 'Irrational' & 'Fanatical' Activist! https://t.co/KrW6veyNRU @MowiScotlandLtd #ShootingYourselfInTheFoot#WhenInAHoleStopDigging @SSPOsays #WhereThereIsAHitThereIsAWrit pic.twitter.com/FPnW3g4hLW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2021

 

 

 

Addendum:

 

From: Moritz Mueller <moritz@hatch.blue>
Date: Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: One-sided argument
To: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Cc: Rob Fletcher <rob@hatch.blue>

Hi Don,

 

we are aware of your reply now and will see to it being reflected in the news piece - apologies for the delay, this was not intentional. 

 

Ocean sustainability, healthy and restorative farming practices are core part of the Fish Site’s coverage - I’m sure you will find that reflected on our site.

 

Best,

Moritz

Moritz Mueller | Managing Director |  www.thefishsite.com

Learn more about The Fish Site offering here

LinkedIn | GER: +49 (01)174 172 4211 | US: (+1) 808 345 8593 | Skype: live:mueller_448

 

 

 

 

 

The Fish Site added one sentence to their article:

 

 

Climavore spawns boycott of farmed salmon across the UK - take the pledge today!

 

"The first step in Becoming CLIMAVORE is to remove farmed salmon from menus" @CookingSections @mcrartgallery @skyeatlas @wagonart @angusmurray86 @SkyeEcomuseum @RaasayHouse@balticgateshead @Tate https://t.co/5woFLftWwc #CLIMAVORE #Boycott #Scottish #Salmon @SSPOsays

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 6, 2021

 

 

 

Climavore reported last month:

 

 

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

 

 

Compassion in World Farming posted on Facebook yesterday (11 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

 

 

In March 2021, Compassion in World Farming published shocking video footage shot inside 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

 

Download photos shot inside salmon farms published by Compassion in World Farming online here

 

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported earlier today (12 October 2021):

 

 

 

Watch stomach-churning video footage shot by Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots inside salmon farms:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian/MSN reported in April 2021:

 

"Anyone visiting the four museums when they reopen will notice that farmed salmon has been banished entirely from its cafes and restaurants" @Tate https://t.co/bVjSq41j8M @MSNBC @CookingSections
Please join the global boycott against farmed salmon!

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 6, 2021

 

 

 

Please join the global boycott against farmed salmon - take the salmon pledge today!

 

“I have taken farmed salmon completely off the menu. We don’t even have smoked salmon for breakfasts,” says chef James Coffey @IrishTimes @parkkenmare @jamescoffey1 @RelaisChateaux @salmonwatchire https://t.co/i5Y6hy6vLW#SalmonPledge

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 16, 2021

 

 

Please take the pledge against farmed salmon! https://t.co/4aHyVQE5i0@TasmanianGreens @envirotas #SalmonPledge pic.twitter.com/W9kTXWF3Dy

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 7, 2020

 

 

Join Philip Lymbery, CEO of Compassion In World Farming & author of 'Farmageddon', in taking the pledge not to eat farmed salmon! https://t.co/4aHyVQVGGA @philip_ciwf @CIWF_EU @media_ciwf @onekindtweet @rspcaassured @SSPCA_Mike @SSPCA_Kirsteen @LynneUSneddon @Animallawyersuk pic.twitter.com/71XmOo9zAt

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 9, 2020

 

 

 

Find out more reasons to boycott farmed salmon online here

 

 

 

Read more via:

Make a Video Pledge to Boycott Farmed Salmon Today!

RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon is a Welfare Nightmare - Don't Fall for the Scam!

Joanna Blythman in The Herald: "Why I can no longer stomach Scottish farmed salmon"

Take the Salmon Pledge - please join the boycott against farmed salmon!

Salmon Pledge Goes Wild Around the World! 

5 shocking reasons not to buy farmed salmon 

25 Reasons to Boycott Scottish 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

 

 

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

 

Mowi Ignores Newton's 'Third Law of Motion' - for every action, there's an equal & opposite reaction!

 

 

When Mowi issued a press release publicising their lawsuit against me - contrary to the unwritten rules of the court - they ignored basic science that any school kid during Covid lockdown would have learned.

 

 

 

In filing a lawsuit & issuing a press release publicising their legal action against me, Mowi's lawyers have ignored basic science. I flunked physics at school but understand Newton's 'Third Law of Motion': For every action, there is an equal & opposite reaction! @MowiScotlandLtd pic.twitter.com/h7GUFRzHzw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 12, 2021

 

If the brains behind Mowi's ill-judged legal action need pictures, here's Newton's 'Third Law of Motion' explained by Garfield in images that even spoiled toddlers would understand.

 

 

 

 

On Friday afternoon I received a number of emails from reporters at various trade press publications asking for a comment in reaction to a press release issued by Norwegian-owned giant Mowi.    Two trade press reporters kindly shared Mowi's press release issued at 5.52am on Friday 8 October 2021 (Mowi's Director of Communications, Ian Roberts, could have been in Canada so 5.52am may have been 1.52pm UK time) and said they were reporting soon - here's one of the emails I received from Intrafish's editor:

 

Date: Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 1:56 PM
Subject: Fw: News Release - Mowi seeks court order, undertakings received from defendant
To: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Cc: Intrafish Editorial <editorial@intrafish.com>

 

Hi Don - assuming you have seen? We'll be publishing a story on this soon, so if you have any first-take react to it, we would be happy to add to the piece.

 

 

---

From: Roberts, Ian <Ian.Roberts@mowi.com>
Sent: Friday, October 8, 2021 5:52 AM
Subject: News Release - Mowi seeks court order, undertakings received from defendant

 

Hello,

 

Please see news release below for your consideration. If you have any questions of clarification, please contact me directly. Mowi will not be providing additional comment at this time as it is ongoing litigation.

 

 

 

Court order sought to protect health and safety

 

Mowi Scotland is seeking a permanent interdict (injunction) against an individual who, despite repeated requests not to do so, has continued to put himself and the company’s employees and animals at risk.

 

Scotland’s largest salmon aquaculture company has commenced proceedings seeking orders preventing Don Staniford from entering onto, attaching vessels to or approaching within 15 metres of all structures, docks, walkways, buildings, floats or pens at its salmon aquaculture farming sites. Following the service of court papers, Mr Staniford gave undertakings to Court this week to not act as complained of pending a full determination of the proceedings.

 

Mowi Scotland COO Ben Hadfield says: “This person’s behaviours and actions that we have borne witness to over the past two years gives cause for great concern, and is not something that our staff should have to endure whilst going about their daily work. Everyone should be able to go to work and expect their workplace to be free of harassment and intimidation.”

 

Mr Staniford had been characterized by The Honourable Madam Justice Adair (Supreme Court of British Columbia) in the case of Mainstream Canada v. Don Staniford (2012)^[i]. In her written judgement, Justice Adair pointed to Mr Staniford mocking the physical appearance of three woman who provided testimony, and described Mr Staniford as “akin to a zealot” who will “twist facts to conform to his own personal view.”

 

“While these behaviours and the complete lack of respect toward our employees are deeply concerning to us, the basis for these court proceedings is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our employees, our fish and Mr Staniford and his associates. Our business also receives much oversight from licensed professionals, government regulators and third-party auditors, and therefore does not require the services of self-appointed individuals.”

 

Mowi’s writ cites the regular site visits and audits conducted by professionals trained in such areas as fish health, safety, and environmental management. The Scottish salmon sector – the country’s largest food export – is recognised as one of the most highly regulated and transparent. Mowi Scotland’s salmon aquaculture farms were inspected 316 times in 2020 by third-party organisations that included Marine Scotland, SEPA and the RSPCA, with much of its data provided online for the public to access.

 

“We have not wanted to pursue legal recourse, but we cannot stand by and watch any person risk injury to themselves or for them to intentionally or unintentionally bring harm to our employees or our fish. These incursions are dangerous, unauthorised, risk our strict health protocols and have an unacceptable impact on our dedicated employees.”

 

[1] The Honourable Madam Justice Adair’s (Supreme Court of British Columbia) written judgement in the case of Mainstream Canada v. Don Staniford (2012) referred to Mr Staniford mocking the physical appearance of three woman who provided testimony (para 90) and described Mr Staniford as “akin to a zealot” (para 185-189). https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/SC/12/14/2012BCSC1433.htm

 

-ends-

 

 

 

Ian Roberts
Director of Communications
Scotland, Ireland, Canada
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Mobile: +1 (506) 754-6019
Mail: Ian.Roberts@mowi.com

 

 

 

 

Salmon pharmers love reading news about activists being sued - Mowi's lawsuit against me is the second most read story on Intrafish! https://t.co/mqeVxn6uPC@IntraFish @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @Folketrygdfond @HamishMacdonell @tavishscott @ptfss @lovescotsalmon @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/0ACxBc34r2

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 9, 2021

 

Another email from a reporter at Undercurrent News said a news story was being published "in the next hour":

 

On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, 13:54 Neil Ramsden, <neil.ramsden@undercurrentnews.com> wrote:

Hi Don, 

 

We're going to run a story on this, if you'd care to comment? Aiming to publish in the next hour but can add comment as soon as it arrives. 

 

Best, Neil

 

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Roberts, Ian <Ian.Roberts@mowi.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 1:52 PM
Subject: News Release - Mowi seeks court order, undertakings received from defendant
To:

Hello,

Please see news release below for your consideration. If you have any questions of clarification, please contact me directly. Mowi will not be providing additional comment at this time as it is ongoing litigation.

Court order sought to protect health and safety

 

Mowi Scotland is seeking a permanent interdict (injunction) against an individual who, despite repeated requests not to do so, has continued to put himself and the company’s employees and animals at risk.

Scotland’s largest salmon aquaculture company has commenced proceedings seeking orders preventing Don Staniford from entering onto, attaching vessels to or approaching within 15 metres of all structures, docks, walkways, buildings, floats or pens at its salmon aquaculture farming sites. Following the service of court papers, Mr Staniford gave undertakings to Court this week to not act as complained of pending a full determination of the proceedings.

Mowi Scotland COO Ben Hadfield says: “This person’s behaviours and actions that we have borne witness to over the past two years gives cause for great concern, and is not something that our staff should have to endure whilst going about their daily work. Everyone should be able to go to work and expect their workplace to be free of harassment and intimidation.”

Mr Staniford had been characterized by The Honourable Madam Justice Adair (Supreme Court of British Columbia) in the case of Mainstream Canada v. Don Staniford (2012)^[i]. In her written judgement, Justice Adair pointed to Mr Staniford mocking the physical appearance of three woman who provided testimony, and described Mr Staniford as “akin to a zealot” who will “twist facts to conform to his own personal view.”

“While these behaviours and the complete lack of respect toward our employees are deeply concerning to us, the basis for these court proceedings is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our employees, our fish and Mr Staniford and his associates. Our business also receives much oversight from licensed professionals, government regulators and third-party auditors, and therefore does not require the services of self-appointed individuals.”

Mowi’s writ cites the regular site visits and audits conducted by professionals trained in such areas as fish health, safety, and environmental management. The Scottish salmon sector – the country’s largest food export – is recognised as one of the most highly regulated and transparent. Mowi Scotland’s salmon aquaculture farms were inspected 316 times in 2020 by third-party organisations that included Marine Scotland, SEPA and the RSPCA, with much of its data provided online for the public to access.

“We have not wanted to pursue legal recourse, but we cannot stand by and watch any person risk injury to themselves or for them to intentionally or unintentionally bring harm to our employees or our fish. These incursions are dangerous, unauthorised, risk our strict health protocols and have an unacceptable impact on our dedicated employees.”

[1] The Honourable Madam Justice Adair’s (Supreme Court of British Columbia) written judgement in the case of Mainstream Canada v. Don Staniford (2012) referred to Mr Staniford mocking the physical appearance of three woman who provided testimony (para 90) and described Mr Staniford as “akin to a zealot” (para 185-189). https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/SC/12/14/2012BCSC1433.htm

-ends-

Ian Roberts
Director of Communications
Scotland, Ireland, Canada
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Mobile: +1 (506) 754-6019
Mail: Ian.Roberts@mowi.com

 

 

 

FREE READ: @MowiScotlandLtd is taking anti- #aquaculture campaigner Don Staniford of @TheGAAIA to court, seeking an injunction to prevent him coming near its #salmon farms on "health and safety grounds":

https://t.co/5MOcE2ROmv

— Undercurrent News (@undercur) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

By mid-afternoon, Mowi's Director of Communications (Ian Roberts) had posted Mowi's press release online - here's an email sent by Mowi's Director of Communications to a news reporter:

 

Subject: News Release: Mowi seeks court order, undertaking received from defendant

Date: 8 October 2021 at 16:08:28 BST

To:

 

I am forwarding you our latest news release for your consideration, as it is relevant to past stories covered by your publication. If you have any questions of clarification, please contact me directly. Mowi will not be providing additional comment at this time as it is ongoing litigation. 

 

https://mowi.com/uk/blog/2021/10/07/court-order-sought-to-protect-health-and-safety/.

 

 

Ian Roberts
Director of Communications
Scotland, Ireland, Canada
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 

 

 

 

 

And a post by Mowi on Twitter:

 

“Everyone should be able to go to work and expect their workplace to be free of harassment and intimidation.”

Read full details here : https://t.co/EOY5PGbuPj pic.twitter.com/AhGbzsEpwh

— Mowi Scotland Limited (@MowiScotlandLtd) October 8, 2021

 

 

I felt obliged to defend my position so posted online a press statement in reply to Mowi's press release.

 

Mowi Actively Courts Trade Press Backlash Vs 'Irrational' & 'Fanatical' Activist! https://t.co/KrW6veyNRU @MowiScotlandLtd #ShootingYourselfInTheFoot#WhenInAHoleStopDigging @SSPOsays #WhereThereIsAHitThereIsAWrit pic.twitter.com/FPnW3g4hLW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2021

 

 

 

Mowi's appalling track record on health and safety and real motives behind the lawsuit were questioned in various Tweets and blogs:

 

Please raise a glass to Mowi's magnificent health & safety standards @MowiScotlandLtd @H_S_E @SSPOsays @tavishscott @HamishMacdonell @AthollDuncan https://t.co/cJqWE2wuiD

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2021

 

 

Video Exclusive: A sneak preview from Mowi's 'Safety First' promotional film illustrating safety in the workplace @H_S_E @maibgovuk @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @_KateForbes @Ianblackford_MP @scotgov @WHFP1 @pressjournal @IntraFish @BBCScotlandNews @STVNews @obantimes @tavishscott https://t.co/YjinO7dl6T

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2021

 

 

Mowi: "the basis for these court proceedings is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our employees, our fish & Mr Staniford" @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/vEEgjixVvn
Absolutely nothing to do with not wanting people to see horrific welfare abuse inside @rspcaassured cages! pic.twitter.com/0BS0z1rD5H

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

Adrenaline fuelled Mowi skipper calmly lights a cigarette after almost killing or injuring observers. pic.twitter.com/XhzbnQljIP

— Andrew Holder (@andrholder) October 10, 2021

 

 

 

The reason why Mowi wishes me to stay away from their salmon farms is painfully clear.

 

Having met Don Staniford I know he is committed to exposing poor welfare in the salmon industry so they are forced to improve the conditions for the fish. If salmon welfare was good then there would be nothing to expose #fishwelfare https://t.co/Sb0LfqlnDx

— Lynne Sneddon (@LynneUSneddon) October 9, 2021

 

Mowi claims that secret visits to salmon farms by Don Staniford puts "animals at risk" https://t.co/vIJhCksd3G Here's some of the @rspcaassured farmed salmon I filmed @MowiScotlandLtd in July 2021 (sold @sainsburys @AldiUK & @LidlGB) https://t.co/dhVFllDjXX @SSPOsays @obantimes pic.twitter.com/y8dMc9n3dF

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

 

These are the reasons why Mowi don't want #DonStaniford to be poking around their salmon farms, it's definitely nothing to do with animal welfare. https://t.co/NLEwsJyDTI

— Katie Tunn (@Katie__Eden) October 12, 2021

 

 

STV News reported yesterday (11 October 2021):

 

Salmon farm firm takes legal action against animal welfare campaigner. https://t.co/WvAYizqTSJ

— STV News (@STVNews) October 11, 2021

 

 

 

 

'Scottish' salmon is shaken & stirred by shocking video footage shot inside lice-infested cages - now the 4th most popular story on @STVNews (featured next to James Bond)! https://t.co/HDQlpa4U6O @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @HamishMacdonell @tavishscott pic.twitter.com/UaJpt1tivg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2021

 

 

 

The STV News article cited another STV News report from May 2021:

 

 

STV News report on Mowi's legal action by using photos of their lice-infested salmon I shot inside their farms in July (the reason they're suing me) & citing an article in May where @MowiScotlandLtd was found responsible for the death of Clive Hendry https://t.co/tiY0Jw3Ofg pic.twitter.com/S0Tv6Vb3ML

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 12, 2021

 

 

 

Watch exclusive video footage of Mowi acting recklessly and dangerously at their Ardintoul salmon farm in Loch Alsh in November 2019 (three months before Mowi worker Clive Hendry died at the same salmon farm in February 2020):

 

 

As I wrote on Saturday (9 October 2021):

 

"Watch the video footage and judge for yourself who's acting recklessly and dangerous - last week (8 October 2021) Mowi's lawyers and Mowi Scotland's COO  Ben Hadfield accused me of acting dangerously.  For context, I'm the guy standing still on the salmon farm cage in a red life jacket holding a telescopic orange pole with a Go Pro camera attached (the equipment had been disinfected and proper biosecurity protocols followed) next to my blue kayak which was tied up safely to Mowi's farm at Ardintoul in Loch Alsh 'Special Area of Conservation'":

 

 

 

 

In May 2021, the Marine Accident Investigation Branch published a damning report on how negligence by Norwegian-owned Mowi caused the horrific death of Clive Hendry who was crushed between a workboat and feed storage unit at the Ardintoul salmon farm in Loch Alsh in February 2020. 

 

 

Download the 16 page MAIB report Download MAIB Clive Hendry accident report May 2021

 

 

 

 

BBC News reported (26 May 2021):

 

BBC News reporting on Mowi's Safety Failures over Death of Clive Hendry at a salmon farm in Loch Alsh @BBCScotlandNews @ScottishHazards @ScotlandMowi @IslaTodd @WHFP1 @maibgovuk @_KateForbes @Ianblackford_MP @GreenerScotland @MCA_media @H_S_E @SSPOsays https://t.co/Xomv98TVBo

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 26, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Hazards posted on Facebook (26 May 2021):

 

 

 

 

The Daily Mirror reported (26 May 2021):

 

"An experienced salmon farmer died after being crushed between a boat and a barge" @DailyMirror https://t.co/LMMHhbYFjU
"Mowi Scotland Ltd has been advised to 'fully implement a safety management system across its fleet'" @maibgovuk @ScotlandMowi
How much will Mowi be fined?

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 26, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in May 2021:

 

Mowi has blood on its hands over the horrific death of Clive Hendry - how much will Mowi be fined for negligence? @ScotlandMowi @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/55xO0wiiy3 @maibgovuk @H_S_E @GreenerScotland @WHFP1 @pressjournal @IntraFishNorge @_KateForbes @Ianblackford_MP #Mowi pic.twitter.com/nfpEboInpn

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 26, 2021

 

 

 

Mowi's legal attack may well come back to bite them. 

 

The people are disgusted with @ScotlandMowi legal action against Don Staniford @TheGAAIA and attempts to use the law to hide their abhorrent animal husbandry practices and harm to #ourseas cetaceans. Stop buying MOWI salmon @Tesco @sainsburys @AmazonFresh https://t.co/CbARxLGzYd

— david nairn (@ClydePorpoise) October 12, 2021

 

 

 

On Sunday (10 October 2021), a whistleblower who worked for Mowi leaked photos of welfare abuse and environmental pollution at a Mowi salmon farm.

 

 

 

The Mowi worker took the photos and video whilst working on the salmon farm and criticised the Norwegian-owned giant for "bad management" and "poorly kept conditions of fish".

 

 

 

The whistleblower - who was employed by Mowi when the photos/video were taken - told me that "fish farming is a disgusting industry", "oil spills were an every day thing" and that they hoped the leaked information "goes towards shutting down the salmon farming industry, which I totally agree with because it is an absolute horrible sector!"

 

 

 

"With the 'swim throughs, they are constantly crowding fish and then they get scratched along the netting which descales them," explained the Mowi whistleblower.

 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's PR assault demanded an immediate tactical response - and sometimes the best form of defence is attack! 

 

My legal defence tactics are informed by watching Sean Connery in 'The Hunt for Red October' - turning directly into the torpedo is sometimes the right course of action. "Attack is the best form of defence" military strategists advise! https://t.co/7nnK2MCWbu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2021

 

 

 

Read more via:

• "The People Are Disgusted With Mowi's Legal Action Against Don Staniford - Stop Buying Mowi Salmon!"
• Mowi Actively Courts Trade Press Backlash Vs 'Irrational' & 'Fanatical' Activist!
• STV News: "Salmon farm firm takes legal action against animal welfare campaigner"
• Intrafish Editor's Picks: "Mowi fed up with salmon farming activist"
• Mowi Whistleblower Leaks Photos & Video: "fish farming is a disgusting industry"!
• Video Shows Mowi Acting Recklessly & Dangerously - a licence to kill?
• Press statement on lawsuit vs Mowi
• Mowi press release: "Court order sought to protect health and safety"
• "Mowi takes long-time salmon farming opponent to court" (Intrafish)

 

 

 

"The People Are Disgusted With Mowi's Legal Action Against Don Staniford - Stop Buying Mowi Salmon!"

 

The people are disgusted with @ScotlandMowi legal action against Don Staniford @TheGAAIA and attempts to use the law to hide their abhorrent animal husbandry practices and harm to #ourseas cetaceans. Stop buying MOWI salmon @Tesco @sainsburys @AmazonFresh https://t.co/CbARxLGzYd

— david nairn (@ClydePorpoise) October 12, 2021

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported last month (14 September 2021):

 

Caught on candid camera - The Scottish Salmon Company claim to have an EPS licence to use ADDs at their salmon farm at West Strome in Loch Carron https://t.co/vvP9mJfXF1
I thought there were no EPS licences issued for ADDs on salmon farms! @nature_scot @marinescotland @SSPOsays

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 13, 2021

 

 

 

@patrickharvie @lornaslater @MairiGougeon @NicolaSturgeon Irrespective of any ADD policy can kicking, the current use of ADDs without EPS licence is a Habitats 39 offence. Why is government allowing these crimes against protected species to continue? I did not vote for this! https://t.co/N4gqdpoK0A

— david nairn (@ClydePorpoise) September 13, 2021

 

 

Hi Don, I am to provide material evidence and witness statements to MS Compliance on Thursday. I speak to them first before release any specific details as don’t want to compromise their investigation.

— david nairn (@ClydePorpoise) September 14, 2021

 

 

The Mail On Sunday reported in August:

 

 

 

 

The Ferret reported in August 2021:

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported in June 2021:

 

 

 

 

Surveying for Acoustic Deterrent Devices in Loch Fyne & Loch Striven found almost every active salmon farm using ADDs. Every farm was operated by Faroese/Norwegian-owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company @salmon_scottish @Folketrygdfond @Try_Lochlander @SSPOsays https://t.co/wcTHtY3oSO pic.twitter.com/J6zsOzrzOA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 29, 2021

 

 

 

In August 2019, BBC Countryfile showcased Mowi's illegal use of ADDs in the Sound of Jura:

 

 

 

 

The BBC Countryfile show (4 August 2019) featured tourist operator David Ainsley who called for a ban on ADDs due to impacts on cetaceans (read David's submission to the Scottish Parliament and complaint to the European Commission online here):

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch has filmed at salmon farms across Scotland using ADDs illegally:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Scottish Salmon Caught Telling Porkies on ADDs?
• "Salmon farms probed for using illegal 'scarers' which threaten dolphins" (Mail on Sunday)
• RSPCA Assured food label scheme accused of protecting ‘salmon farmers and retailers’
• FOI Exposes Lobbying by 'Scottish' Salmon on Killing of Seals & Use of ADDs
• The Oban Times: "Seal scarer devices may harm harbour porpoise"
• "Five out of the six top farms in Scotland" use GenusWave's 'Acoustic Startle Technology' - But is it MMPA compliant & does it comply with EU law?
• "Scientists sound warning over next-gen seal scarers"
• Journal of Applied Ecology: "Auditory impairment from acoustic seal deterrents predicted for harbour porpoises in a marine protected area"
• Fish Farmer: "Seal scarers could harm porpoises, study finds"
• Parliamentary Report: "ADD Use in the Aquaculture Sector"
• Scientific Study into Impact of Low Frequency ADDs Silenced!
• Pulling the Plug on ADD on salmon farms - is turning down the volume enough to comply with the law?
• Sunday Times: "Animal welfare campaigners sound out ban on acoustic seal deterrent"
• Mail On Sunday: "Salmon farmers are 'torturing' porpoises and dolphins with high-pitched noises to protect their stock, campaigners warn"
• Unlicensed use of ADDs in aquaculture is contrary to European Protected Species legislation & completely immoral!
• Daily Record: "Whales and dolphins being 'tortured' by anti-seal scare devices at Scottish fish farms"
• The Guardian: "Scottish salmon farmers to be banned from shooting seals"
• Caught Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea
• The Ferret: "Seal scarers used by fish farms branded 'sonic torture'"
• GenusWave 'Targeted Acoustic Startle Technology' - in compliance with the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act??
• Seal shooting at salmon farms doubles before ban
• Ban on seal shooting must be watertight
• Greens want ban on seal scarers
• BBC Countryfile on ADDs impacting on cetaceans
• Sounding Off On Salmon Farms - Acoustic Deterrent Devices evade Marine Noise Registry
• SARF report 112: "Influences of lower-frequency Acoustic Deterrent Devices (ADDs) on cetaceans in Scottish coastal waters"
• The Times: "Noisy fish farms ‘harm other marine life’"
• Mapping widespread and increasing underwater noise pollution from acoustic deterrent devices
• Sounding Off About Scotland's Noisy Salmon Farms - Turn Off Acoustic Deterrent Devices to Protect Cetaceans
• Deafening Impact of Salmon Farms on Cetaceans
• The National: "Warning salmon farm devices could hit wildlife tourism"
• Turning Down the Volume on Salmon Farms is Not Enough: 'Cetacean Friendly' Acoustic Deterrent Devices Still Harm & Must Be Banned 
• Cetaceans Sound Alarm On Salmon Farms - new research sparks EC complaint & call to ban Acoustic Deterrent Devices
• Sunday Herald: "Health of whales, dolphins and porpoises put at risk by underwater alarms"
• Noisy Salmon Farms - Switch Off Acoustic Deterrent Devices Now!

 

 

Surely someone on inside track at @marinescotland & @nature_scot has the bottle to affirm to @GreenerScotland @NicolaSturgeon @strathearnrose that unlicensed use of ADDs in aquaculture is contrary to European Protected Species legislation and completely immoral? pic.twitter.com/yfQQZhjaI8

— david nairn (@ClydePorpoise) October 12, 2020

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported in June 2021:

 

 

 

Paxo stuffs salmon farming The Daily Mail!

 

Paxo stuffs Scottish salmon in today's Mail! https://t.co/KuMii0zg6X
"In a despairing elegy for the wild salmon @JeremyPaxman says polluting fish farms are threatening its future" @SSPOsays @SalmonTroutCons @fms_scotland @AST_Salmon @marinescotland @FFFTmag @TroutSalmonMag pic.twitter.com/VqsaudSCE2

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2021

 

The Dail Mail reported (10 October 2021):

 

 

 

The Daily Mail article included:

 

 

 

 

Jeremy Paxman in today's Daily Mail: "About one fifth of caged salmon are killed by disease and parasites before they can be ‘harvested’....You won’t catch a salmon fisherman like me eating a fish that has been reared like this" https://t.co/gIYA0OCmz9 @MailOnline @JeremyPaxman

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2021

 

 

 

Watch Jeremy Paxman talking about salmon farming and the demise of wild sea trout in Loch Maree:

 

 

 

 

Jeremy Paxman featured in a documentary broadcast on Icelandic TV in 2018:

 

Watch Jeremy Paxman attacking the "collateral consequences" of salmon farming in a documentary screened in Iceland (13 May) https://t.co/IF7NpxRjst More by Paxman in the FT https://t.co/cdrSpnzV3b @charliewhelan @ScotGamekeepers @fms_scotland @SalmonTroutCons @ScotSalmonTank pic.twitter.com/peUOqAJ8nK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 7, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Daily Mail reported (21 May 2018):

 

 

 

Read more via:

"The Terrible Cost of Scotland's Salmon Farms" (Financial Times, 12 August 2017)

"Salmon farming has done ‘enormous harm’ to fish and environment, warns Jeremy Paxman" (Daily Telegraph, 12 August 2017)

"Paxman: Fish farms 'battery hen sheds that float on water" (Daily Mail, 14 August 2017)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

"The Terrible Cost of Scotland's Salmon Farms" (Financial Times, 12 August 2017)

"Salmon farming has done ‘enormous harm’ to fish and environment, warns Jeremy Paxman" (Daily Telegraph, 12 August 2017)

"Paxman: Fish farms 'battery hen sheds that float on water" (Daily Mail, 14 August 2017)

Mowi Actively Courts Trade Press Backlash Vs 'Irrational' & 'Fanatical' Activist!

 

Mowi Actively Courts Trade Press Backlash Vs 'Irrational' & 'Fanatical' Activist! https://t.co/KrW6veyNRU @MowiScotlandLtd #ShootingYourselfInTheFoot#WhenInAHoleStopDigging @SSPOsays #WhereThereIsAHitThereIsAWrit pic.twitter.com/FPnW3g4hLW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2021

 

On Friday afternoon I received a number of emails from reporters at various trade press publications asking for a comment in reaction to a press release issued by Norwegian-owned giant Mowi.    Two trade press reporters kindly shared Mowi's press release (issued at 1.52pm on Friday 8 October 2021) and said they were reporting on the news within the hour - hence I felt obliged to issue a press statement in reply.

 

I will be defending Mowi's legal action in the strongest terms - the truth always wins out in the end! @IntraFish https://t.co/griR3K3N6a @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @Folketrygdfond @tavishscott

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

Fish Farmer reported (11 October 2021):

 

 

"Scotland’s largest salmon farmer, Mowi, is seeking a permanent interdict in the courts to prevent activist Don Staniford from accessing its farm sites without permission" @fishfarmermag https://t.co/ggQl7ODumU
"I look forward to debating these vital legal issues in open court" pic.twitter.com/uJQaS1ISUa

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2021

 

 

 

Salmon Business reported (8 October 2021):

 

 

 

Having met Don Staniford I know he is committed to exposing poor welfare in the salmon industry so they are forced to improve the conditions for the fish. If salmon welfare was good then there would be nothing to expose #fishwelfare https://t.co/Sb0LfqlnDx

— Lynne Sneddon (@LynneUSneddon) October 9, 2021

 

 

 

Undercurrent News reported (8 October 2021):

 

Mowi's Scottish division is seeking a permanent interdict (injunction) against anti-aquaculture campaigner Don Staniford on health and safety grounds.

Staniford, despite repeated requests not to do so, has continued to put himself and the company’s employees and animals at risk, the company claimed. 

Scotland’s largest salmon aquaculture company has commenced proceedings seeking orders preventing Staniford from entering onto, attaching vessels to or approaching within 15 meters of all structures, docks, walkways, buildings, floats or pens at its salmon aquaculture farming sites. Following the service of court papers, Staniford has given undertakings to court to not act as complained of, pending a full determination of the proceedings.

"This person’s behaviors and actions that we have borne witness to over the past two years gives cause for great concern and is not something that our staff should have to endure whilst going about their daily work," said Mowi Scotland's chief operating officer, Ben Hadfield. "Everyone should be able to go to work and expect their workplace to be free of harassment and intimidation."

While Mowi has been concerned at Staniford's "lack of respect toward...employees", the basis for these court proceedings is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of employees, fish and Staniford and his associates, the company said.

"Our business also receives much oversight from licensed professionals, government regulators and third-party auditors, and therefore does not require the services of self-appointed individuals."

Mowi’s writ cites the regular site visits and audits conducted by professionals trained in such areas as fish health, safety, and environmental management. The Scottish salmon sector -- the country’s largest food export -- is recognized as one of the most highly regulated and transparent, it said.

Mowi Scotland’s salmon aquaculture farms were inspected 316 times in 2020 by third-party organizations that included Marine Scotland, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), with much of its data provided online for the public to access, it continued.

"We have not wanted to pursue legal recourse, but we cannot stand by and watch any person risk injury to themselves or for them to intentionally or unintentionally bring harm to our employees or our fish. These incursions are dangerous, unauthorized, risk our strict health protocols and have an unacceptable impact on our dedicated employees."

Staniford told Undercurrent News he would be defending Mowi's legal action "in the strongest terms". 

He claimed film shot inside Mowi's salmon farms in July revealed welfare abuse, "mass mortalities and lice infestations", and said he was not surprised the Norwegian firm wanted to prevent the public from finding out "the ugly truth about Scottish salmon". 

"Thankfully, the truth always wins out in the end and I look forward to debating these vital legal issues in open court," he added. The RSPCA went on to clear Mowi of the allegations made, finding no evidence to support them.

 

FREE READ: @MowiScotlandLtd is taking anti- #aquaculture campaigner Don Staniford of @TheGAAIA to court, seeking an injunction to prevent him coming near its #salmon farms on "health and safety grounds":

https://t.co/5MOcE2ROmv

— Undercurrent News (@undercur) October 8, 2021

 

 

The Fish Site reported (8 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported (8 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

SeaWest News reported (8 October 2021):

 

 

 

Read more via:

• STV News: "Salmon farm firm takes legal action against animal welfare campaigner"
• Intrafish Editor's Picks: "Mowi fed up with salmon farming activist"
• Mowi Whistleblower Leaks Photos & Video: "fish farming is a disgusting industry"!
• Video Shows Mowi Acting Recklessly & Dangerously - a licence to kill?
• Press statement on lawsuit vs Mowi
• Mowi press release: "Court order sought to protect health and safety"
• "Mowi takes long-time salmon farming opponent to court" (Intrafish)

 

STV News: "Salmon farm firm takes legal action against animal welfare campaigner"

 

Salmon farm firm takes legal action against animal welfare campaigner. https://t.co/WvAYizqTSJ

— STV News (@STVNews) October 11, 2021

 

 

 

STV News reported (11 October 2021):

 

 

STV News: "Given the gruesome nature of welfare abuse, mass mortalities & lice infestations it is not surprising that this Norwegian-owned behemoth wants to stop the public from finding out the ugly truth about Scottish salmon" https://t.co/HlRWu4RmVO @STVNews @giannilmarini pic.twitter.com/o8kveENGsj

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2021

 

 

 

 

'Scottish' salmon is shaken & stirred by shocking video footage shot inside lice-infested cages - now the 4th most popular story on @STVNews (featured next to James Bond)! https://t.co/HDQlpa4U6O @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @HamishMacdonell @tavishscott pic.twitter.com/UaJpt1tivg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2021

 

 

STV News reported in May 2021:

 

 

 

 

Watch exclusive video footage of Mowi acting recklessly and dangerously at their Ardintoul salmon farm in Loch Alsh in November 2019 (three months before Mowi worker Clive Hendry died at the same salmon farm in February 2020):

 

Leaked video shows Mowi acting recklessly & dangerously - three months after this video was shot, Mowi worker Clive Hendry (seen in the footage) was crushed to death at the same @MowiScotlandLtd salmon farm in Loch Alsh https://t.co/oLOASoyiH1@maibgovuk @H_S_E @SSPOsays

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2021

 

 

Watch the video footage and judge for yourself who's acting recklessly and dangerous - last week (8 October 2021) Mowi's lawyers and Mowi Scotland's COO  Ben Hadfield accused me of acting dangerously.  For context, I'm the guy standing still on the salmon farm cage in a red life jacket holding a telescopic orange pole with a Go Pro camera attached (the equipment had been disinfected and proper biosecurity protocols followed) next to my blue kayak which was tied up safely to Mowi's farm at Ardintoul in Loch Alsh 'Special Area of Conservation':

 

 

 

Adrenaline fuelled Mowi skipper calmly lights a cigarette after almost killing or injuring observers. pic.twitter.com/XhzbnQljIP

— Andrew Holder (@andrholder) October 10, 2021

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Intrafish Editor's Picks: "Mowi fed up with salmon farming activist"
• Mowi Whistleblower Leaks Photos & Video: "fish farming is a disgusting industry"!
• Video Shows Mowi Acting Recklessly & Dangerously - a licence to kill?
• Press statement on lawsuit vs Mowi
• Mowi press release: "Court order sought to protect health and safety"
• "Mowi takes long-time salmon farming opponent to court" (Intrafish)

 

 

Mowi's legal action to stop "dangerous" visits to salmon farms and prevent risks to employees & animals would hold more water if @MowiScotlandLtd was not responsible for millions of dead salmon, dozens of dead seals & even a dead worker https://t.co/55xO0wiiy3 @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/Xe18exnrM9

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

Mowi's legal action to stop filming inside salmon farms is the 5th most popular story on STV News (behind Prince Andrew's sex abuse claim but above a story about dog shit) https://t.co/HlRWu4RmVO @MowiScotlandLtd #MediaGeniuses @SSPOsays @HamishMacdonell @tavishscott pic.twitter.com/DOIm0r56BQ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2021

 

 

Legal action proposed by @ScotlandMowi and supported by @SSPOsays has negative consequences and infringes our inalienable rights to freely navigate #ourseas. Polluting the sea is not enough for this conglomerate, they now want to control and own it above the peoples of Scotland! https://t.co/LPNINdmcc5

— david nairn (@ClydePorpoise) October 11, 2021

 

Prince Charles's slap in face after 'organic' salmon farm refused planning: Why does the AST patron give the royal seal of approval to salmon pharming?

Prince Charles's slap in face after 'organic' salmon farm refused planning: Why does the @AST_Salmon patron give the royal seal of approval to salmon pharming? @ClarenceHouse @SoilAssociation @SoilAssocScot @SalmonTroutCons @fms_scotland @JeremyPaxman https://t.co/STXdJXFVIu pic.twitter.com/nhze5sHc7k

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2021

 

 

 

When Prince Charles, patron of the Atlantic Salmon Trust, visited Skye last month he appeared to endorse 'Organic' Sea Harvest's expansion plans.  The Press & Journal reported (17 September 2021):

 

 

 

 

 

The article included:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Press & Journal reported in June 2021:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Norwegian, Dutch & Canadian owners of 'Organic' Sea Harvest may have hit the bottle over the weekend but it will have been to drown their sorrows as a second 'organic' salmon farm was refused by the Scottish Government.  

"We are obviously very disappointed" says 'Organic' Sea Harvest following yet another planning refusal @scotgov https://t.co/1ONicfrgJX @HighlandCouncil @alexmacinnessnp @SoilAssociation @SoilAssocScot
Not everyone is disappointed! @IanDobb @Jonnynogaps @Katie__Eden pic.twitter.com/6VOvMFq4HJ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 9, 2021

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported (8 October 2021):

 

'Organic' Sea Harvest lost its appeal against planning refusal for a salmon farm at Balmacqueen off Skye. ~It is the second time OSH has lost a planning appeal" #HowManyTimesBeforeUGetTheMessage?https://t.co/evhc8LwFYR @salmonfarming1 @scotgov @HighlandCouncil @Ianblackford_MP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

Fish Farmer Expert reported in November 2020:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why does Prince Charles - and the royal family - continue to endorse the expansion of disease-ridden salmon farming as 'sustainable'?   

 

 

 

The Duke of Rothesay visited @MHScotland’s Loch Leven Fish Farm today to find out about sustainable salmon farming. pic.twitter.com/beDyK1RSLR

— The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall (@ClarenceHouse) October 13, 2016

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in June 2021:

 

'Organic' Salmon Fit for the Queen? Not Even Fit for Her Dogs! https://t.co/buXL542q56
Will the Royals really eat 'organic' salmon bathed in lobster-killing Deltamethrin, infested with lice & swimming in toxic algal bloom? @timbrouwer89
@SevernWye @ClarenceHouse @KensingtonRoyal pic.twitter.com/ygWKxWnUEw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 25, 2021

 

 

 

 

'Organic' Sea Harvest has been desperately lobbying for royal approval for their toxic and disease-ridden product - despite the use of the lobster-killing chemical Deltamethrin at the Soil Association-certified 'organic' salmon farming company.   Scottish Salmon Watch reported in March 2021:

 

As Royal Patron of @SoilAssociation why is the use of the toxic chemical Deltamethrin - show by recent science to be lethal to lobsters - allowed for use on 'organic' salmon farms? @ClarenceHouse @dimbleby_jd @Charlotcostume @SoilAssocScot @HelenBOrganic @JoannaBlythman @peterk69 https://t.co/9mKOkQZA2u

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 20, 2021

 

 

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (Royal Patron of the Soil Association) knows all too well the environmental impacts of toxic chemicals and has campaigned tirelessly for decades against their use in agriculture on land.   Why His Royal Highness would endorse the use of the toxic chemical Deltamethrin in the sea on 'organic' salmon farms - remember that Deltamethrin is labelled by the chemical manufactuers as a 'marine pollutant' and "very toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects" - is a case study in how the Soil Association's principles have been corroded by corporate interests.

 

 

Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles - will anyone stand up against the use of the toxic chemical Deltamethrin? @SoilAssociation @ClarenceHouse @dimbleby_jd @Charlotcostume @SoilAssocScot @HelenBOrganic @JoannaBlythman @peterk69 https://t.co/jHzIfvAo6t pic.twitter.com/tyEhGRWtuk

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 20, 2021

 

 

 

In 2018, Salmon & Trout Conservation (whose patron is also Prince Charles) weighed in against 'organic' salmon.

 

 

 

 

 

Royal patronage and support for environmentally destructive salmon farming dates back to the 1970s when the Duke of Edinburgh visited Mowi's salmon farm in Loch Ailort leading to the royal seal of approval for Mowi salmon.  

 

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge served farmed salmon at their royal wedding in 2011 https://t.co/tC8veDzWrx @KensingtonRoyal We are not amused pic.twitter.com/Zna4126V1v

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 21, 2020

 

 

 

In May 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch wrote to Prince Charles raising concerns over royal warrant holder Mowi's proposed use of the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in Loch Ailort:

 

Does @RoyalFamily support the use of the bee-killing toxic neonicotinoid Imidacloprid by royal warrant holder @MowiScotlandLtd? Prince Philip visited Loch Ailort in 1974 leading to pharmed salmon supplied to Buckingham Palace #WorldBeeDay #WorldBeeDay2020 https://t.co/S1ovGqCpu7 pic.twitter.com/rPIRJQDpms

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 20, 2020

How can the Prince of Wales be a champion of 'sustainable' salmon farming when it plans to use the bee-killing neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in Loch Ailort? @MowiScotlandLtd @ClarenceHouse https://t.co/WuZF4j7EcN @RoyalFamily #WorldBeeDay #WorldBeeDayDay2020 @WeAreBenchmark #BMK08 pic.twitter.com/f9IGlbauSy

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 20, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

Back in 2015, I petitioned Her Majesty the Queen over her patronage of RSPCA Assured salmon farms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prince Charles's patronage of salmon farming interests via the Atlantic Salmon Trust raises serious questions.    Scottish Salmon Watch reported in September 2020:

 

Judas sold out Jesus for thirty pieces of silver - it seems the Atlantic Salmon Trust are willing to sell the King of Fish down the river for £300,000 https://t.co/H5siw5DAlq @AST_Salmon @ScotlandMowi @MowiScotlandLtd @fms_scotland @marinescotland @HamishMacdonell @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/NlLqvH9cCM

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 28, 2020

 

 

 

The Patron of the Atlantic Salmon Trust is HRH the Prince of Wales.

 

 

 

Sadly, HRH the Prince of Wales's notion of 'sustainability' is Mowi's disease-ridden salmon farms!

 

 

 

 

 

The Daily Mail reported in July 2015:

 

 

 

 

 

 

His Royal Highness and the rest of the royal family should maybe sit down together in front of the telly tonight to watch the Kate Winslet-narrated film 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' which features footage of farmed salmon being tortured by a Thermolicer in Loch Leven (a farm now certified as 'organic' by the Soil Association). 

 

Eating Our Way to Extinction - narrated by Kate Winslet - "aims to influence a sea-change in eating habits and to convince viewers to boycott farmed salmon" https://t.co/YQ07ck6yDI @SundayTimesScot @EatingOur #eating2extinction #eowte #Boycott #Scottish #Salmon @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/H9aolC5z9P

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 29, 2021

 

 

OUT NOW!
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Across Amazon, AppleTV, iTunes, YouTube, Google Play and VUDU.#eowte #eating2extinction #broxstarproductions pic.twitter.com/9SlJhLV1Nd

— EATING OUR WAY TO EXTINCTION (@EatingOur) October 3, 2021

 

 

 

 

Please join people all around the world in boycotting farmed salmon - take the salmon pledge today. 

 

 

 

 

Intrafish Editor's Picks: "Mowi fed up with salmon farming activist"

 

Editor's Picks: "Mowi fed up with salmon farming activist" @IntraFish "After years and years of ignoring anti-salmon farming campaigner Don Staniford, Mowi decided it has had enough after his most recent underwater antics" @drewcherry https://t.co/eQmfULFCLK @MowiScotlandLtd pic.twitter.com/a9dWJOcf6d

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2021

 

 

 

Intrafish reported (11 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intrafish reported in July 2021:

 

 

 

 

Intrafish reported in August 2019:

 

 

 

 

Intrafish reported in July 2012:

 

 

 

 

Intrafish reported in January 2012:

 

 

 

Intrafish reported in March 2011:

 

 

 

Intrafish reported back in February 2011:

 

 

 

Intrafish reported in January 2011:

 

 

 

Intrafish reported in August 2010:

 

 

 

 

Intrafish reported in February 2010:

 

 

 

 

Intrafish reported back in October 2002:

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Mowi Whistleblower Leaks Photos & Video: "fish farming is a disgusting industry"!
• Video Shows Mowi Acting Recklessly & Dangerously - a licence to kill?
• Press statement on lawsuit vs Mowi
• 'We are obviously very disappointed': "Scottish organic salmon farming startup has appeal for new site rejected" (Intrafish)
• Mowi press release: "Court order sought to protect health and safety"
• "Mowi takes long-time salmon farming opponent to court" (Intrafish)

 

 

 

I will be defending Mowi's legal action in the strongest terms - the truth always wins out in the end! @IntraFish https://t.co/griR3K3N6a @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @Folketrygdfond @tavishscott

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

Mowi Whistleblower Leaks Photos & Video: "fish farming is a disgusting industry"!

 

Exclusive: Mowi Whistleblower Leaks Photos & Video: "fish farming is a disgusting industry" says @MowiScotlandLtd worker! "Bad management", "an absolute horrible sector" & "poorly kept conditions of fish" @rspcaassured says whistleblower https://t.co/PwZZvyG0VJ @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/2dPM0lKZew

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2021

 

 

Yesterday (10 October 2021), I was leaked videos and photos from a whistleblower working at Mowi's lice-infested salmon farming operations in Scotland.  The Mowi worker took the photos and video whilst working on the salmon farm and criticised the Norwegian-owned giant for "bad management" and "poorly kept conditions of fish".

 

 

 

The whistleblower - who was employed by Mowi when the photos/video were taken - told me that "fish farming is a disgusting industry", "oil spills were an every day thing" and that they hoped the leaked information "goes towards shutting down the salmon farming industry, which I totally agree with because it is an absolute horrible sector!"

 

 

 

 

 

"With the 'swim throughs, they are constantly crowding fish and then they get scratched along the netting which descales them," explained the Mowi whistleblower.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's video footage leaked by the Mowi whistleblower (along with hydraulic oil) - the first video is of a 'swim through' which leaves fish scarred from the nets and the second shows a "hydraulic oil spillage out of portable generator used for net changes which happens every day":

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BBC News reported in 2008:

 

 

 

In July 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch issued a call out to whistleblowers working in the 'Scottish' salmon farming industry.

 

Scottish Salmon Watch is calling on workers inside the salmon farming industry to blow the whistle on the illegal killing of seals, mass mortalities, disease problems, toxic chemical use, welfare abuse & any other cruel practices https://t.co/ARohq1l23W @salmon_scottish pic.twitter.com/FoQyxlyxnP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 31, 2021

 

 

 

In March 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch issued a call out for photos of dead seals.

 

Calling All Whistleblowers - please pass on photos of dead seals killed at salmon farms! https://t.co/xFcHeR4kEv@SSPOsays @salmon_scottish @scotseafarms @ScotlandMowi @GriegShetland @CookeScotland @LochDuartSalmon @WesterRossSalmo @Try_Lochlander @ptfss @strandings @tavishscott pic.twitter.com/NTpiU44pQ1

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 1, 2021

 

 

 

In February 2021, I Tweeted:

 

Whistleblower on RSPCA Assured salmon farmer killing seals illegally: "I know an insider at Mowi who confirms the company shoots a lot more seals than what they report" @ScotlandMowi "Plenty goes unreported" @MowiScotlandLtd @marinescotland @rspcaassured https://t.co/Y3kY2D6BoI pic.twitter.com/c8aKR6iz28

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 26, 2021

 

 

 

A press release issued in February 2021 - and media splash in The Daily Mirror - stemmed from a tip-off from a whistlelower in October 2020:

 

 

 

 

In 2018, Scottish Salmon Watch was contacted by another whistleblower working at Mowi's mortality-hit Carradale salmon farm in Kilbrannan Sound who leaked photos of mass mortalities. 

 

Here's what Mowi's @rspcaassured salmon looked like after 300,000 died in the Beast from the East in 2018 at their Carradale farm (the same site hit yesterday by Storm Ellen) https://t.co/hyztwncvhO Skinless Scottish salmon anyone? @MowiScotlandLtd @sainsburys @LidlGB @AldiUK pic.twitter.com/xjf3JM20jG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 21, 2020

 

 

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A snapshot into 'Waste Management' in Scottish salmon farming (where ca. 15 million fish die each year at a mortality rate of 20-25%) https://t.co/hyztwncvhO https://t.co/FZq0diz5Ei Including 300,000 skinned alive at Mowi's salmon farm at Carradale in Kilbrannan Sound pic.twitter.com/Hur4VyxVLy

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 12, 2020

 

 

 

A press release issued by Scottish Salmon Watch in November 2018 included:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch the gruesome video footage of Mowi's RSPCA Assured and ASC-certified salmon (which features in Netflix's 'Seaspiracy') here:

 

 

 

 

 

In August 2021, Seaspiracy posted leaked video footage of lice-infested Mowi salmon on Instagram racking up over 1 million views!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

The Mail on Sunday reported in July 2021:

 

 

 

Scotland's salmon farming horror show (as sponsored by @rspcaassured) is going mainstream - here's today's Mail on Sunday https://t.co/hsagGhRtB1 @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @HamishMacdonell @tavishscott @sainsburys @LidlGB @AldiUK @ciwf @onekindtweet @MairiGougeon @seaspiracy pic.twitter.com/JcsVLHILuq

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 25, 2021

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported 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

 

 

 

 

Watch the shocking video footage inside Mowi's RSPCA Assured salmon farms around the Island of Shuna near Oban:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's photos of inside Mowi salmon farms taken by Scottish Salmon Watch on 16 & 17 July 2021:

 

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Coming soon to a supermarket near you! https://t.co/8SAkvRUPLV

— Guy Adams (@guyadams) July 18, 2021

 

 

 

Here's photos leaked in 2018 by a whistleblower working for The Scottish Salmon Company at their facility at Toward near Dunoon in Argyll:

 

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In February 2021, The Times reported on secret filming at The Scottish Salmon Company:

 

 

 

 

Waitrose salmon supplier Scottish Salmon Company let fish die on the floor https://t.co/6xPm4ds7BW @thetimes @animal_equality @salmon_scottish @Folketrygdfond @SSPOsays @Sygazette @WHFP1 @ciwf @onekindtweet @LynneUSneddon @waitrose @SSPCA_Mike @rspcaassured

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 13, 2021

 

 

 

Watch an undercover video report from Animal Equality online here

 

 

 

 

Back in 2000 (when working for Friends of the Earth Scotland) I secured a signed testimony from whistleblower Jackie Mackenzie regarding the illegal use of toxic chemicals at Ardessie Salmon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

When a second whistleblower stepped forward to corroborate claims of illegal chemical use the Scottish salmon farming trade body (then called Scottish Quality Salmon) kicked Ardessie Salmon out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you have any photos, video footage or any inside knowledge of salmon farms in Scotland which you would like to pass on please email me via salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com or use the contact form: https://scottishscamon.co.uk/contact-us

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Video Shows Mowi Acting Recklessly & Dangerously - a licence to kill?
• Press statement on lawsuit vs Mowi
• Mowi press release: "Court order sought to protect health and safety"
• "Mowi takes long-time salmon farming opponent to court" (Intrafish)
• Seaspiracy's Salmon Shocker: Please Boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon!
• 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"
• Welfare Complaint Filed Vs Mowi's RSPCA Assured "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon
• Video/Photo Exclusive: Mowi's RSPCA Assured Welfare Nightmare - complaints filed for breaches of welfare laws
• RSPCA Sponsored Welfare Abuse of Salmon Farms - A Guide to Getting Away with Mass Murder (Theriocide)!
• Secret Filming Exposes RSPCA ‘Abused’ Scottish Salmon - Welfare Complaint Filed Against M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms
• Video Scoop: RSPCA Assured Diseased Salmon from M&S
• 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!
• RSPCA Sponsored Seal Killing Continues Despite US Ban?
• Secret Filming Exposes RSPCA ‘Abused’ Scottish Salmon - Welfare Complaint Filed Against M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms
• 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?
• Sunday Mail: "Scottish salmon farms in disease hell row after tons of rotting fish dumped in skips"
• Whistleblower Photos of Marine Harvest
• Legal Complaint Vs Breaches of Animal Health & Welfare (Scotland) Act

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch just filed an official welfare complaint against Mowi's RSPCA Assured Scottish salmon @rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd @APHAgovuk @marinescotland https://t.co/72WXr2bxXx
Please stop supporting welfare abuse on Scottish salmon farms @sainsburys @LidlGB @AldiUK pic.twitter.com/RY2aKUvY9V

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 19, 2021

 

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

 

Leaked video shows Mowi acting recklessly & dangerously - three months after this video was shot, Mowi worker Clive Hendry (seen in the footage) was crushed to death at the same @MowiScotlandLtd salmon farm in Loch Alsh https://t.co/oLOASoyiH1@maibgovuk @H_S_E @SSPOsays

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2021

 

 

 

I posted on Facebook (10 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

Watch the video footage and judge for yourself who's acting recklessly and dangerous - earlier this week (8 October 2021) Mowi's lawyers and Mowi Scotland's COO  Ben Hadfield accused me of acting dangerously.  For context, I'm the guy standing still on the salmon farm cage in a red life jacket holding a telescopic orange pole with a Go Pro camera attached (the equipment had been disinfected and proper biosecurity protocols followed) next to my blue kayak which was tied up safely to Mowi's farm at Ardintoul in Loch Alsh 'Special Area of Conservation':

 

 

 

Adrenaline fuelled Mowi skipper calmly lights a cigarette after almost killing or injuring observers. pic.twitter.com/XhzbnQljIP

— Andrew Holder (@andrholder) October 10, 2021

 

That's not a canoe, it's a small light inflatable dinghy that could easily have been capsized, and that is not safe navigational practice. It was wreckless, dangerous and intented to intimidate: is this condoned by @MowiScotlandLtd and tolerated by @maibgovuk & @H_S_E ?

— Prof. Peter Jones (@PJSJones) October 11, 2021

 

 

 

In May 2021, the Marine Accident Investigation Branch published a damning report on how negligence by Norwegian-owned Mowi caused the horrific death of Clive Hendry who was crushed between a workboat and feed storage unit at the Ardintoul salmon farm in Loch Alsh in February 2020. 

 

 

Download the 16 page MAIB report Download MAIB Clive Hendry accident report May 2021

 

 

 

 

 

BBC News reported (26 May 2021):

 

 

 

 

BBC News reporting on Mowi's Safety Failures over Death of Clive Hendry at a salmon farm in Loch Alsh @BBCScotlandNews @ScottishHazards @ScotlandMowi @IslaTodd @WHFP1 @maibgovuk @_KateForbes @Ianblackford_MP @GreenerScotland @MCA_media @H_S_E @SSPOsays https://t.co/Xomv98TVBo

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 26, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Hazards posted on Facebook (26 May 2021):

 

 

 

The Daily Mirror reported (26 May 2021):

 

"An experienced salmon farmer died after being crushed between a boat and a barge" @DailyMirror https://t.co/LMMHhbYFjU
"Mowi Scotland Ltd has been advised to 'fully implement a safety management system across its fleet'" @maibgovuk @ScotlandMowi
How much will Mowi be fined?

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 26, 2021

 

 

 

STV News reported (26 May 2021): 

 

"Mowi Scotland Ltd did not have an effective marine safety management system and lacked staff with the experience to oversee its marine operations" @ScotlandMowi @MowiScotlandLtd @maibgovuk
How much will Mowi be fined for their negligence & lack of safety? @GreenerScotland https://t.co/OoIUcdTTpI

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 26, 2021

 

Safety recommendations for salmon farming giant after death.https://t.co/DY73Tk0f0p

— STV News (@STVNews) May 26, 2021

 

 

 

Intrafish reported (26 May 2021):

 

"Investigation finds training failures in death of Mowi Scotland salmon farm manager - the worker (Clive Hendry) was crushed between a vessel and feed barge" @IntraFishNorge @maibgovuk @ScotlandMowi @WHFP1 @pressjournal @HighlandNews https://t.co/WAHyamFnA1 pic.twitter.com/JIskzFp0FI

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 26, 2021

 

 

 

When Scottish Salmon Watch visited Mowi's disease-ridden salmon farm at Ardintoul in Loch Alsh in November 2019 - just three months before Clive Hendry's horrific death in February 2020 - we witnessed how reckless Mowi can be.

 

Mowi fish farm at Ardintoul. It wasn't a safe place for workers or observers.@marinescotland @scotgov @MCA_media pic.twitter.com/5b1Ui6bZT1

— Andrew Holder (@andrholder) May 26, 2021

 

 

Caught on Camera - Mowi's Reckless Breaches of Health & Safety in Loch Alsh! https://t.co/0nvWGe0MkQ Complaint vs @MowiScotlandLtd filed with @H_S_E & @MCA_media Who's policing salmon farms? @policescotland @marinescotland @APHAgovuk @CrownEstateScot @ScottishEPA @HumzaYousaf pic.twitter.com/f4oClqkpiA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 15, 2019

 

 

Video of Mowi's reckless navigation near film-makers in Loch Alsh - who's calling who dangerous and a safety risk? https://t.co/V2KFQv3ICP @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @HamishMacdonell @tavishscott @maibgovuk @H_S_E @_KateForbes @Ianblackford_MP @WHFP1 @IntraFish @fishfarmermag

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2021

 

 

In May 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch filed a complaint to the Maritime & Coastguard Agency:

 

Complaint re. MOWI's reckless behaviour & subsequent fatality in Loch Alsh @MCA_media @transportgovuk @grantshapps https://t.co/dxUXoYiK90 @MowiScotlandLtd @H_S_E @HumzaYousaf @marinescotland @policescotland @maibgovuk @COPFS @ScotGovJustice @GaelForceGroup @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/org6QksDau

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 1, 2020

 

 

 

Download Scottish Salmon Watch's letter of complaint to the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (1 May 2020) in full online here

 

 

That is a deliberate and very dangerous act. It's the most apalling seamanship and I'm contacting the MCA Office in Paisley directly about it. Somebody needs to lose their license over this and I'll do my best to ensure that happens. https://t.co/d7FccSdimN

— Niall McKillop (@Badabrach) October 5, 2020

 

 

Video Exclusive: A sneak preview from Mowi's 'Safety First' promotional film illustrating safety in the workplace @H_S_E @maibgovuk @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @_KateForbes @Ianblackford_MP @scotgov @WHFP1 @pressjournal @IntraFish @BBCScotlandNews @STVNews @obantimes @tavishscott https://t.co/YjinO7dl6T

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in February 2020:

 

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

 

 

 

In 2009, the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet reported on deaths of workers in Chile at Cermaq and Marine Harvest (before 1 January 2019, Mowi was named Marine Harvest).

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in February 2020:

 

 

 

Read more about the Norwegian salmoney behind Mowi's salmonopoly via 'Scottish Scamon'.

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Ben Hadfield - who is personally responsible for the lethal operations of Mowi Scotland - earned $1 million in 2019.

 

 

 

Mowi's money men rake in million$ as tens of million$ of farmed $almon die a cruel death https://t.co/2ivoCyccKX Ben Hadfield @MowiScotlandLtd is fast catching up with Steve Austin coining in a cool $1 million in 2019 #Salmoney #Salmonopoly #Salmafia @IntraFishNorge pic.twitter.com/QuYumDLUCa

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 26, 2020

 

 

 

Intrafish reported (25 March 2021):

 

 

 

Revealed: Mowi Scotland's Ben Hadfield earned €962,000 (that's a staggering $1.1 million or £831,000) in 2020! https://t.co/y59RCkPITn @Salmon_Business @ScotlandMowi @MowiScotlandLtd #Salmoney #Salmonopoly #Salmafia
The 'Polluter Gets Paid Principle' in action! @ScottishEPA pic.twitter.com/wp5wSUcOqX

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 24, 2021

 

 

 

Mowi's press statement issued on 7 October 2021 includes:

 

 

 

Mowi: "the basis for these court proceedings is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our employees, our fish & Mr Staniford" @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/vEEgjixVvn
Absolutely nothing to do with not wanting people to see horrific welfare abuse inside @rspcaassured cages! pic.twitter.com/0BS0z1rD5H

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

Everyone should be able to go to work and expect not to be killed https://t.co/Ty2a3Vnt7q @maibgovuk https://t.co/N2vl9PGMV9

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

Mowi's legal action to stop "dangerous" visits to salmon farms and prevent risks to employees & animals would hold more water if @MowiScotlandLtd was not responsible for millions of dead salmon, dozens of dead seals & even a dead worker https://t.co/55xO0wiiy3 @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/Xe18exnrM9

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

Read more via:

• Press statement on lawsuit vs Mowi
• Mowi press release: "Court order sought to protect health and safety"
• "Mowi takes long-time salmon farming opponent to court" (Intrafish)
• 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!
• "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

 

 

Mowi has blood on its hands over the horrific death of Clive Hendry - how much will Mowi be fined for negligence? @ScotlandMowi @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/55xO0wiiy3 @maibgovuk @H_S_E @GreenerScotland @WHFP1 @pressjournal @IntraFishNorge @_KateForbes @Ianblackford_MP #Mowi pic.twitter.com/nfpEboInpn

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 26, 2021

 

 

Mowi blamed @maibgovuk for horrific death in Loch Alsh: "investigation concluded that the conduct of the boat transfer had not been properly planned or briefed and was not adequately supervised or controlled" @ScotlandMowi @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/3Efr9KkrpP#Reckless #Mowi pic.twitter.com/XBEYV8wOIa

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 26, 2021

 

 

 

My legal defence tactics are informed by watching Sean Connery in 'The Hunt for Red October' - turning directly into the torpedo is sometimes the right course of action. "Attack is the best form of defence" military strategists advise! https://t.co/7nnK2MCWbu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Press statement on lawsuit vs Mowi

 

Given the gruesome nature of welfare abuse, mass mortalities & lice infestations it is not surprising that this Norwegian-owned behemoth wants to stop the public from finding out the ugly truth about @rspcaassured Scottish salmon https://t.co/vF5nFV2sCD @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/UMMNlwvXq3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 9, 2021

 

 

"I will be defending Mowi's legal action in the strongest terms," said award-winning campaigner Don Staniford in a press statement replying to Mowi's press release (7 October 2021). 

 

 

"Secret filming shot inside Mowi's salmon farms in July has revealed the welfare nightmare of Scottish salmon farming - with over 1 million Instagram followers of Seaspiracy viewing the video footage and many millions more on Netflix watching the horror that is RSPCA Assured Mowi salmon.  Given the gruesome nature of welfare abuse, mass mortalities and lice infestations it is not surprising that this Norwegian-owned behemoth wants to stop the public from finding out the ugly truth about Scottish salmon.  Thankfully, the truth always wins out in the end and I look forward to debating these vital legal issues in open court.  In the meantime, people are encouraged to watch the new Kate Winslet-narrated film 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' - available to watch now on AppleTV, iTunes, You Tube, Google Play and Amazon - which features shocking video footage of the underbelly of Scottish salmon."

 

 

 

 

 

Ewan Kennedy posted on Facebook (11 October 2021):

 

 

 

Read more via:

Mowi press release: "Court order sought to protect health and safety"

"Mowi takes long-time salmon farming opponent to court" (Intrafish)

Seaspiracy's Salmon Shocker: Please Boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon!

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"

Welfare Complaint Filed Vs Mowi's RSPCA Assured "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon

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

Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' Exposes Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon – As Sponsored by the RSPCA & Aquaculture Stewardship Council!

The Sun: "Netflix doc Seaspiracy exposes filthy Scottish salmon farms where fish are infested with lice and chlamydia"

The Sunday Times: "Netflix hit shows scale of welfare abuses at fish farms"

RSPCA Assured "is a marketing scheme set up and run by salmon farmers for salmon farmers" says ISSF! Greenwashing by Scottish Salmon - as sponsored by SEPA!

Mowi Moves Goalposts on ASC Certification

Sneak Preview: "A Big Campaign to Invite the Public to Scotland's Salmon Farms"

Netflix Lifts the Lid on Diseased Scottish Salmon - 'Seaspiracy' Out Tomorrow (24 March)!

The Ferret: "Suffering ‘endemic’ at Scottish salmon farms"

REVEALED: The Farmed Salmon Crisis

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

BBC Countryfile features lice-infested RSPCA Assured salmon!

Video Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured salmon farm sourced by M&S 'Lochmuir'

RSPCA Suspend Salmon Farm Inspections

RSPCA Assured Mowi Plagued by Mass Mortalities & Infectious Diseases on Skye

Be Sure to Boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon - Shocking New Photos Published of Mowi's North Shore Feedlot in Loch Erisort!

Sunday Times: “RSPCA paid over £500,000 to back Scottish salmon industry”

Letter to the RSPCA - Please Stop Certifying Scottish Salmon!

Sunday Times: “Scientist hits out at RSPCA for backing Scottish salmon farms”

 

 

I will be defending Mowi's legal action in the strongest terms - the truth always wins out in the end! @IntraFish https://t.co/griR3K3N6a @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @Folketrygdfond @tavishscott

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

 

'We are obviously very disappointed': "Scottish organic salmon farming startup has appeal for new site rejected" (Intrafish)

 

"We are obviously very disappointed" says 'Organic' Sea Harvest following yet another planning refusal @scotgov https://t.co/1ONicfrgJX @HighlandCouncil @alexmacinnessnp @SoilAssociation @SoilAssocScot
Not everyone is disappointed! @IanDobb @Jonnynogaps @Katie__Eden pic.twitter.com/6VOvMFq4HJ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 9, 2021

 

Intrafish reported (8 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not everyone on the Isle of Skye was disappointed by the decision to refuse expansion of 'organic' salmon farming:

 

 

WE WON THE BATTLE!

After YEARS of fighting, permission to build a cruel & toxic #salmonfarm in our bay has been denied.
This place is a unique ecosystem full of diverse & important wildlife, it was such high stakes.

Finally protecting the environment beats financial gain. pic.twitter.com/j7cr406k1o

— Katie Tunn (@Katie__Eden) October 7, 2021

 

 

📢📢CHAMPAGNE MOMENT! 🍾🍾

Despite intense lobbying by folk @theSNP, *Organic* Sea Harvest loses its appeal for yet another toxic #salmon farm on the #IsleOfSkye!

Congrats to campaigners in North Skye fighting to protect their beautiful marine environment 👏👏💪💪🙌🙌 pic.twitter.com/2MMREOIhby

— SST-T (@ScotSalmonTank) October 7, 2021

 

 

Balmaqueen factory farm Skye,planning refused, appeal failed. Nice to see Organic (fake) Sea Harvest get their comeuppance. This divisive, fake named company prepared to throw communities under a bus to get what they want for 🤑🤑 @PrivateEyeNews @FerretScot @alexmacinnessnp pic.twitter.com/8me17NFmkU

— Jon Johnson (@Jonnynogaps) October 7, 2021

 

Read more via:

• Scottish 'Organic' Scamon Leaps 181% - 4,462 tonnes to 12,528 tonnes from 2019 to 2020!
• "We Won the Battle": Campaigners Celebrate as 'Organic' Salmon Farm Refused Planning Permission on Skye!
• Organic Scamon Makes Waves Off the Isle of Skye
• Mail on Sunday: "The SNP leader, his pal's 'foul-smelling' fish farm...and a stench of hypocrisy"
• Mowi Caught Importing 'Organic' Smolts from Ireland to On-Grow on Skye - did they follow the SSPO's code & quarantine for three months?
• 'Organic' Salmon Fit for the Queen? Not Even Fit for Her Dogs!
• Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles
• Photos: 'Organic' Sea Harvest of Diseased Salmon, Mass Mortality or Toxic Chemical Use?
• Scottish salmon is so not organic!
• Organic Salmon Belongs in the Bin Not Your Shopping Basket!
• Champagne Moment: 'Organic' Salmon Farm Refused Planning Permission on Skye!
• Scottish Scamon: 'Organic' Sea Harvest Goes Dutch, Norwegian & Canadian!
• Mowi's Legal Threat Over Filming
• Dutch TV slams "organic" salmon
• 'Organic' Sea Harvest Challenged by Advertising Standards Authority
• Organic farm plan defeated by Skye locals
• EXPOSED: Scottish 'Organic' Scamon

• Organic Scamon Alert on Skye: Self-Classification "Used to Dumb Down Public Dissent" Claims Resident
• Skye High Opposition to 'Organic' Sea Harvest
• Video Report from Skye: Please Stop 'Organic' Sea Harvest!
• Organic” farmed salmon – let’s get real
• 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)

 

 

The scam that is 'organic' Scottish salmon - aka 'Organic Scamon' - has almost trebled in a year: increasing from 4,462 tonnes of 'organic' salmon reported in 2019 to 12,528 tonnes in 2020. That's a leap of 181% in a single year! https://t.co/VdswDPek3E @SoilAssociation pic.twitter.com/U6A3Isa3Hv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

Mowi press release: "Court order sought to protect health and safety"

 

Mowi's legal action to stop "dangerous" visits to salmon farms and prevent risks to employees & animals would hold more water if @MowiScotlandLtd was not responsible for millions of dead salmon, dozens of dead seals & even a dead worker https://t.co/55xO0wiiy3 @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/Xe18exnrM9

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

Read Mowi's press release online here

 

 

Mowi claims that secret visits to salmon farms by Don Staniford puts "animals at risk" https://t.co/vIJhCksd3G Here's some of the @rspcaassured farmed salmon I filmed @MowiScotlandLtd in July 2021 (sold @sainsburys @AldiUK & @LidlGB) https://t.co/dhVFllDjXX @SSPOsays @obantimes pic.twitter.com/y8dMc9n3dF

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

You might get your order, I've not seen your pleadings. Whenever I've advised corporates who are planning on engaging in an asymmetric war I always point them to this page. It's a brave corporate who engages in this type of action. https://t.co/m8zM8H6hfn

— Paul Kavanagh (@BirminghamKav) October 8, 2021

 

 

Please raise a glass to Mowi's magnificent health & safety standards @MowiScotlandLtd @H_S_E @SSPOsays @tavishscott @HamishMacdonell @AthollDuncan https://t.co/cJqWE2wuiD

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2021

 

Video Exclusive: A sneak preview from Mowi's 'Safety First' promotional film illustrating safety in the workplace @H_S_E @maibgovuk @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @_KateForbes @Ianblackford_MP @scotgov @WHFP1 @pressjournal @IntraFish @BBCScotlandNews @STVNews @obantimes @tavishscott https://t.co/YjinO7dl6T

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in July 2021:

 

Mowi (who changed their name from Marine Harvest in 2019 due to "negative consumer perception") head the list of mortalities by company since 2013.  These six companies - all foreign owned/controlled - account for 99% of 'Scottish' salmon farming production.

 

 

 

The Salmafia Exposed: the big six 'Scottish' salmon companies - all foreign owned - are responsible for 150,000+ tonnes of dead salmon since 2013 acccording to official data @ScottishEPA https://t.co/8w3aNU5XSp @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @GriegShetland @SSPOsays #Salmafia pic.twitter.com/N9ZgC3LxMW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2021

 

 

 

Read more via:

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

 

 

Mowi has blood on its hands over the horrific death of Clive Hendry - how much will Mowi be fined for negligence? @ScotlandMowi @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/55xO0wiiy3 @maibgovuk @H_S_E @GreenerScotland @WHFP1 @pressjournal @IntraFishNorge @_KateForbes @Ianblackford_MP #Mowi pic.twitter.com/nfpEboInpn

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 26, 2021

 

 

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

 

 

Named & Shamed: Salmon farmers killed over 1,000 seals since 2011. Don't buy Scottish salmon stained with the blood of Scotland's seals! https://t.co/Y3kY2D6BoI@SSPOsays @scotseafarms @salmon_scottish @ScotlandMowi @LochDuartSalmon @CookeScotland @GriegShetland @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/BWOFSl1mTa

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 27, 2021

 

 

Mowi head list of mortalities according to new data @marinescotland In Scotland, over 1.2 million morts in Oct (up from 449,000 in Sept; 236,000 in Aug & 120,000 in July) with 5 million + in 2019 https://t.co/Mv0ndSZAcS @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @salmon_scottish @APHAgovuk pic.twitter.com/wwjE0nqnlG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 12, 2019

 

 

 

Everyone should be able to go to work and expect not to be killed https://t.co/Ty2a3Vnt7q @maibgovuk https://t.co/N2vl9PGMV9

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

Mowi: "the basis for these court proceedings is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our employees, our fish & Mr Staniford" @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/vEEgjixVvn
Absolutely nothing to do with not wanting people to see horrific welfare abuse inside @rspcaassured cages! pic.twitter.com/0BS0z1rD5H

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

My legal defence tactics are informed by watching Sean Connery in 'The Hunt for Red October' - turning directly into the torpedo is sometimes the right course of action. "Attack is the best form of defence" military strategists advise! https://t.co/7nnK2MCWbu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2021

 

 

 

Adrenaline fuelled Mowi skipper calmly lights a cigarette after almost killing or injuring observers. pic.twitter.com/XhzbnQljIP

— Andrew Holder (@andrholder) October 10, 2021

 

"Mowi takes long-time salmon farming opponent to court" (Intrafish)

 

I will be defending Mowi's legal action in the strongest terms - the truth always wins out in the end! @IntraFish https://t.co/griR3K3N6a @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @Folketrygdfond @tavishscott

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

 

Salmon pharmers love reading news about activists being sued - Mowi's lawsuit against me is the second most read story on Intrafish! https://t.co/mqeVxn6uPC@IntraFish @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @Folketrygdfond @HamishMacdonell @tavishscott @ptfss @lovescotsalmon @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/0ACxBc34r2

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 9, 2021

 

 

Intrafish reported (8 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

Breaking News: Mowi takes long-time salmon farming opponent to court @IntraFish https://t.co/mqeVxn6uPC
"Thankfully, the truth always wins out in the end and I look forward to debating these vital legal issues in open court" @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/89scyEyPlz

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

Undercurrent News reported (8 October 2021):

 

FREE READ: @MowiScotlandLtd is taking anti- #aquaculture campaigner Don Staniford of @TheGAAIA to court, seeking an injunction to prevent him coming near its #salmon farms on "health and safety grounds":

https://t.co/5MOcE2ROmv

— Undercurrent News (@undercur) October 8, 2021

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in August 2021:

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

This shocking leaked footage shows salmon being eaten alive by lice at a fish farm in Scotland! pic.twitter.com/EoUO3dv5ee

— seaspiracy (@seaspiracy) August 2, 2021

 

 

 

The Mail On Sunday reported in July 2021:

 

 

Scotland's salmon farming horror show (as sponsored by @rspcaassured) is going mainstream - here's today's Mail on Sunday https://t.co/hsagGhRtB1 @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @HamishMacdonell @tavishscott @sainsburys @LidlGB @AldiUK @ciwf @onekindtweet @MairiGougeon @seaspiracy pic.twitter.com/JcsVLHILuq

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 25, 2021

 

 

 

The Ferret reported in July 2021:

 

Investigation launched into footage of lice infested salmon https://t.co/QsyNM6GtRm

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) July 25, 2021

 

Crocodile tears from the boss of Mowi (who raked in over $1 million last year): "There will unfortunately be times when individual animals are in distress, and these isolated examples can be understandably concerning to the public as well as the farmer" https://t.co/pW3VK9XlPp pic.twitter.com/00HT0JCdtl

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 25, 2021

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported 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

 

Download press release in full as a PDF online here

 

 

"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

 

 

"Scottish salmon farming is a horror story," says Andrew Holder of Dip in the Blue "When will the RSPCA stop condoning the torture of millions of farmed salmon in Scotland, by allowing it to be labeled as RSPCA Assured?" https://t.co/dhVFllDjXX @andrholder pic.twitter.com/IfAXFP72mv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2021

 

 

"Undercover investigators are doing a remarkable job ground-truthing the blatant greenwashing via RSPCA Assured" says Maggie Brotherston of Friends of Loch Creran https://t.co/dhVFllDjXX @MaggieTweettwoo @rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/CvG1oxshmi

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2021

 

 

 

Netflix first screened Seaspiracy in March 2021 - and includes a section on Scottish salmon farming with video footage from inside The Scottish Salmon Company and RSPCA Assured & ASC-certified Mowi:

 

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

 

 

 

Watch video footage shot by Scottish Salmon Watch at Mowi's RSPCA Assured and ASC-certified salmon farm at Gorsten in Loch Linnhe during the same night as Seaspiracy visited:

 

 

 

Read more via:

Seaspiracy's Salmon Shocker: Please Boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon!

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"

Welfare Complaint Filed Vs Mowi's RSPCA Assured "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon

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

Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' Exposes Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon – As Sponsored by the RSPCA & Aquaculture Stewardship Council!

The Sun: "Netflix doc Seaspiracy exposes filthy Scottish salmon farms where fish are infested with lice and chlamydia"

The Sunday Times: "Netflix hit shows scale of welfare abuses at fish farms"

RSPCA Assured "is a marketing scheme set up and run by salmon farmers for salmon farmers" says ISSF! Greenwashing by Scottish Salmon - as sponsored by SEPA!

Mowi Moves Goalposts on ASC Certification

Sneak Preview: "A Big Campaign to Invite the Public to Scotland's Salmon Farms"

Netflix Lifts the Lid on Diseased Scottish Salmon - 'Seaspiracy' Out Tomorrow (24 March)!

The Ferret: "Suffering ‘endemic’ at Scottish salmon farms"

REVEALED: The Farmed Salmon Crisis

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

BBC Countryfile features lice-infested RSPCA Assured salmon!

Video Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured salmon farm sourced by M&S 'Lochmuir'

RSPCA Suspend Salmon Farm Inspections

RSPCA Assured Mowi Plagued by Mass Mortalities & Infectious Diseases on Skye

Be Sure to Boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon - Shocking New Photos Published of Mowi's North Shore Feedlot in Loch Erisort!

Sunday Times: “RSPCA paid over £500,000 to back Scottish salmon industry”

Letter to the RSPCA - Please Stop Certifying Scottish Salmon!

Sunday Times: “Scientist hits out at RSPCA for backing Scottish salmon farms”

 

 

Now over one million views for a video nasty of Mowi's lice-infested Scottish salmon! @seaspiracy @instagram https://t.co/I80mzoym6j@marinescotland @APHAgovuk @rspcaassured @ciwf
The camera never lies (unlike salmon farmers)! @SSPOsays @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPCA_Kirsteen pic.twitter.com/zGuhz1LQTS

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 21, 2021

 

 

 

I urge everyone to support this gentleman, please, please retweet. An evil industry @GeorgeMonbiot @Feargal_Sharkey https://t.co/Wuk8HGYnyw

— Wynn Davies (@Torgoch) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

Funny they claim it's out of concern for your safety🤦‍♀️😆 Seems more like a loud endorsement of how effective you've been at exposing them. Nice work 🔥@MowiScotlandLtd how utterly pathetic.. but hey, you go on, keep thinking this move doesn't reveal what you really are.. pic.twitter.com/mWv7eZwbkV

— Suesea (@PaperWaspGirl) October 8, 2021

 

Scottish 'Organic' Scamon Leaps 181% - 4,462 tonnes to 12,528 tonnes from 2019 to 2020!

 

The scam that is 'organic' Scottish salmon - aka 'Organic Scamon' - has almost trebled in a year: increasing from 4,462 tonnes of 'organic' salmon reported in 2019 to 12,528 tonnes in 2020. That's a leap of 181% in a single year! https://t.co/VdswDPek3E @SoilAssociation pic.twitter.com/U6A3Isa3Hv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

The scam that is 'organic' Scottish salmon - aka 'organic scamon' - has almost trebled in a year: increasing from 4,462 tonnes of 'organic' salmon reported in 2019 to 12,528 tonnes in 2020.  That's a leap of 181% in a single year!    The 'Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2020' - published by the Scottish Government on 30 September 2021 - details:

 

 

 

New 'Scottish' salmon farming survey reveals just 6 companies (all foreign owned/controlled) account for 99% of 'Scottish' salmon farming (using imported ova) https://t.co/jhk6tLfdJA @marinescotland @SSPOsays @tavishscott @MairiGougeon @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms pic.twitter.com/nBjeKENs18

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 30, 2021

 

 

 

Plans for further expansion at 'Organic' Sea Harvest's Isle of Skye operations are now dead in the water following yet another planning refusal by the Scottish Government yesterday (7 October 2021).

 

WE WON THE BATTLE!

After YEARS of fighting, permission to build a cruel & toxic #salmonfarm in our bay has been denied.
This place is a unique ecosystem full of diverse & important wildlife, it was such high stakes.

Finally protecting the environment beats financial gain. pic.twitter.com/j7cr406k1o

— Katie Tunn (@Katie__Eden) October 7, 2021

 

 

 

BBC Alba reported (7 October 2021):

 

BBC News: "It’s a real relief for me and our community group, after years of protesting this fish farm" said Katie Tunn. "Most of the people here were against it" https://t.co/F5GVfuR3dY @Katie__Eden @BBCScotlandNews @bbcalba @Ianblackford_MP @_KateForbes @HighlandCouncil

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

In November 2020, 'Organic' Sea Harvest were denied another salmon farm off Flodigarry following a planning appeal refusal by the Scottish Government.

 

 

 

Victory: 'Organic' Salmon Farm Refused Planning Permission on Skye! https://t.co/ckbEi9cBwQ
"There remains some uncertainty regarding the significance of potential impacts upon wildlife & habitats" rules the Scottish Government @GreenerScotland @nature_scot @iasgairmuir pic.twitter.com/mSXQb3fBC0

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 27, 2020

 

 

 

In March 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch filed a complaint against the Soil Association with the Advertising Standards Authority. 

 

"No Pesticides Here" claim @SoilAssociation in membership ad on @Facebook - yet @SoilAssocScot permits the use of toxic pesticides such as Deltamethrin on 'organic' salmon farms. Hence we filed a complaint @ASA_UK https://t.co/jHzIfvAo6t @ClarenceHouse @LawWoodward @PeterMelchett pic.twitter.com/BXdw2XzyvY

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 21, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in March 2021: 

 

How can you seriously promote 'organic' salmon as "healthy" when it is 19% fat? That's fattier than pizza! https://t.co/s7itnIaTTL@sainsburys @SainsburysNews @SoilAssocScot @SoilAssociation @rspcaassured @ScotlandMowi @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @FSScot @JulieHL @tavishscott pic.twitter.com/i94h1kvCMw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 3, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

• "We Won the Battle": Campaigners Celebrate as 'Organic' Salmon Farm Refused Planning Permission on Skye!
• Organic Scamon Makes Waves Off the Isle of Skye
• Mail on Sunday: "The SNP leader, his pal's 'foul-smelling' fish farm...and a stench of hypocrisy"
• Mowi Caught Importing 'Organic' Smolts from Ireland to On-Grow on Skye - did they follow the SSPO's code & quarantine for three months?
• 'Organic' Salmon Fit for the Queen? Not Even Fit for Her Dogs!
• Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles
• Photos: 'Organic' Sea Harvest of Diseased Salmon, Mass Mortality or Toxic Chemical Use?
• Scottish salmon is so not organic!
• Organic Salmon Belongs in the Bin Not Your Shopping Basket!
• Champagne Moment: 'Organic' Salmon Farm Refused Planning Permission on Skye!
• Scottish Scamon: 'Organic' Sea Harvest Goes Dutch, Norwegian & Canadian!
• Mowi's Legal Threat Over Filming
• Dutch TV slams "organic" salmon
• 'Organic' Sea Harvest Challenged by Advertising Standards Authority
• Organic farm plan defeated by Skye locals
• EXPOSED: Scottish 'Organic' Scamon

• Organic Scamon Alert on Skye: Self-Classification "Used to Dumb Down Public Dissent" Claims Resident
• Skye High Opposition to 'Organic' Sea Harvest
• Video Report from Skye: Please Stop 'Organic' Sea Harvest!
• Organic” farmed salmon – let’s get real
• 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)

 

 

 

As Royal Patron of @SoilAssociation why is the use of the toxic chemical Deltamethrin - show by recent science to be lethal to lobsters - allowed for use on 'organic' salmon farms? @ClarenceHouse @dimbleby_jd @Charlotcostume @SoilAssocScot @HelenBOrganic @JoannaBlythman @peterk69 https://t.co/9mKOkQZA2u

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 20, 2021

 

 

 

As owner of 'Organic' Sea Harvest in #Scotland how can Visscher Seafood market #Scottish salmon as "all natural" when it was farmed with the toxic chemical Deltamethrin (shown by science to kill lobsters)? @timbrouwer89 #VisscherSeafood https://t.co/OzeqlPrFJr#Organic #Scamon pic.twitter.com/GVAAH1a42d

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 27, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

In November 2020, 'Organic' Sea Harvest were denied another salmon farm off Flodigarry following a planning appeal refusal by the Scottish Government.

 

 

 

Victory: 'Organic' Salmon Farm Refused Planning Permission on Skye! https://t.co/ckbEi9cBwQ
"There remains some uncertainty regarding the significance of potential impacts upon wildlife & habitats" rules the Scottish Government @GreenerScotland @nature_scot @iasgairmuir pic.twitter.com/mSXQb3fBC0

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 27, 2020

 

 

 

In March 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch filed a complaint against the Soil Association with the Advertising Standards Authority. 

 

"No Pesticides Here" claim @SoilAssociation in membership ad on @Facebook - yet @SoilAssocScot permits the use of toxic pesticides such as Deltamethrin on 'organic' salmon farms. Hence we filed a complaint @ASA_UK https://t.co/jHzIfvAo6t @ClarenceHouse @LawWoodward @PeterMelchett pic.twitter.com/BXdw2XzyvY

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 21, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in March 2021: 

 

How can you seriously promote 'organic' salmon as "healthy" when it is 19% fat? That's fattier than pizza! https://t.co/s7itnIaTTL@sainsburys @SainsburysNews @SoilAssocScot @SoilAssociation @rspcaassured @ScotlandMowi @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @FSScot @JulieHL @tavishscott pic.twitter.com/i94h1kvCMw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 3, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

In November 2020, 'Organic' Sea Harvest were denied another salmon farm off Flodigarry following a planning appeal refusal by the Scottish Government.

 

 

 

Victory: 'Organic' Salmon Farm Refused Planning Permission on Skye! https://t.co/ckbEi9cBwQ
"There remains some uncertainty regarding the significance of potential impacts upon wildlife & habitats" rules the Scottish Government @GreenerScotland @nature_scot @iasgairmuir pic.twitter.com/mSXQb3fBC0

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 27, 2020

 

 

 

In March 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch filed a complaint against the Soil Association with the Advertising Standards Authority. 

 

"No Pesticides Here" claim @SoilAssociation in membership ad on @Facebook - yet @SoilAssocScot permits the use of toxic pesticides such as Deltamethrin on 'organic' salmon farms. Hence we filed a complaint @ASA_UK https://t.co/jHzIfvAo6t @ClarenceHouse @LawWoodward @PeterMelchett pic.twitter.com/BXdw2XzyvY

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 21, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in March 2021: 

 

How can you seriously promote 'organic' salmon as "healthy" when it is 19% fat? That's fattier than pizza! https://t.co/s7itnIaTTL@sainsburys @SainsburysNews @SoilAssocScot @SoilAssociation @rspcaassured @ScotlandMowi @MowiScotlandLtd @SSPOsays @FSScot @JulieHL @tavishscott pic.twitter.com/i94h1kvCMw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 3, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

"We Won the Battle": Campaigners Celebrate as 'Organic' Salmon Farm Refused Planning Permission on Skye!

 

📢📢CHAMPAGNE MOMENT! 🍾🍾

Despite intense lobbying by folk @theSNP, *Organic* Sea Harvest loses its appeal for yet another toxic #salmon farm on the #IsleOfSkye!

Congrats to campaigners in North Skye fighting to protect their beautiful marine environment 👏👏💪💪🙌🙌 pic.twitter.com/2MMREOIhby

— SST-T (@ScotSalmonTank) October 7, 2021

 

 

 

'Organic' Sea Harvest's plans for expansion off the Isle of Skye have been blown out of the water after the Scottish Government dismissed their appeal and refused planning permission for a new salmon farm at Balmaqueen.

 

Woop wooop - 'Organic' Sea Harvest refused planning permission for new salmon farm at Balmaqueen on Skye - appeal dismissed @scotgov due to "adverse impacts on seascape, landscape & visual receptors" https://t.co/DpKcc9bEun @HighlandCouncil @WHFP1 @pressjournal @alexmacinnessnp pic.twitter.com/D81kCtdTCB

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 7, 2021

 

 

 

The Scottiish Government reported (7 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

WE WON THE BATTLE!

After YEARS of fighting, permission to build a cruel & toxic #salmonfarm in our bay has been denied.
This place is a unique ecosystem full of diverse & important wildlife, it was such high stakes.

Finally protecting the environment beats financial gain. pic.twitter.com/j7cr406k1o

— Katie Tunn (@Katie__Eden) October 7, 2021

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Government's 'Appeal Notice Decision' (7 October 2021) included:

 

 

 

Balmaqueen factory farm Skye,planning refused, appeal failed. Nice to see Organic (fake) Sea Harvest get their comeuppance. This divisive, fake named company prepared to throw communities under a bus to get what they want for 🤑🤑 @PrivateEyeNews @FerretScot @alexmacinnessnp pic.twitter.com/8me17NFmkU

— Jon Johnson (@Jonnynogaps) October 7, 2021

 

 

 

BBC Alba reported (7 October 2021):

 

BBC News: "It’s a real relief for me and our community group, after years of protesting this fish farm" said Katie Tunn. "Most of the people here were against it" https://t.co/F5GVfuR3dY @Katie__Eden @BBCScotlandNews @bbcalba @Ianblackford_MP @_KateForbes @HighlandCouncil

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

Planning Resource reported (7 October 2021):

 

'Organic' salmon farm judged harmful to coastal landscape on Isle of Skye https://t.co/lM2I7uqe1O @Ianblackford_MP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 7, 2021

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported (8 October 2021):

 

'Organic' Sea Harvest lost its appeal against planning refusal for a salmon farm at Balmacqueen off Skye. ~It is the second time OSH has lost a planning appeal" #HowManyTimesBeforeUGetTheMessage?https://t.co/evhc8LwFYR @salmonfarming1 @scotgov @HighlandCouncil @Ianblackford_MP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

The West Highland Free Press reported (7 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

 

"We Won the Battle": Campaigners Celebrate as 'Organic' Salmon Farm Refused Planning Permission on Skye! https://t.co/10DSC6fP1k @scotgov @HighlandCouncil @alexmacinnessnp @Katie__Eden @IanDobb @Jonnynogaps @WHFP1 @Ianblackford_MP @_KateForbes @pressjournal @timbrouwer89 pic.twitter.com/VnskS0sKBh

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

 

In November 2020, 'Organic' Sea Harvest were denied another salmon farm off Flodigarry following a planning appeal refusal by the Scottish Government.

 

Victory: 'Organic' Salmon Farm Refused Planning Permission on Skye! https://t.co/ckbEi9cBwQ
"There remains some uncertainty regarding the significance of potential impacts upon wildlife & habitats" rules the Scottish Government @GreenerScotland @nature_scot @iasgairmuir pic.twitter.com/mSXQb3fBC0

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 27, 2020

 

 

Fish Farmer magazine reported (27 November 2020):

 

 

 

 

The public backlash against the scam that is 'organic' salmon farming was featured in The Mail on Sunday in July 2021:

 

 

 

 

Speaking to the Mail on Sunday in July 2021 I commented (as Director of Scottish Salmon Watch):

 

"The SNP's lobbying on behalf of disease-ridden salmon farms is toxic politics at its very worst.  Organic Sea Harvest is a sham, scam and consumer con.  So-called 'organic' salmon farming is an oxymoron and a figment of the marketing men's toxic imagination.  Shame on the Soil Association for allowing the lobster-killing chemical Deltamethrin to be used on organic salmon farms.  Mass mortalities and lice infestations are already plaguing OSH's 'organic' operations and further expansion will only exacerbate the problem. 'Organic' Sea Harvest is merely a front for Dutch, Canadian and Norwegian investors who want to exploit Scotland's green and clean image.  Consumers should boycott 'organic' salmon embalmed in toxic chemicals"

 

 

 

 

Caution: wear a mask if you're ever near "organic" salmon @SoilAssociation
'Organic' Sea Harvest have used the lobster-killing chemical Deltamethrin @ScottishEPA @marinescotland
Please boycott 'organic' pharmed salmon! @SSPOsays https://t.co/wHt1aKc7G7 #Toxic #Organic #Salmon pic.twitter.com/o4ji2vTAW0

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2021

 

 

Back in January 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch reported on the controversy surrounding the expansion by 'Organic' Sea Harvest (controlled by Villa Seafood via Norway's Villa Seafood Group & 2400074 Ontario Inc - Canadian company DOM International owned by Domenic Porporo/Proporo).

 

 

 

EXPOSED: Scottish 'Organic' Scamon https://t.co/0PsQSjpYBk Investigations and Enforcement Services asked to investigate "scam" @insolvencygovuk @SoilAssocScot @UKAS @HighlandCouncil @WHFP1 @pressjournal @salmonfarming1 @IntraFishNorge @undercur @VisitSkye @ScotSalmonTank @scotgp pic.twitter.com/69xlyoacoo

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 8, 2020

 

 

 

In November 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch revealed that 'Organic' Sea Harvest was owned by investors in the Netherlands, Canada and Norway.

 

Follow the 'Organic' Salmoney to Netherlands, Norway & Canada https://t.co/A6GxWng4To
Visscher Seafood who "takes pride in making pure fish products, free of additives, chemicals & antibiotics" took control of 'Organic' Sea Harvest in June https://t.co/rLEXnIOtjy @timbrouwer89 pic.twitter.com/hSF8OY15GG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 27, 2020

 

 

'Organic' Sea Harvest caught using lobster-killing Deltamethrin (Alphamax) https://t.co/MMIY8aUAEj @marinescotland "Deltamethrin is highly toxic to lobster larvae" https://t.co/FebQVQadbe @alexmacinnessnp @SoilAssocScot @Jonnynogaps @IanDobb pic.twitter.com/Io7556yMqf

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 22, 2020

 

In March 2021, I Tweeted:

 

Revealed: Here's the hatchery sourcing 'Organic' Sea Harvest with @SoilAssociation certified "organic" salmon - doused with carcinogenic chemical Formalin & suffering from shocking welfare abuse, fungus, lesions, deformities & mortalities @BetterBreeding https://t.co/QZmD3ykx4b pic.twitter.com/vuuXZFudju

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 22, 2021

 

 

In May 2021, Villa Seafood (the owners of Organic Sea Harvest) changed their name to Organic Sea Harvest Holdings Ltd in a filing with Companies House - the company is listed as being co-owned by Villa Seafood in Norway, DOM in Canada and Visscher Seafood in the Netherlands (all with over 25% but less than 50% shareholdings).

 

Organic Scamon: Villa Seafood changed their name to Organic Sea Harvest in May - it's co-owned by Dutch (Visscher), Canadian (DOM) & Norwegian (Villa) investors making $almoney off $cotland's green image. Neither 'Scottish' nor 'Organic'! #Organic #Scamhttps://t.co/kUmrCCNR0R pic.twitter.com/u4UXeJWP8U

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in June 2021:

 

'Organic' Salmon Fit for the Queen? Not Even Fit for Her Dogs! https://t.co/buXL542q56
Will the Royals really eat 'organic' salmon bathed in lobster-killing Deltamethrin, infested with lice & swimming in toxic algal bloom? @timbrouwer89
@SevernWye @ClarenceHouse @KensingtonRoyal pic.twitter.com/ygWKxWnUEw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 25, 2021

 

 

 

'Organic' Sea Harvest has been desperately trying for royal approval for their toxic and disease-ridden product. 

 

Toxic 'Organic' Scamon - Why does @SoilAssociation allow 'organic' salmon farmers to use the toxic chemical Deltamethrin (shown by peer-reviewed science published in 2020 to be lethal to lobsters)? @SoilAssocScot @HelenBOrganic @jamescashmore @JoLewisSA https://t.co/2yerGjeTEi pic.twitter.com/sDGTilOWfN

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 20, 2021

 

 

'Organic' farmed salmon with Amoebic Gill Disease, Gill Pox, Proliferative Gill Disease & lice damage, anyone? @SoilAssocScot @SoilAssociation @iasgairmuir @timbrouwer89 @IanDobb @Katie__Eden @Jonnynogaps @ScotSalmonTank @HighlandCouncil @marinescotland https://t.co/ZmOjQ0nHKY pic.twitter.com/KbIBQxT2mC

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 16, 2021

 

 

 

When Prince Charles and Camilla visited Skye last month they were presented with 'organic' salmon:

 

 

 

 

Isle of Skye Smokehouse posted on Facebook (17 September 2021):

 

 

 

It beggars belief that salmon doused in toxic chemicals and ridden with infectious diseases can be marketed as 'organic' and certified by the Soil Association. 

 

As Royal Patron of @SoilAssociation why is the use of the toxic chemical Deltamethrin - show by recent science to be lethal to lobsters - allowed for use on 'organic' salmon farms? @ClarenceHouse @dimbleby_jd @Charlotcostume @SoilAssocScot @HelenBOrganic @JoannaBlythman @peterk69 https://t.co/9mKOkQZA2u

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 20, 2021

 

As owner of 'Organic' Sea Harvest in #Scotland how can Visscher Seafood market #Scottish salmon as "all natural" when it was farmed with the toxic chemical Deltamethrin (shown by science to kill lobsters)? @timbrouwer89 #VisscherSeafood https://t.co/OzeqlPrFJr#Organic #Scamon pic.twitter.com/GVAAH1a42d

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 27, 2020

 

 

 

In March 2020, Dutch TV exposed the scam that is "organic" salmon:

 

Dutch TV's 'Investigative Service' exposes the scam of 'organic' salmon https://t.co/8Hcc0iWaAU @PubliekeOmroep @KvW @ASC_aqua @DutchOrganicIT @KRAVmedia @SoilAssociation @Naturland_eV @organicUK @peterk69 @JoannaBlythman @LawWoodward @SoilAssocScot @Jonnynogaps @glenarmsalmon pic.twitter.com/U41FTbJ6A8

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 30, 2020

 

 

 

Back in 2006, BBC Newsnight exposed the toxic politics of the Soil Association's certification of farmed salmon as 'organic'. 

 

 

"Salmon farming in cages has nothing at all to do with organic principles," said Lawrence Woodward, former chairman of the Soil Association's standards committee.  "It is very regrettable that the Soil Association has gone down this line of trying to certify something that is so distant from the principles."

 

 

 

Writing in The Observer in 2006, award-winning food writer Joanna Blythman lambasted 'organic' salmon.

 

 

 

In 2018, Salmon & Trout Conservation weighed in against 'organic' salmon.

 

 

 

And here's a blast from the past - an article published in 2001 in The Organic Standard - which is just as relevant in 2021 as it was 20 years ago: