09/26/2022

Press Release: "Year of the Dead Salmon: Scottish Salmon Plagued by Mass Mortality Problems"

 



 

Download press release as a PDF via: Year of the Dead Salmon: Scottish Salmon Plagued by Mass Mortality Problems (26 September 2022)

 

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Download press release as a PDF in full online here

 

 

 

 

Read more via: Media Backgrounder: Year of the Dead Salmon - Bakkafrost Scotland is the King of Death! (September 2022)

 

 

 

 



 

 

If you have any inside information please contact $camon $cotland online here

 

 

 

 

 

More on mass mortalities at Scottish salmon farms via:

Media Backgrounder: Year of the Dead Salmon - Bakkafrost Scotland is the King of Death!

Herald On Sunday: "Inquiry into salmon farming demanded after "sickening" levels of fish deaths"

Fake News? Over 50% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms - how can supermarkets advertise it as "responsibly sourced"?

MSPs steered away from disease-ridden Scottish salmon!

Cooke's Organic Scamon Exposed by Gruesome Photos from Orkney - RSPCA Assured Ouseness Oozes Welfare Abuse! 

56% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Mowi (but don't worry, it's certified as "farmed responsibly" by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council)!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mass mortalities at ASC-certified Mowi!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Demand for moratorium on new fish farms after mortality rates revealed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowi Moves Goalposts on ASC Certification

ASC-Certified Scottish Salmon Dead in the Water!

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

Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon 

Update: 25 Million Mass Mortalities on Scottish Salmon Farms

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

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

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

Mass Mortalities Continue to Plague Scottish Salmon

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

Over One Million Morts for Scottish Salmon in September 2020!

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

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

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

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

Solving Scottish Salmon's Multi-Million Mortality Problem

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted at 05:39 AM |

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Media Backgrounder: Year of the Dead Salmon - Bakkafrost Scotland is the King of Death!

 



 

 

Media Backgrounder: Year of the Dead Salmon - Bakkafrost Scotland is the King of Death! (September 2022)

 

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Media Backgrounder Year of the Dead Salmon September 2022 #13

 

 

Download media backgrounder in full as a PDF online here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Herald On Sunday: "Inquiry into salmon farming demanded after "sickening" levels of fish deaths"

Fake News? Over 50% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms - how can supermarkets advertise it as "responsibly sourced"?

MSPs steered away from disease-ridden Scottish salmon!

Cooke's Organic Scamon Exposed by Gruesome Photos from Orkney - RSPCA Assured Ouseness Oozes Welfare Abuse! 

56% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Mowi (but don't worry, it's certified as "farmed responsibly" by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council)!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mass mortalities at ASC-certified Mowi!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Demand for moratorium on new fish farms after mortality rates revealed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowi Moves Goalposts on ASC Certification

ASC-Certified Scottish Salmon Dead in the Water!

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

Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon 

Update: 25 Million Mass Mortalities on Scottish Salmon Farms

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

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

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

Mass Mortalities Continue to Plague Scottish Salmon

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

Over One Million Morts for Scottish Salmon in September 2020!

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

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

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

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

Solving Scottish Salmon's Multi-Million Mortality Problem

 

 

 

Posted at 05:35 AM |

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09/25/2022

Herald On Sunday: "Inquiry into salmon farming demanded after "sickening" levels of fish deaths"

 

 

 

 

The Herald On Sunday reported (25 September 2022):

 

Herald on Sunday 25 September 2022 #1

 

 

Herald on Sunday 25 September 2022 #2

 



 



 

 

Here's the newspaper version (buy online via PressReader):

 

Herald on Sunday 25 September 2022 in full

 

 

 

Herald on Sunday 25 September 2022 in full #1

Herald on Sunday 25 September 2022 in full #2

 

Herald on Sunday 25 September 2022 in full #3

 

 

Read more via:

Fake News? Over 50% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms - how can supermarkets advertise it as "responsibly sourced"?

56% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Mowi (but don't worry, it's certified as "farmed responsibly" by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council)!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon 

Update: 25 Million Mass Mortalities on Scottish Salmon Farms

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

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

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

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

Over One Million Morts for Scottish Salmon in September 2020!

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

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

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

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

Solving Scottish Salmon's Multi-Million Mortality Problem

Scottish watchdog labelled ‘lapdog’ after agreeing to keep fish farm deaths secret

 

 

 

Posted at 08:10 AM |

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09/20/2022

Rubber-stamping Salmon Farm Approvals - 99% success rate!

 

 

 

Rubber stamp #2 table from Sunday Herald

 

 

 

Posted at 07:43 AM |

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09/13/2022

"Disgrace for democracy...diabolical decision" decries No East Moclett Group on BBC Radio Orkney

 

 

 

 

Wendy Elves of No East Moclett Group on Papa Westray pulled no punches when she spoke to BBC Radio Orkney about the approval of a new super-sized salmon farm in North Sound to be operated by Canadian giant Cooke Aquaculture:

 

 

 

 

Listen to the whole news segment on BBC Radio Orkney (starts at 24 minutes 30 seconds) online here

 

 

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #4

 

 



 



 

 

Commenting after the shameful decision by Orkney Islands Council (8 September 2022) to grant approval to what will be Scotland's largest salmon farm off the island of Papa Westray, No East Moclett Group told $camon $cotland:

 

 

 

"Granting approval without proper consultation or community support is an affront to local democracy. In ignoring blanket opposition, OIC and Cooke have treated islanders on Papa Westray with sheer contempt. No East Moclett Group is considering our options and will be filing an appeal subject to legal opinion. No means no - the population of Papay are fed up of having to fight off salmon farm developers from encroaching into their precious inshore waters. Enough is enough - allowing further expansion of 'organic' salmon farming in Orkney is a threat to the marine environment and tourism. Today's decision is just the beginning of our fight against Cooke and the council's unreasonable approval of Scotland's largest salmon farm".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

The Times: "Author Amy Liptrot joins island’s fish farm protest"

Protests Continue Vs Cooke's Salmon Farming Expansion Off Orkney - appeal vs East Moclett in the pipeline!

Mega Media Splash Vs Cooke's Super-Sized Salmon Farm Off Orkney - The Scotsman, The Herald, The National, Daily Telegraph & even Fish Farmer!!

Daily Telegraph: "Orkney locals 'disregarded' over huge salmon farm plan"

No Way To Salmon Farm Off Papa Westray

Photos: Papa Westray Protest Vs Cooke Makes Waves Off Orkney!

Too Many Cookes - community resistance on Orkney spoils super-sized salmon plan off Papa Westray

Cooke's Organic Scamon Exposed by Gruesome Photos from Orkney!

Organic Scamon - The Soil Association's List of Shame!

Organic Scamon: Ocado Challenged Over Mowi's 'Responsibly' Farmed Salmon - 100% Bullshit not 100% Scottish!

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

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

Net Tightens on Lawsuits vs 'Salmafia' - Cooke "unable to quash lawsuit over deceptive marketing practices"

Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles

Scottish salmon is so not organic!

Organic Salmon Belongs in the Bin Not Your Shopping Basket!

Dutch TV slams "organic" salmon

EXPOSED: Scottish 'Organic' Scamon

Organic” farmed salmon – let’s get real

Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea

Cooke's Untreated Blood Water is "Gross" says SEPA - "Poor" processing plant pollutes Mid Yell Voe in Shetland

BBC Radio Shetland on Cooke's "untreated blood water" in Scotland

BBC News: "Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea"

More troubles for Cooke, with Scottish “blood water” claims

Environmental Event report re. "raw effluent" and overflowing "blood water" at Cooke's Mid Yell processing plant - January 2017

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)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted at 01:59 PM |

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09/09/2022

Fake News? Over 50% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms - how can supermarkets advertise it as "responsibly sourced"?

 

 

 

 

"Various campaigners promote false information about the UK’s number one food export, farm-raised Scottish salmon," claimed Cooke press spokesman Joel Richardson in yesterday's Fish Farming Expert (8 September 2022).  "They are misleading the public in an attempt to further their own agendas". 

 

 

 

 

If the public - or indeed certification bodies and supermarkets guilty of greenwashing "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon - want to groundtruth the 'false information' peddled by campaigners then the best (i.e. highlighting the worst) source of information is published by the salmon farming industry lobby group Salmon Scotland.  Here's the latest mortality data for salmon farms in Scotland in July 2022:

 

July 2022 data from Salmon Scotland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's mortality data published by Salmon Scotland for June 2022:

 

 

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #10 mortality rates June 2022

 

 



 

 

$camon Scotland reported in February 2022:

 

 

 

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

Dec 2021 data via Salmon Scotland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In what world can a food product which suffers 50%+ mortality be marketed as "responsibly sourced" and "farmed responsibly"?  Shame on supermarkets and certifiers such as the Soil Association, Aquaculture Stewardship Council and RSPCA Assured for greenwashing disease-ridden toxic Scottish salmon.   And shame on the Advertising Standards Authority and Competition and Markets Authority for allowing such false information to mislead the public!

 



 

 

Anyone actually reading the industry's own data - and digesting the ugly truth behind the UK's #1 food export - cannot escape the conclusion that far from being "responsibly sourced" and "farmed responsibly" (as claimed by RSPCA Assured and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council) Scottish salmon is irresponsibly farmed. 

 

 

 

 

In November 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch filed complaints against "responsibly sourced" and "responsibly farmed" Scottish salmon with the Advertising Standards Authority and Competion and Markets Authority.

 

 

 

 

In January 2022, Scottish Salmon Watch wrote an open letter to the ASC asking that certification of Scottish salmon as "farmed responsibly" be cancelled due to the use of toxic chemicals, mass mortalities, infectious diseases and lice infestations. 

 

 

 

 

In February 2022, $camon $cotland (formerly Scottish Salmon Watch) filed a complaint with Trading Standards against Mowi's 'organic' salmon sold via Ocado and Sainsbury's.

 

 

 

 

Later in February 2022, $camon $cotland called on Marks & Spencer to boycott RSPCA Assured "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon from Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) due to Infectious Salmon Anaemia.

 

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported in March 2022 - sourced from data reported by salmon farms in Scotland to the Scottish Government and published online via the Fish Health Inspectorate - that over 1.8 million "responsibly sourced" farmed salmon had died in the first six weeks of 2022.

 

 

 

 

In May 2022, $camon $cotland filed a complaint against Sainsbury's with the Advertising Standards Authority.

 

 

 

 

Later in May 2022, $camon $cotland reported (once again sourced via industry reported data) how ASC-certified and RSPCA Assured Mowi was plagued by disease and mass mortalities (a staggering 10 million morts reported by Mowi since 2019 - according to industry reported data published by the Scottish Government).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last month, Mowi reported a 32% fall in Scottish salmon farming production due to disease and mortality problems.

 

 

 

 

All the time, Scottish Salmon Watch and $camon $cotland has sourced our information direct from published data - which is self-reported industry data made available to the public online via the Scottish Government's 'FHI Mortality Information' and 'FHI Case Information'; data published by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Marine Scotland via Scotland's Aquaculture; data published by Salmon Scotland, data published via quarterly reports published salmon farming companies and photos taken by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate during visits to salmon farms.   The truth clearly hurts and upsets PR flaks who are desperately trying to polish the turd that is Scottish salmon. 

 

 

MOWI spoof salmon pack with garnish

 

 

So when Joel Richardson of Cooke spouts about campaigners "misleading the public" with "false information" he is discrediting data supplied by the salmon farming industry and information gathered by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate's visits to salmon farms.  Take a look in the mirror Mr Richardson and it's not a pretty sight (even if your Scottish salmon is certified as 'organic' and marketed as 'welfare friendly' via RSPCA Assured)!

 

 

 

 

The uncomfortable truth is that Scottish salmon is greenwashed by certifiers such as the ASC, Soil Association and RSPCA Assured who rake in dirty $almoney. 

 

Greenwash graphic #5

 



 

 

Given the gruesome nature of Scottish salmon it is not surprising that salmon farming companies have attempted - unsuccessfully as it turned out - to stop publication claiming the public would not understand images of welfare abuse and disease. 

 



 

 

And now Norwegian giant Mowi is attempting to shut down secret filming inside salmon farms across Scotland to stop the public seeing the ugly truth about their disease-ridden operations.

 

 

 

 

Thankfully, the truth always wins out in the end.  The camera never lies - unlike salmon farmers!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

MSPs steered away from disease-ridden Scottish salmon!

Cooke's Organic Scamon Exposed by Gruesome Photos from Orkney - RSPCA Assured Ouseness Oozes Welfare Abuse! 

56% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Mowi (but don't worry, it's certified as "farmed responsibly" by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council)!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mass mortalities at ASC-certified Mowi!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Demand for moratorium on new fish farms after mortality rates revealed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowi Moves Goalposts on ASC Certification

ASC-Certified Scottish Salmon Dead in the Water!

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

Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon 

Update: 25 Million Mass Mortalities on Scottish Salmon Farms

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

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

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

Mass Mortalities Continue to Plague Scottish Salmon

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

Over One Million Morts for Scottish Salmon in September 2020!

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

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

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

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

Solving Scottish Salmon's Multi-Million Mortality Problem

Posted at 11:21 AM |

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The Times: "Author Amy Liptrot joins island’s fish farm protest"

 



 

 

The Times reported (9 September 2022):

 

Times 9 Sept 2022 #1

 

Times 9 Sept 2022 #2

 

Times 9 Sept 2022 #3

 

 

Times 9 Sept 2022 #4

 

 

 

Read more via:

Protests Continue Vs Cooke's Salmon Farming Expansion Off Orkney - appeal vs East Moclett in the pipeline!

Mega Media Splash Vs Cooke's Super-Sized Salmon Farm Off Orkney - The Scotsman, The Herald, The National, Daily Telegraph & even Fish Farmer!!

Daily Telegraph: "Orkney locals 'disregarded' over huge salmon farm plan"

No Way To Salmon Farm Off Papa Westray

Photos: Papa Westray Protest Vs Cooke Makes Waves Off Orkney!

Too Many Cookes - community resistance on Orkney spoils super-sized salmon plan off Papa Westray

Cooke's Organic Scamon Exposed by Gruesome Photos from Orkney!

Organic Scamon - The Soil Association's List of Shame!

Organic Scamon: Ocado Challenged Over Mowi's 'Responsibly' Farmed Salmon - 100% Bullshit not 100% Scottish!

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

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

Net Tightens on Lawsuits vs 'Salmafia' - Cooke "unable to quash lawsuit over deceptive marketing practices"

Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles

Scottish salmon is so not organic!

Organic Salmon Belongs in the Bin Not Your Shopping Basket!

Dutch TV slams "organic" salmon

EXPOSED: Scottish 'Organic' Scamon

Organic” farmed salmon – let’s get real

Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea

Cooke's Untreated Blood Water is "Gross" says SEPA - "Poor" processing plant pollutes Mid Yell Voe in Shetland

BBC Radio Shetland on Cooke's "untreated blood water" in Scotland

BBC News: "Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea"

More troubles for Cooke, with Scottish “blood water” claims

Environmental Event report re. "raw effluent" and overflowing "blood water" at Cooke's Mid Yell processing plant - January 2017

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)

 

 

 

Posted at 07:11 AM |

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09/08/2022

Protests Continue Vs Cooke's Salmon Farming Expansion Off Orkney - appeal vs East Moclett in the pipeline!

 

 

 

 

Commenting after the decision by Orkney Islands Council earlier this afternoon (8 September 2022) to grant approval to what will be Scotland's largest salmon farm off the island of Papa Westray, No East Moclett Group told $camon $cotland:

 

 

 

"Granting approval without proper consultation or community support is an affront to local democracy.   In ignoring blanket opposition, OIC and Cooke have treated islanders on Papa Westray with sheer contempt.  No East Moclett Group is considering our options and will be filing an appeal subject to legal opinion.  No means no - the population of Papay are fed up of having to fight off salmon farm developers from encroaching into their precious inshore waters.  Enough is enough - allowing further expansion of 'organic' salmon farming in Orkney is a threat to the marine environment and tourism.  Today's decision is just the beginning of our fight against Cooke and the council's unreasonable approval of Scotland's largest salmon farm".

 

 

 

 

 

Here's audio of objections raised with Orkney Islands Council during the planning committee meeting on 8 September 2022 - when Cooke Aquaculture were granted approval to Scotland's largest 'organic' salmon farm despite overwhelming opposition locally on Papa Westray:

 

 

 

 



 

 

 



 

 

Chris Rutterford - one of the UK's top mural artists - wrote to Orkney Islands Council in March 2022:

 

OIC objections #20 Chris Rutterford

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Orcadian reported (8 September 2022):

 

Orcadian 8 September 2022 #1

Orcadian 8 September 2022 #2

Orcadian 8 September 2022 #3

 

 

 

 

 

Salmon Business reported (8 September 2022):

 

Salmon Business 8 Sept 2022 #1

Salmon Business 8 Sept 2022 #2

 

 

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported (8 September 2022):

 

FFE 8 Sept 2022 #3

FFE 8 Sept 2022 #4

FFE 8 Sept 2022 #5

 

 

Intrafish reported (8 September 2022):

 

Intrafish 8 Sept 2022 #1

 

Intrafish 8 Sept 2022 #2

 

 

Undercurrent News reported (8 September 2022):

 

Undercurrent News 8 Sep 2022

 

 

 

Read more via:

Mega Media Splash Vs Cooke's Super-Sized Salmon Farm Off Orkney - The Scotsman, The Herald, The National, Daily Telegraph & even Fish Farmer!!

Daily Telegraph: "Orkney locals 'disregarded' over huge salmon farm plan"

No Way To Salmon Farm Off Papa Westray

Photos: Papa Westray Protest Vs Cooke Makes Waves Off Orkney!

Too Many Cookes - community resistance on Orkney spoils super-sized salmon plan off Papa Westray

Cooke's Organic Scamon Exposed by Gruesome Photos from Orkney!

Organic Scamon - The Soil Association's List of Shame!

Organic Scamon: Ocado Challenged Over Mowi's 'Responsibly' Farmed Salmon - 100% Bullshit not 100% Scottish!

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

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

Net Tightens on Lawsuits vs 'Salmafia' - Cooke "unable to quash lawsuit over deceptive marketing practices"

Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles

Scottish salmon is so not organic!

Organic Salmon Belongs in the Bin Not Your Shopping Basket!

Dutch TV slams "organic" salmon

EXPOSED: Scottish 'Organic' Scamon

Organic” farmed salmon – let’s get real

Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea

Cooke's Untreated Blood Water is "Gross" says SEPA - "Poor" processing plant pollutes Mid Yell Voe in Shetland

BBC Radio Shetland on Cooke's "untreated blood water" in Scotland

BBC News: "Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea"

More troubles for Cooke, with Scottish “blood water” claims

Environmental Event report re. "raw effluent" and overflowing "blood water" at Cooke's Mid Yell processing plant - January 2017

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)

 

 

 

Posted at 04:46 PM |

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MSPs steered away from disease-ridden Scottish salmon!

 

 

 

 

Here's an email sent to MSPs scheduled to visit a salmon farm operated by Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) at Dunstaffnage near Oban on Sunday (11 September) or Monday (12 September):

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 12:57 PM
Subject: MSP visit to Dunstaffnage salmon farm - why not peek inside Loch Creran?
To: <rural.committee@parliament.scot>, Burgess A (Ariane), MSP <Ariane.Burgess.msp@parliament.scot>, MSP <Rachael.Hamilton.msp@parliament.scot>, Carson F (Finlay), MSP <Finlay.Carson.msp@parliament.scot>, <Jenni.Minto.msp@parliament.scot>, <Beatrice.Wishart.msp@parliament.scot>, <Mercedes.Villalba.msp@parliament.scot>
Cc: Gougeon M (Mairi), MSP <Mairi.Gougeon.msp@parliament.scot>, Ruskell M (Mark), MSP <Mark.Ruskell.msp@parliament.scot>, MSP <Patrick.Harvie.msp@parliament.scot>, MSP <Ross.Greer.msp@parliament.scot>, Johnstone A (Alison), MSP <Alison.Johnstone.msp@parliament.scot>, <scottish.ministers@gov.scot>, <netzero.committee@parliament.scot>, <directormarinescotland@gov.scot>, <sheila.voas@gov.scot>, Cathy Dwyer <cathy.dwyer@sruc.ac.uk>, <Maggie.Chapman.msp@parliament.scot>, Fergus Ewing <Fergus.Ewing.msp@scottish.parliament.uk>, Forbes K (Kate), MSP <Kate.Forbes.msp@parliament.scot>, <Mairi.McAllan.msp@parliament.scot>, Mountain E (Edward), MSP <Edward.Mountain.msp@parliament.scot>, MSP <Alex.Rowley.msp@parliament.scot>, Beamish C (Claudia), MSP <Claudia.Beamish.msp@parliament.scot>, MSP <Maree.Todd.msp@parliament.scot>, Cameron D (Donald), MSP <Donald.Cameron.msp@parliament.scot>
 
I was reading that MSPs are scheduled to the Barcaldine hatchery and the Dunstaffnage salmon farm operated by Scottish Sea Farms: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/scottish-parliament-scottish-sea-farms/msps-to-see-salmon-farming-up-close/1427183
 
During your visit why don't you take a boat trip from Barcaldine - Scottish Sea Farms have a boat there which can take you out to the site - to the Loch Creran salmon farm?
 
It's much closer than driving down to Dunstaffnage and then taking a boat out from there. 
 
$camon $cotland kayaked out to the Loch Creran salmon farm in July (as well as visiting other Scottish Sea Farms sites in the Sound of Mull) and we were shocked to discover dead and diseased salmon at the RSPCA Assured site.  You can watch video footage and see photos via:
 
 
 
 
A summary of video footage shot in Loch Creran two months ago is online via:
 
 
BBC Countryfile featured the RSPCA Assured salmon farm in Loch Creran in December 2020 - and once more found shocking welfare abuse:
 
 
 
If you look at the latest biomass data published by SEPA via Scotland's Aquaculture, you will see that the Dunstaffnage salmon farm was empty of fish in December 2021 (the latest data available): http://aquaculture.scotland.gov.uk/data/fish_farms_monthly_biomass_and_treatment_reports_record.aspx?monthly_data_id=4692883
 
If you look at Salmon Scotland's data then you will see that the Dunstaffnage salmon farm was only stocked in May 2022: https://www.salmonscotland.co.uk/sites/default/files/2022-07/may_2022.pdf (note that Loch Creran salmon farm reported 6.5% mortality in the month of May 2022)
 
Loch Creran salmon farm reported 17.9% monthly mortality in July 2022 alone (compared to 0.2% for Dunstaffnage salmon farm and 7.6% mortality at Lismore East): https://www.salmonscotland.co.uk/sites/default/files/2022-09/july_2022.pdf
 
To put the above mortality rate into perspective, 17.9% mortality represents one in six farmed salmon dying in a single month.  If this rate of death was happening on land in a sheep farm or one in six cows in a field were dying then the public would be outraged.
 
Suffice to say that it would be more environmentally friendly - meaning less travel - if the RECC visited Loch Creran salmon farm rather than Dunstaffnage. 
 
Obviously, Scottish Sea Farms and Salmon Scotland want to steer you away from disease and mortality problems.  Speaking of which, MSPs should take a close look at the mortality data published recently by Salmon Scotland for July 2022 which includes the following salmon farms which reported alarming death rates:
 
July 2022 data from Salmon Scotland
 
Just to make it simple for people, like me who may have been in the remedial Maths class at school, a cumulative mortality of 59.5% (as reported by Mowi at RSPCA Assured Greshornish salmon farm) means that if 1 million farmed salmon were stocked on the site in March 2021 then only ca. 400,000 made it out alive (i.e. 6 out of every fish died). 
 
Read and weep at the latest mortality data for July 2022 (as reported by salmon farming companies themselves) via: https://www.salmonscotland.co.uk/sites/default/files/2022-09/july_2022.pdf
 
If you look at the mortality data for June 2022 then you have 55.9% cumulative mortality at Mowi's RSPCA Assured and ASC-certified Greanem salmon farm and 30.6% cumulative mortality at Bakkafrost's Portree salmon farm: https://www.salmonscotland.co.uk/sites/default/files/2022-08/june_2022.pdf
 
You may have read the recent BBC report on how toxic gases are leaking from Bakkafrost's salmon farm off Portee:
 
You may even have read $camon $cotland's blog last month on mortality problems at Mowi:
 
If you cannot visit a disease-ridden salmon farm for yourself - bear in mind that salmon farming companies may only offer you the red carpet treatment to pristine sites where fish have just been stocked (farms in the second year of production are the ones to target) - then here's some video footage from Mowi's RSPCA Assured Greshornish salmon farm: https://vimeo.com/441103390
 
Undercover video footage shot by investigators at CIWF was also published in March 2021:
 
Photos of welfare abuse inside salmon farms are available via:
 
Instead of choosing to look the other way - and going along with what the nice lady at Scottish Sea Farms or lovely man at Mowi and Bakkafrost tells you - don't MSPs have a duty to investigate the issue more fully?
 
 
The RECC visit to Dunstaffnage salmon farm is rather like a serial killer showing you around his lovely new house which has just been cleaned but failing to show you all the dead bodies piled up in his house of death next door. 
 
Surely the RECC visit is an opportunity to ask critical questions of the disease-ridden salmon farming industry rather than be duped by their sick/slick PR game?
 
Please note my Tweets on this via:
 
If you would like to visit a salmon farm with disease and mortality problems - perhaps in a kayak early in the morning before Tavish Scott has even eaten his listeria-contaminated smoked salmon bagel - please let me know.  I am on 07771 541826. 
 
A simple rule: the salmon farms which the industry is willing to show you and allow you to visit are NOT the ones which warrant investigation.  However, you may pick up a police escort for daring to go close to disease-ridden salmon cages:
 
For more background please read:
 
 
 
Best fishes,
 
Don Staniford
 
Director, $camon $cotland
 
 
 


 

 




 
 
 
 

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #10 mortality rates June 2022

 
 
 
 
Scottish Salmon Watch reported in December 2021: 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Read more via:
 
 
 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mass mortalities at ASC-certified Mowi!

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

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

 
 
 

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

Demand for moratorium on new fish farms after mortality rates revealed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowi Moves Goalposts on ASC Certification

ASC-Certified Scottish Salmon Dead in the Water!

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

Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon 

Update: 25 Million Mass Mortalities on Scottish Salmon Farms

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

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

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

Mass Mortalities Continue to Plague Scottish Salmon

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

Over One Million Morts for Scottish Salmon in September 2020!

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

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

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

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

Solving Scottish Salmon's Multi-Million Mortality Problem

 
 

 

Posted at 01:25 PM |

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Mega Media Splash Vs Cooke's Super-Sized Salmon Farm Off Orkney - The Scotsman, The Herald, The National, Daily Telegraph & even Fish Farmer!!

 

 


Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #4

 

Papa Westray's protest against plans by Canadian giant Cooke Aquaculture for what would be Scotland's largest salmon farm - to be greenwashed as 'organic' via the Soil Association - at East Moclett in North Sound in the far North of the Orkney Islands is making waves in the media with news coverage in The Daily Telegraph, The Herald, The National, The Scotsman and even Fish Farmer.   The National reported with a front page by-line (8 September 2022):

 

National 8 September 2022 #1 front page byline

National 8 September 2022 #3 top of article

 

National 8 September 2022 #4 text of article

 



Download front page as a Jpeg online here and the newspaper article as a Jpeg online here

 



 

 

The Scotsman reported (8 September 2022):

 

 

Scotsman 8 Sept 2022 #1

Scotsman 8 Sept 2022 #2

 

Download newspaper version as a Jpeg online here

 

 



 

 

The Herald reported (8 September 2022):

 

Herald 8 September 2022 #1

 

 



 

Here's the newspaper version:

 

Herald 8 September 2022 #2 newspaper version headline with photos

Herald 8 September 2022 #3 newspaper version text

Herald 8 September 2022 #4 newspaper version photo of beach protest

Herald 8 September 2022 #5 newspaper version text

 

Download newspaper version as a Jpeg online here

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported (8 September 2022):

 

FFE 8 Sept 2022 #1

FFE 8 Sept 2022 #2

 

 

 

Fish Farmer reported (7 September 2022):

 

Fish farmer 7 Sept 2022 #1

Fish farmer 7 Sept 2022 #2

 

 

 

 

The Daily Telegraph reported (7 September 2022):

 

Daily Telegraph Orkney locals 'disregarded' 7 September 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Download high resolution photos online here (please credit 'No East Moclett Group'):

 

 

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #1

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #2

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #3

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #4

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #5

 

No East Moclett photo

 

 

 

 

 

A media advisory provides more background online here

 

Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #11

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Daily Telegraph: "Orkney locals 'disregarded' over huge salmon farm plan"

No Way To Salmon Farm Off Papa Westray

Photos: Papa Westray Protest Vs Cooke Makes Waves Off Orkney!

Too Many Cookes - community resistance on Orkney spoils super-sized salmon plan off Papa Westray

Cooke's Organic Scamon Exposed by Gruesome Photos from Orkney!

Organic Scamon - The Soil Association's List of Shame!

Organic Scamon: Ocado Challenged Over Mowi's 'Responsibly' Farmed Salmon - 100% Bullshit not 100% Scottish!

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

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

Net Tightens on Lawsuits vs 'Salmafia' - Cooke "unable to quash lawsuit over deceptive marketing practices"

Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles

Scottish salmon is so not organic!

Organic Salmon Belongs in the Bin Not Your Shopping Basket!

Dutch TV slams "organic" salmon

EXPOSED: Scottish 'Organic' Scamon

Organic” farmed salmon – let’s get real

Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea

Cooke's Untreated Blood Water is "Gross" says SEPA - "Poor" processing plant pollutes Mid Yell Voe in Shetland

BBC Radio Shetland on Cooke's "untreated blood water" in Scotland

BBC News: "Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea"

More troubles for Cooke, with Scottish “blood water” claims

Environmental Event report re. "raw effluent" and overflowing "blood water" at Cooke's Mid Yell processing plant - January 2017

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)

 

 

 

 

 

Posted at 01:07 PM |

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09/07/2022

Daily Telegraph: "Orkney locals 'disregarded' over huge salmon farm plan"

 

 

 

 

The Daily Telegraph reported (7 September 2022):

 

Daily Telegraph Orkney locals 'disregarded' 7 September 2022

 

Download as a PDF online here

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Download high resolution photos of a protest against Cooke on Papa Westray on Monday (5 September 2022) online here

 

 

 

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #1

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #2

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #3

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #4

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #5

 

 

 

 

 



 

Read more via:

No Way To Salmon Farm Off Papa Westray

Photos: Papa Westray Protest Vs Cooke Makes Waves Off Orkney!

Too Many Cookes - community resistance on Orkney spoils super-sized salmon plan off Papa Westray

Cooke's Organic Scamon Exposed by Gruesome Photos from Orkney!

Organic Scamon - The Soil Association's List of Shame!

Organic Scamon: Ocado Challenged Over Mowi's 'Responsibly' Farmed Salmon - 100% Bullshit not 100% Scottish!

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

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

Net Tightens on Lawsuits vs 'Salmafia' - Cooke "unable to quash lawsuit over deceptive marketing practices"

Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles

Scottish salmon is so not organic!

Organic Salmon Belongs in the Bin Not Your Shopping Basket!

Dutch TV slams "organic" salmon

EXPOSED: Scottish 'Organic' Scamon

Organic” farmed salmon – let’s get real

Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea

Cooke's Untreated Blood Water is "Gross" says SEPA - "Poor" processing plant pollutes Mid Yell Voe in Shetland

BBC Radio Shetland on Cooke's "untreated blood water" in Scotland

BBC News: "Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea"

More troubles for Cooke, with Scottish “blood water” claims

Environmental Event report re. "raw effluent" and overflowing "blood water" at Cooke's Mid Yell processing plant - January 2017

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)

 

 

 

 

Posted at 12:02 PM |

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No Way To Salmon Farm Off Papa Westray

No East Moclett photo

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a media advisory published by $camon $cotland (7 September 2022):

 

Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #1

Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #2

Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #3

Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #4

Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #5

Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #6

Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #7

 

Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #8

Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #9Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #10

 

Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #11

 

Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #12 Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #13

Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #14

 

Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #15

 

Media Advisory No Salmon Farm Papa Westray 7 September 2022 #16

 

Download media advisory in full with Notes to Editors online here

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

Read more via:

Photos: Papa Westray Protest Vs Cooke Makes Waves Off Orkney!

Too Many Cookes - community resistance on Orkney spoils super-sized salmon plan off Papa Westray

Cooke's Organic Scamon Exposed by Gruesome Photos from Orkney!

Organic Scamon - The Soil Association's List of Shame!

Organic Scamon: Ocado Challenged Over Mowi's 'Responsibly' Farmed Salmon - 100% Bullshit not 100% Scottish!

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

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

Net Tightens on Lawsuits vs 'Salmafia' - Cooke "unable to quash lawsuit over deceptive marketing practices"

Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles

Scottish salmon is so not organic!

Organic Salmon Belongs in the Bin Not Your Shopping Basket!

Dutch TV slams "organic" salmon

EXPOSED: Scottish 'Organic' Scamon

Organic” farmed salmon – let’s get real

Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea

Cooke's Untreated Blood Water is "Gross" says SEPA - "Poor" processing plant pollutes Mid Yell Voe in Shetland

BBC Radio Shetland on Cooke's "untreated blood water" in Scotland

BBC News: "Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea"

More troubles for Cooke, with Scottish “blood water” claims

Environmental Event report re. "raw effluent" and overflowing "blood water" at Cooke's Mid Yell processing plant - January 2017

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)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted at 07:55 AM |

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Photos: Papa Westray Protest Vs Cooke Makes Waves Off Orkney!

No East Moclett photo

 



 

 

Here's photos of a protest by No East Moclett Group on Papa Westray on Monday (5 September 2022) - click on the photo and you should be able to save (please credit 'No East Moclett Group'):

 

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #1

 

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #2

 

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #3

 

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #4

 

Protest Photo 5 September 2022 #5

 

 



 





 

 

The Press & Journal reported (2 September 2022):

 

P&J 2 Sept 2022 #1

P&J 2 Sept 2022 #2 P&J 2 Sept 2022 #3

P&J 2 Sept 2022 #4

 

 

 

Salmon Business reported (5 September 2022):

 

Salmon Business 6 Sept 2022 #1

 

Salmon Business 6 Sept 2022 #2

 

 

$camon $cotland reported (24 August 2022):

 

 

 

A damning inspection report recently published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate highlights the gruesome nature of Cooke Aquaculture - a company shamefully certified by the Soil Association as "organic" and accredited as 'welfare friendly' via RSPCA Assured.   

 

 

 

 

 

In what warped world can these fish be truly marketed as "responsibly farmed" and "responsibly sourced"?

 

Ouseness FHI May 2022 photo #1

Ouseness FHI May 2022 photo #2

Ouseness FHI May 2022 photo #3

 

 

 

 

 

The harsh reality of welfare abuse inside Cooke Aquaculture's salmon farms is a world removed from their PR image.

 

 

 

 

When undercover activists infiltrated a Cooke Aquaculture salmon farm in Maine it exposed a 'sea of suffering':

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Too Many Cookes - community resistance on Orkney spoils super-sized salmon plan off Papa Westray

Cooke's Organic Scamon Exposed by Gruesome Photos from Orkney!

Organic Scamon - The Soil Association's List of Shame!

Organic Scamon: Ocado Challenged Over Mowi's 'Responsibly' Farmed Salmon - 100% Bullshit not 100% Scottish!

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

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

Net Tightens on Lawsuits vs 'Salmafia' - Cooke "unable to quash lawsuit over deceptive marketing practices"

Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles

Scottish salmon is so not organic!

Organic Salmon Belongs in the Bin Not Your Shopping Basket!

Dutch TV slams "organic" salmon

EXPOSED: Scottish 'Organic' Scamon

Organic” farmed salmon – let’s get real

Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea

Cooke's Untreated Blood Water is "Gross" says SEPA - "Poor" processing plant pollutes Mid Yell Voe in Shetland

BBC Radio Shetland on Cooke's "untreated blood water" in Scotland

BBC News: "Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea"

More troubles for Cooke, with Scottish “blood water” claims

Environmental Event report re. "raw effluent" and overflowing "blood water" at Cooke's Mid Yell processing plant - January 2017

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)

 

 

Posted at 07:52 AM |

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08/31/2022

P&J: "Exclusion zone set up around Skye barge giving off rotten eggs smell"

 

 

 

The Press & Journal reported (30 August 2022):

 

P&J 30 Aug 2022 #1

P&J 30 Aug 2022 #2

P&J 30 Aug 2022 #3

P&J 30 Aug 2022 #4 P&J 30 Aug 2022 #5

 



 

 

Here's a photo of the 24 hour guard boat patrolling the exclusion zone around the toxic Scottish salmon company off Portree:

 

 

 

Portree salmon farm 30 Aug 2022

 



 

 

Here's drone footage of the Portree salmon farm shot on 29 August 2022 showing what is believed to be a 24 hour guard boat patrolling the site:

 

 

 

 

 

When Scottish Salmon Watch visited the Portree salmon farm in November 2019 we were blocked from filming by The Scottish Salmon Company (you can see a feed barge in the video):

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

"Experts tackle lethal gas leaking from sunken feed barge" (Fish Farming Expert)

BBC News: "'Rotten egg' gas leaking from fish feed barge wreck - 500m exclusion zone placed near Portree on Skye"

Toxic Gasses Spew From The Scottish Salmon Company (Bakkafrost Scotland) Off Portree

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

Channel 4 News on Scottish Salmon Spying on Corin Smith!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Animal Equality Exposes Scottish Salmon Slaughterhouse

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

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

The Camera Never Lies About Scottish Salmon!

Photo Dossier of Diseased, Deformed & Abused Scottish Salmon

The Severely Damaged Scottish Salmon Company - For Sale Now!

Maaey day for the Scottish Salmon Company

Ground-truthing disease-ridden Scottish salmon

Mmmm Blind Scottish Salmon with Boils, Anyone?

 

 

 

Posted at 07:13 AM |

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08/30/2022

"Experts tackle lethal gas leaking from sunken feed barge" (Fish Farming Expert)

 

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported (30 August 2022):

 

Ffe lethal gas #1

Ffe lethal gas #2

Ffe lethal gas #3

 

 

STV News also reported on the toxic gas leak on the evening news (30 August 2022):

 

 

STV toxic barge 30 Aug 2022

 

 

 

Intrafish reported (2 September 2022):

 

Intrafish on toxic barge 2 Sept 2022 #1

Intrafish on toxic barge 2 Sept 2022 #2

 

 

 

Salmon Business reported (6 September 2022):

 

Salmon Business on toxic barge 6 September 2022 #1

Salmon Business on toxic barge 6 September 2022 #2

 

 

 

Read more via:

BBC News: "'Rotten egg' gas leaking from fish feed barge wreck - 500m exclusion zone placed near Portree on Skye"

Toxic Gasses Spew From The Scottish Salmon Company (Bakkafrost Scotland) Off Portree

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

Channel 4 News on Scottish Salmon Spying on Corin Smith!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Animal Equality Exposes Scottish Salmon Slaughterhouse

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

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

The Camera Never Lies About Scottish Salmon!

Photo Dossier of Diseased, Deformed & Abused Scottish Salmon

The Severely Damaged Scottish Salmon Company - For Sale Now!

Maaey day for the Scottish Salmon Company

Ground-truthing disease-ridden Scottish salmon

Mmmm Blind Scottish Salmon with Boils, Anyone?

 

 

 

 

Posted at 06:46 PM |

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BBC News: "'Rotten egg' gas leaking from fish feed barge wreck - 500m exclusion zone placed near Portree on Skye"

 

 

 

 

BBC News reported (30 August 2022):

 

BBC rotten egg 30 Aug 2022 #1

BBC rotten egg 30 Aug 2022 #2

BBC rotten egg 30 Aug 2022 #3

 

 

The Scottish Salmon Company blocked me from filming at the Portree salmon farm when Scottish Salmon Watch visited in November 2019:

 

 

 

 

 

Here's drone footage of the Portree salmon farm shot yesterday (29 August 2022) showing what is believed to be a 24 hour guard boat patrolling the site:

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a photo taken overlooking the toxic feedlot this afternoon (30 August 2022):

 

Portree salmon farm 30 Aug 2022

 

 

 

 

Given the lethal nature of The Scottish Salmon Company (renamed Bakkafrost Scotland in June 2022) it is not suprising that the public are kept away:

 





 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Toxic Gasses Spew From The Scottish Salmon Company (Bakkafrost Scotland) Off Portree

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

Channel 4 News on Scottish Salmon Spying on Corin Smith!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Animal Equality Exposes Scottish Salmon Slaughterhouse

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

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

The Camera Never Lies About Scottish Salmon!

Photo Dossier of Diseased, Deformed & Abused Scottish Salmon

The Severely Damaged Scottish Salmon Company - For Sale Now!

Maaey day for the Scottish Salmon Company

Ground-truthing disease-ridden Scottish salmon

Mmmm Blind Scottish Salmon with Boils, Anyone?

 

 

 

Posted at 04:46 PM |

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Toxic Gasses Spew From The Scottish Salmon Company (Bakkafrost Scotland) Off Portree

 

 

 

 

$camon $cotland received this tip-off via our website on Sunday evening (28 August 2022):


Date: Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 7:57 PM
Subject: Portree salmon farm
To: <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>

Hi

I recently came back to my home town of Portree for a visit, and found out the problems that have been going on at the Scottish Salmon Company (now Bakkafrost). Their feed barge sank end of last year with over 400t of feed on board and I believe the deck was also full of tubs filled with mortalites.


This barge has laid on the seabed since then and a few weeks ago a team of divers have come to the site to start the process of raising the barge, however this was stopped for over a week as there was found to be very high levels of toxic gasses emerging from the barge and the old feed, this has lead to an exclusion zone being put in place around the farm because of the dangers of these gasses and there is a 24hr guard by a boat.

I am not sure if you are aware of this that has been happening and all the risks that is happening to the environment, its just another of a long list of how salmon farms are damaging the environment.

Thanks

 

 

 

 

 

A drone captured video footage over the salmon farm site off Portree yesterday evening (29 August 2022):

 

 

 

 

 

 

Late last night, $camon $cotland received corroboration from a second source on the Isle of Skye who confirmed:

 

"Yes it is true, I heard about it late last night.  I can’t remember what the gas is, Sulphur something - very toxic in tiny parts per million.  Apparently if you can smell it it’s too late you have had too high a dose.  Briggs Marine were the divers and they have left the site."

 

Briggs

 

 

 

The toxic gas is understood - heard from sources with knowledge of the aborted salvage operation - to be Hydrogen Sulphide which is also known as swamp gas, stink damp and sewer gas. 

 

Hydrogen Sulphide #5

 

 



 

 

Here's a toxicological overview on Hydrogen Sulphide published by Public Health England:

 

Hydrogen Sulphide #1

Hydrogen Sulphide #2

 

 

 

Hydrogen Sulphide is described by the Occupational Safety & Helath Administration as a"colorless, flammable, extremely hazardous gas with a 'rotten egg' smell":

 

Hydrogen Sulphide #3

Hydrogen Sulphide #4

Hydrogen Sulphide #7

 



 

 

Diving at sites exposed to Hydrogen Sulphide pollution can be fatal.

 

Hydrogen Sulphide #8

 

Hydrogen Sulphide #9

 

 

 

If there is an exclusion zone in place around Bakkafrost's toxic salmon farming operation off the important harbour of Portee on the Isle of Skye it begs the question: is it safe for cruise ships to visit (as The World did last week)?

 



World cruise ship in Portree #2

 



World cruise ship in Portree

 



 

 

And when the RNLI lifeboats held an open day in Portree over the weekend were they aware of any safety exclusion zone around the Bakkafrost Scotland salmon farm?

 

Portree lifeboats

 

 

 

 

 

The public surely deserve to be told if there is an exclusion zone around the toxic Scottish Salmon Company?

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Salmon Company (renamed Bakkafrost Scotland back in June 2022 but still using their old name) distributed information on the salvage operation earlier this month via the West Highland Anchorages & Mooring Association:

 

Feed barge salvage

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the Briggs Marine salvage boat involved:

 

Feed barge salvage #4

 

 

 

The feed barge which sank may have only been launched in 2019.  Fish Farming Expert reported in March 2019:

 

Feed barge 2019 #1

Feed barge 2019 #2

 



 

 

$camon $cotland has filed FOI requests with Marine Scotland, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Health & Safety Executive - including:

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 12:05 PM
Subject: Fwd: Portree salmon farm
To: AccesstoInformation <foi@sepa.org.uk>
Cc: Pollard, Peter <peter.pollard@sepa.org.uk>, Sinclair, Douglas <douglas.sinclair@sepa.org.uk>, Media <publicrelations@sepa.org.uk>



Please find enclosed a tip-off via $camon $cotland's website last night detailing an incident regarding a sunken barge at Bakkafrost Scotland (The Scottish Salmon Company) off Portree on the Isle of Skye - including:
 
"This barge has laid on the seabed since then [the end of last year] and a few weeks ago a team of divers have come to the site to start the process of raising the barge, however this was stopped for over a week as there was found to be very high levels of toxic gasses emerging from the barge and the old feed, this has lead to an exclusion zone being put in place around the farm because of the dangers of these gasses and there is a 24hr guard by a boat"
 
 
Could you please provide information on the alleged incident at Bakkafrost Scotland's Portree salmon farm?
 
I have Googled 'sunken feed barge' and there are a number of media stories but they appear to feature Grieg Seafood and Mowi:
 
 
 
It appears that Bakkafrost Scotland (when named The Scottish Salmon Company) launched a new feed barge off Portree in 2019/2018:
 
Feed barge


 
 
This may have been the feed barge which sank - filmed in November 2019 when Scottish Salmon Watch was prevented by The Scottish Salmon Company (since renamed Bakkafrost Scotland) at the Portree salmon farm:
 
The only news online I can find on the sunken barge at Bakkafrost Scotland off Portree was published by the West Highland Anchorages and Moorings Association on 8 August 2022 via http://whamassoc.org.uk/news/barge-salvage-portree-fish-farm-isle-of-skye-05-08-2022-to-31-08-2022
 
Feed barge salvage
 
 
 
The Notice to Mariners dated 5th August 2022 (issued by The Scottish Salmon Company even though they changed their name to Bakkafrost Scotland in June 2022) included via http://whamassoc.org.uk/bundles/app/downloads/62f14a6b8b2b9_SSC_Notice%20to%20Mariners_Portree.pdf
 
 
Feed barge salvage #2


 
And:
 
 
Feed barge salvage #3
 
 
SEPA's name is not listed above but presumably, if there has been a toxic leak, then SEPA would have been notified and would have been involved.
 
Further information on this alleged pollution incident would be much appreciated.
 
Please consider this a formal Freedom of Information request under the relevant FOI and Environmental Information regulations. 
 
Please provide a receipt. 
 
Over and above, please feel free to reply to my Tweet: https://twitter.com/TheGAAIA/status/1564201311066808321
 
Thanks,
 
 
Don Staniford
 
Director, $camon $cotland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$camon $cotland has emailed Bakkafrost's CEO and management to ask for more information:

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:52 PM
Subject: Toxic Gasses at Bakkafrost Scotland?
To: <toda@bakkafrost.com>, <sasi@bakkafrost.com>, <ruw@havsbrun.fo>, <reja@bakkafrost.com>
Cc: <dougie.macleod@scottishsalmon.com>



Can Bakkafrost please comment publicly on the toxic gasses spewing from a sunken feed barge off Portree on the Isle of Skye?
 
 
The salvage operation for the sunken feed barge was notified to various agencies earlier this month via The Scottish Salmon Company: http://whamassoc.org.uk/bundles/app/downloads/62f14a6b8b2b9_SSC_Notice%20to%20Mariners_Portree.pdf
 
Feed barge salvage #5
 
 
I was just searching Bakkafrost's financial reports: https://www.bakkafrost.com/en/investor-relations/
 
 
Where is the sunken feed barge incident cited in Bakkafrost quarterly reports?  
 
Grieg Seafood, for example, reported losses due to a sunken feed barge on the Isle of Skye in 2018 to shareholders and investors: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/grieg-grieg-shetland-salmon/feed-barge-sinking-scuppers-grieg-shetlands-q1-profits/1256638
 
 
Surely Bakkafrost has a duty to report such losses to shareholders and stock exchange?
 
Thanks,
 
 
Don Staniford
 
Director, $camon $cotland
 

 

 



 

In May 2018, Grieg Seafood reported financial losses of close to £1 million due to raising a sunken feed barge on the Isle of Skye:

 

Grieg sunken barge #1

 

 

An Ocean Kinetics 'Method Statement & Risk Assessment' identified the sunken barge as in Loch Dunvegan:

 

Grieg sunken barge #2

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported in March 2022:

 

Grieg sunken barge #3

Grieg sunken barge #4

Grieg sunken barge #5

 

 

 

Mowi announced in a press release issued in January 2019 that a feed barge had sunk at their salmon farm in Lochboisdale on Uist:

 

Mowi sunken barge

 

 

Salmon Business reported in January 2019:

 

Mowi sunken barge #2

 

 



 

 

 

Mowi's feed barge in Loch Alsh was involved in the fatality of worker Clive Hendry in February 2020:

 

Mowi sunken barge #3

 

 

 



 

 

It seems that The Oban Times reported on the sinking of the feed barge at The Scottish Salmon Company's Portree salmon farm during Storm Arwen in November 2021 (the article is behind a paywall but the cache copy is detailed below):

 

Feed barge Nov 2021 #1

Feed barge Nov 2021

 

 

 

 

Another article online in The Oban Times (29 November 2021) included:

 

Feed barge Nov 2021 #2

Feed barge Nov 2021 #3

 

 

 

Read more via:

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

Channel 4 News on Scottish Salmon Spying on Corin Smith!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Animal Equality Exposes Scottish Salmon Slaughterhouse

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

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

The Camera Never Lies About Scottish Salmon!

Photo Dossier of Diseased, Deformed & Abused Scottish Salmon

The Severely Damaged Scottish Salmon Company - For Sale Now!

Maaey day for the Scottish Salmon Company

Ground-truthing disease-ridden Scottish salmon

Mmmm Blind Scottish Salmon with Boils, Anyone?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted at 08:54 AM |

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08/26/2022

Too Many Cookes - community resistance on Orkney spoils super-sized salmon plan off Papa Westray

 

 

 

 

Community opposition to Canadian-owned giant Cooke Aquaculture is building on the Orkney Islands - with over 100 objections filed with Orkney Islands Council and over 100 people signed onto a petition objecting to plans for a massive salmon farm off Papa Westray at East Moclett.   BBC Radio Orkney featured opposition to Cooke Aquaculture's expansion plans in 'Around Orkney' on Wednesday (24 August 2022). 

 

BBC Radio Orkney 24 Aug 2022

 

 

BBC Radio Orkney reported (24 August 2022) that the local community council has raised concerns about waste impacts - concerns echoed by a new protest group set up on Papa Westray.  "They have a limit of 3,850 tonnes of fish - now the effluent just for East Moclett works out to the equivalent of 49,500 humans," said Katherine Chattington of No East Moclett Group.   "Cooke Aquaculture haven't been absolutely upfront with us - they didn't involve Papa Westray community council on the planning application.  They only involved Westray community council."

 

 

 

 

"I'm objecting to this particular farm at this time because there's already a number of Cooke Aquaculture farms in the area," said Ariane Burgess, Green MSP for the Highlands and Islands who is spearheading a petition against Cooke's expansion plans at East Moclett.  "The local community don't want another one on their doorstep and if local communities don't want large industrial farms shouldn't that count for more than a companies wishes to expand in the face of the fact that we need to be absolutely addressing these environmental issues."

 

Ariane Burgess East Moclett

 



 

An objection filed by No East Moclett Group with Orkney Islands Council in June 2022 outlined community concerns on Papa Westray:

 

OIC objections #1

OIC objections #2

OIC objections #3

 

 

 

 

 

 

Papa Westray resident Wendy Elves filed an objection with Orkney Islands Council in March 2022 - including:

 

OIC objections #5

OIC objections #6

OIC objections #7

OIC objections #8

 



 

 

Papa Westray residents Alan and Lynda Sharp objected to Orkney Islands Council in March 2022:

 

OIC objections #9

 

 

 

Sylvan Jenaer of Papa Westray wrote to Orkney Islands Council in February 2022:

 

OIC objections #15

 

 

 

 

Sophie Chattington of Papa Westray wrote to Orkney Islands Council in February 2022:

 

OIC objections #16

 

 

 

 

Paul Baker of Papa Westray wrote to Orkney Islands Council in February 2022:

 

OIC objections #17

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Greens are supporting the stance taken by residents of Papa Westray in opposing a super-sized salmon farm on their pristine doorstep - here's the objection from Ariane Brugess MSP filed with Orkney Islands Council in March 2022:

 

OIC objections #4

 

 

 

Tourists who visit the Orkney Islands to enjoy the pristine environment are making their voices heard against Cooke Aquaculture - Jo Koszel of Leeds filed an objection with Orkney Islands Council in February 2022:

 

OIC objections #10

 

 

 

Amy Liptrot of Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire wrote to Orkney Islands Council in February 2022:

 

OIC objections #12

 



 



 

 

Sarah McKinnon of Kirkwall (the capital of the Orkney Islands) wrote to Orkney Islands Council in February 2022:

 

OIC objections #11

 

 

H Owens, who lives in Leominster but has family on Orkney, wrote to Orkney Islands Council in February 2022:

 

OIC objections #14

 

Jade Jones-Elves of Ipswich wrote to Orkney Islands Council in February 2022:

 

OIC objections #18

 



 

 

David Gabra of Glasgow kept his objection filed with Orkney Islands Council in February 2022 short and punchy: 

 

OIC objections #19

 



 

Read all the objections filed against Cooke Aquaculture - and other documents - via Orkney Islands Council's planning portal:

 

OIC objections #13

 

 



 

 

Community opposition has followed Cooke Aquaculture all over the world - especially in North America where Cooke's lice-infested feedlots have left a trail of death, disease and legal action in their wake.   Here's just some of the bad press generated by Cooke's lousy feedlots (trying Googling 'Cooke salmon illegal chemicals'; 'Cooke salmon escapes'; 'Cooke salmon disease PRV' and 'Cooke salmon protests' and you catch the drift):

 

Protests #1

 

 

Protests #2

 

 

Protests #3

 

 

Protests #4

 

 

Protests #5

 



 

 

Here's some information circulated locally on Orkney by opponents of Cooke's proposal for a super-sized salmon farm at East Moclett off Papa Westray: 

 

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #19

 

[Read more via No East Moclett Group's objection filed with Orkney Islands Council]

 

 

 

 

In view of the gruesome photos of Cooke's 'organic' salmon at Ouseness off Westray in Orkney recently published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate, it is not surprising that locals are revolting.

 

 

 

Ouseness FHI May 2022 photo #1

 

Ouseness FHI May 2022 photo #2

 

Ouseness FHI May 2022 photo #3

 

 

 

 

Cooke is no stranger to community opposition - with pushback against their toxic salmon farming operations all over the world.  Down Under, Cooke is encountering resistance in Tasmania where it has recently bought Tassal. 

 

 

 



 

 

A new book - "Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favourite Fish" - by award-winning investigative journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins lifts the lid on Cooke's unsavoury track record in North America. 

 

Salmon Wars authors

 

 

 

Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favourite Fish cites the following cases involving noxious neighbour Cooke:

 

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #3
East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #4

 

Read the full story - with cited sources and references - via 'Salmon Wars'

 

Salmon Wars

 

 

 

CBC News reported on Cooke's illegal use of toxic chemicals in New Brunswick, Canada, in 2013:

 

Protests #6

 

 

A cartoon published in the Canadian press around the same time illustrates the toxic nature of Cooke Aquaculture.

 

Lobster cartoon

 

 

 

 

Cooke's disease-ridden feedlots in Washington in the United States have kept journalists busy for years - here's a few articles from The Seattle Times on the spread of Piscine Reovirus:

 

Protests #7

 

 

Protests #9

Protests #8

 

 

 

The spread of infectious diseases and viruses has plagued Cooke's operations all over the world - including Chile:

 

Protests #10

 

 

 

 

And at home in Canada:

 

Protests #11

 

 

Protests #12

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch compiled a dossier on Cooke's crimes against nature in the 2019 report '$cottish $camon' - read the Cooke dossier online here

 

ScamonFlags-2a

 

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #5

 

 

Cooke only entered the Scottish market less than a decade ago in 2014.

 

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #6

 

 

 

Cooke caused controversy in 2018 via "gross" pollution in Shetland due to "untreated overflow from blood water tanks" and "raw effluent" being discharged from their processing plant into Mid Yell Voe. 

 

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #9

 

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #7

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #8

 

 

BBC News reported in January 2018:

 

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #10

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #11

 

 

 

 

In February 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch obtained photos of diseased dead salmon from one of Cooke's farms in Orkney (photos taken at Coplands docks in Stromness):

 

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #12

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #13

 

 

 

Death shadows Cooke Aquaculture's lethal salmon feedlots.  In February 2019, The Sunday Post reported that following an investigation by Marine Scotland Cooke Aquaculture was fined £2,000 for failing to report the killing of five seals in Basta Voe to the licencing authority within 48 hours.

 

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #14

 

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #15

 

 

 

 

 

 

In March 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch obtained gruesome photos of dead seals via Freedom of Information from the Scottish Government:

 

 

Photo #2 Cooke bloody seal eyes popping out Unst December 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

If anyone is left in any doubt about the wisdom of allowing Cooke to expand around the waters of Orkney then please watch this video exposing animal cruelty by Cooke in Maine:

 

 

 

 

And here's more photos - obtained via Freedom of Information from the Scottish Government - showing Cooke's cruel operations in Scotland:

 

Photo Dossier of FHI Case Information Feb 2020 #26 Cooke Winna Ness

 

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #17

 

Photo Dossier of FHI Case Information Feb 2020 #31 Cooke Djuba Wick

 

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #18

 

 

 

The Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture revealed back in 2017 that the Scottish Environment Protection Agency was preparing to open the floodgates to super-sized salmon farming - with Orkney and Shetland earmarked for massive expansion.    Rob Edwards reported in The Sunday Herald in May 2017:

 

Sunday Herald 5 Feb 2017 #1

Sunday Herald 5 Feb 2017 #2

Sunday Herald 5 Feb 2017 #3

Sunday Herald 5 Feb 2017 #4

 

 

Sunday Herald 5 Feb 2017 newspaper version #1

Sunday Herald 5 Feb 2017 newspaper version #2

 

 

 

Please sign a petition organised by the Scottish Greens opposing Cooke's application for a new salmon farm at East Moclett:

 

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #2

 



 

 

The Cooke colossus - backed by their corporate supporters and slick PR - will not be beaten back easily.  Fish Farming Expert reported in January 2022:

 

FFE Jan 2022 #1

 

FFE Jan 2022 #2

FFE Jan 2022 #3

FFE Jan 2022 #4

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported last week (18 August 2022):

 

FFE Aug 2022 #1

FFE Aug 2022 #2

FFE Aug 2022 #3

FFE Aug 2022 #4

 

 

For all Cooke's arguments of jobs, jobs, jobs - the simple fact is that there are no jobs on a dead planet.

 

No Jobs Dead Planet #5 No trees No Fish No jobs

 

No jobs on a dead planet

 

 

 

 

Cooke's lethal legacy must be stopped dead in its tracks.

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Cooke's Organic Scamon Exposed by Gruesome Photos from Orkney!

Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea

Cooke's Untreated Blood Water is "Gross" says SEPA - "Poor" processing plant pollutes Mid Yell Voe in Shetland

BBC Radio Shetland on Cooke's "untreated blood water" in Scotland

BBC News: "Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea"

More troubles for Cooke, with Scottish “blood water” claims

Environmental Event report re. "raw effluent" and overflowing "blood water" at Cooke's Mid Yell processing plant - January 2017

 

 

 

 

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08/24/2022

Cooke's Organic Scamon Exposed by Gruesome Photos from Orkney - RSPCA Assured Ouseness Oozes Welfare Abuse!

 

 

 

 

 

A damning inspection report recently published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate highlights the gruesome nature of Cooke Aquaculture - a company shamefully certified by the Soil Association as "organic" and accredited as 'welfare friendly' via RSPCA Assured.   

 

 

 

 

In what warped world can these fish be truly marketed as "responsibly farmed" and "responsibly sourced"?

 

Ouseness FHI May 2022 photo #1

 

Ouseness FHI May 2022 photo #2

 

Ouseness FHI May 2022 photo #3

 

 

 

 

 

Here's excerpts from the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate report from an inspection of Cooke Aquaculture's Ouseness salmon farm off Westray in the Orkney Islands in May 2022 detailing skin trauma, fungus, bacterial ulceration, infectious diseases and over 40,000 mortalities:

 

Ouseness FHI May 2022 #4

Ouseness FHI May 2022 #5

Ouseness FHI May 2022 #6

Ouseness FHI May 2022 #7

Ouseness FHI May 2022 #8

Ouseness FHI May 2022 #9

 

Ouseness FHI May 2022 #13

 

Ouseness FHI May 2022 #14

 

Ouseness FHI May 2022 #15

 

Ouseness FHI May 2022 #16

 

 

 

 

A Marine Scotland Fish Health Inspectorate Visit Report dated 16 June 2022 details increased mortality and fish welfare problems at Cooke's RSPCA Assured 'organic' salmon farm at Ouseness off Westray in the Orkney Islands:

 

Ouseness FHI May 2022 #10

Ouseness FHI May 2022 #11

 

 

 

77,095 morts at Ouseness salmon farm have been reported by Cooke Aquaculture to the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate in 2022 via six 'Mortality Event Reports' in April and May: 

 

Ouseness morts 77 000 May & June 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mort data published for May 2022 by Salmon Scotland shows that Cooke's RSPCA Assured and 'organic' salmon farm at Ouseness had the highest monthly mortality rate of all Cooke sites with 5.7% attributed to bacterial disease:

 

Ouseness mort percentage 5

 

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #13

 

 

 

The Soil Association shamefully certifies ca. a dozen Cooke Aquaculture facilities including Westray and East of Skelwick (off Westray):

 

Soil Association #1

Soil Association #2

 

 

 

Cooke's Ouseness salmon farm off Westray is licensed to discharge toxic chemicals despite being certified as 'organic':

 

Ouseness FHI May 2022 #12

 

 

 

 

Cooke's further expansion plans off Papa Westray in the Orkney Islands are being opposed by the Scottish Greens who have set up a petition to stop the East Moclett salmon farm:

 

East Mocklett blog Aug 2022 #2

 

 

 



 

 

 

In view of the ugly face of Cooke Aquaculture it is not surprising that people all around the world are rising up in opposition. 

 

The Faces of Scottish Salmon Feb 2020 #11 Cooke SA RSPCA

 

 

 

Here's more photos disclosed via Freedom of Information by the Scottish Government:

 

Photo Dossier of FHI Case Information Feb 2020 #30 Cooke Kirkabister

 

Photo Dossier of FHI Case Information Feb 2020 #31 Cooke Djuba Wick

 

 

Photo Dossier of FHI Case Information Feb 2020 #35 Cooke Meil Bay

 

 

 

Here's video footage shot inside a Cooke Aquaculture salmon farm in the United States:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here's video footage published by Compassion in World Farming in March 2021 which features welfare abuse inside Cooke Aquaculture as well as other salmon farming companies operating in Scotland:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

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Media Backgrounder: Irresponsibly Farmed Scottish Salmon

Telegraph: "Cop26 organisers roasted for serving ‘environmentally unfriendly’ salmon"

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

National Geographic: "Why you might not be getting the salmon you paid for"

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!

Net Tightens on Lawsuits vs 'Salmafia' - Cooke "unable to quash lawsuit over deceptive marketing practices"

 
 
 

Mowi Settles Class Action Lawsuit for $1.3 million - prohibited from using phrases "sustainably sourced" & "all natural"

Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles

Scottish salmon is so not organic!

Organic Salmon Belongs in the Bin Not Your Shopping Basket!

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

Dutch TV slams "organic" salmon

EXPOSED: Scottish 'Organic' Scamon

Organic” farmed salmon – let’s get real

Loch Duart drops "sustainable" claim after advertising ruling

Organic Scamon - The Greenwashing of Toxic Farmed Salmon

Why organic salmon is causing a nasty smell

Concern over organic salmon farms

"Organically Farmed Salmon Is An Oxymoron" (The Organic Standard, 2001)

 

 

 

 

Organic Ocado spoof

 

 

 

 

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Seaspiracy 2: Mowi's Disease & Welfare Nightmare in Loch Linnhe!

 

 

 

 

Damning disease data - including photos - was recently slipped out via 'Case Information' published online by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate. 

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #3

 

 

The 'Case Information' reports on site inspections carried out by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate - often several months after inspections - and is well worth tracking for updates on infectious diseases, mass mortalities and welfare problems on salmon farms across Scotland. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For shareholders of Norwegian giant Mowi and the greenwashers at RSPCA Assured, Sainsbury's, Tesco and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council, the May 2022 'Case Information' makes for particularly uncomfortable reading (Mowi's Linnhe salmon farm at Ardgour near the Corran Ferry in Loch Linnhe is certified as 'farmed responsibly' by the ASC and accredited as 'welfare friendly' via RSPCA Assured):

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #2

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #4

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #5

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #6

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #7

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #8

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #9

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #10

 

 

 

A 'Fish Health Inspectorate Visit Report' dated 16 June 2022 details disease problems at Mowi's RSPCA Assured and ASC-certified Linnhe salmon farm at Ardgour:

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #11

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #12

 

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #13

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #14

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #15

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #16

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #17

 

 

A letter dated 18 May 2022 from the Fish Health Inspectorate found that Mowi's movement records for their Linnhe salmon farm were "inadequately maintained". 

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #18

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #19

 

 

 

The Fish Health Inspectorate report for Mowi's RSPCA Assured Linnhe salmon farm included photos (which Scottish Salmon Watch forced the Scottish Government to publish via Freedom of Information despite objections from Mowi, Scottish Sea Farms and The Scottish Salmon Company):

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #1 photo

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #1 b photo

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #1 c photo

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #1 d photo

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #1 e photo

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #1 f photo

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #1 g photo

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #1 i photo

 

Linnhe blog Aug 2022 #1 h photo

 

 

 

 

Here's the mortality events - totalling 57,993 dead fish - at Mowi's Linnhe salmon farm at Ardgour reported to the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate in 2022:

Morts Aug 2022 data #3 Linnhe

 

 

 

Other Mowi salmon farms - also certified via the ASC and RSPCA Asssured - have reported huge mortality problems to the Scottish Government:

 

Morts Aug 2022 data #1

 

Morts Aug 2022 data #2 Ardintoul

 

Morts Aug 2022 data #4 Sron

 

Morts Aug 2022 data #5 Greshornish

 

 



 

Back in 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch visited Mowi's Linnhe salmon farm at Ardgour exposing health and safety issues.

 

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported yesterday on Mowi's mammoth mortality problems in North Uist with 56% mortality at their ASC-certified and RSPCA Assured salmon farm at Greanem (Grey Horse Channel Outer) in the Sound of Harris.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's nearby Gorsten salmon farm - further up Loch Linnhe towards Fort William - famously features as one of the 'monsters in the loch' in Netflix's Seaspiracy. 

 

 

 

 



 

In July 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch filmed inside four RSPCA Assured Mowi salmon farms around the Isle of Shuna near Oban exposing shocking welfare abuse and racking up over one million views on Seaspiracy's Instragram page as well as media coverage in The Mail On Sunday:

 

 

 

 

Mail on Sunday 25 July 2021 #1

 

 

 

 

 

Here's more photos of Mowi's disease-ridden salmon obtained via Freedom Information (photos which Mowi attempted - unsuccessfully as it turned out - to supress):

 

Ferret #4

 

Ferret #15

 

Photo Dossier of FHI Case Information Feb 2020 #3 Mowi Tabhaigh

 

Photo Dossier of FHI Case Information Feb 2020 #4 Mowi Port na Cro

 

Photo Dossier of FHI Case Information Feb 2020 #7 Mowi Rum

 

 

No wonder Mowi's lawyers are desperately trying to stop the public from finding out the inside story!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

32% fall in Mowi's Scottish Salmon Production!

56% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Mowi (but don't worry, it's certified as "farmed responsibly" by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council)!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mass mortalities at ASC-certified Mowi!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Demand for moratorium on new fish farms after mortality rates revealed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowi Moves Goalposts on ASC Certification

ASC-Certified Scottish Salmon Dead in the Water!

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

Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon 

Update: 25 Million Mass Mortalities on Scottish Salmon Farms

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

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

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

Mass Mortalities Continue to Plague Scottish Salmon

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

Over One Million Morts for Scottish Salmon in September 2020!

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

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

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

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

Solving Scottish Salmon's Multi-Million Mortality Problem

 

 

 

 

 

 

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32% fall in Mowi's Scottish Salmon Production!

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Q2 2022 financial report (published on 24 August) makes for grim reading on the Scottish front. 

Q2 2022 report #2

 

Q2 2022 report #3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Q2 2022 presentation included:

 

Q2 2022 report #6

 

 

Q2 2022 report #7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But don't worry - as well as being accredited as 'welfare friendly' via RSPCA Assured and certified as "farmed responsibly" by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council, Mowi have the ringing endorsement of Compassion in World Farming.  Here's p16 of Mowi's Q2 2022 report:

 

Q2 2022 report #4

 

 

 

Mowi's "prestigious fish welfare award" seems a world away from CIWF's damning investigation inside salmon farms across Scotland (including Mowi sites) in late 2020.

 

 

 

CIWF photos #1

 

CIWF photos #2

 

 

 

$camon $cotland revealed yesterday:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Q2 2022 report also explains:

 

Q2 2022 report #5 anti trust

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

56% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Mowi (but don't worry, it's certified as "farmed responsibly" by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council)!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mass mortalities at ASC-certified Mowi!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Demand for moratorium on new fish farms after mortality rates revealed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowi Moves Goalposts on ASC Certification

ASC-Certified Scottish Salmon Dead in the Water!

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

Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon 

Update: 25 Million Mass Mortalities on Scottish Salmon Farms

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

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

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

Mass Mortalities Continue to Plague Scottish Salmon

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

Over One Million Morts for Scottish Salmon in September 2020!

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

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

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

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

Solving Scottish Salmon's Multi-Million Mortality Problem

 

 

 

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08/23/2022

56% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Mowi (but don't worry, it's certified as "farmed responsibly" by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council)!

 



 

 

Mortality data published online by Salmon Scotland makes for uncomfortable reading - especially for RSPCA Assured and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council who shamefully market Scottish salmon via Sainsbury's, Tesco and other retailers as "responsibly sourced" and "responsibly farmed". 

 

 

 

 

Here's data for June 2022 which reveals a staggering mortality rate of 55.9% at Mowi's Greanem salmon farm in North Uist (a site certified by the ASC in April 2022 and accredited as 'welfare-friendly' via RSPCA Assured):

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #10 mortality rates June 2022

 

 

 

 

Here's a Facebook post showing Mowi's Greanem salmon farm in Cheesebay, North Uist (also known as Grey Horse Channel Outer), first starting production in late 2019:

 

 

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #1 photo of farm

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #2 photo of farm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scotland's Aquaculture online database records Mowi's Greanem salmon farm as Grey Horse Channel Outer - with the first production cycle commencing in November 2019 (harvested out in November 2020) and with a second production cycle starting in April 2021:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #11

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #12

 

 

 

 

 

The latest data published by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency via Scotland's Aquaculture - for December 2021 - shows that Mowi's Greanem (Grey Horse Channel Outer) salmon farm reported over 10,000 kg of mortalities:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #13

 

 

Here's the map of Mowi's Greanem (Grey Horse Channel Outer) salmon farm in the Sound of Harris published by Scotland's Aquaculture:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #14 map

 

 

 

Here's another map of Mowi's Greanem (Grey Horse Channel Outer) salmon farm published by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #19

 

 

 

Mowi's Greanem (Grey Horse Channel Outer) salmon farm reported over 200,000 kg of mortalities in October 2021:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #15

 

 

 

In August 2021, Mowi's Greanem (Grey Horse Channel Outer) reported the use of the lobster-killing toxic chemical Deltamethrin:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #16

 

 

 

 

 

And in June 2021, Mowi's Greanem (Grey Horse Channel Outer) salmon farm reported the use of the toxic chemical Azamethiphos:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #17

 

 



 

 

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) - who shamefully support the use of toxic chemicals - awarded Mowi's Greanem salmon farm certification in April 2022 (even though hundreds of thousands of farmed salmon had died at the lethal site):

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #7

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #8

 

 

 

Here's the ASC's Certificate of Conformity for Mowi's Greanem salmon farm issued in April 2022:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #9

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Greanem (Grey Horse Channel Outer) salmon farm has reported non-conformity (i.e. breaches) of lice limits throughout 2022 - here's the sea lice data published by the Scottish Government which shows that Mowi's ASC-certified Greanem (Grey Horse Channel Outer) salmon farm is the worst site for lice infestation in the whole of Scotland during 2022 with further use of the toxic chemical Salmosan (Azamethiphos) and use of a torture chamber called the Thermolicer:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #18

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's lice and mortality reporting in March 2022 detailed problems at Greanem (Grey Horse Channel Outer):

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #20

 

 

 

With ongoing gill infections reported by Mowi in June 2022:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #21

 

 

 

And treatment losses reported by Mowi in May 2022:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #22

 

 

 

 

An inspection of Mowi's Greanem (Grey Horse Channel Outer) salmon farm by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate in May 2022 reported mass mortalities (which Mowi had failed to report in line with the industry's Code of Good Practice) and complex gill disease - with diseased fish dumped illegally at Whiteshore Cockles:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #23

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #24

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #25

 

[Note that the number of farmed salmon at Mowi's Greanem/Grey Horse Channel Outer site was detailed as 476,707 fish during the Scottish Government's inspection on 25 May 2022 - but in a previous Scottish Government inspection on 6 October 2021 the number of farmed salmon was detailed as 1,025,000 (i.e. over half Mowi's ASC-certified and RSPCA Assured salmon died in a period of 7 months!)]

 

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #26

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #27

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #28

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's Mowi's late mortality reports for Greanem (Grey Horse Channel Outer) filed with the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate on 25 May 2022:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #29

 

 

 

In total, Mowi's Greanem (Grey Horse Channel Outer) salmon farm has officially reported over half a million (554,224) morts since December 2019 - that's over only two production cycles via 26 'Mortality Event Reports' (note that only mortality events exceeding a certain threshold are required to be reported)!  Here's the largest mass mortalities reported by Mowi at their ASC-certified and RSPCA Assured salmon farm at Greanem (Grey Horse Channel Outer) in the Sound of Harris, North Uist:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #30

 

 

 

Of the 26 'Mortality Event Reports' only four (representing less than 30,000 of the 554,224 reported morts) cited 'seal predation', 'predation' or 'seal damage' with the other reports citing treatment losses, complex gill diseases, Amoebic Gill Disease, Yersiniosis, Pancreas Disease and Cardiomyopathy Syndrome.    Back in December 2020, BBC Countryfile featured the ASC's chief executive Chris Ninnes claiming that a mortality rate of higher than 10% would rule out ASC certification. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ASC subsequently clarified the 10% mortality threshold rule by pointing to the smallprint of the ASC's farmed salmon standards: 

"The ‘10%’ maximum mortality rate in a farm’s most recent production cycle refers to “viral disease-related mortality”* [5.1.5] and not to overall mortalities if other non-viral causes have been explained/specified. The latter could include predators, bacterial, algal-bloom, stress –related etc. mortalities. [* “Viral disease-related mortality count shall include unspecified and unexplained mortality as it could be related to viral disease.”]". 

 

Mortality standard

 

 

 

 

 

A damning report by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate - relating to an inspection on 6 October 2021 - detailed disease and mortality problems in a stock of fish which then numbered over 1 million fish (by the time the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate visited in May 2022 the number of RSPCA Assured salmon was down below a million - a decrease of 53.5% from 1,025,000 to 476,707 fish):

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #31

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #32

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #33

 

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #34

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #35

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #36

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #37

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #38

 

 

 

A Scottish Government Fish Health Inspectorate Visit Report dated 29 October 2021 detailed proliferative gill pathology, evidence of
amoebic gill disease and presence of epitheliocystis, Paranucleospora theridion (syn, Desmozoon lepeophtherii), salmon gill poxvirus (SGPV), Aeromonas sp. and Vibrio sp at Mowi's RSPCA Assured Greanem (Grey Horse Channel Outer) salmon farm:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #39

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #40

 

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #41

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #42

 

 



 

 

The damning Scottish Government inspection report also included photos:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #43 photos

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #44 photos

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #45 photos

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #46 photos

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #47 photos

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a list of all ASC-certified salmon farms operated by Mowi in Scotland:

 

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #3

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #4

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #5

Greanem blog Aug 2022 #6

 

 

 

In January 2022, Scottish Salmon Watch (since renamed $camon $cotland) wrote to the ASC calling on the certification of all salmon farms in Scotland to be rescinded.

 

 

 

 

 

In July 2022, $camon $cotland exposed welfare abuse inside RSPCA Assured Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) in the Sound of Mull and Loch Creran.

 



 

 

In July 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch exposed welfare abuse inside RSPCA Assured Mowi around the Isle of Shuna near Oban.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earlier this month, Wild Fish warned of rising lice infestation levels at salmon farms across Scotland.

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mass mortalities at ASC-certified Mowi!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Demand for moratorium on new fish farms after mortality rates revealed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowi Moves Goalposts on ASC Certification

ASC-Certified Scottish Salmon Dead in the Water!

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

Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon 

Update: 25 Million Mass Mortalities on Scottish Salmon Farms

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

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

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

Mass Mortalities Continue to Plague Scottish Salmon

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

Over One Million Morts for Scottish Salmon in September 2020!

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

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

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

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

Solving Scottish Salmon's Multi-Million Mortality Problem

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted at 03:10 PM |

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08/22/2022

FOI Reveals Zero Information on Spillage Impacts of Banned Neonicotinoid - Imidacloprid Use in Scottish Salmon Farming Dead in the Water?

 



 

Following the spill of 11,000 litres of contaminated water from a wellboat in Norway, the Scottish Government and Scottish Environment Protection Agency have both admitted that they have zero information on the ecological impacts of a spill of the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in Scottish waters. 

 

 

 

 

Here's $camon $cotland's FOI request dated 21 July 2022:

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 10:33 AM
Subject: Imidacloprid spill in Norway - 110,000 litres of contaminated water spilled into sea in Nordland
To: <scottish.ministers@gov.scot>, <CEU@gov.scot>
Cc: <directormarinescotland@gov.scot>, Media <publicrelations@sepa.org.uk>, Pollard, Peter <peter.pollard@sepa.org.uk>, Sinclair, Douglas <douglas.sinclair@sepa.org.uk>, <nicole.paterson@sepa.org.uk>, Burgess A (Ariane), MSP <Ariane.Burgess.msp@parliament.scot>, Ruskell M (Mark), MSP <Mark.Ruskell.msp@parliament.scot>, MSP <Patrick.Harvie.msp@parliament.scot>, Johnstone A (Alison), MSP <Alison.Johnstone.msp@parliament.scot>
 
Are Scottish Ministers aware of the incident on 1 June 2022 when 110,000 litres of contaminated well boat water containing the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid spilled into the sea in Nordland, Norway?
 
 
$camon $cotland views the use of Imidacloprid - dubbed 'Novichok for insects' by Professor Dave Goulson of the University of Sussex) - in Scottish waters as reckless in the extreme (especially in view of information in the patent that "leakage" and "loss of agent in the environment" can occur): https://twitter.com/TheGAAIA/status/1550030529466179589
 
$camon Scotland is aware of growing public opposition against the use of Imidacloprid in salmon farms in Scotland: Press Release: "Smoked Scottish Salmon: Neonicotinoid Use Dead in the Water in Scotland?"
 
However, we are extremely concerned at the lack of public information and support from inside the Scottish Government for the use of Imidacloprid in salmon pharming:
 
 
 
 
In view of the 110,000 litre spill in Norway (as well as the increasing weight of scientific evidence against the use of Imidacloprid - including alarming new scientific research in California which is proposing to restrict use of Imidacloprid), will Scottish Ministers support a ban on the use of Imidacloprid in salmon farming in Scotland?
 
 
Finally, please provide any information on spillage, leakage and/or discharge of Imidacloprid - including the June 2022 incident in Norway - in salmon farming. 
 
For example, has Benchmark, Mowi, Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk), Grieg Seafood, The Scottish Salmon Company/Bakkafrost Scotland, Salmon Scotland or any other parties submitted documents as part of any ecological and environmental risk assessments referring to spillage, leakage and/or discharge of Imidacloprid?
 
Has the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (copied into this email) conducted any environmental risk assessments of spillage, leakage and/or discharge of Imidacloprid in salmon farming? 
 
Please consider this a formal request for information under the relevant FOI and Environmental Information regulations.
 
Thanks,
 
 
Don Staniford
 
Director, $camon $cotland
 
 
 
 
Imidacloprid graphic Will the Minister drink it
 
 
 
 
Imidacloprid graphic Water bottle spoof
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Download letter in full online here
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Download letter in full online here
 
 
 



 
 
 
 
Norwegian-owned Benchmark keep on cranking up the PR.   Fish Farming Expert reported (30 August 2022):
 
 
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Posted at 12:31 PM |

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Sunday Post: "Salmon farming linked to 2m tonnes of carbon emissions annually"

 

 

 

 

The Sunday Post reported (21 August 2022):

 

Sunday Post 21 August 2022 #1

 

 

Sunday Post 21 August 2022 #2

Sunday Post 21 August 2022 #3

Sunday Post 21 August 2022 #4

Sunday Post 21 August 2022 #5

Sunday Post 21 August 2022 #6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read the scientific paper cited above online here

 

Sunday Post 21 August 2022 cited paper in EIA Review #1

 

Sunday Post 21 August 2022 cited paper in EIA Review #2

 

 

Sunday Post 21 August 2022 cited paper in EIA Review #3

 

 



 

 

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Changing Markets New Report: "Krill, baby, krill: The corporations profiting from plundering Antarctica"

Killing krill: supermarkets and salmon farms under fire

Wild fish stocks squandered to feed farmed salmon, study finds

70,000 Sign Petition Vs "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon Sold by Sainsbury's!

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

New Report: "Floundering Around: An assessment of where European retailers stand on the sourcing of farmed fish"

Report lambasts supermarkets’ aquaculture sourcing policies

New report: "Investing in troubled waters: the material risks of fish mortality and the use of wild-caught fish in feed for the aquaculture sector"

Mmmm, anyone for soldier flies with their factory farmed salmon?

Feeding A Monster: how European aquaculture and animal feed industries are stealing food from West African communities

Hidden cost of salmon farming almost US$50 billion since 2013

The Hidden Cost of Farmed Salmon: Exploring why Sainsbury’s farmed salmon supplier Mowi doesn’t live up to its sustainable image and what Sainsbury’s needs to do about it

Wasteful and unsustainable: the use of wild fish to feed farmed fish is causing huge environmental and social damage according to new report

Fishing to feed salmon farms is emptying the seas, claims report

Farmed fish diets wiping out wild fish stocks in Asia and Africa

Caught Out: How UK retailers are tackling the use of wild fish in their aquaculture supply chains

Cut ‘wasteful’ Scottish farmed salmon and eat a more diverse range of fish for a sustainable seafood diet

Off the Menu: The Scottish salmon industry’s failure to deliver sustainable nutrition

On the Hook: Certification’s failure to protect wild fish populations from the appetite of the Scottish salmon industry

Can we have our farmed salmon and eat it too?

Geldof Drinks the Kool-Aid, Not Feeds the World

Kofi's United Nations of Aquaculture

Letter to Kofi Annan: Farming Salmon is Stealing Food from Poor People & Our Oceans

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tackles farmed salmon feed controversy

The Greed of Feed – the hidden cost of your cheap farmed salmon

 

 

 

Posted at 11:32 AM |

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08/11/2022

Changing Markets New Report: "Krill, baby, krill: The corporations profiting from plundering Antarctica"

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a press release from Changing Markets (11 August 2022):

 

Krill blog #3

Krill blog #4

 

Krill blog #5

Krill blog #6

 

 

 

 

Download 'Krill, Baby, Krill' online here

 

Krill blog #7

Krill blog #8

 

 

The report includes:

 

Krill blog #10

 

 

 

 

 

Krill blog #11

 



 

 

More information on krill is available from Changing Markets online here

 

Krill blog #1

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ferret reported (11 August 2022):

 

 

 



 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch visited Mowi's fish feed factory at Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye in 2019:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Killing krill: supermarkets and salmon farms under fire

Wild fish stocks squandered to feed farmed salmon, study finds

70,000 Sign Petition Vs "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon Sold by Sainsbury's!

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

New Report: "Floundering Around: An assessment of where European retailers stand on the sourcing of farmed fish"

Report lambasts supermarkets’ aquaculture sourcing policies

New report: "Investing in troubled waters: the material risks of fish mortality and the use of wild-caught fish in feed for the aquaculture sector"

Mmmm, anyone for soldier flies with their factory farmed salmon?

Feeding A Monster: how European aquaculture and animal feed industries are stealing food from West African communities

Hidden cost of salmon farming almost US$50 billion since 2013

The Hidden Cost of Farmed Salmon: Exploring why Sainsbury’s farmed salmon supplier Mowi doesn’t live up to its sustainable image and what Sainsbury’s needs to do about it

Wasteful and unsustainable: the use of wild fish to feed farmed fish is causing huge environmental and social damage according to new report

Fishing to feed salmon farms is emptying the seas, claims report

Farmed fish diets wiping out wild fish stocks in Asia and Africa

Caught Out: How UK retailers are tackling the use of wild fish in their aquaculture supply chains

Cut ‘wasteful’ Scottish farmed salmon and eat a more diverse range of fish for a sustainable seafood diet

Off the Menu: The Scottish salmon industry’s failure to deliver sustainable nutrition

On the Hook: Certification’s failure to protect wild fish populations from the appetite of the Scottish salmon industry

Can we have our farmed salmon and eat it too?

Geldof Drinks the Kool-Aid, Not Feeds the World

Kofi's United Nations of Aquaculture

Letter to Kofi Annan: Farming Salmon is Stealing Food from Poor People & Our Oceans

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tackles farmed salmon feed controversy

The Greed of Feed – the hidden cost of your cheap farmed salmon

 

 

 

Posted at 09:42 AM |

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The Ferret: "Killing krill: supermarkets and salmon farms under fire"

 

 

 

 

The Ferret reported (11 August 2022):

 

Ferret on krill 11 Aug 2022 #1

 

 

 

 

Ferret on krill 11 Aug 2022 #2

 

Ferret on krill 11 Aug 2022 #3

Ferret on krill 11 Aug 2022 #4

 

Ferret on krill 11 Aug 2022 #5

 

Ferret on krill 11 Aug 2022 #6

Ferret on krill 11 Aug 2022 #7

Ferret on krill 11 Aug 2022 #8

Ferret on krill 11 Aug 2022 #9

 

Ferret on krill 11 Aug 2022 #10

 

 

 

 

 

Today (11 August 2022) is World Krill Day.

 

 

 

 

 

The Ferret reported in April 2019:

 

Krill blog #2

 

 

 

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Wild fish stocks squandered to feed farmed salmon, study finds

70,000 Sign Petition Vs "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon Sold by Sainsbury's!

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

New Report: "Floundering Around: An assessment of where European retailers stand on the sourcing of farmed fish"

Report lambasts supermarkets’ aquaculture sourcing policies

New report: "Investing in troubled waters: the material risks of fish mortality and the use of wild-caught fish in feed for the aquaculture sector"

Mmmm, anyone for soldier flies with their factory farmed salmon?

Feeding A Monster: how European aquaculture and animal feed industries are stealing food from West African communities

Hidden cost of salmon farming almost US$50 billion since 2013

The Hidden Cost of Farmed Salmon: Exploring why Sainsbury’s farmed salmon supplier Mowi doesn’t live up to its sustainable image and what Sainsbury’s needs to do about it

Wasteful and unsustainable: the use of wild fish to feed farmed fish is causing huge environmental and social damage according to new report

Fishing to feed salmon farms is emptying the seas, claims report

Farmed fish diets wiping out wild fish stocks in Asia and Africa

Caught Out: How UK retailers are tackling the use of wild fish in their aquaculture supply chains

Cut ‘wasteful’ Scottish farmed salmon and eat a more diverse range of fish for a sustainable seafood diet

Off the Menu: The Scottish salmon industry’s failure to deliver sustainable nutrition

On the Hook: Certification’s failure to protect wild fish populations from the appetite of the Scottish salmon industry

Can we have our farmed salmon and eat it too?

Geldof Drinks the Kool-Aid, Not Feeds the World

Kofi's United Nations of Aquaculture

Letter to Kofi Annan: Farming Salmon is Stealing Food from Poor People & Our Oceans

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tackles farmed salmon feed controversy

The Greed of Feed – the hidden cost of your cheap farmed salmon

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted at 09:38 AM |

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ENDS Report: "Green watchdog report sees ‘de facto ban’ on use of Acoustic Deterrent Devices in salmon farming"

 



 

ENDS Report reported (10 August 2022):

 

ENDS 10 Aug 2022 #1

 

ENDS 10 Aug 2022 #2

ENDS 10 Aug 2022 #3

 

ENDS 10 Aug 2022 #4

 

 

 

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Posted at 07:47 AM |

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08/10/2022

Scottish Greens welcome effective ban on acoustic deterrent devices

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Greens isssued a press release earlier today (10 August 2022):

 

Greens PR 10 August 2022 #1

 

Greens PR 10 August 2022 #2

 

 

 

The National reported (10 August 2022):

 

 

 



 

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Posted at 06:19 PM |

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The Ferret: "Critics claim “landmark victory” after curbs on seal scarers"

 

 

 

 

The Ferret reported (10 August 2022):

 

Ferret 10 August 2022 #1

 

Ferret 10 August 2022 #2

 

 

Read article in full online here

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ferret reported in August 2021:

 

 

 

 

The Ferret reported in June 2021:

 

Ferret 11 June 2020 #6

 

 

 

The Ferret reported in June 2020:

 

Ferret #2

 

 

 

The Ferret reported in May 2017:

 

Ferret #3

 

 

 

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Posted at 01:40 PM |

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Landmark Victory: Sonic Torture of Cetaceans by Salmon Farm ADDs Is Dead in the Water!

 



 

 

The Coastal Communities Network reported yesterday (9 August 2022):

 

ESS ADD blog August 2022 #4

ESS ADD blog August 2022 #5

 

ESS ADD blog August 2022 #6

ESS ADD blog August 2022 #7

 

ESS ADD blog August 2022 #8

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sealife Adventures posted on Facebook (6 August 2022):

 

 

 

 

Environmental Standards Scotland reported (5 August 2022):

 

ESS ADD blog August 2022 #9

ESS ADD blog August 2022 #10

 

 

 

 

 

Download the Environmental Standards Scotland report - "Marine Scotland's Enforcment of Accoustic Deterrent Devices" - in full online here

 

ESS ADD blog August 2022 #11

 

 

 

West Coast Matters posted on Facebook (7 August 2022):

 

ESS ADD blog August 2022 #1

ESS ADD blog August 2022 #2

 

ESS ADD blog August 2022 #3

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Mail On Sunday reported in August 2021:

 

Mail on Sunday ADD illegal 22 August 2021 newspaper in full

 

 



 

 

The Sunday Times reported in February 2021:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Oban Times reported (22 February 2021):

 

Oban Times ADD u turn petition 22 Feb 2021 #1

Oban Times ADD u turn petition 22 Feb 2021 #2

Oban Times ADD u turn petition 22 Feb 2021 #3

 



 

 

The Daily Record reported (3 August 2020):

 

Daily Record 3 August 2020 ADDs #1

 

Daily Record 3 August 2020 ADDs #2

 

 

 

 

Daily Record 3 August 2020 ADDs #3

Daily Record 3 August 2020 ADDs #4

Daily Record 3 August 2020 ADDs #6 photo

 

Daily Record 3 August 2020 ADDs #5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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