Green Around the Gills

Biomass Breaches - when will SEPA revoke salmon farm licences?

 

"Chile’s environment agency revoked the permits for Nova Austral’s Aracena 10, Cockburn 14 & Cockburn 23 farms in July for overproduction by 25%, 15% & 30%" https://t.co/zxtmawFTUV
When will @ScottishEPA @marinescotland act vs biomass breaches? @scotseafarms @MowiScotlandLtd

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 2, 2022

 

 

 

Over 100,000 tonnes of illegal fish farming production has been officially reported in Scotland since 2002 - with Mowi (formerly called Marine Harvest) responsible for almost half of the biomass breaches/exceedances in terms of tonnage reported to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA sets pollution limits on maximum permitted biomass for each fish farm in Scotland). 

 

 

 

EXPOSED: Illegal salmon farming production in Scotland exceeds 100,000 tonnes - 978 breaches of biomass since 2002 with 9,192 tonnes exceeded in 2021 @ScottishEPA https://t.co/IhzPWhUNBT
Where's there Muck there's $almoney! @MowiScotlandLtd @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/ddlGso9jhL

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 3, 2022

 

 

 

Here's the 60 monthly biomass exceedances reported by fish farms to SEPA during 2021 totalling 9,192 tonnes of illegal production (data for Q1 2022 has still not been reported):

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the top 100 biomass exceedances since 2002 (from when data is available) totalling 102,207 tonnes of illegal production in 978 reported breaches - headed by Mowi's appositely named Muck salmon farm: 

 

 

 

 

2021 is one of the worst years for overproduction by salmon farms in Scotland (data collated from Scotland's Aquaculture database of monthly returns submitted by salmon farming companies):

 

 

 

 

Mowi is by far and away the worst offender with their RSPCA Assured salmon farms at Poll Na Gille, Muck, Gorsten, Carradale and Bagh Dail Nan Ceann featuring prominently in the list of shame.   Here's a sneaky peek inside Mowi's "responsibly sourced" disease-ridden operations (sourced from secret filming and leaked photos by whistleblowers) which have featured on Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' and on French TV:

 

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

— seaspiracy (@seaspiracy) August 2, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 21, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Salmon Company (recently renamed Bakkafrost Scotland) is another serial offender with their Druimyeon Bay salmon farm off the Isle of Gigha guilty of repeated biomass breaches. 

 

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

— STV News (@STVNews) October 20, 2021

 

 

 

 

The Ferret reported in February 2021:

 

Moves by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to help the #salmon farming industry cope with #Brexit business losses are a "dereliction of duty", say campaigners.https://t.co/IoVSkN0pn5

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) February 3, 2021

 

 

 

The Ferret reported in April 2020:

 

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has agreed to relax restrictions on the weight and duration of salmon in cages to help fish farms cope with #coronavirus staff shortages - but critics warn this will cause more pollution.https://t.co/qHtuhqSL0F

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) April 7, 2020

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

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

SEPA Boss Quits - Scotland's Environmental Watchdog is Dead in the Water!

Greenwashing by Scottish Salmon - as sponsored by SEPA!

Fish farm pollution rules relaxed for Brexit

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

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

6 green rules that have been relaxed in response to Covid-19

The Ferret: "Environmental rules for salmon farming industry relaxed"

SEPA relax environmental controls during Coronavirus crisis

Shame on SEPA the Laggard not Leader (even the sloths at SSPO are quicker at publishing data)!

EXPOSED: Scottish Salmon's Cascading Use of Cancer-Causing Chemical

Salmon farming giant Mowi probed over chemical use

Leading fish farm watchdog joins fish farm industry

Fish farming industry bids to relax limits on toxic pesticide

All is Not Well With Sick Scottish Salmon

The Scottish Environment Pollution Agency

SEPA's Shame on Salmon Farming

Slicegate: Anatomy & Chronology of an Environmental Lobotomy - How the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency was Sliced to death by the Scottish Government and salmon farming lobby

 

 

 

As @TerryAHearn looks back on his 7 year tenure in charge of SEPA his legacy is so toxic that it may require years of rehab to recover from! https://t.co/agiEHPr1tF @ScottishEPA @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @scotgp @marinescotland @MairiGougeon @nature_scot pic.twitter.com/qN6HCREVII

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 23, 2022

 

"The True Cost of Industrial Fish Farming"

 

Industrial fish farming is horrific on so many different levels - animal welfare, the environment, human health. I caught up with one of those tirelessly exposing the green-wash, Don Staniford @TheGAAIA #EndSeafoodGreenwashing #salmonwars @RSPCA_official https://t.co/Uws05NmZqy

— Martin Whybrow (@martinwhybrow) August 1, 2022

 

 

 

Smarter Communities reported (1 August 2022):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Go Pro Filming Inside Salmon Farms - the Inside Story!

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

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

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

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 15, 2021

 

Loch Long - flood of public opposition sinks salmon farm in National Park?

 

Loch Long - flood of public opposition sinks salmon farm in National Park? @lomondtrossachs @loch_long @YesLochLong @long_loch @SaveLoch @scotgp @ArranCoast @WildFishCons @Argyll_Fish @SRTristan @craig_borland @TheSoundOfJura @ewangkennedy @helensburghadv https://t.co/xyKpO9f4Pk pic.twitter.com/YAiAiDBtAI

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 1, 2022

 

 

Objections are flooding in from members of the public concerned at a "reckless" and "mind boggling" proposal for a new salmon farm in Loch Long (within the Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park). 

 

Representations to @lomondtrossachs National Park indicates majority opposed to Loch Long Beinn Reithe fish farm https://t.co/95mkEaSmDP @ArianeBurgessHI @RhodaGrant @jenni_minto @MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllan @FairlieCoastal @TheGAAIA @GuyLinleyAdams @TheSoundOfJura pic.twitter.com/D1b8E7f5LQ

— AFFtheClyde (@AFFtheClyde) August 2, 2022

 

 

 

Public objections to the Loch Long Salmon Farm - along with other documents - can be found online via the Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park website

 

 

 

Here's some of the more recent objections:

 

James Warne (26 July 2022):  "To introduce a fish farm on the edge of the marine protection area surrounded by national park would be reckless"

 

 

 

Jon Scarr (25 July 2022):

 

 

 

Alexis Soubeyrand (25 July 2022):

 

 

 

Thomas Crowe (24 July 2022):

 

 

Susanne Graaf (23 July 2022):

 

 

 

Lynne Williams (22 July 2022):

 

 

 

Douglas Locke (22 July 2022):

 

 

 

Alun Struthers (20 July 2022):

 

 

 

 

And here's some previous objections:

 

Cove and Kilcreggan Community Council (23 May 2022):

 

 

 

Community of Arran Seabed Trust (22 December 2021):

 

 

 

Friends of the Sound of Jura (7 December 2021):

 

 

And the 7-page objection letter ends with:

 

 

 

Argyll Fisheries Trust (6 December 2021):

 

 

 

John Nelson (5 December 2021):

 

 

 

Hilary Worton (5 December 2021):

 

 

 

Loch Lomond Angling Improvement Association (5 December 2021):

 

 

 

 

Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland (4 December 2021):

 

 

 

And Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland's objection ends with:

 

 

 

 

Salmon & Trout Conservation (since renamed Wild Fish) blogged in March 2022:

 

 

 

 

Helensburgh Advertiser reported last week (29 July 2022):

 

 

 

 

To file an objection (the deadline is Friday 5 August 2022) or to find out more information visit the Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park website 

 

Salmon Wars: award-winning investigative journalists join global battle against filthy feedlots!

 

"Big salmon farmers disparage scientists who point out health & environmental risks from farmed salmon & try to discredit critics. We tell the stories of several people who challenged salmon farming giants & wound up losing their jobs or facing lawsuits" https://t.co/z7AbaAlFNM pic.twitter.com/cGJAjx5Qae

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2022

 

Last year bookstores spoiled us with 'Not On My Watch' by Alexandra Morton and 'Toxic' by Richard Flanagan - mainstream books which turned the tide of public opinion against salmon pharming - and 'Den Nye Fisken' (The New Fish: the Global History of Salmon Farming) by investigative reporters Kjetil S. Østli and Simen Sætre which is sadly only available in Norwegian but is making big waves worldwide.   Now in their impressive wake comes 'Salmon Wars: the Dark Underbelly of Our Favourite Fish' by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins - a book which may turn out to be the defining watershed moment in the global battle against farmed salmon.   

 

"Resistance movements are generated by people who refuse to accept the world as they find it & who are willing to take personal risks to make it better...Morton & her cohorts are the heart of the resistance...She is spearheading a salmon revolution"
(Excerpt from Salmon Wars) pic.twitter.com/9RZeDJtxPI

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 23, 2022

 

 

 

"This expertly reported investigation tackles the salmon farming industry, documenting how its industrialization endangers the keystone species, puts consumer health at risk and threatens the environment," gushed The New York Times. 

 

"The criminal corporations & their complicit politicians are actively harming the marine environment & pushing their toxic product to unaware consumers. After reading Salmon Wars I doubt you will choose to eat net pen farmed salmon again" (Yvon Choinard @patagonia) #SalmonWars pic.twitter.com/K5clcU6l06

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 22, 2022

 

 

"In Salmon Wars, investigative journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins bring readers to massive ocean feedlots where millions of salmon are crammed into parasite-plagued cages and fed a chemical-laced diet," reads the publisher's blurb for a book riding high in the 'International Bestsellers'.  "The authors reveal the conditions inside hatcheries, where young salmon are treated like garbage, and at the farms that threaten our fragile coasts. They draw colorful portraits of characters, such as the big salmon farmer who poisoned his own backyard, the fly-fishing activist who risked everything to ban salmon farms in Puget Sound, and the American researcher driven out of Norway for raising the alarm about dangerous contaminants in the fish. Frantz and Collins document how the industrialization of Atlantic salmon threatens this keystone species, endangers our health and environment, and lines the pockets of our generation's version of Big Tobacco. And they show how it doesn't need to be this way.  Just as Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation forced a reckoning with the Big Mac, the vivid stories, scientific research, and high-stakes finance at the heart of Salmon Wars will inspire readers to make choices that protect our health and our planet."

 

"Salmon Wars is a deep dive into damage caused by current fish-farming methods to ocean environments, wild fish & their habitats, & the farmed fish themselves. Salmon farming needs reform. Until it gets it, read this book, & you will never eat farmed salmon again" (Marion Nestle) pic.twitter.com/YDT2gsCf03

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 22, 2022

 

 

 

Time magazine reported (21 July 2022):

 

"Farmed Atlantic salmon is the most popular fish on dinner tables in North America. But at what cost?"

📝 Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins https://t.co/fUbJRSxPhS

— TIME (@TIME) July 22, 2022

 

"This new fish is an industrialized imposter that risks our health and damages our planet. Farmed salmon are bred to grow fast in cages so crammed that they are rife with parasites and disease" @TIME https://t.co/ZL4Uhn0dYu#BoycottFarmedSalmon

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 21, 2022

 

 

It's not surprising that 'Salmon Wars' is both hard-hitting and rivetting.  Frantz is a former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times and shared a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent at The New York Times and Collins was a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and a contributor to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.   Intrafish reported (12 July 2022):

 

 

 

Investigative journalists attack salmon farming in new book, equate it to 'Big Tobacco' https://t.co/3cTHogKw7s
Read 'Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish' https://t.co/vIsIQihBG8 #SalmonWars @HenryHolt

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2022

 

 

Ecowatch reported (20 July 2022):

 

"Sometimes all it takes is a single photograph to change someone’s mind or inspire them to take action. For Catherine Collins & her husband Douglas Frantz, that was a photo of a yardstick plunged 32 inches into filth below a salmon farm" https://t.co/z7AbaAlFNM @EcoWatch

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 19, 2022

 

 

 

"The excrement, excess feed & chemical residue from a single farm can equal the waste produced by a town of 65,000 people. But a city’s sewage is treated, while a salmon farm simply allows its waste to drift to the seabed creating a toxic stew" @HenryHolt https://t.co/z7AbaAlFNM pic.twitter.com/iaKw2smgbJ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2022

 

"Honestly, smart people have no idea about the environmental harm caused by open-net salmon farms or the potential health risks from eating fish that might contain contaminants. This is one of the factors that compelled us to write Salmon Wars" https://t.co/z7AbaAlFNM #SalmonWars pic.twitter.com/WfVBw8Mp8C

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 19, 2022

 

 

 

The Globe & Mail reported (9 July 2022):

 

"What often happens beneath the waterline in these fish cages is shocking. A single farm can contain a million fish....The feed is laced with pesticides and antibiotics to fight the twin plagues of parasites and viruses" @globeandmail https://t.co/aBiovXTvYm #SalmonWars

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 10, 2022

 

 

 

Twin Bays posted on Facebook (20 July):

 

 

 

 

Catch the authors of 'Salmon Wars' next week (25 July) at a virtual event organized by the Elliot Bay Book Company and Wild Fish Conservancy:

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you can't make it, please put 'Salmon Wars' on your summer reading list!

 

 

 

 

Finally, I must declare a personal interest: in Chapter 4 (titled 'The Resistance') my campaigning work gets a mention.  Staniford "has an uncanny knack of getting under the sking of his opponents and drawing a constant stream of vitriol from them" write Frantz and Collins.  "Norway's state broadcaster NRK, described him as a 'hair in the soup of the global salmon farming industry'; Intrafish, an industry newsletter, labelled him salmon farming's 'No. 1 enemy".  

 

 

 

"Salmon is a migratory species, and caging them is cruel. It is like farming eagles. Cramming the king of fish into a container is like force-feeding lentils to a lion" (excerpt from 'Salmon Wars: the dark underbelly of our favorite fish') @HenryHolt https://t.co/a1o0J1CEQc pic.twitter.com/wZifiI30LU

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 22, 2022

 

 

Read more via:

Alexandra Morton’s Book Should Galvanize Action on Salmon - ‘Not on My Watch’ advances a devastating case against fish farms!

"Toxic: the Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry" - New Book out from Booker Prize-Winning Author Richard Flanagan!

 

The New York Times on the expertly researched new book: Salmon Wars https://t.co/sseXTlyprM @nytimes @HenryHolt
Buy the book & you'll never buy pharmed salmon ever again!

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 13, 2022

 

 

The wait is over! Happy publication day to SALMON WARS by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins! 🎉

Learn about the dark underbelly of our favorite fish with a copy, out now. https://t.co/MtqlX1NFao pic.twitter.com/dWmfldbyKa

— Henry Holt & Company 🏳️‍🌈 (@HenryHolt) July 12, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Alexandra Morton is to salmon like Dian Fossey was to gorillas and Jane Goodall is to chimpanzees. She is spearheading a salmon revolution not just in B.C. but around the globe" (excerpt from 'Salmon Wars') https://t.co/5YBtMH9vpu @alex4salmon @HenryHolt #SalmonWars

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 23, 2022

 

Salmon Farming is Criminal - breaches of welfare laws by RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms!

 

Salmon Farming is Criminal - video footage highlights breaches of welfare laws by @rspcaassured Norskott Havbruk @scotseafarms @marksandspencer https://t.co/INjBxAqRB1@ScotlandSalmon @APHAgovuk @marinescotland @Ecohustler @Animallawyersuk @onekindtweet @oceanrebellion @scotgp

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 22, 2022

 

 

Here's a new video report on welfare abuse by Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms):

 

 

 

 

 

The video was sourced from secret footage filmed by $camon $cotland inside cages operated by Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) - a company still shamefully accredited as 'welfare friendly' via RSPCA Assured (who earn over £500,000 per year from salmon farm certification)!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's summary videos from secret filming at four RSPCA Assured salmon farms operated by Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) - exclusive Scottish salmon supplier to Marks & Spencer - in the Sound of Mull and Loch Creran (3rd to 8th July 2022):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you want to use the video footage please contact Don Staniford via salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

• The Times: "Scottish salmon supplier to M&S cleared over welfare claims"
• Video: Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) is a Sham, Scam & Consumer Con - Stop Salmon Farming Now!
• Go Pro Filming Inside Salmon Farms - the Inside Story!
• The Times: "RSPCA investigates Scottish salmon supplier to M&S over lice accusations"
• RSPCA Assured "now investigating" welfare abuse at Scottish Sea Farms in the Sound of Mull & Loch Creran!
• Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms
• Photos of Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms
• Media Backgrounder: RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Exposed

 

 

Here's the inside story of how I boarded a salmon farm to film inside the disease-ridden cages at Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms). The Go Pro camera never lies (unlike salmon pharmers)! https://t.co/5eZBx5WcOT @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @marksandspencer @rspcaassured

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 18, 2022

 

 

 

Imidacloprid Spill in Norway - 110,000 litres of contaminated water spills into sea in Nordland!

 

Benchmark's new sea lice treatment (the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid) spills into sea in Norway - 110,000 litres of contaminated water spilled near Heggvika in Nordland https://t.co/CzUmirrJ1o @IntraFish @WeAreBenchmark @NFdep @fiskeridir @InfoMattilsynet #Imidacloprid pic.twitter.com/v44YiZUWTZ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 21, 2022

 

Intrafish reported (20 July 2022):

 

 

 

 

Definition of Reckless: Using a banned neonicotinoid (Imidacloprid) in the marine environment where 'leakage' is inevitable! https://t.co/jvkxWGGA1w @WeAreBenchmark @FerdOwner @ScottishEPA @marinescotland @scotgp @nature_scot @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @ArianeBurgessHI https://t.co/hBOCR6s6rn pic.twitter.com/nDLxpwYIEw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 21, 2022

 

 

 

 

Here's the Norwegian version of the Intrafish article which includes a better map:

 

 

@ProtectOurShore Treating sea lice with pesticide imidacloprid What could go wrong? Benchmark spills imidacloprid into public waters @TheGAAIA @blueannoyed @paulapeters2 @charlotteh71 @mikecoulson48 @RandolphTrent @vamroses @BadPutty @docrussjackson @GreenpeaceUK @natalieben https://t.co/BojHy3Vsim pic.twitter.com/20OrlYxncS

— Kilroy Was here (@1kilroywashere) July 21, 2022

 

 

Fiskeribladet also reported on the toxic spill:

 

 

 

Fish Farmer reported (21 July 2022):

 

 

Benchmark: "Analysis of the initial samples taken within 24 hours of the incident suggested that the potential impact would be minimal....We have no evidence of any known impact on the environment" @WeAreBenchmark https://t.co/o3ROzL7th4 @fishfarmermag @FerdOwner @fiskeridir pic.twitter.com/NAnJiMPdO2

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 21, 2022

What science is @WeAreBenchmark citing when they claim Imidacloprid "degrades rapidly on exposure to water"? Surely Ectosan Vet (BMK08) would not work if Imidacloprid degraded rapidly? @ScottishEPA @marinescotland @FerdOwner @DaveGoulson @PAN_UK @PFreeScotland @MasumiYamamuro https://t.co/GbeqSEIkN7 pic.twitter.com/VyrAAw65vo

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 25, 2022

 

 

 

 

$camon $cotland has asked the Norwegian Government to provide more details on the spill of Imidacloprid including the company responsible:

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 7:37 AM
Subject: Imidacloprid spill in June in Heggvika?
To: <havard.dekkerhus@fiskeridir.no>

Havard,

 

I see from this article that you are involved in this case:

https://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/benchmarks-new-sea-lice-treatment-spills-into-sea-in-norway/2-1-1263480

 

Do you have any further information on the incident?  Which company was involved?

 

Any documents would be much appreciated.

 

Takk,

 

Don Staniford

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a list of salmon farming businesses in Heggvika:

 

 

 

 

Just days after the Imidacloprid spill, I visited Benchmark's Norwegian head office in Bergen (where I raised the alarm about the use of Imidacloprid in salmon pharming at a science symposium at the University of Bergen):

 

 

 

'Silent Spring of the Sea' - video of a Powerpoint presenation by Don Staniford at a science symposium @UiB https://t.co/sUXN5UIuPc
Please boycott toxic pharmed salmon! @WeAreBenchmark @MowiScotlandLtd @LeroySeafood @scotseafarms @Havforskningen @Naturvern @Jeroen_vdSluijs

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 29, 2022

 

 

 

Last month, $camon $cotland revealed growing public opposition to the use of Imidacloprid (dubbed 'Novichok for insects' by Professor Dave Goulson of the University of Sussex) in Scottish waters:

 

Smoked Scottish Salmon: Neonicotinoid Use Dead in the Water in Scotland? https://t.co/HCOIZBdLku
“Dear Ms Sturgeon, there is no justification for using Imidacloprid as a pesticide in any foodchain” @NicolaSturgeon @scotgov @ScotGovNetZero @marinescotland @ScottishEPA @scotgp pic.twitter.com/GDA4l1hyIu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 7, 2022

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported in April 2022:

 

 

Did @WeAreBenchmark deploy all of the 3.25 tonnes of the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid used in Norway in 2021? @Folkehelseinst https://t.co/tSf7jgX5B2
Or was D10 Aquatic Blast used by Salmo Pharma too? @Legemiddelinfo @fiskeridir @NFdep @InfoMattilsynet @LeroySeafood @Partiet pic.twitter.com/L7itDGvxyv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 1, 2022

 

 

 

Here's the data published in April 2022 by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health:

 

 

Over 3.25 tonnes of the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid - dubbed 'Novichok for insects' @DaveGoulson - were used on salmon farms in Norway in 2021 (according to data published by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health @Folkehelseinst) @WeAreBenchmark https://t.co/TNORW0iTsX pic.twitter.com/9m8rHkovWu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 1, 2022

 

 

 

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

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 27, 2021

 

 

 

 

A patent filed in Canada (CA3045239A1) in December 2017 (published in June 2018 & described as a 'National Entry' in May 2019) lifted the lid on how Norwegian-owned Benchmark planned to use the toxic neonicotinoid insecticide Imidacloprid in salmon farming with the admission that "leakage" can occur with "loss of agent in the environment".

 

 

 

Benchmark's patent for use of the toxic neonicotinoid insecticide Imidacloprid in salmon farming concedes it is a "potentially hazardous agent in the field" & that "leakage" can occur with "loss of agent in the environment" https://t.co/QfeF31RAiM @WeAreBenchmark @FerdOwner pic.twitter.com/IPjorjqtmO

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 26, 2020

 

 

Who was the person @WeAreBenchmark who pledged there would be no spillage of Imidacloprid? @fiskeridir @NFdep @InfoMattilsynet @LeroySeafood @seafoodnorway @SjomatNorge @SeafoodnorwayN pic.twitter.com/4o4rxWEw1W

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 21, 2022

 

 

 

In October 2021, veterinarians and scientists in the UK voiced their opposition to the use of Imidacloprid in salmon farming in a letter published in the Veterinary Record.

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 13, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch revealed in May 2020 that Norwegian giant Mowi had lobbied the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to use Imidacloprid (Ectosan) in Loch Ailort in Scotland in a field trial. 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 20, 2020

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 21, 2020

 

 

 

$camon $cotland revealed in March 2022 that the salmon farming lobby was still pushing to use Imidacloprid in Scotland via Benchmark's 'CleanTreat' system. 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 16, 2022

 

 

 

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

 

Marine Scotland’s director, Annabel Turpie, has backed a treatment system for farmed fish designed to use a pesticide with “potentially devastating consequences for marine life”.https://t.co/kCHxUc4YBC

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) May 21, 2021

 

 

 

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

 

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency told a firm wanting to start using a bee-killing chemical at fish farms to mark correspondence “confidential”— so that it wouldn’t have to be released in response to freedom of information requests. #FOIhttps://t.co/hIclBVFKop

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) July 19, 2021

 

 

SEPA refuse to disclose information on the use of the toxic neonicotinoid insecticide Imidacloprid in salmon farming citing commercial confidentiality https://t.co/6dqW4x0iel @ScottishEPA @FOIScotland If disclosed it would prejudice economic interests @WeAreBenchmark @FerdOwner pic.twitter.com/m88qS2Tv2A

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 30, 2020

 

 

$camon $cotland will continue to campaign against the use of toxic chemicals in 'Scottish' salmon pharming!

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 21, 2021

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 18, 2020

 

 

"It's the tasty one," said a cigarette ad for Tiedemanns Tobaksfabrik (biggest tobacco company in Norway) @FerdOwner https://t.co/Pv7Npg9mWB "Setting a new standard in environmental care for sea lice bath treatments," claims CleanTreat @WeAreBenchmark #BlowingSmoke #Imidacloprid pic.twitter.com/SE0xCB38FC

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 19, 2020

 

 

 

Salmon pharming is a toxic industry - read more via Booker-prize winning author Richard Flanagan's book 'Toxic':

 

 

 

Front page news Down Under for the toxic truth about salmon pharming. "We Eat Horror" says Booker-prize winning author Richard Flanagan @themercurycomau pic.twitter.com/igYbRgMtmu @envirotas @TasmanianGreens @huonaquaculture @TassalSalmon @Rick_Stein pic.twitter.com/563nh6cLhG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 23, 2021

 

 

 

Read more via:

• 'Silent Spring of the Sea' talk by Don Staniford online now!
• Press Release: "Smoked Scottish Salmon: Neonicotinoid Use Dead in the Water in Scotland?"
• Norwegian Pharmed Salmon Marinaded in Neonicotinoid - over 3.25 tonnes of Imidacloprid used in 2021!
• Norway Symposium: "Silent Spring of the Sea - Salmon Pharming Kills Shellfish & Other Marine Life"
• Toxic Salmon: FOI Reveals Lobbying To Use Banned Neonicotinoid in Scotland - will trials of Imidacloprid take place this year?
• "Novichok for Insects" Unleashed on Scottish Salmon This Summer?
• Benchmark Gears Up for Imidacloprid Use in Norway: "keenly awaited by salmon farmers in Scotland"!
• Vets & Scientists Voice Concerns Vs Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Pharming - Letter published in Veterinary Record
• ASC endorses banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in salmon farming
• "SEPA has not received an application to use Imidacloprid" admits Scottish Government
• Private Eye: "Toxic Relationship"
• Norway Deploys Banned Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid - Scotland, Chile & Canada Next in Firing Line!
• The Ferret: "Watchdog helped pesticide firm avoid freedom of information"
• Toxic Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Collared by Legal Petition in US - are investors in Ectosan Vet/BMK08/D-10 Aquatic Blast feeling hot under the collar?
• Scottish Government backtracks on neonicotinoid use in salmon pharming: "there is no planned imminent approval of Imidacloprid"
• Dirty Secrets Exposed: FOI Disclosure by SEPA on Benchmark's Banned Neonicotinoid Ectosan/BMK08 (Imidacloprid)
• Salmon Pharming's 'Silent Spring' of the Sea
• "New weapon against salmon lice" reports Norwegian media (failing to mention Ectosan is the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid)
• Norway Approves Banned Bee-Killing Neonicotinoid for Use on Norwegian Salmon - Scotland, Chile & Canada Next In Firing Line!
• Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Dogged by Lawsuits, Bans & Deaths - Is Benchmark's BMK08 in the doghouse or will it be unleashed?
• Canadian field trials of the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid on salmon farms?
• Norwegian Environment Agency FOI reply lifts lid on banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid
• Interferencia: "Salmon Farming - Norwegian company seeks to commercialize in Chile a pesticide banned by the EU for being 'very toxic' to aquatic life"
• Anyone for Norwegian Salmon Marinaded in the Banned Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (don't worry it's ASC-approved)?!
• "EU deals potential setback to Benchmark’s rollout of new sea lice treatment"
• Fish Farmer: "MEPs condemn new lice treatment: who's right" "
• "EU setback for novel lice treatment"
• Breaking News: Victory in Europe - Parliament votes against the use of the toxic neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in farmed salmon!
• Fish Farming Expert: "Novel lice treatment threatened by European Parliament vote"
• Wave of European Opposition to Benchmark's Imidacloprid (BMK08) - the tide turns against neonicotinoids in salmon pharming!
• European Opposition to Neonicotinoid Contamination of Farmed Salmon - is BMK08 (Imidacloprid) dead in the water?
• The Guardian: "‘Novichok for insects’ may be approved for Scottish fish farms"
• Who are the toxic team lurking behind Benchmark's BMK08 (Imidacloprid) in Scottish salmon pharming?
• The Ferret: "Bee-killing pesticide treatment for fish farms backed by Scottish Government"
• Cleaning Tox-Sick Scottish Salmon - Benchmark's magic trick making the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid disappear!
• Rumsfeldian Fish Philosophy - Things We Know We Know, Things We Now Know We Don't Know & Things We Don't Know We Don't Know About 'Scottish' Salmon!
• SEPA ordered by Commissioner to Disclose 'Commercially Confidential' Information on CleanTreat & BMK08 (Imidacloprid) by 7 June
• Warning: Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming "Clears Another Hurdle" With European MRL
• Warning: Imidacloprid Moves A Step Closer to Commercial Use in Salmon Farming
• Nasty Neonicotinoid Plagues Salmon Farming in 2021
• Toxic Neonicotinoid "Close to Commercial Launch" in Salmon Farming!
• New Science Dogs Approval of Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid for Scottish Salmon!
• Imidacloprid Use in Scottish Salmon Farming?
• Secret Salmon - On the Trail of Imidacloprid Use in Scotland!
• British Wildlife: "Neonics in Salmon Farming - Alarm Bells Are Ringing"
• Caveat Chile - toxic neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (BMK08) coming soon!
• Toxic Politics - Meet the Scottish Government's Minister for Sinister Chemicals
• Imidacloprid Licensed for Use by Mowi in Loch Ailort?
• Further Scientific Opposition to Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming
• Patent lifts lid on neonicotinoid use in salmon farming
• Horrible History: Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming
• Scientific Opposition to Neonicotinoid Use in Salmon Farming
• Backgrounder: "Imidacloprid - A Neonicotinoid Insecticide Toxic to Aquatic Life"
• BBC Farming Today on "Neonicotinoids in Salmon Farming"
• Sunday Times: "Outlawed insecticide may be used on Scottish salmon"
• FOI letter on Scientific Concerns re. Imidacloprid Use in Scottish Salmon Farming
• Scottish Greens "Deeply Concerned" at Mowi's Field Trial of Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in Loch Ailort
• Letter to the Prince of Wales re. bee-killing Imidacloprid use at royal warrant holder Mowi
• Secret Trials: 'Royal' Salmon Doused with Bee-Killing Insecticide Imidacloprid?
• Follow the Salmoney - the Norwegian tobacco billionaire behind the Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid
• ENDS Report: "Calls for greater transparency over ‘toxic’ new fish farm product"
• Letter to SEPA: Please Come Clean on Imidacloprid!
• Letter to Scottish Ministers, SEPA & the VMD re. Imidacloprid
• FOI requests on Imidacloprid to SEPA, VMD & the Scottish Government
• Revealed: Toxic Neonicotinoid Insecticide Used to 'CleanTreat' Lousy Salmon
• Please Come Clean on BMK08!
• Sunday Times: "Official fears revealed over toxic threat of salmon trade"
• Cleaning Tox-Sick Scottish Salmon
• CleanTreat FOI Disclosures by the Scottish Government to Scottish Salmon Watch
• Media Backgrounder: Chemically Embalmed Scottish Salmon
• All is Not Well With Sick Scottish Salmon

 

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 26, 2020

 

 

 

 

Addendum:

 

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?

 

Imidacloprid Spill in Norway - 110,000 litres of contaminated water spills into sea in Nordland!

 

$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:

 

The Ferret: "Watchdog helped pesticide firm avoid freedom of information" 

 

The Ferret: "Bee-killing pesticide treatment for fish farms backed by Scottish Government"

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Has @WeAreBenchmark @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @ScotlandSalmon submitted documents as part of any ecological risk assessment referring to spillage, leakage & discharge of Imidacloprid? @ScotGovNetZero @marinescotland @ScottishEPA @nature_scot @scotgp https://t.co/jvkxWGGA1w pic.twitter.com/RbLsmLUOzk

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 21, 2022

 

After a major spillage of a neonicotinoid into the North Sea, the company involves says it is fine 'cos the pesticide degrades rapidly. This is patently untrue, flying in the face of all scientific evidence. https://t.co/3YmQvunLpP

— Dave Goulson (@DaveGoulson) July 25, 2022

 

Don't hold your breath https://t.co/qET0KfFTRb

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 25, 2022

 

Imidacloprid from rice paddy is delivered to estuary without decomposition (https://t.co/rQUDMnGQ9r). It is not decomposed with clorination and so imidacloprid is detected in tap water in Japan (https://t.co/SwZnIrDlgZ). https://t.co/FirLAT1gEL

— Masumi Yamamuro (@MasumiYamamuro) August 1, 2022

Fly Fisherman Stan Headley Takes the Pledge Not to Eat Farmed Salmon!

 

Fly Fisherman Stan Headley Takes the Pledge Not to Eat Farmed Salmon! #SalmonPledge https://t.co/X7OxRGe8J2
Please join the global boycott against pharmed salmon!

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 21, 2022

 

 

Fly Fisherman Stan Headley - author of 'Reflections on the Loch', the 'Loch Fishers Bible' and 'Trout and Salmon Flies of Scotland' - has taken the pledge not to eat farmed salmon:

 

 

 

 

Please join fishermen, environmentalists, chefs, kayakers, animal rights activists, indigenous leaders and ocean advocates all over the world taking the pledge to boycott pharmed salmon!

 

Please take the pledge not to eat farmed salmon! #COP26 @COP26 https://t.co/WPY3V2LnJS pic.twitter.com/CHFCmyARcf

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 9, 2021

 

To protect wild fish, join our fight in opposing the continued operation or expansion of existing open-net salmon farms, or the establishment of new ones. Make the pledge to not buy, consume, or sell farmed salmon from open-net salmon farms.

Pledge 👉https://t.co/sm2ickUuIC pic.twitter.com/3GRXAfAh24

— WildFish (@WildFishCons) November 2, 2021

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 12, 2021

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 2, 2021

 

Please record a video pledge not to eat farmed salmon (contact Don Staniford via salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com)!

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 5, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Please join the global boycott against pharmed salmon.

 

Salmon Pledges During #COP26 - please join the global boycott against farmed salmon! https://t.co/qh52OoH4JV #COP26Glasgow @COP26 pic.twitter.com/oQIqxdWMU7

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 13, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Take the Pledge to Boycott Toxic Pharmed Salmon!

Salmon Pledges During COP26 - please join the global boycott against farmed salmon!

"Make the pledge to not buy, consume, or sell farmed salmon from open-net salmon farms"!

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

Make a Video Pledge to Boycott Farmed Salmon Today!

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

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

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

Salmon Pledge Goes Wild Around the World! 

5 shocking reasons not to buy farmed salmon 

25 Reasons to Boycott Scottish Salmon

 

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 16, 2021

 

 

 

The Times: "Scottish salmon supplier to M&S cleared over welfare claims"

 

Leaked photos show the expert surveillance team @rspcaassured conducting a rigorous welfare inspection of lousy @scotseafarms - nothing to see here! @marksandspencer @marinescotland @APHAgovuk @ScottishSPCA @RSPCA_official @RSPCAChris @SSPCA_Kirsteen @SSPCA_Mike @LeroySeafood pic.twitter.com/yPPf7zyZqH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2022

 

 

 

The Times reported (20 July 2022):

 

 

 

 

RSPCA Assured (which receive £500,000+ per year via certifying salmon farms in Scotland as 'welfare-friendly') clear @marksandspencer supplier @scotseafarms over welfare abuse claims @timesscotland @ScottishSPCA @Animallawyersuk @rspcaassured #Whitewash https://t.co/fYxk43hWzH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2022

 

 

 

Watch gruesome video footage shot inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms earlier this month:

 

Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) is a Sham, Scam & Consumer Con - Stop Salmon Farming Now! https://t.co/dMEaB2Sfso
Please boycott @rspcaassured Scottish salmon! @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @ScotlandSalmon @LeroySeafood @ciwf @APHAgovuk @marinescotland @ScottishSPCA pic.twitter.com/1bsV6l1YnM

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 19, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Ralph Bickerdike, head of fish health @scotseafarms, said deaths were unavoidable. "There is a natural level of mortality in any animal population, but we work to keep that to a minimum with vigilant husbandry" https://t.co/AX2uDymMAw @timesscotland @rspcaassured @ScottishSPCA pic.twitter.com/idN26IfKcv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2022

Almost all of RSPCA Assured’s team of assessors are salmon farmers.
Ralph Bickerdike is an “advisor”.
They carry out “virtual inspections”and advertise in Fish Farmer Mag.

Virtual inspections without any means to do so?

Maybe they should hire someone with a kayak and GoPro. https://t.co/jzKrCfbwNR pic.twitter.com/IhCV4rueNa

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) July 20, 2022

 

 

 

The Sunday Times reported in February 2020 how RSPCA Assured rake in over half a million pounds from certifying salmon farms in Scotland as 'welfare friendly':

 

 

 

RSPCA sell their soul to Scottish farmed salmon for £500k per year https://t.co/2pKeU23WiP @rspcaassured @SundayTimesScot @onekindtweet @ciwf @RSPCA_official @RSPCAChris

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 9, 2020

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch wrote to the RSPCA in February 2020 demanding an end to the certification of 'welfare friendly' farmed salmon via RSPCA Asssured:

 

As RSPCA 'VIPs' you have the power to stop suffering on salmon farms in Scotland - please tell the RSPCA executive to end certification of Scottish salmon! @rspcaassured https://t.co/oFC20taxzO @ChrisGPackham @brianblessed @BillOddie @DrBrianMay @PeterEgan6 @CarolineLucas #RSPCA pic.twitter.com/nYwOM5yTF6

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 5, 2020

 

 

 

Earlier in February 2020, scientist Dr Lynn Sneddon added her voice opposing the RSPCA Assured's certification of Scottish salmon:

 

 

 

Today's Sunday Times: "Scientist hits out at RSPCA for backing Scottish salmon farms" https://t.co/ZuzAis8gEr @SundayTimesScot @rspcaassured @LynneUSneddon @HamishMacdonell @Animallawyersuk @AnimalLawUK @RSPCA_official @SSPCA_Mike @scotgov @ProfCMDwyer @ciwf @HSIUKorg @AnimalAid pic.twitter.com/PN0IWL4pBt

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 2, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

Video Exclusive: Dr Lynne Sneddon on Welfare Abuse on Scottish Salmon Farms https://t.co/q3L6Urlqhc @MairiGougeon @scotgov @rspcaassured @media_ciwf @Animallawyersuk @RSPCA_official @SSPCA_Mike @onekindtweet @LynneUSneddon @suslyb @AndersonLibby @AlisonJohnstone @markruskell pic.twitter.com/fB6LAn5AWK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 2, 2020

 

 

In April 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch wrote to the Secretary of State raising the issue of welfare abuse on salmon farms in Scotland not being properly policed:

 

Given the serious nature of the allegations, Scottish Salmon Watch hope that @DefraGovUK
investigate @APHAgovuk surveillance & inspection of salmon farms in #Scotland @FergusEwingSNP @BenMacpherson @kamesfishfarm @rspcaassured @CGrahameMSP @scotgp https://t.co/vUKNjDsPIR pic.twitter.com/M6H7b9B6BE

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 21, 2021

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 15, 2021

 

 

 

 

In July 2021 (following more welfare-washing by RSPCA Assured), I blogged how the RSPCA had been captured, co-opted & corrupted by the Salmafia:

 

Rest A$$ured - the R$PCA has been captured, co-opted & corrupted by the $almafia! @rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/UBBbCWGVRT @SSPOsays @scotseafarms @philip_ciwf @RSPCAChris @RSPCA_PATeam @RSPCA_official @RSPCA_Frontline pic.twitter.com/NxNAwo9emU

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 30, 2021

 

 

RSPCA Sponsored Welfare Abuse of Salmon Farms - A Guide to Getting Away with Mass Murder (Theriocide)https://t.co/dnZk1bhb0M @rspcaassured @RSPCAChris @CliveBrazier @RSPCA_official @RSPCA_PATeam @RachRSPCA @ChrisGPackham @onekindtweet @ciwf @Animallawyersuk @LynneUSneddon #RSPCA pic.twitter.com/fvBv9dRavi

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 19, 2021

 

 

 

In March 2022, there was a glimmer of hope for the welfare of farmed salmon with the news that the Animal and Plant Health Agency was to be replaced by the Scottish Veterinary Service:

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 18, 2022

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 18, 2022

 

 

 

 

In the meantime welfare abuse and mass mortalities continue to pile up at salmon farms across Scotland.

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 2, 2020

 

 

Photos slipped out last month @marinescotland provide yet more damning evidence of welfare abuse on salmon farms - please boycott Scottish salmon! https://t.co/bp2h3Rylag @salmon_scottish @Try_Lochlander @Folketrygdfond @GreenerScotland @scotgp @coopuk @rspcaassured @SSPCA_Mike pic.twitter.com/Sngg29WYTp

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 4, 2020

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 7, 2020

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 19, 2021

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 12, 2021

 

 

Welfare complaint filed vs Scottish Sea Farms for 'unnecessary suffering' in the Sound of Mull & Loch Creran @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @ScotlandSalmon @APHAgovuk @policescotland
@ukwildlifecrime @ScottishSPCA @CVOScotland @ProfCMDwyer @LynneUSneddon https://t.co/4hg9Ek5mht pic.twitter.com/3VG4KnLG7r

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2022

 

Read more via:

• Video: Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) is a Sham, Scam & Consumer Con - Stop Salmon Farming Now!
• Go Pro Filming Inside Salmon Farms - the Inside Story!
• The Times: "RSPCA investigates Scottish salmon supplier to M&S over lice accusations"
• RSPCA Assured "now investigating" welfare abuse at Scottish Sea Farms in the Sound of Mull & Loch Creran!
• Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms
• Photos of Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms
• Media Backgrounder: RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Exposed
• M&S Irresponsibly Sourced Scottish Salmon (as greenwashed by RSPCA Assured)!

 

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms! https://t.co/PHFsqdRJ7i @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @ScottishSPCA @APHAgovuk @ProfCMDwyer @LynneUSneddon @ciwf @Animallawyersuk @vivacampaigns @Ecohustler pic.twitter.com/RLJYPfe1w8

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2022

 

 

 

Video: Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) is a Sham, Scam & Consumer Con - Stop Salmon Farming Now!

 

Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) is a Sham, Scam & Consumer Con - Stop Salmon Farming Now! https://t.co/dMEaB2Sfso
Please boycott @rspcaassured Scottish salmon! @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @ScotlandSalmon @LeroySeafood @ciwf @APHAgovuk @marinescotland @ScottishSPCA pic.twitter.com/1bsV6l1YnM

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 19, 2022

 

Here's the shocking truth behind RSPCA Assured 'Scottish' salmon - sourced from secret filming by $camon $cotland inside Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) on the West coast of Scotland earlier this month:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The message is simple: please don't buy Scottish salmon (even if it comes stamped as RSPCA Assured and "responsibly sourced"!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Take the pledge not to buy farmed salmon!

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 2, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Go Pro Filming Inside Salmon Farms - the Inside Story!
• The Times: "RSPCA investigates Scottish salmon supplier to M&S over lice accusations"
• RSPCA Assured "now investigating" welfare abuse at Scottish Sea Farms in the Sound of Mull & Loch Creran!
• Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms
• Photos of Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms
• Media Backgrounder: RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Exposed
• M&S Irresponsibly Sourced Scottish Salmon (as greenwashed by RSPCA Assured)!

 

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms! https://t.co/PHFsqdRJ7i @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @ScottishSPCA @APHAgovuk @ProfCMDwyer @LynneUSneddon @ciwf @Animallawyersuk @vivacampaigns @Ecohustler pic.twitter.com/RLJYPfe1w8

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2022

 

 

 

 

"Diseased & dead salmon inside facilities owned by @scotseafarms were recorded this month by Don Staniford. Salmon are shown covered in parasites with open wounds & with eyes & chunks of their flesh missing" @timesscotland @rspcaassured @marksandspencer https://t.co/v8C8G9lomM

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 16, 2022

 

Go Pro Filming Inside Salmon Farms - the Inside Story!

 

Here's the inside story of how I boarded a salmon farm to film inside the disease-ridden cages at Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms). The Go Pro camera never lies (unlike salmon pharmers)! https://t.co/5eZBx5WcOT @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @marksandspencer @rspcaassured

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 18, 2022

 

Secret filming inside salmon farms was pioneered in 2016 by award-winning biologist Alexandra Morton in British Columbia whose 'Hard Evidence' was a watershed moment in the fight against disease-ridden fish feedlots. 

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 15, 2021

 

 

 

Earlier this month, I filmed safely, biosecurely and secretly on six separate occasions inside four RSPCA Assured salmon farms operated by Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) in the Sound of Mull and Loch Creran.  Here's the inside story of how I accessed the lice-infested cages via a kayak:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Droning on & on about salmon farming - here's video footage shot by a drone showing me filming secretly and safely inside Norkskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) in the Sound of Mull on the West coast of Scotland https://t.co/lSiJvNXGVG @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @rspcaassured

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 26, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the gruesome video evidence uncovered at Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) - a company exclusively sourcing RSPCA Assured Scottish salmon for Marks & Spencer:

 

 

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms! https://t.co/PHFsqdRJ7i @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @ScottishSPCA @APHAgovuk @ProfCMDwyer @LynneUSneddon @ciwf @Animallawyersuk @vivacampaigns @Ecohustler pic.twitter.com/RLJYPfe1w8

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Since Alexandra Morton secretly filmed inside salmon farms in 2016, a number of campaigners, journalists and truth-tellers have followed in her wake - from George Quocksister and Pamela Anderson in Canada:

 

 

 

 

 

 

To Mikael Frödin in Norway:

 

 

 

 

 

 

To Corin Smith in Scotland:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And Veiga Grét­ars­dótt­ir in Iceland:

 

 

 

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

Look familiar?

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

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) August 13, 2021

 

 

 

 

All power to the Go Pro camera!

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 15, 2019

 

 

 

Read more via:

The Times: "RSPCA investigates Scottish salmon supplier to M&S over lice accusations"

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms

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

You Tube Streams 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' - watch the lid lifted on Scottish salmon!

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

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

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

Video Compilation of Welfare Abuse Inside Salmon & Steelhead Trout Farms in Scotland!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Secret Filming Exposes RSPCA ‘Abused’ Scottish Salmon - Welfare Complaint Filed Against M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms

Video Exposes Mass Graves of Millions of Diseased Scottish Salmon

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

Letter to Police Scotland re. violence & hostility by salmon farmers blocking filming

Policing Scottish Salmon: Landmark Victory for Surveillance of Fish Farms

Video Nasty: Death Threat & Assault by Salmon Farmer for Questioning Use of Carcinogenic Chemicals at Kames!

Lithgow Baron Warned by Police for Threatening Behaviour Over Filming at Hendrix Genetics

The Camera Never Lies About Scottish Salmon!

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

Video Nasty: Chemically Embalmed Scottish Salmon at Kames in Loch Tralaig

Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Kames

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

Video Nasty: Thermolicer - the Heated Torture Chamber for Scottish Salmon

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

Video Nasty: Mowi's Dead Salmon at 'Bay of the Dead Heads'

Shocking Video Footage from Mowi's 'Bay of the Dead Heads' (Bagh Dail nan Ceann)

The Go Pro Camera Never Lies (Unlike Salmon Farmers)

 

 

 

The Go Pro camera never lies - unlike salmon farmers! https://t.co/noxn89oEZO @salmon_scottish pic.twitter.com/QdpCNIADym

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 12, 2021

 

The Times: "RSPCA investigates Scottish salmon supplier to M&S over lice accusations"

 

"Diseased & dead salmon inside facilities owned by @scotseafarms were recorded this month by Don Staniford. Salmon are shown covered in parasites with open wounds & with eyes & chunks of their flesh missing" @timesscotland @rspcaassured @marksandspencer https://t.co/v8C8G9lomM

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 16, 2022

 

The Times reported (16 July 2022):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

M&S: “We work hard with our partners to ensure our salmon is farmed responsibly, meets our Select Farm standards & the requirements of the RSPCA. We have investigated this footage with our supplier & we are satisfied these standards are being met” WOW! 😳https://t.co/gAL6FOKAfK

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) July 16, 2022

 

 

The Times: "Staniford filmed at four fish farms off the west coast of Scotland. Salmon are shown covered in parasites, with open wounds & with eyes and chunks of their flesh missing" https://t.co/rABUasiNyk @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @ScottishSPCA @LeroySeafood @marksandspencer pic.twitter.com/AUdjqUU7BY

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 17, 2022

 

 

Supermarket @marksandspencer “satisfied standards are being met”, despite footage of lice-infested salmon suffering and dying on *4* fish farms run by its supplier @scotseafarms These farms are also @rspcaassured Does this look like high welfare standards?https://t.co/h8fEnkiY8z

— WildFish (@WildFishCons) July 19, 2022

 

 

 

Read more via:

• RSPCA Assured "now investigating" welfare abuse at Scottish Sea Farms in the Sound of Mull & Loch Creran!
• Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms
• Photos of Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms
• Media Backgrounder: RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Exposed
• M&S Irresponsibly Sourced Scottish Salmon (as greenwashed by RSPCA Assured)!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms! https://t.co/PHFsqdRJ7i @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @ScottishSPCA @APHAgovuk @ProfCMDwyer @LynneUSneddon @ciwf @Animallawyersuk @vivacampaigns @Ecohustler pic.twitter.com/RLJYPfe1w8

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2022

 

RSPCA Assured "now investigating" welfare abuse at Scottish Sea Farms in the Sound of Mull & Loch Creran!

RSPCA Assured "now investigating" welfare abuse at Scottish Sea Farms in the Sound of Mull & Loch Creran! @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @marksandspencer @APHAgovuk @marinescotland @ScotlandSalmon @ScottishSPCA @RSPCA_official @MairiGougeon https://t.co/argWfS87Kh pic.twitter.com/VrfKJsFiyM

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 14, 2022

 

 

 

RSPCA Assured (who rake in over half a million pounds each year from certifying Scottish salmon as welfare friendly) is "now investigating" a welfare complaint filed by $camon $cotland against RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms on Monday (11 July).  Here's an email from yesterday morning from Liam Kurzeja (head of marketing at the RSPCA Assured 'gold standard' for "ethical food"):

 

 

From: Hello <hello@rspcaassured.org.uk> [Sent by liam.kurzeja@rspcaassured.org.uk]
Date: Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Welfare Complaint vs Scottish Sea Farms in Sound of Mull & Loch Creran
To: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>

Dear Don

 

Thank you for bringing your concerns to our attention.

 

We are now investigating this matter.

 

Thank you

RSPCA Assured

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RSPCA Assured's Rebecca Lenik (Senior Public Relations Manager who can be contacted via the RSPCA Assured press office on 01403 286374) confirmed to $camon $cotland that all four Scottish Sea Farms sites (Fuinary, Fishnish B, Scallastle Bay and Creran A) were accredited via RSPCA Assured:

 

 

From: Hello <hello@rspcaassured.org.uk> [Sent by rebecca.lenik@rspcaassured.org.uk]
Date: Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: Welfare Complaint vs Scottish Sea Farms in Sound of Mull & Loch Creran
To: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>

Hi Don,

 

Yes, all four sites are RSPCA Assured certified.

 

Many thanks

 

RSPCA Assured

 

 

 

Shock Horror! RSPCA Assured confirms that all four salmon farms exposed as lice-infested & disease-ridden via secret filming @scotseafarms cages in the Sound of Mull & Loch Creran are certified as the welfare 'gold standard' @rspcaassured https://t.co/argWfSpIBP @RSPCA_official pic.twitter.com/BsPMrIvtdV

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 15, 2022

 

 

 

 

Here's previous correspondence on the welfare complaint filed on Monday (11 July) at Scottish Sea Farms in the Sound of Mull and Loch Creran:

 

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 12:21 PM
Subject: RSPCA reaction to welfare abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms?
To: <executive@rspca.org.uk>, Chris Wainwright <Chris.Wainwright@rspca.org.uk>, <john.kerslake@rspca.org.uk>, Ray Goodfellow <ray.goodfellow@rspca.org.uk>, <caroline.allen@rspca.org.uk>, <emma.slawinski@rspca.org.uk>, <dermot.murphy@rspca.org.uk>, <emily.tierney@rspca.org.uk>
Cc: Malcolm Johnstone <malcolm.johnstone@rspcaassured.org.uk>, Clive Brazier <clive.brazier@rspcaassured.org.uk>, Help Account <help@rspcaassured.org.uk>, <farm-animals@rspca.org.uk>, Julia Wrathall <julia.wrathall@rspca.org.uk>, <MFlynn@scottishspca.org>, <kcampbell@scottishspca.org>, <fmacleod@scottishspca.org>, <abiggar@scottishspca.org>, <cmcleod@scottishspca.org>, <ldavidson@scottishspca.org>, <mdonald@scottishspca.org>, <sjohnstone@scottishspca.org>, <nconnell@scottishspca.org>

 

Will the RSPCA be taking action in response to the welfare complaint filed yesterday against RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk)?

 

The welfare complaint can be downloaded in full via Welfare Complaint vs Scottish Sea Farms in Sound of Mull & Loch Creran 11 July 2022

 

The secret filming was conducted by $camon $cotland from 3rd to 8th July 2022 at four RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms sites in the Sound of Mull (Fiunary, Scallastle Bay and Fishnish B) and Loch Creran (Creran A).  Six site visits were carried out early in the morning and late in the evening (outside working hours) as well as drone surveillance.  Video material and photos - sourced from the video footage - has been assembled via:

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms

 

Photos of Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms

 

The gruesome video footage provides clear evidence of ongoing welfare abuse, lice infestation, mortalities and infectious diseases at Scottish Sea Farms and follows filming by Compassion in World Farming in late 2020 (published in March 2021) which is believed to include some of the same RSPCA Assured salmon farms operated by Scottish Sea Farms in the Sound of Mull and Loch Creran.

 

$camon $cotland is of the view that RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms is guilty of ongoing breaches of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 with respect to ‘Unnecessary Suffering’ (Section 19) and ‘Ensuring Welfare of Animals’ (Section 24).

 

Reacting to the latest video footage published yesterday, Edie Bowles, Solicitor, Advocates for Animals said:

 

“Farmed fish are owed a duty of care and the protection from unnecessary suffering under animal welfare law.  The findings in this most recent investigation suggest that these legal requirements are not being adequately enforced and that fish are suffering as a result.  One of the issues in Scotland is that the industry has largely been able to self regulate, it is of fundamental importance that official bodies uphold their responsibility to ensure that the welfare protections afforded to farmed fish are being followed.”

 

I have raised this issue today via Twitter:

https://twitter.com/TheGAAIA/status/1546728479500165120

https://twitter.com/TheGAAIA/status/1546733961992339457

 

$camon $cotland appreciates that there may be complicated jurisdictional issues in play in terms of the Scottish SSPCA's role in Scotland.  However, the conflict of interest at work with the outgoing Chairperson of the SSPCA (Dr Ronnie Soutar) working as chief veterinarian for Scottish Sea Farms raises serious red flags:

Fish vet appointed chair of Scottish SPCA

 

Not to mention the vested interest of RSPCA Assured raking in over half a million pounds each year via the certification of salmon farms in Scotland:

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

"RSPCA Assured investigating Mowi welfare complaints"

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

RSPCA Suspends Spelve Salmon Farm & 'Urgently Investigates' M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms!

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

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

 

Or APHA failing to police salmon farms in Scotland with the necessary scrutiny and surveillance required to monitor welfare or enforce welfare legislation (CIWF's undercover investigation in late 2020, for example, filmed at more salmon farms in a three month period than APHA 'inspected' in a six year period!):

 

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

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

Censored: Welfare Abuse on Salmon Farms

 

At least the prospect of the Scottish Veterinary Service replacing APHA offers a glimmer of hope for the millions of farmed salmon suffering inside cages across Scotland:

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

 

Scottish Salmon Watch (renamed $camon $cotland in February 2022) raised many of these issues in a letter to the RSPCA back in February 2020:

Letter to the RSPCA - Please Stop Certifying Scottish Salmon!

 

Suffice to say that the RSPCA's continued support for salmon farming in Scotland - and profiteering via RSPCA Assured - must surely end.  If the RSPCA cannot step in to end the torture and unnecessary suffering of millions of farmed salmon at lice-infested salmon farms across Scotland then who can?

 

And if the RSPCA cannot physically step in to inspect salmon farms in Scotland then will you support the installation of CCTV surveillance to monitor welfare abuse?  Animal Equality and other groups have already called for the installation of CCTV in farmed fish slaughterhouses following shocking video evidence of welfare abuse captured inside The Scottish Salmon Company. 

 

As I said in $camon $cotland's press release issued yesterday:

 

"Lice infestation is literally eating Scottish salmon alive with the King of Fish suffering intolerable cruelty via death crowns, flesh wounds, mouth rot and fin damage.  This is the worst case of welfare abuse I’ve captured at over 30 salmon farms I’ve filmed inside since 2018.  CCTV should now be installed in all salmon farms in Scotland to stop further welfare abuse.  The Go Pro camera never lies – unlike salmon pharmers."

 

If the RSPCA can intervene to ground-truth the shameless greenwashing and white-washing away welfare abuse by RSPCA Assured it would be much appreciated. 

 

Please pass this request onto the RSPCA's Board of Trustees as well as the RSPCA's patrons, vice-presidents and celebrity supporters.   William Wilberforce, one of the founding members of the RSPCA, would be turning in his grave if he knew how millions of farmed salmon each year were dying cruel deaths inside filthy feedlots (over 10 million alone at RSPCA Assured Mowi since 2019). 

 

How many more millions of Atlantic salmon need to suffer inside salmon cages across Scotland before the RSPCA stop cashing the £500,000+ cheque from salmon farming companies each year?

 

Thanks,

 

 

Don Staniford

 

Director, $camon $cotland

 

 

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 8:00 AM
Subject: Welfare Complaint vs Scottish Sea Farms in Sound of Mull & Loch Creran
To: <MFlynn@scottishspca.org>, <kcampbell@scottishspca.org>, <executive@rspca.org.uk>, Help Account <help@rspcaassured.org.uk>, Hello <hello@rspcaassured.org.uk>, Clive Brazier <clive.brazier@rspcaassured.org.uk>
Cc: <sales@scottishseafarms.com>, <Steven.Mclean@marks-and-spencer.com>, <steve.rowe@marks-and-spencer.com>, <environment@scottishseafarms.com>, <post@leroyseafood.com>, <sjur.malm@leroy.no>, <henning.beltestad@leroy.no>, <salmar@salmar.no>, <hakon.husby@salmar.no>, <Gunnar.Nielsen@salmar.no>, M&S Executive Office <chairman@customersupport.marksandspencer.com>

Please consider this a formal complaint against Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk) for breaches of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 with respect to ‘Unnecessary Suffering’ (Section 19) and ‘Ensuring Welfare of Animals’ (Section 24). Video evidence shot inside four salmon farms in the Sound of Mull (Fiunary, Fishnish B and Scallastle Bay) and in Loch Creran (Creran A) between 3^rd and 8^th July 2022 presents damning evidence of welfare abuse, lice infestation, infectious diseases and mass mortalities:

 

Welfare Complaint vs Scottish Sea Farms in Sound of Mull & Loch Creran 11 July 2022

 

 

 

 

The welfare complaint is also attached as a PDF.

 

Read more via:

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms

 

Photos of Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Don Staniford

 

Director, $camon $cotland

 

 

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 7:48 AM
Subject: Welfare Complaint vs Scottish Sea Farms in Sound of Mull & Loch Creran
To: SM-APHA-Enquiries APHA <enquiries@apha.gov.uk>, <APHA.Scotland@apha.gsi.gov.uk>, APHA Corporate Correspondence <apha.corporatecorrespondence@apha.gsi.gov.uk>, <george.eustice.mp@parliament.uk>, <scottish.ministers@gov.scot>, <defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk>
Cc: Burgess A (Ariane), MSP <Ariane.Burgess.msp@parliament.scot>, Johnstone A (Alison), MSP <Alison.Johnstone.msp@parliament.scot>, Cathy Dwyer <cathy.dwyer@sruc.ac.uk>, Grahame C (Christine), MSP <Christine.Grahame.msp@parliament.scot>, Ruskell M (Mark), MSP <Mark.Ruskell.msp@parliament.scot>, Beamish C (Claudia), MSP <Claudia.Beamish.msp@parliament.scot>, <sheila.voas@gov.scot>

Please consider this a formal complaint against Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk) for breaches of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 with respect to ‘Unnecessary Suffering’ (Section 19) and ‘Ensuring Welfare of Animals’ (Section 24). Video evidence shot inside four salmon farms in the Sound of Mull (Fiunary, Fishnish B and Scallastle Bay) and in Loch Creran (Creran A) between 3^rd and 8^th July 2022 presents damning evidence of welfare abuse, lice infestation, infectious diseases and mass mortalities:

 

Welfare Complaint vs Scottish Sea Farms in Sound of Mull & Loch Creran 11 July 2022

 

 

 

 

The welfare complaint is also attached as a PDF.

 

Read more via:

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms

 

Photos of Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Don Staniford

 

Director, $camon $cotland

 

 

 

 

What enforcement action is being undertaken to stop systematic welfare abuse inside salmon farms? @rspcaassured @APHAgovuk @marinescotland @scotseafarms @ScottishSPCA @marksandspencer @ProfCMDwyer @CVOScotland @MairiGougeon @ScotlandSalmon @philip_ciwf https://t.co/PHFsqdRJ7i https://t.co/ZVn8DEZo6y pic.twitter.com/HAB4yIj6zj

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2022

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms
• Photos of Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms
• Media Backgrounder: RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Exposed
• Closing the Net on Welfare Abuse on Salmon Farms - Scottish Veterinary Service replaces APHA
• Rest Assured - the RSPCA has been captured, co-opted & corrupted by the Salmafia
• RSPCA Sponsored Welfare Abuse of Salmon Farms - A Guide to Getting Away with Mass Murder (Theriocide)!
• Letter to Secretary of State re. Welfare Abuse at Scottish Salmon Farms
• Whitewashing Welfare Abuse of Scottish Salmon (as sponsored via RSPCA, SSPCA & APHA)
• Letter to the RSPCA - Please Stop Certifying Scottish Salmon!
• Sunday Times: "RSPCA paid over £500,000 to back Scottish salmon industry"
• Sunday Times: "Scientist hits out at RSPCA for backing Scottish salmon farms"

 

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms! https://t.co/PHFsqdRJ7i @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @ScottishSPCA @APHAgovuk @ProfCMDwyer @LynneUSneddon @ciwf @Animallawyersuk @vivacampaigns @Ecohustler pic.twitter.com/RLJYPfe1w8

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2022

 

 

Rest A$$ured - the R$PCA has been captured, co-opted & corrupted by the $almafia! @rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/UBBbCWGVRT @SSPOsays @scotseafarms @philip_ciwf @RSPCAChris @RSPCA_PATeam @RSPCA_official @RSPCA_Frontline pic.twitter.com/NxNAwo9emU

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 30, 2021

 

 

Meet the 'independent' team of RSPCA inspectors monitoring salmon farms in Scotland for welfare abuse - headed by a former salmon farm manager @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/dnZk1bhb0M@rspcaassured @RSPCA_official @RSPCAChris @RSPCA_PATeam @ChrisGPackham @BillOddie @brianblessed pic.twitter.com/KuMscepU5U

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 29, 2021

 

 

RSPCA Sponsored Welfare Abuse of Salmon Farms - A Guide to Getting Away with Mass Murder (Theriocide)https://t.co/dnZk1bhb0M @rspcaassured @RSPCAChris @CliveBrazier @RSPCA_official @RSPCA_PATeam @RachRSPCA @ChrisGPackham @onekindtweet @ciwf @Animallawyersuk @LynneUSneddon #RSPCA pic.twitter.com/fvBv9dRavi

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 19, 2021

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 31, 2021

 

 

RSPCA sell their soul to Scottish farmed salmon for £500k per year https://t.co/2pKeU23WiP @rspcaassured @SundayTimesScot @onekindtweet @ciwf @RSPCA_official @RSPCAChris

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 9, 2020

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms! https://t.co/PHFsqdRJ7i @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @ScottishSPCA @APHAgovuk @ProfCMDwyer @LynneUSneddon @ciwf @Animallawyersuk @vivacampaigns @Ecohustler pic.twitter.com/RLJYPfe1w8

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2022

 

$camon $cotland recently spent six days in the Sound of Mull and Loch Creran secretly filming inside RSPCA Assured salmon farms operated by Scottish Sea Farms (exclusive supplier to Marks & Spencer) - we successfully visited four salmon farms (Fiunary, Fishnish, Scallastle Bay and Creran) on six separate occasions early in the morning and after work hours in the evening between 3rd and 8th July 2022.   

 

Video Nasty: Exposing Scottish Sea Farms - sold exclusively via Marks & Spencer!https://t.co/3tnzEKqSTL @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @rspcaassured @ScottishSPCA @LeroySeafood @ScotlandSalmon @ciwf @onekindtweet @Animallawyersuk @Ecohustler

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 18, 2022

 

 

Our exclusive video footage - and gruesome photos - represents damning evidence of welfare abuse and forms the basis of a welfare complaint filed today (11th July 2022) with Police Scotland's Wildlife Crime Unit, the Animal and Plant Health Agency, Marine Scotland, the SSPCA and the RSPCA (download via Welfare Complaint vs Scottish Sea Farms in Sound of Mull & Loch Creran 11 July 2022).  

 

 

"Farmed fish are owed a duty of care & protection from unnecessary suffering under animal welfare law" (Edie Bowles @Animallawyersuk) "The findings in this most recent investigation suggest that these legal requirements are not being adequately enforced" @APHAgovuk @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/IRwR8UOLaP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2022

 

 

 

Please read more via a press release and media backgrounder online here - and here's the horrific video footage (please feel free to share and tell your friends and family not to eat Scottish salmon):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've spent the last week filming inside lice-infested salmon farms on the West coast of Scotland - please boycott Scottish salmon! @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @ScotlandSalmon @ScottishSPCA @Animallawyersuk @ciwf @onekindtweet @Ecohustler https://t.co/qf0wUMwZLY

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 10, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video Nasty: Secret Filming at M&S's "Responsibly Sourced" @rspcaassured Scottish Sea Farms in the Sound of Mull https://t.co/SXS5PpFr3M
Please boycott Scottish salmon! @scotseafarms @ScotlandSalmon @marksandspencer @LeroySeafood @ScottishSPCA @APHAgovuk @marinescotland

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Help Wanted: Call out to video editors who can cut footage into short clips - are you Edward Scissorhands? Video footage from secret filming inside Scottish salmon farms is freely available via https://t.co/PHFsqdA7II
Can you cut it like @Murosyresisten? https://t.co/ATfa4gYZz4 pic.twitter.com/DziVzgMx1V

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 15, 2022

 

 

Extractivismo y Muerte. Captan inéditas imágenes de salmones en centros cultivo de Escocia.Nada distinto a lo que está pasando impunemente dentro de áreas protegidas en Patagonia. @DefendamsChiloe @theGAAIA pic.twitter.com/1JTwN6LgZa

— Murosyresistencia (@Murosyresisten) July 14, 2022

 

 

 

Read more via:

Photos of Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms

M&S Irresponsibly Sourced Scottish Salmon (as greenwashed by RSPCA Assured)!

Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) Report "Biological Challenges" (i.e. Deaths & Disease)!

Anyone for M&S’s Virus-Laden Scottish Salmon (don’t worry, it’s “responsibly sourced” & RSPCA Assured)?!

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

Ecohustler sticks it to "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon sold by M&S!

Video of France 5s 'The Truth About Salmon' featuring Mowi & The Scottish Salmon Company You Tube Streams 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' - watch the lid lifted on Scottish salmon!

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

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

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

Video Compilation of Welfare Abuse Inside Salmon & Steelhead Trout Farms in Scotland!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Secret Filming Exposes RSPCA ‘Abused’ Scottish Salmon - Welfare Complaint Filed Against M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms

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

Letter to Police Scotland re. violence & hostility by salmon farmers blocking filming

Policing Scottish Salmon: Landmark Victory for Surveillance of Fish Farms

Video Nasty: Death Threat & Assault by Salmon Farmer for Questioning Use of Carcinogenic Chemicals at Kames!

Lithgow Baron Warned by Police for Threatening Behaviour Over Filming at Hendrix Genetics

The Camera Never Lies About Scottish Salmon!

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

Video Nasty: Chemically Embalmed Scottish Salmon at Kames in Loch Tralaig

Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Kames

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

Video Nasty: Thermolicer - the Heated Torture Chamber for Scottish Salmon

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

Video Nasty: Mowi's Dead Salmon at 'Bay of the Dead Heads'

Shocking Video Footage from Mowi's 'Bay of the Dead Heads' (Bagh Dail nan Ceann)

The Go Pro Camera Never Lies (Unlike Salmon Farmers)

 

 

 

 

 

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

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

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) October 22, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ADDENDUM:

 

 

Welfare complaint filed vs Scottish Sea Farms for 'unnecessary suffering' in the Sound of Mull & Loch Creran @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @ScotlandSalmon @APHAgovuk @policescotland
@ukwildlifecrime @ScottishSPCA @CVOScotland @ProfCMDwyer @LynneUSneddon https://t.co/4hg9Ek5mht pic.twitter.com/3VG4KnLG7r

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2022

 

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 7:41 AM
Subject: Welfare Complaint vs Scottish Sea Farms in Sound of Mull & Loch Creran
To: SCD Wildlife Crime <SCDWildlifeCrime@scotland.pnn.police.uk>

Please consider this a formal complaint against Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk) for breaches of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 with respect to ‘Unnecessary Suffering’ (Section 19) and ‘Ensuring Welfare of Animals’ (Section 24). Video evidence shot inside four salmon farms in the Sound of Mull (Fiunary, Fishnish B and Scallastle Bay) and in Loch Creran (Creran A) between 3^rd and 8^th July 2022 presents damning evidence of welfare abuse, lice infestation, infectious diseases and mass mortalities:

 

Welfare Complaint vs Scottish Sea Farms in Sound of Mull & Loch Creran 11 July 2022

 

 

 

 

The welfare complaint is also attached as a PDF.

 

Read more via:

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms

 

Photos of Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Don Staniford

 

Director, $camon $cotland

 

 

 

 

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 8:00 AM
Subject: Welfare Complaint vs Scottish Sea Farms in Sound of Mull & Loch Creran
To: <MFlynn@scottishspca.org>, <kcampbell@scottishspca.org>, <executive@rspca.org.uk>, Help Account <help@rspcaassured.org.uk>, Hello <hello@rspcaassured.org.uk>, Clive Brazier <clive.brazier@rspcaassured.org.uk>
Cc: <sales@scottishseafarms.com>, <Steven.Mclean@marks-and-spencer.com>, <steve.rowe@marks-and-spencer.com>, <environment@scottishseafarms.com>, <post@leroyseafood.com>, <sjur.malm@leroy.no>, <henning.beltestad@leroy.no>, <salmar@salmar.no>, <hakon.husby@salmar.no>, <Gunnar.Nielsen@salmar.no>, M&S Executive Office <chairman@customersupport.marksandspencer.com>

Please consider this a formal complaint against Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk) for breaches of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 with respect to ‘Unnecessary Suffering’ (Section 19) and ‘Ensuring Welfare of Animals’ (Section 24). Video evidence shot inside four salmon farms in the Sound of Mull (Fiunary, Fishnish B and Scallastle Bay) and in Loch Creran (Creran A) between 3^rd and 8^th July 2022 presents damning evidence of welfare abuse, lice infestation, infectious diseases and mass mortalities:

 

Welfare Complaint vs Scottish Sea Farms in Sound of Mull & Loch Creran 11 July 2022

 

 

 

 

The welfare complaint is also attached as a PDF.

 

Read more via:

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms

 

Photos of Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Don Staniford

 

Director, $camon $cotland

 

 

 

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 7:48 AM
Subject: Welfare Complaint vs Scottish Sea Farms in Sound of Mull & Loch Creran
To: SM-APHA-Enquiries APHA <enquiries@apha.gov.uk>, <APHA.Scotland@apha.gsi.gov.uk>, APHA Corporate Correspondence <apha.corporatecorrespondence@apha.gsi.gov.uk>, <george.eustice.mp@parliament.uk>, <scottish.ministers@gov.scot>, <defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk>
Cc: Burgess A (Ariane), MSP <Ariane.Burgess.msp@parliament.scot>, Johnstone A (Alison), MSP <Alison.Johnstone.msp@parliament.scot>, Cathy Dwyer <cathy.dwyer@sruc.ac.uk>, Grahame C (Christine), MSP <Christine.Grahame.msp@parliament.scot>, Ruskell M (Mark), MSP <Mark.Ruskell.msp@parliament.scot>, Beamish C (Claudia), MSP <Claudia.Beamish.msp@parliament.scot>, <sheila.voas@gov.scot>

Please consider this a formal complaint against Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk) for breaches of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 with respect to ‘Unnecessary Suffering’ (Section 19) and ‘Ensuring Welfare of Animals’ (Section 24). Video evidence shot inside four salmon farms in the Sound of Mull (Fiunary, Fishnish B and Scallastle Bay) and in Loch Creran (Creran A) between 3^rd and 8^th July 2022 presents damning evidence of welfare abuse, lice infestation, infectious diseases and mass mortalities:

 

Welfare Complaint vs Scottish Sea Farms in Sound of Mull & Loch Creran 11 July 2022

 

 

 

 

The welfare complaint is also attached as a PDF.

 

Read more via:

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms

 

Photos of Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Don Staniford

 

Director, $camon $cotland

 

 

 

 

What enforcement action is being undertaken to stop systematic welfare abuse inside salmon farms? @rspcaassured @APHAgovuk @marinescotland @scotseafarms @ScottishSPCA @marksandspencer @ProfCMDwyer @CVOScotland @MairiGougeon @ScotlandSalmon @philip_ciwf https://t.co/PHFsqdRJ7i https://t.co/ZVn8DEZo6y pic.twitter.com/HAB4yIj6zj

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2022

Photos of Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms! https://t.co/PHFsqdRJ7i @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @ScottishSPCA @APHAgovuk @ProfCMDwyer @LynneUSneddon @ciwf @Animallawyersuk @vivacampaigns @Ecohustler pic.twitter.com/RLJYPfe1w8

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2022

 

Download high resolution photos of welfare abuse inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms (sourced from video footage taken by $camon $cotland between 3rd and 8th July 2022):

 

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Welfare complaint filed vs Scottish Sea Farms for 'unnecessary suffering' in the Sound of Mull & Loch Creran @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @ScotlandSalmon @APHAgovuk @policescotland
@ukwildlifecrime @ScottishSPCA @CVOScotland @ProfCMDwyer @LynneUSneddon https://t.co/4hg9Ek5mht pic.twitter.com/3VG4KnLG7r

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2022

 

 

 

Watch video reports shot inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms (3rd to 8 July 2022) via:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Farmed fish are owed a duty of care & protection from unnecessary suffering under animal welfare law" (Edie Bowles @Animallawyersuk) "The findings in this most recent investigation suggest that these legal requirements are not being adequately enforced" @APHAgovuk @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/IRwR8UOLaP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2022

 

 

 

Read more via:

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms

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

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

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

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

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

Damning Disease Report for RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Spelve

Photo Exclusive: Seals 'Executed' by Scottish Salmon

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

Photo Dossier of Diseased, Deformed & Abused Scottish Salmon

EXPOSED: Photo Disclosures Opens Floodgates to More Diseased & Deformed Scottish Salmon

Photos of Secret Filming at Scottish & Irish Salmon Farms

Whistleblower Photos of Marine Harvest

Whistleblower Photos of The Scottish Salmon Company

EXPOSED: Gruesome Photos of Deformed & Diseased Scottish Salmon

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 2, 2020

 

Media Backgrounder: RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Exposed

 

Welfare complaint filed vs Scottish Sea Farms for 'unnecessary suffering' in the Sound of Mull & Loch Creran @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @ScotlandSalmon @APHAgovuk @policescotland
@ukwildlifecrime @ScottishSPCA @CVOScotland @ProfCMDwyer @LynneUSneddon https://t.co/4hg9Ek5mht pic.twitter.com/3VG4KnLG7r

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2022

 

Download in full online via: Media Backgrounder: RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Exposed (July 2022)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Download in full online via: Media Backgrounder: RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Exposed (July 2022)

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms
• Photos of Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms
• M&S Irresponsibly Sourced Scottish Salmon (as greenwashed by RSPCA Assured)!
• 'Silent Spring of the Sea' talk by Don Staniford online now!
• Boycott Mowi's Toxic Pharmed Salmon!
• Press Release: "Smoked Scottish Salmon: Neonicotinoid Use Dead in the Water in Scotland?"
• Norwegian Pharmed Salmon Marinaded in Neonicotinoid - over 3.25 tonnes of Imidacloprid used in 2021!
• Norway Symposium: "Silent Spring of the Sea - Salmon Pharming Kills Shellfish & Other Marine Life"
• Exposed: 10 Million Morts at RSPCA Assured Mowi Since 2019!

 

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms! https://t.co/PHFsqdRJ7i @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @ScottishSPCA @APHAgovuk @ProfCMDwyer @LynneUSneddon @ciwf @Animallawyersuk @vivacampaigns @Ecohustler pic.twitter.com/RLJYPfe1w8

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2022

 

 

 

"Farmed fish are owed a duty of care & protection from unnecessary suffering under animal welfare law" (Edie Bowles @Animallawyersuk) "The findings in this most recent investigation suggest that these legal requirements are not being adequately enforced" @APHAgovuk @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/IRwR8UOLaP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2022

 

M&S Irresponsibly Sourced Scottish Salmon (as greenwashed by RSPCA Assured)!

 

Please boycott irresponsibly sourced Scottish Salmon - as greenwashed by @rspcaassured @scotseafarms & @marksandspencer https://t.co/xs2XwPzOCc@Ecohustler @Folketrygdfond @LeroySeafood @ScotlandSalmon @SalmonScotland pic.twitter.com/xNGATeh4TB

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 30, 2022

 

Earlier this week (28 June), $camon $cotland visited the head office of farmed salmon greenwashers Marks & Spencers in London:

 

 

 

 

$camon $cotland is supporting Ecohustler's campaign against M&S:

 

 

 

 

"The Ecohustler salmon campaign has successfully raised awareness about issues around the factory farming of salmon," said Matt Mellen of Ecohustler in an exclusive interview this week.  "Our videos and articles have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.  Off the back of this we secured 115,000 signitures calling for M&S to lead the way, be honest and stop calling the factory farmed salmon 'responsibly sourced'.  M&S have engaged in a dialogue but they are not shifting their position which we are very disappointed in.  The M&S brand is supposed to have quality and sustainability baked in and this is clearly not the case with their salmon products."

 

 

 

 

Sign Ecohustler's petition online here

 

 

#Greenwash alert / thread! 🚨

M&S say their factory farmed #salmon is "responsibly sourced." 💩

We know this is not true.

This summer, 115,000 UK shoppers signed our petition calling on M&S to come clean about the true impacts. 🌍

They are ignoring us - so we are escalating. pic.twitter.com/wQKpRzsuTv

— Ecohustler (@Ecohustler) November 23, 2021

 

 

 

 

Ecohustler posted on Instagram (19 November 2021):

 

 

 

 

 

Watch a video of a protest outside M&S last year by Ecohustler:

 

 

 

 

$camon $cotland wrote to M&S (who sources "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon from Scottish Sea Farms) back in February:

 

 

 

 

Anyone for M&S’s Virus-Laden Scottish Salmon (don’t worry, it’s “responsibly sourced” & @rspcaassured)?!https://t.co/A1AHbV9xFs @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @RSPCA_PATeam @Ecohustler
How many ISA-ridden Scottish salmon have been sold by M&S? #marksandspencer pic.twitter.com/kkNz7OcV1F

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 14, 2022

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in December 2021:

 

 

'Scottish' Sea Farms (real name Norskott Havbruk @LeroySeafood) claim an annual mortality rate of 9%* @scotseafarms yet data @ScotlandSalmon shows average cummulative mortality at farms harvested out in 2020 & 2021 was 14% with 41% in Loch Kishorn! https://t.co/YP7xPmmrFt pic.twitter.com/zOmL4I5G4S

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 13, 2021

 

 

 

 

In November 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch filed complaints with advertising and trading Standards - including against M&S's "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon:

 

 

 

 

In July 2020, Scottish Sea Farms called the police after Matt Mellen of Ecohustler dived near a salmon farm in Loch Creran leading to a landmark apology from Police Scotland:

 

Scottish Sea Farms "sent a barge around seemingly to ram us" @Ecohustler "Then they called the police" @policescotland "tormenting sentient animals is okay but snorkeling over to witness the carnage is not" @scotseafarms https://t.co/8enYytYDRV @LeroySeafood @H_S_E @MCA_media pic.twitter.com/BBV8Hnij7i

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 28, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Sea Farms called the police in July 2019 when Scottish Salmon Watch dared to sail close to a salmon farm at Shuna in Loch Linne:

 

 

 

This is a very serious issue of @policescotland attempting to deny the public right to navigate freely. This is #Scotland moving towards #Trump politics. @HumzaYousaf @ScotGovFM @marinescotland @strathearnrose @markruskell https://t.co/hs8437gqKq

— Howard Wood (@howardlwood) July 15, 2019

 

 

 

 

It's not difficult to understand why Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) wants the public to stay away from their disease-ridden cages.   Here's photos of disease-ridden salmon farmed by Scottish Sea Farms (obtained via FOI despite threats by lawyers acting for Scottish Sea Farms and The Scottish Salmon Company):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 2, 2020

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in June 2021 that Scottish Sea Farms had quietly dropped ther 'Lochmuir' fake branding in favour of the much-maligned RSPCA Assured certification: 

 

M&S "phase out" Lochmuir fake brand in favour of RSPCA Assured - out of the frying pan into the fire!https://t.co/rufoN76EJl @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @rspcaassured
Thanks to @feedbackorg & @Ecohustler for campaigning against fake farmed salmon! @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/UaQKUBAW5x

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 17, 2021

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) Report "Biological Challenges" (i.e. Deaths & Disease)!

Anyone for M&S’s Virus-Laden Scottish Salmon (don’t worry, it’s “responsibly sourced” & RSPCA Assured)?!

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

ISA hits Scottish Sea Farms owner SalMar in Norway - how many hidden cases are lurking on salmon farms in Scotland?

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

Ecohustler sticks it to "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon sold by M&S!

The Salmon Dance - M&S petition hand in event

Breaking News: ISA reported at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms on the Isle of Mull

Damning Disease Report for RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Spelve

M&S "phase out" Lochmuir fake brand in favour of RSPCA Assured - out of the frying pan into the fire!

Caveat Emptor - M&S's Fake 'Lochmuir' Scottish Salmon (sourced from Norwegian-owned Scottish Sea Farms)

"Over 50" Lice Per Fish at Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Kishorn

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

EXPOSED: Photo Disclosures Opens Floodgates to More Diseased & Deformed Scottish Salmon

Welfare Warning for Scottish Salmon - stormy waters & prolonged periods of pain forecast!

Herald: "Scottish salmon found in ‘sickening’ conditions across Scotland as sea lice problem escalates"

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

 

 

Bullshit Called on M&S's "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon! @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @Folketrygdfond @ScotlandSalmon @CMAgovUK @ASA_UK @TSScot @Ecohustler https://t.co/xw85ROAlM8 pic.twitter.com/qx1JoGZbg1

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 23, 2021

 

 

Still think your @marksandspencer salmon is "responsibly sourced"?

Company supplying farmed #salmon to M&S officially reprimanded for misreporting toxic #pesticide use at 25 fish farms over three years -@FerretScot - https://t.co/iyZr4AI14V#Food #Ethics #environnement pic.twitter.com/IT3N1xEN7y

— Ecohustler (@Ecohustler) December 9, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in June 2021 that Scottish Sea Farms had quietly dropped ther 'Lochmuir' fake branding in favour of the much-maligned RSPCA Assured certification: 

 

M&S "phase out" Lochmuir fake brand in favour of RSPCA Assured - out of the frying pan into the fire!https://t.co/rufoN76EJl @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @rspcaassured
Thanks to @feedbackorg & @Ecohustler for campaigning against fake farmed salmon! @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/UaQKUBAW5x

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 17, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in June 2021 that Scottish Sea Farms had quietly dropped ther 'Lochmuir' fake branding in favour of the much-maligned RSPCA Assured certification: 

 

M&S "phase out" Lochmuir fake brand in favour of RSPCA Assured - out of the frying pan into the fire!https://t.co/rufoN76EJl @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @rspcaassured
Thanks to @feedbackorg & @Ecohustler for campaigning against fake farmed salmon! @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/UaQKUBAW5x

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 17, 2021

'Silent Spring of the Sea' talk by Don Staniford online now!

 

'Silent Spring of the Sea' - video of a Powerpoint presenation by Don Staniford at a science symposium @UiB https://t.co/sUXN5UIuPc
Please boycott toxic pharmed salmon! @WeAreBenchmark @MowiScotlandLtd @LeroySeafood @scotseafarms @Havforskningen @Naturvern @Jeroen_vdSluijs

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 29, 2022

 

 

Here's a video of my talk at the University of Bergen's science symposium on toxic pesticides earlier this month:

 

 

 

 

 

Recordings from our symposium with @TaskForceSP on systemic #pesticides and the #biodiversity crisis are now available on the event page: https://t.co/DWdr9t1dzg @Jeroen_vdSluijs @BeeLifeEU @NoaSimonDelso @AndersGoks @TheGAAIA @UniNeuchatel @ZEMBLA @VenetoAgricoltu @GlobalCoral

— Senter for vitenskapsteori (@vitenskapsteori) June 29, 2022

 

 

Download my presentation as a Powerpoint online here

 

 

 

 

Here's a video shot outside Benchmark's office in Bergen:

 

 

 

 

 

And here's a video shot outside Mowi's head office in Bergen:

 

 

 

 

Watch out for a documentary - "How Chemical Giants Destroyed our Ecosystem" - to be broadcast on French TV next month.  Here's a clip featuring scientific evidence of impacts of Imidacloprid on wild fish in Japan:

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

• Press Release: "Smoked Scottish Salmon: Neonicotinoid Use Dead in the Water in Scotland?"
• Norwegian Pharmed Salmon Marinaded in Neonicotinoid - over 3.25 tonnes of Imidacloprid used in 2021!
• Norway Symposium: "Silent Spring of the Sea - Salmon Pharming Kills Shellfish & Other Marine Life"
• Toxic Salmon: FOI Reveals Lobbying To Use Banned Neonicotinoid in Scotland - will trials of Imidacloprid take place this year?
• "Novichok for Insects" Unleashed on Scottish Salmon This Summer?
• Benchmark Gears Up for Imidacloprid Use in Norway: "keenly awaited by salmon farmers in Scotland"!
• Vets & Scientists Voice Concerns Vs Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Pharming - Letter published in Veterinary Record
• ASC endorses banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in salmon farming
• "SEPA has not received an application to use Imidacloprid" admits Scottish Government
• Private Eye: "Toxic Relationship"
• Norway Deploys Banned Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid - Scotland, Chile & Canada Next in Firing Line!
• The Ferret: "Watchdog helped pesticide firm avoid freedom of information"
• Toxic Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Collared by Legal Petition in US - are investors in Ectosan Vet/BMK08/D-10 Aquatic Blast feeling hot under the collar?
• Scottish Government backtracks on neonicotinoid use in salmon pharming: "there is no planned imminent approval of Imidacloprid"
• Dirty Secrets Exposed: FOI Disclosure by SEPA on Benchmark's Banned Neonicotinoid Ectosan/BMK08 (Imidacloprid)
• Salmon Pharming's 'Silent Spring' of the Sea
• "New weapon against salmon lice" reports Norwegian media (failing to mention Ectosan is the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid)
• Norway Approves Banned Bee-Killing Neonicotinoid for Use on Norwegian Salmon - Scotland, Chile & Canada Next In Firing Line!
• Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Dogged by Lawsuits, Bans & Deaths - Is Benchmark's BMK08 in the doghouse or will it be unleashed?
• Canadian field trials of the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid on salmon farms?
• Norwegian Environment Agency FOI reply lifts lid on banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid
• Interferencia: "Salmon Farming - Norwegian company seeks to commercialize in Chile a pesticide banned by the EU for being 'very toxic' to aquatic life"
• Anyone for Norwegian Salmon Marinaded in the Banned Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (don't worry it's ASC-approved)?!
• "EU deals potential setback to Benchmark’s rollout of new sea lice treatment"
• Fish Farmer: "MEPs condemn new lice treatment: who's right" "
• "EU setback for novel lice treatment"
• Breaking News: Victory in Europe - Parliament votes against the use of the toxic neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in farmed salmon!
• Fish Farming Expert: "Novel lice treatment threatened by European Parliament vote"
• Wave of European Opposition to Benchmark's Imidacloprid (BMK08) - the tide turns against neonicotinoids in salmon pharming!
• European Opposition to Neonicotinoid Contamination of Farmed Salmon - is BMK08 (Imidacloprid) dead in the water?
• The Guardian: "‘Novichok for insects’ may be approved for Scottish fish farms"
• Who are the toxic team lurking behind Benchmark's BMK08 (Imidacloprid) in Scottish salmon pharming?
• The Ferret: "Bee-killing pesticide treatment for fish farms backed by Scottish Government"
• Cleaning Tox-Sick Scottish Salmon - Benchmark's magic trick making the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid disappear!
• Rumsfeldian Fish Philosophy - Things We Know We Know, Things We Now Know We Don't Know & Things We Don't Know We Don't Know About 'Scottish' Salmon!
• SEPA ordered by Commissioner to Disclose 'Commercially Confidential' Information on CleanTreat & BMK08 (Imidacloprid) by 7 June
• Warning: Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming "Clears Another Hurdle" With European MRL
• Warning: Imidacloprid Moves A Step Closer to Commercial Use in Salmon Farming
• Nasty Neonicotinoid Plagues Salmon Farming in 2021
• Toxic Neonicotinoid "Close to Commercial Launch" in Salmon Farming!
• New Science Dogs Approval of Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid for Scottish Salmon!
• Imidacloprid Use in Scottish Salmon Farming?
• Secret Salmon - On the Trail of Imidacloprid Use in Scotland!
• British Wildlife: "Neonics in Salmon Farming - Alarm Bells Are Ringing"
• Caveat Chile - toxic neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (BMK08) coming soon!
• Toxic Politics - Meet the Scottish Government's Minister for Sinister Chemicals
• Imidacloprid Licensed for Use by Mowi in Loch Ailort?
• Further Scientific Opposition to Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming
• Patent lifts lid on neonicotinoid use in salmon farming
• Horrible History: Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming
• Scientific Opposition to Neonicotinoid Use in Salmon Farming
• Backgrounder: "Imidacloprid - A Neonicotinoid Insecticide Toxic to Aquatic Life"
• BBC Farming Today on "Neonicotinoids in Salmon Farming"
• Sunday Times: "Outlawed insecticide may be used on Scottish salmon"
• FOI letter on Scientific Concerns re. Imidacloprid Use in Scottish Salmon Farming
• Scottish Greens "Deeply Concerned" at Mowi's Field Trial of Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in Loch Ailort
• Letter to the Prince of Wales re. bee-killing Imidacloprid use at royal warrant holder Mowi
• Secret Trials: 'Royal' Salmon Doused with Bee-Killing Insecticide Imidacloprid?
• Follow the Salmoney - the Norwegian tobacco billionaire behind the Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid
• ENDS Report: "Calls for greater transparency over ‘toxic’ new fish farm product"
• Letter to SEPA: Please Come Clean on Imidacloprid!
• Letter to Scottish Ministers, SEPA & the VMD re. Imidacloprid
• FOI requests on Imidacloprid to SEPA, VMD & the Scottish Government
• Revealed: Toxic Neonicotinoid Insecticide Used to 'CleanTreat' Lousy Salmon
• Please Come Clean on BMK08!
• Sunday Times: "Official fears revealed over toxic threat of salmon trade"
• Cleaning Tox-Sick Scottish Salmon
• CleanTreat FOI Disclosures by the Scottish Government to Scottish Salmon Watch
• Media Backgrounder: Chemically Embalmed Scottish Salmon
• All is Not Well With Sick Scottish Salmon

 

 

Smoked Scottish Salmon: Neonicotinoid Use Dead in the Water in Scotland? https://t.co/HCOIZBdLku
“Dear Ms Sturgeon, there is no justification for using Imidacloprid as a pesticide in any foodchain” @NicolaSturgeon @scotgov @ScotGovNetZero @marinescotland @ScottishEPA @scotgp pic.twitter.com/GDA4l1hyIu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 7, 2022

 

Boycott Mowi's Toxic Pharmed Salmon!

 

 

Boycott Mowi's Toxic Pharmed Salmon! https://t.co/qLae2DJD6X pic.twitter.com/Hv5kXOMnCT

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 1, 2022

 

 

 

 

Earlier this month I visited Norway to speak at a science symposium at the University of Bergen on the use of toxic pesticides - you can watch my presentation online via: 'Silent Spring of the Sea' talk by Don Staniford

 

'Silent Spring of the Sea' - video of a Powerpoint presenation by Don Staniford at a science symposium @UiB https://t.co/sUXN5UIuPc
Please boycott toxic pharmed salmon! @WeAreBenchmark @MowiScotlandLtd @LeroySeafood @scotseafarms @Havforskningen @Naturvern @Jeroen_vdSluijs

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 29, 2022

 

 

 

I also visited Norwegian behemoth Mowi - by far the largest salmon farming company in the world - at their head office in Bergen to warn consumers against consuming toxic pharmed salmon:

 

 

 

 

 

The use of toxic chemicals - including the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid - in Norwegian salmon pharming is absolutley shocking and leaves a nasty taste in the mouth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's toxic chemical use data published in April 2022 by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health which reveals the toxic nature of salmon pharming in Norway:

 

 

Over 3.25 tonnes of the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid - dubbed 'Novichok for insects' @DaveGoulson - were used on salmon farms in Norway in 2021 (according to data published by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health @Folkehelseinst) @WeAreBenchmark https://t.co/TNORW0iTsX pic.twitter.com/9m8rHkovWu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 1, 2022

 

 

 

It is no wonder that a documentary hailed Norwegian farmed salmon as "the world's most toxic food".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mowi is owned by Norway's 'Viking Raider' John Fredriksen - ranked 158th on the Forbes Billionaires List with $11.7 billion and 18th on The Sunday Times 'Rich List'.  Here's video footage of his £200 million mansion in Chelsea - dubbed 'Britain's Most Expensive House':

 

 

 

Video: The Wolf of Chelsea: Mowi’s billionaire owner John Fredriksen - the £200 million mansion Abramovich’s millions couldn’t buy https://t.co/eBSLtomn44 @MowiScotlandLtd #Chelsea

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 27, 2022

 

 

 

When you buy Mowi's "responsibly sourced", RSPCA Assured and ASC certified farmed salmon here's the horrific welfare abuse, infectious diseases and mass mortalities you're buying into:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Download graphics online here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New campaign launched against Norwegian giant https://t.co/mnTlXCTVne
"Mowi is Madness, Mowi is Badness"
May the 4th Protest Against Toxic Salmon - may the force of wild salmon be with you! @MowiScotlandLtd @ScotlandMowi @ScotlandSalmon @aquacultureuk @DiversifiedUK #Mowi

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 16, 2022

 

 

 

 

Please take the pledge not to eat toxic pharmed salmon!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more on Mowi's toxic legacy, infectious diseases and mass mortalities via:

'Silent Spring of the Sea' talk by Don Staniford online now!

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

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

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

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

Mowi Vs Staniford Lawsuit - Making Waves in 2022!

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

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

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

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

Mass mortalities at ASC-certified Mowi!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deadly Mowi - the Horror Story Continues!

'Moribund' Mowi: Salmon Gill Poxvirus, Amoebic Gill Disease & Anaemia at Ardintoul

Revealed: Mowi's Nightmare in Loch Linnhe - 55% Mortality & Infectious Diseases

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

Whistleblower Photos of Marine Harvest

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 25, 2021

 

Press Release: "Smoked Scottish Salmon: Neonicotinoid Use Dead in the Water in Scotland?"

 

Smoked Scottish Salmon: Neonicotinoid Use Dead in the Water in Scotland? https://t.co/HCOIZBdLku
“Dear Ms Sturgeon, there is no justification for using Imidacloprid as a pesticide in any foodchain” @NicolaSturgeon @scotgov @ScotGovNetZero @marinescotland @ScottishEPA @scotgp pic.twitter.com/GDA4l1hyIu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 7, 2022

 

 

Here's a press release issued today (7 June 2022) by $camon $cotland:

Smoked Scottish Salmon: Neonicotinoid Use Dead in the Water in Scotland?

 

 

 

Download press release in full with a media backgrounder online here

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

FOI Backgrounder: Imidacloprid Disclosure by the Scottish Government (30 May 2022)

 

 

 

More news via:

• Norwegian Pharmed Salmon Marinaded in Neonicotinoid - over 3.25 tonnes of Imidacloprid used in 2021!
• Norway Symposium: "Silent Spring of the Sea - Salmon Pharming Kills Shellfish & Other Marine Life"
• Toxic Salmon: FOI Reveals Lobbying To Use Banned Neonicotinoid in Scotland - will trials of Imidacloprid take place this year?
• "Novichok for Insects" Unleashed on Scottish Salmon This Summer?
• Benchmark Gears Up for Imidacloprid Use in Norway: "keenly awaited by salmon farmers in Scotland"!
• Vets & Scientists Voice Concerns Vs Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Pharming - Letter published in Veterinary Record
• ASC endorses banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in salmon farming
• "SEPA has not received an application to use Imidacloprid" admits Scottish Government
• Private Eye: "Toxic Relationship"
• Norway Deploys Banned Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid - Scotland, Chile & Canada Next in Firing Line!
• The Ferret: "Watchdog helped pesticide firm avoid freedom of information"
• Toxic Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Collared by Legal Petition in US - are investors in Ectosan Vet/BMK08/D-10 Aquatic Blast feeling hot under the collar?
• Scottish Government backtracks on neonicotinoid use in salmon pharming: "there is no planned imminent approval of Imidacloprid"
• Dirty Secrets Exposed: FOI Disclosure by SEPA on Benchmark's Banned Neonicotinoid Ectosan/BMK08 (Imidacloprid)
• Salmon Pharming's 'Silent Spring' of the Sea
• "New weapon against salmon lice" reports Norwegian media (failing to mention Ectosan is the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid)
• Norway Approves Banned Bee-Killing Neonicotinoid for Use on Norwegian Salmon - Scotland, Chile & Canada Next In Firing Line!
• Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Dogged by Lawsuits, Bans & Deaths - Is Benchmark's BMK08 in the doghouse or will it be unleashed?
• Canadian field trials of the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid on salmon farms?
• Norwegian Environment Agency FOI reply lifts lid on banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid
• Interferencia: "Salmon Farming - Norwegian company seeks to commercialize in Chile a pesticide banned by the EU for being 'very toxic' to aquatic life"
• Anyone for Norwegian Salmon Marinaded in the Banned Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (don't worry it's ASC-approved)?!
• "EU deals potential setback to Benchmark’s rollout of new sea lice treatment"
• Fish Farmer: "MEPs condemn new lice treatment: who's right" "
• "EU setback for novel lice treatment"
• Breaking News: Victory in Europe - Parliament votes against the use of the toxic neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in farmed salmon!
• Fish Farming Expert: "Novel lice treatment threatened by European Parliament vote"
• Wave of European Opposition to Benchmark's Imidacloprid (BMK08) - the tide turns against neonicotinoids in salmon pharming!
• European Opposition to Neonicotinoid Contamination of Farmed Salmon - is BMK08 (Imidacloprid) dead in the water?
• The Guardian: "‘Novichok for insects’ may be approved for Scottish fish farms"
• Who are the toxic team lurking behind Benchmark's BMK08 (Imidacloprid) in Scottish salmon pharming?
• The Ferret: "Bee-killing pesticide treatment for fish farms backed by Scottish Government"
• Cleaning Tox-Sick Scottish Salmon - Benchmark's magic trick making the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid disappear!
• Rumsfeldian Fish Philosophy - Things We Know We Know, Things We Now Know We Don't Know & Things We Don't Know We Don't Know About 'Scottish' Salmon!
• SEPA ordered by Commissioner to Disclose 'Commercially Confidential' Information on CleanTreat & BMK08 (Imidacloprid) by 7 June
• Warning: Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming "Clears Another Hurdle" With European MRL
• Warning: Imidacloprid Moves A Step Closer to Commercial Use in Salmon Farming
• Nasty Neonicotinoid Plagues Salmon Farming in 2021
• Toxic Neonicotinoid "Close to Commercial Launch" in Salmon Farming!
• New Science Dogs Approval of Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid for Scottish Salmon!
• Imidacloprid Use in Scottish Salmon Farming?
• Secret Salmon - On the Trail of Imidacloprid Use in Scotland!
• British Wildlife: "Neonics in Salmon Farming - Alarm Bells Are Ringing"
• Caveat Chile - toxic neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (BMK08) coming soon!
• Toxic Politics - Meet the Scottish Government's Minister for Sinister Chemicals
• Imidacloprid Licensed for Use by Mowi in Loch Ailort?
• Further Scientific Opposition to Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming
• Patent lifts lid on neonicotinoid use in salmon farming
• Horrible History: Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming
• Scientific Opposition to Neonicotinoid Use in Salmon Farming
• Backgrounder: "Imidacloprid - A Neonicotinoid Insecticide Toxic to Aquatic Life"
• BBC Farming Today on "Neonicotinoids in Salmon Farming"
• Sunday Times: "Outlawed insecticide may be used on Scottish salmon"
• FOI letter on Scientific Concerns re. Imidacloprid Use in Scottish Salmon Farming
• Scottish Greens "Deeply Concerned" at Mowi's Field Trial of Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in Loch Ailort
• Letter to the Prince of Wales re. bee-killing Imidacloprid use at royal warrant holder Mowi
• Secret Trials: 'Royal' Salmon Doused with Bee-Killing Insecticide Imidacloprid?
• Follow the Salmoney - the Norwegian tobacco billionaire behind the Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid
• ENDS Report: "Calls for greater transparency over ‘toxic’ new fish farm product"
• Letter to SEPA: Please Come Clean on Imidacloprid!
• Letter to Scottish Ministers, SEPA & the VMD re. Imidacloprid
• FOI requests on Imidacloprid to SEPA, VMD & the Scottish Government
• Revealed: Toxic Neonicotinoid Insecticide Used to 'CleanTreat' Lousy Salmon
• Please Come Clean on BMK08!
• Sunday Times: "Official fears revealed over toxic threat of salmon trade"
• Cleaning Tox-Sick Scottish Salmon
• CleanTreat FOI Disclosures by the Scottish Government to Scottish Salmon Watch
• Media Backgrounder: Chemically Embalmed Scottish Salmon
• All is Not Well With Sick Scottish Salmon

 

 

Lower salmon production in Scotland enabled Norway to increase its exports of the fish to the UK https://t.co/es4d75yGSM
How much of the Norwegian pharmed salmon sold in UK supermarkets @Tesco @asda @LidlGB @AldiUK was marinaded in the banned neocnicotinoid Imidacloprid? @UK_NSC

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 6, 2022

 

Norwegian Pharmed Salmon Marinaded in Neonicotinoid - over 3.25 tonnes of Imidacloprid used in 2021!

 

Did @WeAreBenchmark deploy all of the 3.25 tonnes of the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid used in Norway in 2021? @Folkehelseinst https://t.co/tSf7jgX5B2
Or was D10 Aquatic Blast used by Salmo Pharma too? @Legemiddelinfo @fiskeridir @NFdep @InfoMattilsynet @LeroySeafood @Partiet pic.twitter.com/L7itDGvxyv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 1, 2022

 

Fish Farming Expert reported in April 2022:

 

 

Yesterday (31 May 2022), Fish Farming Expert changed their headline (after it was pointed out that other companies - in addition to Benchmark - could be using Imidacloprid):

 

 

 

 

Here's the data published in April 2022 by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health:

 

Over 3.25 tonnes of the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid - dubbed 'Novichok for insects' @DaveGoulson - were used on salmon farms in Norway in 2021 (according to data published by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health @Folkehelseinst) @WeAreBenchmark https://t.co/TNORW0iTsX pic.twitter.com/9m8rHkovWu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 1, 2022

 

 

 

Pharmed salmon leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

 

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported in December 2021:

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 16, 2021

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported in August 2021:

 

 

Norway deploys the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in salmon farms - please stop the use of this toxic chemical in Scotland! https://t.co/MaI4ArWOyF@ScottishEPA @TerryAHearn @nature_scot @vmdgovuk @EMA_News @marinescotland @MairiMcAllan @MairiGougeon @ScotGovNetZero @scotgov pic.twitter.com/qNFdZr6gbP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 4, 2021

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported in July 2021:

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 27, 2021

 

 

 

 

iLaks reported in August 2020 (sourced from an article published in the regional newspaper Helgelands Blad):

 

 

Here's a Google Translation of the Norwegian article:

 

The iLaks article links readers to a Directorate of Fisheries web-page listing permits for clinical trials - including two involving Salmo Pharma and D-10 Aquatic Blast.

 

 

 

Which salmon farms in Norway are being permitted by @fiskeridir to use the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (D-10 Aquatic Blast)? https://t.co/sojgslu2Wk @seafoodnorway @UK_NSC @NFdep @fiskeribladet @IntraFishNorge @WeAreBenchmark @FerdOwner @NorwaySeafoodUS@Fiskeoppdrett pic.twitter.com/gO4Ge4JDZw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 23, 2021

 

 

 

A Norwegian news article published in June 2018 - cited in Scottish Salmon Watch's FOI request of 17 March 2020 to the Norwegian Government - appears to identify companies involved in the first field trials of Imidacloprid in Norway:

 

 

 

More news on Salmo Pharma can be found online via Kyst (Norwegian Fish Farmer magazine) - including a 2017 article which refers to Imidacloprid and a 2016 article referring to neonicotinoids (including Imidacloprid) and citing D-10 Aquatic Blast:

 

 

 

A video urging investors to support the use of D-10 Aquatic Blast (the active ingredient was not named but it is understood to be Imidacloprid) in salmon farming in New Brunswick, Canada, was published on You Tube in 2014:

 

 

 

 

Here's a US patent for the use of the neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in salmon farming filed in 2015:

 

 

 

Another patent filed in Canada (CA3045239A1) in December 2017 (published in June 2018 & described as a 'National Entry' in May 2019) lifts the lid on how Norwegian-owned Benchmark plans to use the toxic neonicotinoid insecticide Imidacloprid in salmon farming. 

 

 

 

Benchmark's patent for use of the toxic neonicotinoid insecticide Imidacloprid in salmon farming concedes it is a "potentially hazardous agent in the field" & that "leakage" can occur with "loss of agent in the environment" https://t.co/QfeF31RAiM @WeAreBenchmark @FerdOwner pic.twitter.com/IPjorjqtmO

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 26, 2020

 

 

 

Norwegian-owned Benchmark first unveiled Ectosan in December 2017 (omitting to tell investors or the public that it was Bayer's controversial neonicotinoid Imidacloprid).

 

 

 

In November 2019, Benchmark quietly re-branded Ectosan as BMK08 (still remaining tight lipped as to its secret identity as a banned neonicotinoid). 

 

 

 

Fish Farmer reported in February 2020 that field trials of BMK08 (Imidacloprid) had taken place in Norway "over the last 24 months" involving five salmon farms and 35,000 tonnes of farmed salmon.

 

 

 

The article does not say which five salmon farms in Norway have been using 'Novichok for insects' but it known that Mowi Norway applied in February 2019 to the Aquaculture Stewardship Council for an 'interpretation request' on the use of Imidacloprid (then marketed as Ectosan).

 

 

 

Mowi's request to the ASC inadvertently prompted the public revelation in March 2020 that Ectosan (then re-named by Benchmark as BMK08) was in fact Imidacloprid.

 

Campaigners fear that a nicotine pesticide that the fish farming industry and the Scottish Government want to trial in Scotland could threaten marine wildlife.https://t.co/bw5IBgTwqi

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) March 17, 2020

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch revealed in June 2020 how Benchmark-owned Fish Vet Group (based in Inverness) filed a patent in Norway in 2011. 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 18, 2020

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch revealed in May 2020 that Norwegian giant Mowi had lobbied the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to use Imidacloprid (Ectosan) in Loch Ailort in Scotland in a field trial. 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 20, 2020

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 21, 2020

 

 

 

In October 2021, veterinarians and scientists in the UK voiced their opposition to the use of Imidacloprid in salmon farming in a letter published in the Veterinary Record.

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 13, 2021

 

 

 

$camon $cotland revealed in March 2022 that the salmon farming lobby was still pushing to use Imidacloprid in Scotland via Benchmark's 'CleanTreat' system. 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 16, 2022

 

 

 

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

 

Marine Scotland’s director, Annabel Turpie, has backed a treatment system for farmed fish designed to use a pesticide with “potentially devastating consequences for marine life”.https://t.co/kCHxUc4YBC

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) May 21, 2021

 

 

 

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

 

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency told a firm wanting to start using a bee-killing chemical at fish farms to mark correspondence “confidential”— so that it wouldn’t have to be released in response to freedom of information requests. #FOIhttps://t.co/hIclBVFKop

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) July 19, 2021

 

 

Read more via:

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

 

 

I'm buzzing with excitement to be flying over to Norway next week for a symposium on toxic chemicals! https://t.co/a1dvrYKrrL
My talk - "Silent Spring of the Sea: Salmon Pharming Kills Shellfish & Other Marine Life" - lifts the lid on the use of Imidacloprid @WeAreBenchmark

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 31, 2022

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 21, 2021

 

 

Lower salmon production in Scotland enabled Norway to increase its exports of the fish to the UK https://t.co/es4d75yGSM
How much of the Norwegian pharmed salmon sold in UK supermarkets @Tesco @asda @LidlGB @AldiUK was marinaded in the banned neocnicotinoid Imidacloprid? @UK_NSC

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 6, 2022

 

 

 

Norway Symposium: "Silent Spring of the Sea - Salmon Pharming Kills Shellfish & Other Marine Life"

 

International symposium:
Systemic pesticides and the biodiversity crisis: Toxic practices in agriculture, aquaculture and policy making, 7 Jun'22, Bergen. Meant for a broad audience, academics, NGO's, citizens, beekeepers, students, etc. Register: https://t.co/RYPYxvxiLS pic.twitter.com/8Vl3BkCIFw

— Jeroen van der Sluijs (@Jeroen_vdSluijs) May 23, 2022

 

 

I'm buzzing with excitement to be flying over to Norway next week for a symposium on toxic chemicals - here's details of the joint symposium organized by the University of Bergen's BeeCaution project and the International Task Force on Systemic Pesticides:

 

 

I'm buzzing with excitement to be flying over to Norway next week for a symposium on toxic chemicals! https://t.co/a1dvrYKrrL
My talk - "Silent Spring of the Sea: Salmon Pharming Kills Shellfish & Other Marine Life" - lifts the lid on the use of Imidacloprid @WeAreBenchmark

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 31, 2022

 

 

 

 

Here's the final program - download in full online here

 

 

Just say no to drugs - say no to pharmed salmon! https://t.co/a1dvrYKrrL pic.twitter.com/M6hj3QWQQY

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 7, 2022

 

Read more via:

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

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 16, 2022

 

 

 

Flying to Bergen in Norway for a scientific symposium on bee-killing neonicotinoids @UiB https://t.co/Y6zPEW7pGS
Norwegian salmon pharms used over 3.25 tonnes of Imidacloprid in 2021 @WeAreBenchmark @Legemiddelinfo @InfoMattilsynet @Folkehelseinst @NMF_tweet @Partiet @fiskeridir pic.twitter.com/jKdrH7CP5v

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 6, 2022

 

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

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 13, 2022

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 26, 2020

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 3, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 31, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 17, 2021

 

 

 

The Press & Journal reported (16 February 2022):

 

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

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 12, 2022

 

 

 

Read more via:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Demand for moratorium on new fish farms after mortality rates revealed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon 

Update: 25 Million Mass Mortalities on Scottish Salmon Farms

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

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

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

Mass Mortalities Continue to Plague Scottish Salmon

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

Over One Million Morts for Scottish Salmon in September 2020!

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

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

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

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

Solving Scottish Salmon's Multi-Million Mortality Problem

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 18, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 13, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 13, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 26, 2020

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 3, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 31, 2021

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 13, 2022

 

 

 

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

 

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

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

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) May 12, 2022

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 12, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fish Farmer reported (11 May 2022):

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

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

 

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 19, 2021

 

 

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

— SumOfUs (@SumOfUs) December 15, 2021

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 22, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in October 2021:

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 12, 2021

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Read more reasons to boycott pharmed salmon online here

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 2, 2021

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 5, 2021

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

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

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Vicky Allan (@vicky_allan) May 3, 2022

 

The Herald reported (3 May 2022):

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 15, 2022

 

 

 

Read more via The Ferret (1 May 2022):

 

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

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) May 1, 2022

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Toxic Scottish Salmon - Chemical Use Doubles Since 2018!

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

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

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 16, 2022

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

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

 

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

— Sue Everett (@suesustainable) April 24, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

Read the ASA complaint in full online here

 

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 3, 2022

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 22, 2021

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 26, 2021

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

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

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

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

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

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

Bullshit Called on Mowi's "Sustainability" Claims!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mass mortalities at ASC-certified Mowi!

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

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

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

Media Backgrounder: Irresponsibly Farmed Scottish Salmon

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

Hard Evidence Submitted with CMA & Trading Standards Complaint

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

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

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

ASC endorses banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in salmon farming

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

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

Mowi Moves Goalposts on ASC Certification

ASC-Certified Scottish Salmon Dead in the Water!

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

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

EXPOSED: Scottish Salmon's Sustainability Scam 

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

WWF Greenwashes Marine Harvest

The Abominable Salmon Council - Buyer Beware!

Pepé Le Pew Loves Farmed Salmon!

 

 

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 4, 2022

 

 

 

Addendum:

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Please acknowledge receipt of this complaint. 

 

Thanks,

 

Don Staniford

 

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

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 3, 2022

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 16, 2022

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 26, 2021

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Q4 2021 Report included:

 

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

 

 

 

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

— The Aquaculturists (@IAFmagazine) May 3, 2022

 

 

Next up in the conference tent:

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

See you there! pic.twitter.com/hf6JnsJbMg

— Aquaculture UK (@aquacultureuk) May 3, 2022

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 25, 2021

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

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

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

Awards Alert: Nominations Open for the 'Scamons'!

Camera Shy at The Scamons!

Live from 'The Scamons' in Norway!

The Scamons & Sockeyes - Aquaculture Academy Awards 2013

The Sockeyes - Oscar Loves Wild Salmon!

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 21, 2022

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 26, 2021

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Q4 2021 Report included:

 

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

 

 

 

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

— The Aquaculturists (@IAFmagazine) May 3, 2022

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 26, 2021

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Mowi's Q4 2021 Report included:

 

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

 

 

 

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

— The Aquaculturists (@IAFmagazine) May 3, 2022

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 29, 2022

 

The Press & Journal reported (28 April 2022):

 

 

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 28, 2022

 

 

 

Scottish Hazards posted on Facebook (28 April 2022):

 

 

 

 

BBC Alba reported (28 April 2022):

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

The Times reported in November 2021:

 

 

 

 

Salmon Business reported (23 November 2021):

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Hazards posted on Facebook in May 2021:

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

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

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

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

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

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

Deadly Mowi - the Horror Story Continues!

Probe launched following death of Highland fish farm worker

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

Fighting Mowi's Legal Action Over Filming at Salmon Farms

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

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 23, 2021

 

Lopatinsky's Lawsuit Dead in the Water?

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 28, 2021

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

Don

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

Regards
Andrew

Andrew Woods

 

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

andrew@woodswhur.co.uk

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

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 27, 2022

 

 

 

This email was in response to:

 

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

Does Woods Whur still represent money launderer Yuri Lopatinsky?

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

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

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

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

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

Best fishes,

Don

 

 

And this email:

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

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

 

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

Is Yuri Lopatinsky still a Woods Whur client?

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

 

 

Best fishes,

Don Staniford

Director, $camon $cotland

 

 

 

I emailed back via:

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

 

 

And here's the reply:

 

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

Don

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

Regards
Andrew

Andrew Woods

 

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

andrew@woodswhur.co.uk

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Here's the LinkedIn profile of James Thompson:

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 26, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 26, 2022

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 26, 2022

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 27, 2022

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 29, 2022

 

 

 

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

 

 

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

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 19, 2022

 

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

 

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

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 27, 2022