First Minister questioned on leaking wastes from morts - call for a moratorium from Greens

 

The First Minister of Scotland was questioned on salmon farming in the Scottish Parliament (14 December 2017) - watch video online here

 

 

Read the transcript online here

 

 

 

The Scottish Greens Tweeted:

 

 

 

Here's a letter from Mark Ruskell MSP to the Cabinet Secretary:

 

 

Download letter as a PDF online here

 

Read more via:

 

• Press Release: "BBC's 'Dead Salmon Run' Opens Can of Worms"
• BBC's The One Show (Part 2)
• Press Release: "Millions of Scottish Salmon Going Up in Smoke"
• BBC's The One Show: "The Dead Salmon Run"

 

 More details via:

Letter from Scottish Government dated 17 January 2018

Letter from Scottish Government dated 15 January 2018

Letter from Police Scotland dated 10 January 2018

Letter from Fergus Ewing to Mark Ruskell MSP 10 January 2018 

Letter from Animal & Plant Health Agency  9 January 2018

View photo of a truck load of dead farmed salmon in Shetland

View Photo of dead salmon on A9 from The Courier in March 2017

Media Backgrounder: Mort Disposal of Scottish Farmed Salmon

Marine Harvest mort events in 2017

Scottish Salmon Company mort events in 2017

Scottish Sea Farms mort events in 2017

Photo of overflow at Cooke's processing plant in Mid Yell Voe Jan 2017

Photo: Screen grab #1 from BBC's 'The One Show' on 11 December 2017

Photo: Screen grab #2 from BBC's The One Show' on 11 December 2017

 

Read a letter to the First Minister of Scotland in 2014 calling for a moratorium on the expansion of salmon farming - online here