Tweet storm at the Scottish Parliament's salmon farming inquiry

In the absence of a full transcript of today's Scottish Parliament inquiry into the environmental impacts of salmon farming (published by 6pm Friday on 9 February), here's some Tweets from The GAAIA (Don Staniford) - click on the Tweet if you want to see more:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note that a closer look at the data on seals killed by salmon farms during 2017 there were 18 seals killed in Q1 and 20 killed in Q2 - certainly not "single figures" as claimed by the SSPO!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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'Militant' MSPs Grill Scottish Salmon

Update: Scottish Parliament inquiry into the environmental impacts of salmon farming

The Scottish Salmon Polluters Organisation (SSPO)

Loch Duart - The (Really Not Very) Sustainable Salmon Company

Daily Mail: "Salmon crisis as 2.3m are dumped in nine months"

The National: "Environmental groups urge Scottish fish farms to scale back"

Press Release: "Scottish Salmon's Mort Mountain Leaps Over 10 Million - FOI reveals 2.3 million dead salmon at Marine Harvest farms in 2017"

SSPO "sets the record straight"

Transcript of Scottish Parliament inquiry into the environmental impacts of salmon farming

GAAIA's written submission to the Scottish Parliament inquiry

Review of the Environmental Impacts of Scottish Salmon Farming - call for written evidence (deadline of 8 February)

Daily Mail: "Thousands of fish thrown in a truck - and troubling new questions for salmon farms"

The Scotsman: "Fish farms increase could lead to more seals being shot"

Press Release: "Scottish Salmon Farming 101 - Scottish Parliament inquiry opens 'in early 2018'"

Scottish Salmon Farming 101

Media Backgrounder: Inquiry into Salmon Farming by the Scottish Parliament

"Parliamentary Question: to ask the Scottish Government how many farmed salmon have died in each year since 2012"

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

"Campaigners say 'no more salmon farms' after disease on Lewis kills 125,000 fish"

 

Download a copy of the House of Commons 1989-90 Agriculture Committee 4th Report Fish Farming