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The BBC reported (21 April 2018):
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The BBC show features Wester Ross ghillie Raymond Dingwall, Don Staniford of Scottish Salmon Watch and new SSPO Chief Executive Julie Hesketh-Laird. Fish Farming Expert reported (20 April):
Last night's BBC One Show also featured lice-infested Scottish salmon farming - watch online via: BBC One Show on Scottish salmon farming (again)
Watch various videos on the environmental and public health impacts of salmon farming online via Scottish Salmon Watch
Take a closer look at Scottish salmon farming via Scottish Salmon Watch
The BBC One Show featured Scottish salmon farming's environmental problems again in tonight's show - watch online here (for UK users via iPlayer - starts at 2 mins 56 secs) and online here (for non-UK users via You Tube)
Watch previous episodes of the BBC One Show on salmon farming via:
BBC One Show on Scottish salmon farming: "The Dead Salmon Run" (11 December 2017)
BBC One Show on Scottish salmon farming (12 Dec 2017)
Track the problems plaguing Scottish salmon farms via Scottish Salmon Watch
The problems plaguing Scottish farmed salmon went from bad to worse today when Food Standards Scotland issued an alert for inadequate procedures to control Clostridium botulinum. The offending products were sold via the Ru An Fhoder Smokehouse (JC Morris & Sons) and pose a "possible health risk". The Herald reported (19 April):
Read news coverage via:
BBC News: "Salmon packs recalled over health concern"
Evening News: "Ru An Fhodar Smokehouse has issued a recall over botulism fears"
Glasgow Live: "Urgent Botulism recall on Scottish smoked salmon"
STV: "Smoked salmon recalled over food poisoning fears"
Herald: "Scots salmon packs recalled over health concern"
Reacting to the stomach-churning news, Don Staniford (Director of Scottish Salmon Watch) said:
"Botulism is the latest in a raft of reasons to boycott Scottish salmon. Consumers should avoid Scottish salmon like the plague. Cheap and nasty farmed Scottish salmon leaves a bad taste in the mouth. I'd rather eat my own vomit than eat Scottish salmon."
Food Standards Scotland issue an alert on 19 April 2018 online here
According to the Scotland Food & Drink web-site:
This is not the first time salmon has been subject to food alerts regarding Botulism. In August 2017, the US FDA reported:
The Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture reported via "Fish Farmageddon: The Infectious Salmon Aquacalypse" in 2012:
The New York Times reported in 1982:
The Food & Agriculture Organisation reported in 2001 via "Botulism and Fishery Products":
Today's alert on Botulism risks is certainly not the first time Scottish farmed salmon has been subject to food alerts.
The Daily Mail reported in 2017:
The Daily Mail reported in 2014:
The Sunday Times reported in 2013:
Read more via:
Listeria Contamination in Farmed Salmon
Farmed & Dangerous Salmon - the most contaminated food on the supermarket shelf
FDA Health Warning for Scottish Farmed Salmon
BBC News reported in 2008:
BBC News reported in 2004:
The Daily Mail reported in 2004:
The Daily Mail reported in 2001:
Salmonella contamination of Norwegian farmed salmon has also killed people in the Netherlands. Food Safety News reported in 2012:
Read more via:
Death Toll Rises to Three - 950 People Infected from Farmed Salmon!
Norwegian Farmed Salmon: the Source of the Salmonella Outbreak?
Read more about the environmental and public health risks of Scottish salmon via:
Download as a PNG file online here
Here's today's Daily Mail's Comment:
More background on the Scottish Parliament's salmon farming inquiry via:
Press Release: "Deafening Impact of Salmon Farms on Cetaceans"
Press Release: "The Scottish Environment Pollution Agency"
Scottish Parliament Inquiry - Evidence on 14 March
The Herald: "Fish farm damage 'beyond repair'"
Press Release: "Protests Against 'Diseased & Dangerous' Scottish Salmon"
Charlie Whelan in the Daily Mail: "We have to act now....before it is too late"
Daily Mail: "Salmon farms 'a severe risk' to the environment"
BBC Radio Shetland grills Scottish Salmon Producers on "damning" report
BBC Reporting Scotland (Evening News, 5 March 2018)
Press Update: Scottish Salmon Slapped!
Key Points: Scottish Parliament's report on the environmental impact of salmon farming
Shetland News: "Damning salmon industry report warns of 'irrecoverable' environmental damage"
Scottish Parliament Report: "Environmental Impacts of Salmon Farming"
BBC News: "MSPs warning over salmon farming impact on environment"
Press Release: "Scrutiny for Scottish Salmon"
Update: Written evidence to Scottish Parliament salmon farming inquiry
Holyrood: "Salmon producers agree to publish reports on fish deaths"
Scottish Parliamentary inquiry calls for more evidence
Victory for Freedom of Information
Media Update: Scottish Salmon Pledges to Publish Data on Diseases & Lice Infestations
Video: Scottish Parliament inquiry into the environmental impacts of salmon farming
The National: "Scotland's fish farmers to release salmon mortality figures"
Tweet storm at the Scottish Parliament's salmon farming inquiry
'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"
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
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'"
Media Backgrounder: Inquiry into Salmon Farming by the Scottish Parliament
Take a closer look at Scottish salmon via Scottish Salmon Watch:
Download press release in full as a PDF with Notes to Editors and Background online here
Scottish Salmon Watch, 18 April 2018
Deafening Impact of Salmon Farms on Cetaceans
The use of Acoustic Deterrent Devices (ADDs) on Scotland's salmon farms could take centre stage this week - with Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) testifying to today's Scottish Parliament inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland and a Scottish Government-sponsored workshop on a new Dolphin and Porpoise Conservation Strategy held at the Royal Society of Edinburgh (19 & 20 April) [1].
Scottish Salmon Watch is calling on the Scottish Government to pull the plug on the use of ADDs - so-called 'seal scarers' - due to "deliberate and reckless disturbance" of cetaceans and a breach of European law.
"Scottish salmon farms are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea," said Don Staniford, Director of Scottish Salmon Watch. "On the one hand the killing of seals is morally repugnant not to mention a total turn-off for exports of farmed salmon to the United States and on the other the use of ADDs is known to disturb cetaceans. The common sense solution - for seals, harbour porpoises as well as wild fisheries - is to relocate salmon farms away from the Scottish coast into closed containment tanks on land. It is time to stop recklessly disturbing Scotland's marine wildlife and that means turning off ADDs immediately. Since the Scottish Government appears deaf to the concerns raised by SNH and NGOs it may require direct intervention by the Scottish Parliament to force compliance with European law."
Data obtained from the Scottish Government via FOI reveals that 164 salmon farms use ADDs with 112 salmon farms where ADDs are listed as "Always On". The data reports an 'ADD Count' of 1,189 with the most popular ADD models listed as Airmar/Mohn Aqua (72), Terecos (60) and Ace Aquatec (33) . Of the 164 salmon farms using ADDs, Marine Harvest accounted for 65 followed by The Scottish Salmon Company (41), Scottish Sea Farms (35), Loch Duart (10), Kames Fish Farming (5), Cooke Aquaculture (5) and Wester Ross Fisheries (4). Hjaltland Seafarms (Grieg Seafood) reported no use of ADDs [2].
The latest Scottish Government fish farm production survey 2016 - published in September 2017 - reported 253 salmon farm sites but only 136 reported production during 2016 (i.e. 117 reported zero production). Hence it seems that the majority of Scottish salmon farms use ADDs despite the known impacts on cetaceans and breach of European law via the Habitats Directive.
Documents obtained from the Scottish Government via FOI in March 2018 reveal that in July 2017 SNH advised the Scottish Government that the use of ADDs by salmon farms "can cause disturbance and displacement of cetaceans" and that "there is sound, scientific evidence to expect that hearing damage, stress and masking may also occur". "Accordingly, we believe there to be a strong case for managing ADD deployment and use," advised SNH [3].
SNH advised the Scottish Government:
And concluded:
Despite SNH's advice, the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy & Connectivity (Fergus Ewing) told the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland show on 25 March 2018:
"The position which we all wish to see is every method used to scare seals away from cages and as the Minister responsible I am very pleased that technology now including the use of sonar devices means that it is now proving possible to do this in increasing occasions."
BBC News reported (25 March 2018):
Fergus Ewing, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy & Connectivity, will be giving oral evidence to the RECC on 9 May 2018.
During oral evidence before the Environment, Climate Change & Land Reform Committee (ECCLRC) in February 2018, Mark Harvey of Highland Council claimed to be "trying to control ADD use":
Mark Harvey of Highland Council is also testifying to the RECC later this morning (watch live on Scottish Parliament TV from 10am in Committee Room 2 online here).
Download press release in full as a PDF with Notes to Editors and Background online here
Read a report on the impact of ADDs on minke whales online here
Read a FOI reply from SNH dated 20 April 2018 - covering letter online here; collated data online here
Read a FOI reply from Highland Council dated 9 March 2018 - online here and online here and online here and online here and online here
Download a DRAFT press release online here (Embargoed Until 10 June 2018)
Download press release as a PDF online here
Scottish Salmon Watch, 17 April 2018
The Scottish Environment Pollution Agency
- SEPA Permits Salmon Farming to Slip Net
In advance of tomorrow's Scottish Parliament inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has been lambasted for failing to stem the tide of pollution from salmon farms. Scottish Salmon Watch highlighted SEPA's abject failure to police the salmon farming industry - including:
- Zero prosecutions for salmon farms in the last decade (none since 2008) compared to at least 23 prosecutions totalling £106,5000 in fines in the previous decade (1998-2008)
- 51 fish farms assessed as "Very Poor", "Poor" or "At Risk" in 2016
- Only 14 (9%) salmon farm inspection visits in 2017 were unannounced (i.e. advance notice was given by SEPA)
- Testing of the seabed by SEPA (2015-2017) reveals that 15% of fish farms (29 out of 188) showed "unacceptable impacts" for Emamectin benzoate contamination and 34% of fish farms (76 out of 224) showed "unacceptable impacts" on invertebrates
- The Scottish Parliament's Environment, Climate Change & Land Reform Committee "is extremely concerned that SEPA may, in the past, or may currently, be permitting the discharge of priority substances and potentially damaging substances"
- Toxic chemical ban on Emamectin benzoate reversed following lobbying by industry despite damning report showing lethality to lobsters
- The use of the toxic chemicals Azamethiphos, Cypermethrin, Deltamethrin and Emamectin benzoate increased 1000% between 2006 and 2016
- Testing between 2006 and 2016 showed 45 lochs contaminated with Emamectin benzoate and Teflubenzuron
- Rubber-stamping of expansion with new 'super-size' salmon farms over 2,5000 tonnes in the pipeline (despite over 858 biomass exceedances between 2002 and 2016)
- SEPA staff joining Marine Harvest as 'Head of Environment & Regulatory Affairs' and 'Applications Manager'
Read more via Media Backgrounder: SEPA's Shame on Salmon Farming
"SEPA should be renamed the Scottish Environment Pollution Agency," said Don Staniford, Director of Scottish Salmon Watch. "Far from protecting Scotland's pristine environment, SEPA has permitted salmon farms to pollute with impunity. SEPA's lack of a prosecution a single salmon farm over the last decade smacks of giving this toxic industry immunity from prosecution. Shame on SEPA for cravenly kowtowing to the industry like a lapdog rather than acting as a environmental watchdog. It's no wonder that SEPA staff are now lapping it up by working for Scotland's #1 salmon farming polluter in the shape of Marine Harvest."
The Scottish Parliament's Rural Economy & Connectivity Committee (RECC) will take evidence tomorrow (18 April 2018) from SEPA, Highland Council, the Crown Estate and Scottish Natural Heritage.
Watch live on Scottish Parliament TV online here
Documents disclosed last week by the Scottish Parliament to Scottish Salmon Watch via FOI reveal that the RECC have proposed a visit to a salmon farm for "a frank discussion about the challenges of dealing with sea lice and other fish health issues" (believed to be on Monday 30 April 2018). In October 2017, the Convenor of the RECC (Edward Mountain MSP) met with Scottish Salmon's Chief Executive Scott Landsburgh and Chairman Gilpin Bradley in the Scottish Parliament in advance of the salmon farming inquiry (other documents point to a meeting in late November 2017 with the Managing Director of Marine Harvest, Ben Hadfield) [1].
The FOI documents disclosed by the Scottish Parliament also include data shared by Marine Harvest with the RECC detailing disease and mortality problems at salmon farms in Loch Duich, Loch Erisort, North Harris and Loch Greshornish - with 769 tonnes of dead farmed salmon already reported in the first 10 weeks of 2018. Marine Harvest's salmon farm in Loch Duich was described in March 2018 by Julie Edgar, Head of News & PR at Scottish Salmon, as a "challenging site to manage sea lice, sealice infection and treatment ongoing, history of gill health challenges". Loch Greshornish (scene of a mass mortality due to a failed Thermolicer treatment) was described as suffering from "complex gill health and severe anemia leading to mortality in February" [1].
Marine Harvest is scheduled to appear in front of the RECC on 2 May 2018 - here's the timetable for the RECC's inquiry into salmon farming:
Scottish Salmon Watch's written submisson to the Rural Economy & Connectivity Committee is available online via Hard Evidence: Dossier of Data on Lice, Diseases & Mortalities at Scottish Salmon Farms.
Download press release as a PDF online here
More details via: Media Backgrounder SEPA's Shame on Salmon Farming (April 2018)
FOI documents:
Read a FOI reply from the Scottish Parliament dated 11 April 2018 online here
Read a FOI reply from SEPA dated 12 March 2018 online here
Read a FOI reply from SEPA dated 23 February 2018 online here
For background on the Scottish Parliament's inquiry into salmon farming please read:
Scottish Parliament Inquiry - Evidence on 14 March
The Herald: "Fish farm damage 'beyond repair'"
Press Release: "Protests Against 'Diseased & Dangerous' Scottish Salmon"
Charlie Whelan in the Daily Mail: "We have to act now....before it is too late"
Daily Mail: "Salmon farms 'a severe risk' to the environment"
BBC Radio Shetland grills Scottish Salmon Producers on "damning" report
BBC Reporting Scotland (Evening News, 5 March 2018)
Press Update: Scottish Salmon Slapped!
Key Points: Scottish Parliament's report on the environmental impact of salmon farming
Shetland News: "Damning salmon industry report warns of 'irrecoverable' environmental damage"
Scottish Parliament Report: "Environmental Impacts of Salmon Farming"
BBC News: "MSPs warning over salmon farming impact on environment"
Press Release: "Scrutiny for Scottish Salmon"
Update: Written evidence to Scottish Parliament salmon farming inquiry
Holyrood: "Salmon producers agree to publish reports on fish deaths"
Scottish Parliamentary inquiry calls for more evidence
Victory for Freedom of Information
Media Update: Scottish Salmon Pledges to Publish Data on Diseases & Lice Infestations
Video: Scottish Parliament inquiry into the environmental impacts of salmon farming
The National: "Scotland's fish farmers to release salmon mortality figures"
Tweet storm at the Scottish Parliament's salmon farming inquiry
'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"
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
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'"
Media Backgrounder: Inquiry into Salmon Farming by the Scottish Parliament
The Times reported (3 April 2018):
Read more via:
"Conservationists launch biggest study of its kind to find out why Scotland's wild salmon have declined so much" (The Herald, 3 April 2018)
"Why we must leap to the defence of wild Atlantic salmon" (The Herald, 3 April 2018)
Read more about the 'Missing Salmon Project' via:
From: "Davidson, Jodie (GLA-WSW)" <JDavidson@webershandwick.com>
Date: 30 March 2018 at 14:35:01 BST
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Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Europe's largest salmon tracking study aims to halt species' decline
MEDIA INVITATION – JOURNALISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE INVITED TO A LAUNCH EVENT ON THE RIVER GARRY – TUESDAY 3RD APRIL. MEETING POINT INVERGARRY HOTEL AT 10.30AM
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EUROPE’S LARGEST SALMON TRACKING STUDY AIMS TO HALT SPECIES’ DECLINE
--- The Missing Salmon Project announced to track salmon in the Moray Firth ---
--- Crowdfunding campaign to raise £1million to find cause of species’ decline ---
An international scale project which aims to track scores of wild Atlantic salmon over the next two years was launched in the Highlands of Scotland today as part of the largest effort in Europe to-date to halt the decline of the species.
Anglers gathered at the River Garry to herald the beginning of the Missing Salmon Project, which hopes to discover why this iconic fish is in such sharp decline, essential if effective measures are to be found to reverse their fortunes.
The organisation behind the project, the Atlantic Salmon Trust (AST), announced it is aiming to raise £1million via crowdfunding to support the tracking project. The marine survival of the wild salmon population has declined by 70% in just 25 years.
Executive director of the AST, Sarah Bayley Slater, said: “Salmon have been around for more than 60million years, but their future looks very bleak indeed. If the decline we’ve seen across the Atlantic and in Scotland continues, the wild Atlantic salmon could be an endangered species in our lifetime.
“In launching the Missing Salmon Project, we are making our stand now and giving our generation a chance to save the species before it’s too late.”
The Missing Salmon Project will supplement the work the AST is carrying out with international partners in preparing a Suspects Framework, which identifies and aims to quantify the causes for salmon mortality on their journey from river to sea and back again.
Working with partners across the Moray Firth, scientists are to tag scores of fish in order to determine which of these suspects are likely responsible, with The Missing Salmon Project looking to raise £1million to pay for the tags and the acoustic receivers that track the salmon’s journey.
Dr Matthew Newton is the tracking co-ordinator for the AST.
“If we’re going to have a meaningful impact on reversing the Atlantic salmon’s decline, we need to tag and track fish on a scale never seen before in Europe,” he said.
“By tagging the fish and tracking their progress from their spawning ground and back again, we’ll be able to pinpoint where fish are being lost – and help identify the causes for their increasingly worrying mortality rates.”
And with global populations of wild Atlantic salmon declining from 8-10million in the 1970s to 3-4million fish today, the project will have an international impact.
“Too many times, humanity has acted too late when a species is in decline. We have an opportunity to act now and make a lasting, positive impact so we’d ask everyone with an interest in preserving not only Scotland’s wild identity, but one of the world’s most famous species’ futures, to support this ground-breaking project,” added Dr Newton.
The Missing Salmon Project will tag juvenile fish, known as smolts, as they begin their journey from their home river towards the sea. Fish are recorded as they pass through strategic points – which will help determine how many fish make it to the ocean and where mortality occurs. The tracking project will start in the Moray Firth where 20% of all salmon that leave the UK originate and the lessons learned will be transferable to other populations of salmon around the UK.
To find out more about the Missing Salmon Project, and to donate to the cause, visit www.crowdfunder.co.uk/themissingsalmonproject
Ends 30 March 2018
Issued by Weber Shandwick on behalf of the Atlantic Salmon Trust
For more information please contact:
missingsalmonproject@webershandwick.com
Steven Flanagan: 0141 343 3251/ 07557 210989
Jodie Davidson: 0141 343 3258
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NOTES TO EDITORS
About the Atlantic Salmon Trust
The role of the Atlantic Salmon Trust is to demonstrate how salmon and sea trout can be conserved and managed to enable their value to society to be realised sustainably.
The Trust’s work concentrates on improving our knowledge of these fish, their habitats and their complex and fascinating life histories, as well as the threats to their survival. Until relatively recently this knowledge was confined mainly to the freshwater aspects of their life cycle, but the AST is now focusing on the migration and marine phase of their life.
Here's the reaction from Don Staniford, Director of Scottish Salmon Watch:
"WTF - why the hell are they focussing on the Moray Firth/East coast when all the salmon farms and lice/disease problems are on the West coast?!!! Has the project been designed by Marine Harvest?
The Missing Salmon Project is clearly looking in the wrong place - it's seems as if the Atlantic Salmon Trust have hired Inspector Clouseau to track down the culprit in the Mystery of the Missing Salmon. What a complete waste of £1 million!
How can the Missing Salmon Project "pinpoint where fish are being lost" and prepare a "Suspects Framework" when their chief suspect - lice-infested salmon farming - is located on the West not East coast? There are no salmon farms on the East coast!"
It seems the Atlantic Salmon Trust cannot read - for example the Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland reported in August 2017:
"In an attempt to quantify the effect of salmon farming, a comparison can be made between salmon catches on the East coast of Scotland and the west coast between the Mull of Kintyre and Ardnamurchan Point (South-West Highlands). Between 1970 and 2014 rod catches of salmon on the East coast increased by almost 40%. Over the same time period rod catches in the South-West Highlands declined by 50%. Juvenile salmon migrating from rivers in the South-West Highlands must run the gauntlet close to lice-producing salmon farms not only in the immediate area but also the whole way up the west coast before they reach open ocean, free of aquaculture. Throughout this coastal migration they are vulnerable to infestation by deadly sea lice. It stands to reason that, the more salmon farms that outgoing juvenile salmon have to negotiate past on their migration to the North Atlantic feeding grounds, the less likely they are to survive."
Read more via "Comparison of the decline of Scottish East and West Coast Salmon Fisheries" (RAFTS, 2011)
I really do hope Jeremy Paxman is invited to the media launch on Tuesday - as Paxman wrote in the Financial Times in August 2017:
"This year those numbers are the lowest recorded. A similar disaster has hit other west-coast rivers, while those on the east coast have been unaffected. (The salmon farms are all on Scotland’s west coast.) Conservationists are confident of the cause of the decline: young salmon beginning their oceanic migration must pass dozens of cages at sea where captive fish are bred for the table. Wild salmon do not return to rivers like the Awe because they were killed at the start of their migration to sea."
Via: https://www.ft.com/content/8b73e21a-7cf8-11e7-ab01-a13271d1ee9c
Prince Charles, the patron of the Atlantic Salmon Trust, would be there at the launch but I think he's busy having lunch with Marine Harvest at one of their lice-infested salmon farms on the West coast of Scotland.
The Herald reported (3 April 2018):
Also reported via Undercurrent News: "Scottish campaigners criticize funding of new disposal method for dead salmon" (3 April 2018)
Here's the 'Approvals List' from Highlands & Islands Enterprise for October - December 2017 including a £362,000 project for an 'Integrated Aquaculture Rapid Mortality Recovery System':
Download as a PDF online here
Read more about mortalities on Scottish salmon farms via:
Hard Evidence: Dossier of Data on Lice, Diseases & Mortalities at Scottish Salmon Farms
"Scotland's fish farmers to release salmon mortality figures"
Data on Mortalities & Diseases at Scottish Salmon Farms
Photo Gallery: Dead Salmon from Scotland's Disease-Ridden Salmon Farms
Sunday Times: "Scots councils ‘failing to enforce EC laws on leaky salmon trucks’"
Daily Mail: "Thousands of fish thrown in a truck - and troubling new questions for salmon farms"
"First Minister questioned on leaking wastes from morts - call for a moratorium from Greens"
"BBC's 'Dead Salmon Run' Opens Can of Worms"
"Millions of Scottish Salmon Going Up in Smoke"
BBC's The One Show: "The Dead Salmon Run"
"125,000 salmon die in disease outbreak at Lewis fish farms"
"Campaigners say 'no more salmon farms' after disease on Lewis kills 125,000 fish"
"A disgrace: Ten million salmon thrown away by fish farm industry in last year alone"
"Death rate at salmon farms doubles to 20m fish a year"
"Welfare fears after claim deaths of farmed salmon have doubled"
"Thermal treatment for lice blamed for salmon deaths"
"Poached alive - fish die as farm overheats water"
"Oops: fish farm firm kills 175,000 of its salmon by accident"
"European Commission complaint over dead fish dumping forces rule change"
"Scottish watchdog labelled ‘lapdog’ after agreeing to keep fish farm deaths secret"
"Farmed salmon killed by disease leaps to 8.5 million"
"Where have all the dead fish gone?"
Take a closer look at the infectious diseases, viruses and other hidden nasties lurking in Scottish salmon via Scottish Salmon Watch:
Download documents obtained via FOI from Highlands & Islands Enterprise on 31 May 2018 via:
HIE FOI reply 31 May 2018 Ferguson #1 (41 page PDF)
HIE FOI reply 31 May 2018 Ferguson #2 (20 page PDF)
HIE FOI reply 31 May 2018 Covering letter
Here's a press release (Embargoed Until 11 June 2018) online here
The Financial Times reported (2 April 2018):
Read article in full online here
For more background on Scottish salmon farming read:
Take a closer look at the infectious diseases, viruses and other hidden nasties lurking in Scottish salmon via Scottish Salmon Watch:
Read more via "Media Advisory: Aquacalypse Now - Scottish Parliament TV features Scottish salmon horror show" (13 March 2018)
