Download event poster as a Jpeg online here and as a PDF online here
Read more via: Press Release: "Swim protest against salmon farming pollution on Scotland’s west coast"
Please join us swimming and paddling around salmon farms near Oban on the West coast of Scotland on 31 August and 1 September (please help us spread the word - there's two versions of the posters).
Download event poster as a Jpeg online here and as a PDF online here
For more specific details please email Don Staniford via [email protected] (Tel: 07771 541826)
Salmon farming has a raft of environmental impacts - including negative effects on seals, salmonids, cetaceans and shellfish.
Do you want to speak up for wild salmon and sea trout impacted by disease-ridden salmon farms?
Read more via:
Impacts of salmon lice emanating from salmon farms on wild Atlantic salmon and sea trout
Extinction Vortex (chapter in Michael Wigan's book 'The Salmon')
Scottish Salmon's Great Escape
A Global Assessment of Salmon Aquaculture Impacts on Wild Salmonids
Declining wild salmon populations in relation to parasites from farm salmon
Wild salmon put at risk as a million farmed fish escape
Scottish salmon in "extinction vortex"
Do you want to speak for shellfish killed by the lethal chemicals used by salmon farms?
Read more via:
New salmon sea lice treatment threshold serves industry not oceans
Wildlife widely damaged by fish farm pesticides, says Sepa
Near fish farms. lobster catches plummet
Salmon farming in crisis: 'We are seeing a chemical arms race in the seas'
Fish Farmageddon: Scottish Salmon's Lethal Legacy
Damning Report on Toxic Salmon Farms Buried
SARF098: Towards Understanding of the Environmental Impact of a Sea Lice Medicine–the PAMP Suite
Report: Canadian salmon firm admits using lobster-killing pesticide near Maine border
New Scientific Paper: Salmon Farming Chemical Kills Lobsters!
Do you want to stand up for ca. 1,000 seals killed by salmon farms since 2010?
Read more via:
Seals Shot and Killed in Scotland by Cruel Salmon-Farming Industry
The RSPCA rescues one seal – and condones the killing of many others
Sunday Herald: "Revealed: Scottish Government bid to exempt salmon farming from US seal-killing ban"
Scottish Government bid to exempt fish farming from US ban on seal killing
Fish farms under fire for seal death toll
UK seal population under threat for salmon farming industry
RSPCA in firing line over Marine Harvest's seal-killing spree in Scotland
Not just salmon: 5 other animals impacted by salmon farming in Scotland
Time to stop the seal slaughter
Scotland's 'trigger-happy' salmon farmers risk losing £200m US export market
Or maybe you want to make a splash for cetaceans such as harbour porpoises and dolphins impacted by the noise pollution from the Acoustic Deterrent Devices (ADDs) used by salmon farms?
Read more via:
Sounding Off On Salmon Farms - Acoustic Deterrent Devices evade Marine Noise Registry
The Times: "Noisy fish farms ‘harm other marine life’"
Mapping widespread and increasing underwater noise pollution from acoustic deterrent devices
Noise pollution from a salmon farm
Deafening Impact of Salmon Farms on Cetaceans
The National: "Warning salmon farm devices could hit wildlife tourism"
Sunday Herald: "Health of whales, dolphins and porpoises put at risk by underwater alarms"
Noisy Salmon Farms - Switch Off Acoustic Deterrent Devices Now!
Whale drowned after being trapped under salmon pen
Sign a petition against the use of ADDs on salmon farms online here
Read more via:
- Letter to Police Scotland re. protocol for filming salmon farms
- The Ferret: "Police Scotland acted as ‘private security’ for fish farm, claims campaigner"
- Make a Splash for Salmon, Cetaceans, Lobsters & Seals!
- Swimming (& Paddling) Against the Rising Tide of Salmon Farming
Read more background on the salmon farms to be visited online here (and updated online here)