"We care passionately for the health and welfare of our fish," claimed Mowi Scotland in The Ferret (24 October 2019) and reported later today in Fish Farmer magazine.
If these poor salmon farmed by Mowi in Scotland could talk then I'm sure they would call bullshit.
[Photos disclosed by the Scottish Government via FOI-19-02133 in October 2019]
These Scottish salmon farmed by Mowi (and certified by RSPCA Assured) hardly paint a picture of good health and high welfare standards.
[Photos disclosed via the Scottish Government via FOI-18-01141 in June 2018]
With so many skeletons in their closet it is not surprising that Mowi's Director of Communication & Business Development sought to block disclosure of more damning photos that "may create unnecessary confusion or fear about consuming healthy Scottish seafood".
Read more via:
- The Ferret: "Scottish Government rejects industry pleas on sick salmon photos"
- EXPOSED: Photo Disclosures Opens Floodgates to More Diseased & Deformed Scottish Salmon
Here's more photos of Mowi's "healthy Scottish seafood" published earlier this month by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate:
The Fish Health Inspectorate visit in August 2019 reported Cardiomyopathy Syndrome (CMS), Pancreas Disease (PD) and Pasteurella skyensis (a bacterium cited in the deaths of 125,000 farmed salmon at Mowi's Isle of Lewis salmon farms in 2017) at Mowi's salmon farm at Ardgour in Loch Linnhe.
Read more via Revealed: Mowi's Nightmare in Loch Linnhe - 55% Mortality & Infectious Diseases
Last month, Scottish Salmon Watch revealed huge problems at Mowi's salmon farm at nearby Kingairloch also in Loch Linnhe (again sourced from a Fish Health Inspectorate report published online) - including Cardiomyopathy Syndrome (CMS), Pasteurella skyensis, multifocal hepatic necrosis, Salmonid Alphavirus, anorexia, lesions, haemorrhaging and deformed hearts.
Read more via Cardiac Disease Arrests Mowi in Kingairloch
More gruesome photos of welfare abuse and disease problems at Mowi's farm off the Isle of Rum were published online by the Scottish Government on 10 September 2019:
Do these lice-infested, "blind", "physically damaged" and "anorexic" salmon look the picture of health as claimed by Mowi's slick marketing?
Surely Scottish Ministers should think twice before gorging themselves on Mowi's disease-ridden salmon?
Read more via Mowi's Welfare Nightmare on Rum - "blind", "physical damage", "anorexic" & over 40,000 dead fish!
Mowi is all too aware of the risks of diseases writing in their Integrated Annual Report 2018 (published on 27 March 2019) that "continued disease problems may also attract negative media attention and public concerns" .
For more data on diseases and mortalities please read a report published by Scottish Salmon Watch in March 2019 including Fish Health Inspectorate 'Case Information' on Marine Harvest salmon farms during 2018:
In May 2019, Mowi Scotland's Health Manager predicted "it may be a painful September and October for the salmon industry in Scotland" for Amoebic Gill Disease in particular.
Next week (31 October), Scottish Salmon Watch will be coordinating a protest outside Mowi's stinky and noisy feed factory on the Isle of Skye.
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It's Like a Bad Mowi (Deja Vu After Marine Harvest Horror Show)!
Video Nasty: Thermolicer - the Heated Torture Chamber for Scottish Salmon
Sick Bucket Time for Mowi Salmon
The Fish Pharm Menace - Mowi is Like a Bad Movie (& Dick Dastardly)!
"Mowi are talking rubbish" says National Trust in the Financial Times
Ministers Gorge on Scottish Salmon à la John Gummer
Scottish Salmon's Mort Mountain Piles Ever Higher in 2019
BBC Countryfile on ADDs impacting on cetaceans
Video sparks HSE scrutiny of Mowi in Loch Linnhe
Proposed salmon farm raises environmental concerns in Hebrides
Memo to MOWI - You Got to Move it, You Got to Move it Mowi!
Mowi “holding communities to ransom” over relocation of fish farm sites says campaigner
Shocking Video Footage from Mowi's 'Bay of the Dead Heads' (Bagh Dail nan Ceann)
Mowi's Fungus Pollution of the River Polly
Fish farms urged to stop use of toxic chemical in Scottish waters
EXPOSED: Mowi's Cache of Carcinogenic Chemicals On Conservative MSP's Estate
Salmon farming giant Mowi probed over chemical use
Mowi's Disease-Ridden Mortalities - 1.6 million+ in 101 incidents (2017-2018)
The Sorry State of Scottish Salmon Farming in 2018
Negative perception of Marine Harvest behind switch to Mowi
X-Rated Mowi: Preview of Marine Harvest's Horror Show
Media Backgrounder: MOWI - Unfit for Purpose
Scottish salmon farms in disease hell row after tons of rotting fish dumped in skips
Whistleblower photos of Marine Harvest
Sunday Mail: "Gutted - 300,000 salmon are killed as storm batters fish farm"
The welfare status of salmon farms in Scotland
Named: Supermarkets selling salmon from 'poor' welfare firms
EXPOSED: Gruesome Photos of Deformed & Diseased Scottish Salmon
Horror photos of farmed salmon spark legal threat
Media Backgrounder: "Marine Harmfest Scotland"
24,500 fish escape from Marine Harvest farm after storm damage
Mapped: the 45 lochs polluted by fish farm pesticides
RSPCA in firing line over Marine Harvest's seal-killing spree in Scotland
16,000 salmon escape Argyll fish farm after storms
Revealed: the dirty dozen salmon farms that contaminate lochs with pesticides
Marine Harvest fined £23,500 for pollution
Campaigners want polluted salmon farm endorsed by Oliver to be shut