CEO Aarskog Pays Price for Bad Mowi

The boss of beleaguered salmon farming giant Mowi has seemingly paid the ultimate price for mass mortalities and infectious diseases crippling feedlots operated by the world's #1 company all over the globe. Fish Farmer reported (12 November 2019):

Undercurrent News reported (12 November 2019):

Intrafish reported (12 November 2019):

Fish Farming Expert reported (12 November 2019):

Last week Mowi's outgoing CEO Alf-Helge Aarskog was forced into a humbling apology to the Premier of Newfoundland following mass mortalities and a disease cover up.

As Jim Royle from the Royle Family says........

Seafood Source reported just yesterday (11 November 2019) that the Atlantic Salmon Federation had criticised Mowi's cover-up.

"Company owners and shareholders have consistently put themselves and their profits above all other users of the marine environment," said ASF Community Outreach Coordinator Steve Sutton. Atlantic Salmon Federation Executive Director of Communications Neville Crabbe told SeafoodSource (1 November 2019).

The reputation of Aarskog and the entire Mowi brand has become ever more tarnished since Marine Harvest was re-branded as Mowi in January 2019 - with their CEO letting slip in February that they changed their name due to negative consumer perception (i.e. consumers thought Marine Harvest was talking shite).

Intrafish reported last month:

CBC News reported (8 November 2019):

CBC News reported (2 October 2019) on Mowi's mortality problems in Canada.

"CBC News requested a site tour from Northern Harvest Sea Farms, a subsidiary of MOWI, but that request was denied," reported CBC News (2 October 2019).

It's not hard to see why Mowi do not want cameras coming close to their cages.

Salmon Business reported (3 October 2019):

The Fish Site reported (14 October 2019):

The Globe & Mail reported (8 October 2019) on the "awful smell" coming from Mowi:

Includes:

Mowi's problems with mass mortalities and escalating disease problems are not just confined to Canada. In Scotland, Mowi are facing huge criticism following an admission by the company that mortalities are running at a staggering 24% coupled with welfare abuse of cleaner fish.

The Sunday National and The Ferret reported (10 November 2019):

Shocking video footage of mortalities at a Mowi salmon farm in Scotland was posted last month by diver David Ainsley.

Through the yellow bars of the jailed salmon you can see rotten and skinless carcasses - similar to the gruesome photos of flayed alive salmon leaked by a whistleblower working at a Mowi salmon farm in Kilbrannan Sound in 2018.

David Ainsley dived under Mowi's salmon farm at Bagh Dail Nan Ceann (in Gaelic it translates as 'Bay of the Dead Heads'):

He videoed dead and dying salmon at the bottom of the cages.

Disease-ridden Mowi (who controversially changed their name from Marine Harvest on 1 January 2019 despite objections from the Mowinckel family) owns the salmon farm in the Sound of Jura. Bagh Dail nan Ceann was rated as the joint second worst salmon farm in Scotland in a welfare report by OneKind in 2018 (Mowi's neighbouring salmon farm at Poll na Gille was rated the worst).

Video footage of dead salmon at Mowi's Poll Na Gille salmon farm was posted by David Ainsley in 2017:

Mowi's escalating lice and disease problems in Norway are also proving costly.

In Ireland too, Mowi is being forced to close down a salmon farm after breaching biomass limits.

And in Chile, Mowi may lose a salmon farm concession following a mass escape.

In Scotland during 2019 Mowi has already reported close to 2 million mass mortalities due to Pancreas Disease, Cardiomyopathy Syndrome, Anaemia, Gill Disease and 'treatment losses'.

David Ainsley has also posted video footage of the dead seabed under salmon farms (believed to be Mowi's salmon farm at nearby Poll Na Gille):

BBC's Panorama in May 2019 broadcast David Ainsley's video footage under a Mowi salmon farm.

Watch more from BBC Panorama online here

Here's more video footage shot by David Ainsley of the waste impacts of salmon farms in the Sound of Shuna.

No wonder Mowi did not Scottish Salmon Watch filming near their farms when Scottish Salmon Watch visited in September 2019.

When Scottish Salmon Watch visited Mowi's Bagh Dail Nan Ceann salmon farm in early July 2019 there were certainly visible health challenges with dead and dying lumpfish littering the surface of the one cage visited.

Mowi's salmon farm at Bagh Dail Nan Ceann (Bay of the Dead Heads) also detailed mortality and disease problems in cleaner fish in the FHI June 2019 report (with "craters disease" cited).