Stop Thermolicing Farmed Salmon to Death - Ban Heated Torture Chambers!

 

 

Download in full as a PDF online here

 

 

 

 

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Media Backgrounder: The Welfare Case Against the Thermolicer, Hydrolicer & Optilicer (March 2020)

 

 

 

 

Download letters from Dr Lynne Sneddon of the University of Liverpool to the Scottish Government, RSPCA, Animal Welfare Commission and the Scottish Parliament's Cross-Party Group on Animal Welfare:

Letter dated 7 January 2020 from Dr Lynne Sneddon to the Scottish Government

Letter dated 29 January 2020 from Dr Lynne Sneddon to the Scottish Government

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More background on welfare abuse on salmon farms via:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch a video of a Hydrolicer in action from Corin Smith at Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots:

 

 

 

Read more via:

The National: "Scottish salmon farming tools 'break animal welfare rules'"

Sunday Times: "RSPCA paid over £500,000 to back Scottish salmon industry"

Open letter to the RSPCA calls for an end to the certification of Scottish salmon

Sunday Times: "Scientist hits out at RSPCA for backing Scottish salmon farms"

RSPCA defends involvement in Scottish salmon farming

New Veterinary Science Papers Turn Up Heat on the Thermolicer

The Herald: "Scottish Government is urged to ban ‘painful’ salmon delicing tech"

Video Nasty: Thermolicer - the Heated Torture Chamber for Scottish Salmon

Welfare Abuse at Scottish Salmon Farms - Why No Legal Enforcement Or Prosecutions?

Authorities mull over ban on thermal delousing

"Campaign group to file legal challenge against Scottish salmon farms’ use of Thermolicer"

Daily Mail: "Calls to ban salmon farms' lice treatment"

Ban Water Torture on Scottish Salmon Farms - over 100,000 farmed fish Thermoliced & Hydroliced to death since August 2017

Letter to Scottish Ministers re. Welfare Abuses at Scottish Salmon Farms

Deaths, Deformities & Welfare Abuse at Scottish Salmon Farms - Breach of the Animal Health & Welfare (Scotland) Act?

Letter to the Cross-Party Group on Animal Welfare: Thermoliced to death

Study questions fish welfare in thermal delousing

Vet warns of head injury risk to fish during delousing

Thermal treatment for lice blamed for salmon deaths - new 'Thermolicer' method under spotlight as 6,000 fish die

Thousands of fish poached alive in lice treatment bungle that could hit Christmas salmon prices

Thousands of salmon are poached alive when a lice treatment process went horribly wrong in a mistake that could see prices soar ahead of Christmas 

Fish farm firm kills 175000 salmon by accident

Revealed: how Scottish fish farm cooked thousands of salmon alive

'Thermolicer' Back-Fires Killing 95,400 Farmed Salmon - £2.7 million up in flames for Marine Harvest on Isle of Skye