Sunday Times: "Outlawed insecticide may be used on Scottish salmon" @SundayTimesScot https://t.co/4fNwMQMNfg @WeAreBenchmark @FerdOwner @scotseafarms @MowiScotlandLtd @Bayer @HamishMacdonell @markruskell @strathearnrose @ScottishEPA @vmdgovuk @FOIScotland @scotgp @bugsymac1 pic.twitter.com/6g7O1zr3qU
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 14, 2020
Jean-Marc Bonmatin, from the French National Centre for Scientific Research, was quoted @SundayTimesScot warning "the use of Imidacloprid as it is presented for salmon farming will be catastrophic for aquatic invertebrates, and even for fishes" @undercur https://t.co/1KJ21gpTn6
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 15, 2020
The Sunday Times reported (14 June 2020):
Imidacloprid "has not been used in Scotland & is currently not scheduled to be used here" @HamishMacdonell @SSPOsays @SundayTimesScot What about field trials @WeAreBenchmark in 2019 & the proposed field trial in Loch Ailort? @MowiScotlandLtd @ScottishEPA https://t.co/4fNwMQMNfg pic.twitter.com/oPTRh33Td5
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 14, 2020
Read more via:
- Horrible History: Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming
- Scientific Opposition to Neonicotinoid Use in Salmon Farming
- Backgrounder: "Imidacloprid - A Neonicotinoid Insecticide Toxic to Aquatic Life"
- FOI letter on Scientific Concerns re. Imidacloprid Use in Scottish Salmon Farming
- Scottish Greens "Deeply Concerned" at Mowi's Field Trial of Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in Loch Ailort
- Letter to the Prince of Wales re. bee-killing Imidacloprid use at royal warrant holder Mowi
- Secret Trials: 'Royal' Salmon Doused with Bee-Killing Insecticide Imidacloprid?
- Follow the Salmoney - the Norwegian tobacco billionaire behind the Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid
- ENDS Report: "Calls for greater transparency over ‘toxic’ new fish farm product"
- Letter to SEPA: Please Come Clean on Imidacloprid!
- Letter to Scottish Ministers, SEPA & the VMD re. Imidacloprid
- FOI requests on Imidacloprid to SEPA, VMD & the Scottish Government
- Revealed: Toxic Neonicotinoid Insecticide Used to 'CleanTreat' Lousy Salmon
- Please Come Clean on BMK08!
- Sunday Times: "Official fears revealed over toxic threat of salmon trade"
- Cleaning Tox-Sick Scottish Salmon
- CleanTreat FOI Disclosures by the Scottish Government to Scottish Salmon Watch
- Media Backgrounder: Chemically Embalmed Scottish Salmon
- All is Not Well With Sick Scottish Salmon