Mail On Sunday: "Salmon farmers are 'torturing' porpoises and dolphins with high-pitched noises to protect their stock, campaigners warn"

 

Noise pollution from salmon farms tortures porpoises @MailOnline https://t.co/le3EHiS4pj "Salmon farmers use underwater high-pitched noise devices to protect stock...But the underwater equipment has been branded ‘sonic torture’ by campaigners" @ClydePorpoise @SealifeA @ScotLINK pic.twitter.com/lhxYrRuUDQ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 25, 2020

 

Salmon farmers are 'torturing' porpoises & dolphins with high-pitched noises to protect their stock @MailOnline @DailyMailUK https://t.co/tvBsvsDSUU "acoustic devices may already be illegal" @ClydePorpoise @SSPOsays @SealifeA @TheSoundOfJura @whalesorg @HWDT_org @strathearnrose

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 25, 2020

 

 

 

The Mail On Sunday reported (25 October 2020):

 

 

 

 

 

Surely someone on inside track at @marinescotland & @nature_scot has the bottle to affirm to @GreenerScotland @NicolaSturgeon @strathearnrose that unlicensed use of ADDs in aquaculture is contrary to European Protected Species legislation and completely immoral? pic.twitter.com/yfQQZhjaI8

— david nairn (@ClydePorpoise) October 12, 2020

 

 

Marine Scotland posted online (30 October 2020):

 

 

 

Ullapool Sea Savers Tweeted (17 November 2020):

 

 

ADDs are used by fish farms to scare seals but also scare porpoise and other cetaceans. How can we call the Wester Ross Marine Protected Area 'protected' when wildlife is exposed to this?@Dolphinchaz @SeaWatchersUK @Dolphinsighting @mcsuk @ScotLINK @ScotWildlife @TheGAAIA https://t.co/Ai5fv1xJgh

— Ullapool Sea Savers (@SaversSea) November 17, 2020

 

 

I Tweeted (8 December 2020):

 

 

Scottish Legal News: "The Scottish government is preparing a report to be laid before @ScotParl by 1 March 2021 on the use of acoustic deterrent devices on fish farms" https://t.co/XDrFZ2Qz9e
Will @GreenerScotland admit that ADD use on salmon farms is illegal? @MairiGougeon

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 8, 2020

 

 

Read more via:

• Unlicensed use of ADDs in aquaculture is contrary to European Protected Species legislation & completely immoral!
• Daily Record: "Whales and dolphins being 'tortured' by anti-seal scare devices at Scottish fish farms"
• The Guardian: "Scottish salmon farmers to be banned from shooting seals"
• Caught Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea
• The Ferret: "Seal scarers used by fish farms branded 'sonic torture'"
• GenusWave 'Targeted Acoustic Startle Technology' - in compliance with the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act??
• Seal shooting at salmon farms doubles before ban
• Ban on seal shooting must be watertight
• Greens want ban on seal scarers
• BBC Countryfile on ADDs impacting on cetaceans
• Sounding Off On Salmon Farms - Acoustic Deterrent Devices evade Marine Noise Registry
• SARF report 112: "Influences of lower-frequency Acoustic Deterrent Devices (ADDs) on cetaceans in Scottish coastal waters"
• The Times: "Noisy fish farms ‘harm other marine life’"
• Mapping widespread and increasing underwater noise pollution from acoustic deterrent devices
• Sounding Off About Scotland's Noisy Salmon Farms - Turn Off Acoustic Deterrent Devices to Protect Cetaceans
• Deafening Impact of Salmon Farms on Cetaceans
• The National: "Warning salmon farm devices could hit wildlife tourism"
• Cetaceans Sound Alarm On Salmon Farms - new research sparks EC complaint & call to ban Acoustic Deterrent Devices
• Sunday Herald: "Health of whales, dolphins and porpoises put at risk by underwater alarms"
• Noisy Salmon Farms - Switch Off Acoustic Deterrent Devices Now!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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