Survival of the Unhealthiest Scottish Salmon - New data reveals shocking mortality rates!

Shocking Scottish Salmon: 78.3% mortality rate reported at Grieg Seafood's Leinish salmon farm on the Isle of Skye - four out of five @rspcaassured fish died a horrible death! @GriegShetland @SSPOsays @onekindtweet https://t.co/a3w08wp8bt @KateForbesMSP @Ianblackford_MP @WHFP1 pic.twitter.com/wzA2j4E6CD
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 6, 2020

Data published by the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation - which represents the six foreign-owned companies who together account for 99% of 'Scottish' salmon farming production - paints a shocking picture of diseased and dead Scottish salmon with a staggering 78.3% mortality at Grieg Seafood's Leinish salmon farm in Loch Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye.

Watch gruesome video footage of mortalities at Grieg Seafood's disease-ridden operations in Loch Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye:

Here's the worst mortality rates at most of Scotland's salmon farms during July 2020 (not all salmon farming companies - e.g. Kames - are members of the SSPO):

Data on the number of mortalities on Scottish salmon farms has not been published since 2012 following lobbying by the SSPO who argued that disclosure would be "commercially damaging".

If you're looking for data on numbers of @rspcaassured dead farmed salmon in Scotland they don't exist - in 2013 @SSPOsays lobbied @ScottishEPA not to disclose mortalities as it was deemed commercially damaging! https://t.co/cDEyvS04dO @strathearnrose @salmon_scottish @scotgp pic.twitter.com/FICRbrpGXJ
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 2, 2020