Data on toxic chemical use by salmon farms via wellboats for 2019 was finally published by the Scottish Government online last month (9 November 2020):
Here's the salmon farms which reported the use of the toxic chemicals Salmosan (Azamethiphos), Azasure (Azamethiphos), Alphamax (Deltamethrin) and Paramove (Hydrogen Peroxide) via wellboats during 2019:
Scottish Salmon Watch today (9 December 2020) wrote to the Scottish Government asking if this was a full record of toxic chemical use via wellboats during 2019 and asking why data for 2020 was still not published (whilst data for toxic chemical use on salmon farms via tarpaulins is already published online until the end of September 2020).
Read more via:
New Data Online Via 'Scotland's Aquaculture' - Mortalities, Toxic Chemicals & Biomass Exceedances
The Devil is in the Data - why no published figures on use of toxic chemicals via wellboats?
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Secret Salmon - On the Trail of Imidacloprid Use in Scotland!
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Addendum:
From:
Don Staniford <[email protected]>Date: Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 10:42 PM
Subject: FOI re. Hydrogen Peroxide use on salmon farms in Scotland since 1 January 2016
To: <
[email protected]>
Please provide information on the use of Hydrogen Peroxide in salmon farming - via both wellboats, tarpaulins and any other methods - since 1 January 2016.
Please include Excel spreadsheets, data, emails, letters, reports and any other information related to the use of Hydrogen Peroxide in salmon farming in Scotland.
Please also include any information including emails, Cabinet Briefings and other details relating to the non-reporting and non-recording of Hydrogen Peroxide use.
Scottish Salmon Watch finds it difficult to believe that this was the only use of Hydrogen Peroxide in 2019 - where is the data for use of Hydrogen Peroxide via tarpaulins and any other methods of application?
Another FOI replied to by the Scottish Government on 30 September 2020 (FOI-202000084355) detailed an Excel spreadsheet of data of chemical use via wellboats for 2018:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202000084355/ - including data on the use of Hydrogen Peroxide:
Again, Scottish Salmon Watch struggles to believe that Grieg Seafood was the only user of Hydrogen Peroxide in 2018.
Please note that GAAIA published data on Hydrogen Peroxide use in February 2017 obtained from SEPA via FOI for period 2005 to 2015 -
online here
Please therefore provide data on the use of Hydrogen Peroxide since 1 January 2016 (effectively an update on the data published by GAAIA in February 2017) and provide information pertaining to why the use of Hydrogen Peroxide has remained unreported, unrecorded and/or unpublished including any discussions with SEPA, the SSPO, Mowi and other salmon farming companies.
Please consider this a formal FOI request under the relevant FOI and Environmental Information regulations.
Please provide the information electronically.
Please provide a receipt for this FOI request.
Thanks,
Don Staniford
Director, Scottish Salmon Watch
From:
Don Staniford <[email protected]>Date: Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 10:46 PM
Subject: Fwd: FOI re. Hydrogen Peroxide use on salmon farms in Scotland since 1 January 2016
To: AccesstoInformation <
[email protected]>
Please provide information on the use of Hydrogen Peroxide in salmon farming - via both wellboats, tarpaulins and any other methods - since 1 January 2016.
Please include Excel spreadsheets, data, emails, letters, reports and any other information related to the use of Hydrogen Peroxide in salmon farming in Scotland.
Please also include any information including emails, discussions with the Scottish Government, SSPO and any other parties relating to the non-reporting and non-recording of Hydrogen Peroxide use.
Scottish Salmon Watch finds it difficult to believe that this was the only use of Hydrogen Peroxide in 2019 - where is the data for use of Hydrogen Peroxide via tarpaulins and any other methods of application?
Another FOI replied to by the Scottish Government on 30 September 2020 (FOI-202000084355) detailed an Excel spreadsheet of data of chemical use via wellboats for 2018:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202000084355/ - including data on the use of Hydrogen Peroxide:
Again, Scottish Salmon Watch struggles to believe that Grieg Seafood was the only user of Hydrogen Peroxide in 2018.
Please note that GAAIA published data on Hydrogen Peroxide use in February 2017 obtained from SEPA via FOI for period 2005 to 2015 -
online here
Please therefore provide data on the use of Hydrogen Peroxide since 1 January 2016 (effectively an update on the data published by GAAIA in February 2017) and provide information pertaining to why the use of Hydrogen Peroxide has remained unreported, unrecorded and/or unpublished including any discussions with the Scottish Government, the SSPO, Mowi and other salmon farming companies.
Please consider this a formal FOI request under the relevant FOI and Environmental Information regulations.
Please provide the information electronically.
Please provide a receipt for this FOI request.
Thanks,
Don Staniford
Director, Scottish Salmon Watch
From:
Don Staniford <[email protected]>Date: Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 9:58 AM
Subject: Addendum: FOI re. Hydrogen Peroxide use on salmon farms in Scotland since 1 January 2016
To: AccesstoInformation <
[email protected]>
In addition to the FOI filed last night (9 December 2020), Scottish Salmon Watch fully appreciates that SEPA has disclosed various data on Hydrogen Peroxide via FOI previously - including via
https://www2.sepa.org.uk/disclosurelog/#
Scottish Salmon Watch does not seek to duplicate previous FOI disclosures but merely is seeking a comprehensive database for Hydrogen Peroxide use in the same way as use of Azamethiphos, Deltamethrin and Emamectin benzoate is recorded and published via Scotland's Aquaculture (this sadly does not currently include use via wellboats) and via SEPA's SPRI (this is sadly not current and does not distinguish between use via wellboats and tarpaulins).
We understand via a FOI disclosure in November 2019:
That Hydrogen Peroxide use by salmon farms was disclosed with the Top Ten uses out of 104 reports detailed as:
SEPA's letter dated 8 November 2019 included:
We are therefore requesting 2019 data in full which should now be available as well as 2020 data (at least for Q1, Q2 and Q3).
For the sake of clarification, Scottish Salmon Watch is therefore requesting data for ALL use of hydrogen peroxide on salmon farms since 1 January 2016. Where this does NOT include wellboat use please indicate as such (the previous data disclosed in January 2017 via
F0187295 AntibioticHydrogenPeroxideData released for 2002 to 2015 is understood to NOT have included Hydrogen Peroxide use via wellboats).
I hope this clarifies yesterday's FOI request.
Thanks,
Don