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08/31/2021

Mowi's Mortality Nigthmare - Farmed Salmon is Dead in the Water!

The Faces of Scottish Salmon Feb 2020 #2

 



 

Data for mass mortality events officially reported by salmon farms to the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate (published online on 4 August 2021) should leave consumers of "responsibly sourced" RSPCA Assured salmon sick to the stomach - in the month of June alone there were 45 'Mortality Event Reports' detailing over 230,000 dead salmon with nearly 118,000 reported in a single incident due to "lack of oxygen" at Mowi's RSPCA Assured Inchmore hatchery (the same site where 500,000 farmed salmon died in 2018 from oxygen starvation). 

 

FHI June 2021 #1

 

FHI June 2021 #2

 

 

 

Check out new lice data too published online by the Scottish Government. 

 

 

 

 

 

Lack of oxygen is strangling the life out of farmed salmon all over the world.  

 

 

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported earlier this month (2 August 2021): 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported last month (12 July 2021): 

 

 

 

 

Mortality data published via the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate includes nearly 2 million dead salmon in five mass mortalities at hatcheries during 2019 including over 1.5 million at Mowi's Lochailort Recirculation Hatchery in March 2019 and another 89,000 in February 2019:

 

FHI data Aug 2019 #1 Hatcheries


 

 

In October 2018, The Sunday Mail reported that 500,000 farmed salmon had died at Mowi's flagship hatchery at Inchmore - opened only a few months earlier by Scotland's Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy, Fergus Ewing.

 

Sunday Mail 7 October 2018 Full version

 

Hatchery Inchmore Fergus

 

 

Netflix's global hit 'Seaspiracy' features shocking video footage shot at Mowi's RSPCA Assured (and ASC-certified) salmon farm at Gorsten in Loch Linnhe.

 

 

 

 

 

In July 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch filmed at Mowi's RSPCA Assured Loch Greshornish salmon farm on the Isle of Skye. 

 

 

 



 

 

Here's more video footage from RSPCA Assured Mowi (who have repeatedly threatened legal action against secret filming): 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

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