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10/14/2021

Video Nasties of Dead Farmed Salmon Pile Up All Over the World!

 

 

 



 

 

Halloween horror is an every day occurrence on the world's disease ridden salmon farms as the mountain of mortalities pile up ever higher.   Clayoquot Action in British Columbia, Canada, posted on Facebook (7 October 2021):

 

Clayoquot die off video 7 Oct 2021 #1

 

 

 

On the other side of North America in Maine, Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation published just last month (21 September 2021) a photo of the disposal of salmon from Cooke Aquaculture's Black Island salmon farm (video footage is hopefully being posted soon).

 

Black Island die off Sept 2021

 

 

 

Video footage of a mass mortality incident - and shocking evidence of lice infestation inside salmon cages at West Strome in Loch Carron at The Scottish Salmon Company - was also published last month.

 

 

Photo 8 Sept 2021 morts being lifted up #1

 

 

 

 

 

 

In September 2021, Against the Current Iceland published photos of dead farmed salmon being pumped out of a farm:

 

 

 

Veiga dead salmon Sept 2021 #2

 

Veiga dead salmon Sept 2021 #3

 

 

 

 

 

In May 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch published stomach-churning video footage of diseased salmon being dumped in a mass graveyard in the Outer Hebrides:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Daily Mail reported in May 2021:

 



 

The Ferret reported in March 2021:

 

 

 

 

The dumping of diseased farmed salmon in the Outer Hebrides was exposed by the BBC One Show in 2018:

 

Whiteshore Cockles dump #1

 

 

 

 

Netflix's global hit 'Seaspiracy' - which has been watched by millions all over the world features shocking video footage of Mowi's disease-ridden fish at their RSPCA Assured and ASC-certified salmon farm at Gorsten in Loch Linnhe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The new film 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' (streaming now on AppleTV, Amazon, iTunes and You Tube) narrated by Kate Winslet features stomach-churning footage of the Titanic-sized disaster that is RSPCA Assured Scottish salmon farming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 2018 a whistleblower disposing of tonnes and tonnes of dead salmon at Mowi's Carradale salmon farm was so incensed that they leaked photographs of skinned Scottish salmon (the fish were flayed alive in storms - literally battered to death): 

 

 

 

Whistleblower Carradale #2 video with faces blackened out

 

 

 

The Sunday Mail reported in June 2018:

 

Sunday Mail 17 June 2018 newspaper version in full

 

 

 

In November 2019, Sea Shepherd published damning video footage of a mass farmed salmon die-off in Clayoquot Sound.

 

Clayoquot die off video 7 Oct 2021 #2

 

 

 

 

In September 2020, The Ferret reported:

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch also filmed mass mortalities at RSPCA Assured Kames Fish Farming in September 2020:

 

 

 

 

And again at RSPCA Assured Kames Fish Farming in September 2021:

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 2016, video footage of diseased salmon in bins was published in British Columbia, Canada:

 

Clayoquot die off video 7 Oct 2021 #5

 

Clayoquot die off video 7 Oct 2021 #6

 

 

 

 

The Barents Observer reported in 2016:

 

Barents video #1

Barents video #2

 

 

 

 

Video footage of dead farmed salmon piled up at the bottom of cages in Scotland was also broadcast by BBC Panorama in May 2019.

 

 

 

 

Video footage of dead salmon at Mowi's Poll Na Gille salmon farm was posted by David Ainsley in 2017:

 

David Ainsley photo #2 dead salmon at bottom of net

David Ainsley photo #3

 

 

 

Further video footage of morts being disposed of at Mowi's 'Bay of the Dead Heads' salmon farm near Craobh Haven were posted in September 2019:

 

David Ainsley Vimeo Sept 2019 #7 went to investigate Ferguson

 

David Ainsley Vimeo Sept 2019 #1 mort grab

 

 

David Ainsley dived under Mowi's salmon farm at Bagh Dail Nan Ceann (in Gaelic it translates as 'Bay of the Dead Heads'):

 

David Ainsley Vimeo Sept 2019 #8 we filmed underwater

 

 

He videoed dead and dying salmon at the bottom of the cages.

 

David Ainsley Vimeo Sept 2019 #2 dead salmon

 

 

David Ainsley Vimeo Sept 2019 #3 more dead

 

David Ainsley Vimeo Sept 2019 #4 more dead

 

David Ainsley Vimeo Sept 2019 #5 permission to increase

 

 

 

Drone footage shot in May 2019 at Mowi's ASC-certified and RSPCA Assured salmon farm show dead fish floating on the surface following a 'Thermolicer' treatment. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mass mortalities are piling up at Mowi and other salmon farming companies all over the world.  In 2019, CBC News reported on a mass farmed salmon die-off at Mowi in Newfoundland: 

 

 

 

 

"CBC News requested a site tour from Northern Harvest Sea Farms, a subsidiary of MOWI, but that request was denied," reported CBC News (2 October 2019). 

 

CBC pink liquid Oct 2 2019 #3

 

 

 

 

When I filmed inside Mowi's salmon farm in Lough Swilly in July 2019 there were dead salmon floating on the surface of the cages. 

 

 

 

 

Back in 2003, Ireland's RTE broadcast a damning documentary on salmon farming featuring video footage of lice-infested salmon inside a salmon farm, mass mortalities under a salmon farm and illegal dumping of diseased fish:

 

Clayoquot die off video 7 Oct 2021 #3

 

 

 

 

 

Back in 2014, The Common Sense Canadian reported:

 

Clayoquot die off video 7 Oct 2021 #4

 

 

 

 

In July and September 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch visited Grieg Seafood's disease-ridden salmon farming operation on the Isle of Skye:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mowi's nearby Loch Greshornish salmon farm - certified as welfare-friendly by the R$PCA - was piled high with diseased farmed salmon when I visited in July 2020. 

 

 

 

 

Mort bins full of dead farmed Steelhead trout were piled up at nearby Loch Poolteil too in September 2020: 

 

 

 

 

Over in Wester Ross, when I visited Mowi's Torridon salmon farm I was close to vomiting as I climbed up another skip full of diseased salmon - no wonder Mowi's lawyers stepped up their legal threats to sue me: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In July 2021, I filmed at more Mowi salmon farms exposing lice infestation and dead salmon floating on the surface of their RSPCA Assured farms: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The video footage of Mowi's lice-infested salmon farms has now been watched by over one million people via Seaspiracy's Instagram and Twitter social media platforms: 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in July 2021:

 

 

 

 

It's official - Scottish salmon is the worst ever!  Official data - published by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency via 'Scotland's Aquaculture' which is sourced from monthly returns submitted by salmon farming companies - reveals that mortalities on salmon farms during 2020 exceeded a staggering 27,000 tonnes (an estimated 20 million dead salmon).   That's more than double the 10,000 tonnes of morts reported in 2013; almost four times more than the 7,000 tonnes reported in 2010 and the worst on record (2019 and 2017 were both just over 25,000 tonnes)!

 

July 2021 blog #3 2013 to 2020

 

 

 

Here's the worst monthly mortalities (by weight) reported on salmon farms during 2020 - headed by the Faroese/Norwegian owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company followed by Isle of Skye Salmon (owned by Norway's Grieg Seafood) and Norwegian-owned giants Mowi and Scottish Sea Farms.

 

July 2021 blog #1 Top 20 worst 2020

 

 

Mowi (who changed their name from Marine Harvest in 2019 due to "negative consumer perception") head the list of mortalities by company since 2013.  These six companies - all foreign owned/controlled - account for 99% of 'Scottish' salmon farming production.

 

July 2021 blog #6 companies

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To put the scale of Scottish salmon's mort mountain into perspective, over a quarter (26%) of all farmed salmon in the sea phase of production are dying before they reach harvest size.    BBC Countryfile reported in December 2020: 

 

 

 

 

In September 2021, the Scottish Government published new data on mortalities via the 'Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2020' detailing how the mortality rate has ranged between 15-28% over the last few decades on salmon farms in Scotland (the latest data reports survival as 75.9% i.e. 24.1% mortality):

 

Clayoquot die off video 7 Oct 2021 #7

 

 

From hatch to catch (i.e. from imported ova from Iceland, Norway and Ireland - through the farming process in hatcheries and freshwater lochs - to 'Scottish' farmed salmon harvested in sea cages) around half of all farmed salmon are dying!  

 

 

 

 

Exactly how many farmed salmon die each year on salmon farms in Scotland is currently not known.   Sadly, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency stopped reporting mortality numbers back in 2013 following lobbying by the salmon farming industry who claimed that publication would be "commercially damaging".  

 

 

 

 

 

 

In July 2020, The Ferret reported:

 

Ferret 13 July 2020 #1

Ferret 13 July 2020 #2 table

 

 

 

A report - "Investing in Troubled Waters" - published by the Changing Markets Foundation in July 2021 named and shamed Mowi for their staggeringly high mort mountain: 

 

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported in August 2021: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch has been tracking the disposal of dead farmed salmon for years - since the BBC One Show broadcast 'The Dead Salmon Run' in December 2017:

 

 

 

 

Clayoquot die off video 7 Oct 2021 #8

Clayoquot die off video 7 Oct 2021 #9

 

 

In September 2018, I climbed up a skip full of diseased farmed salmon at The Scottish Salmon Company's Quarry Point salmon farm in Loch Fyne: 

 

 

 

 

In April 2019, Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots published video footage of morts being taken away in a convoy of yellow Billy Bowie trucks from the same salmon farm at Quarry Point: 

 

 

 

 

In September 2019, video footage of diseased salmon being transported by Gogar spilled on the A86 road was published on Facebook: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In January 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch revealed that the dead salmon were sourced from a disease-ridden Mowi salmon farm on the Isle of Skye. 

 

 

 

 

In April 2020, photos of Mowi's dead salmon from the appropriately named Muck salmon farm were published:

 

Muck photo #2 morts in bin

Muck photo #3 morts on back of boat

Muck photo #1 Billy Bowie truck with white suit man

 

 

 

In November 2018, The Sunday Mail published video footage of the "hell" that is RSPCA Assured Mowi: 

 

Sunday Mail 24 Nov 2018 # Newspaper version

 

 

Sunday Mail 24 Nov 2018 #1 online

 

Sunday Mail 24 Nov 2018 #2 video

 

 

Sunday Mail 24 Nov 2018 #3

 

 

 

In December 2018, investigative reporters from Latvian TV climed up a skip full of diseased salmon at Mowi's farm at Gorsten:

 

Latvian TV #4 Don with reporter on top of skip

 

 

Latvian TV #4 Don with Go Pro on top of skip

 

 

 

The mass mortalities are piled so high in disease-ridden salmon farms across Scotland that video footage of dead fish is not hard to come by!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Read more via:

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