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10/16/2021

X-Rated Video: 90% Mortality at The Faroese/Norwegian 'Scottish' Salmon Company?!

 



 

Halloween has come early at The Faroese/Norwegian-owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company.   Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots posted on Facebook (15 October 2021):

 

Gigha Facebook post ISSF 15 Oct 2021

 

 

 



 

Here's photo stills from the video footage:

 

Gigha photos #1

 

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Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots posted on Facebook (18 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

Earlier this month (14 October 2021), Scottish Salmon Watch shared gruesome video footage of morts being disposed of at a salmon farm in the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Canada:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported last month (19 September 2021):

 

Oct 2021 blog #1

 

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported last month (10 September 2021):

 

Oct 2021 blog #2

Oct 2021 blog #3

Oct 2021 blog #4

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported earlier this month (6 October 2021):

 

 

 

 

In September 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch published shocking video footage of mass mortalities, lice infestation and welfare abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company's West Strome salmon farm in Loch Carron (a 'Special Area of Conservation'):

 

 

 

“Scottish salmon leaves me sick to the stomach,” said Jamie Moyes, a vegan activist who acted as boat support to Scottish Salmon Watch when we filmed inside The Scottish Salmon Company's West Strome salmon farm on 6 September 2021. “I used to work as a salmon farmer and I am ashamed that the Scottish Salmon Company is causing such horrific distress and suffering. Anyone who watches this video footage will be put off eating Scottish salmon for life. The Scottish Government needs to take immediate action to end the torture of thousands of farmed salmon dying in the cages in Loch Carron”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's more video nasties shot at The Scottish Salmon Company's disease-ridden salmon farms in Loch Fyne:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in July 2021:

 

 

 

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

 

 

Six out of the top twenty monthly mortalities since 2002 when data was made available were reported during 2020 - with The Scottish Salmon Company's salmon farm at Sgian Dubh in Loch Striven in August 2020 heading the list of shame.

 

July 2021 blog #2 Top 20 worst since 2002

 

 

 

 

 

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: 

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Salmon Company is even less Scottish than Donald Trump - it is owned by Faroese company Bakkafrost whose largest shareholder is the Norwegian Government Pension Fund controlled by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade. 

 

 

 

 

 

In November 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch wrote to the Norwegian Government asking them to divest from The Scottish Salmon Company - and other salmon farming companies - as it was unethical and irresponsible.

 

 

 

 

 

Last month, Bakkafrost sought to distance itself from the bloody slaughter of dolphins and whales in the Faroes:

 

ABC #1

ABC #3

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported (14 September 2021):

 

 

 

 

The Sunday National and The Ferret reported (27 June 2021):

 

 



 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in September 2019 (just before Bakkafrost bought The 'Scottish' Salmon Company from Ukrainian banker Yuriy Lopatynskyy):

 

Oct 2021 blog #5

 

Photographs taken by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate - slipped out unnoticed in April 2019 - reveal severely damaged farmed salmon at The Scottish Salmon Company's Strondoir Bay salmon farm in Loch Fyne in February 2019. 

 

FHI Case Information Strondoir Bay Feb 2019 Photo #1

FHI Case Information Strondoir Bay Feb 2019 Photo #2

FHI Case Information Strondoir Bay Feb 2019 Photo #4

FHI Case Information Strondoir Bay Feb 2019 Photo #5

FHI Case Information Strondoir Bay Feb 2019 Photo #6

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in August 2019:

 

It's no surprise to read that The Scottish Salmon Company - registered in Jersey, floated on the Norwegian stock exchange and whose largest shareholder is listed as an anonymous account on the Swiss stock exchange believed to be controlled by Ukrainian businessman Yuriy Lopatinskyy who literally has a residence in Edinburgh next to the First Minister of Scotland - is "considering sale offers".  

 

SSC Lochlander flags in mort bin

 

 

 

Buyers beware, however.   Before you buy 'Scottish' salmon please take a hard look at the disease-ridden horror story. 

 

STV News 19 June 2019 TV version #2

 

 

Do you really want to buy a company farming blind salmon plagued by boils (not to mention infested with lice and riddled with infectious diseases, pathogens and viruses)?

 

STV News 19 June 2019 TV version #3

 

 


Investors and consumers alike are encouraged to read the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate recently published report on The Scottish Salmon Company's salmon farm at Aird in Loch Shieldaig.  The damning report - along with video footage shot by Scottish Salmon Watch in June and previous FHI reports - is enough to put you off Scottish salmon for life. 

 

FHI photo collage

 

 

Given the horrific nature of their salmon farming business, it is little wonder that lawyers acting for The Scottish Salmon Company threatened legal action in 2018 to prevent the disclosure of damning photos of disease-ridden Scottish salmon.

 

 

Ferret on legal action re photos Aug 2018 #1

Ferret on legal action re photos Aug 2018 #2

 

 

Here's some of the photos - obtained by Scottish Salmon Watch via Freedom of Information - The Scottish Salmon Company did not want the public the see (published in June 2018 by The Ferret). 

 

Ferret #19

 

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And more photos (sourced from Scottish Government Fish Health Inspections in 2017 and 2018) published by Scottish Salmon Watch in June 2018 and in August 2018)

FHI photo #1

 

FHI photo #2

 

FHI photo #3 2017

FHI photo #4 2017

FHI photo #1 2018

 

 

And here's more stomach-churning photos of diseased salmon at The Scottish Salmon Company in 2016 (published by Scottish Salmon Watch in August 2018 - and sourced from the Scottish Government Fish Health Inspectorate surveillance):

 

FHI photo #3 2016

 

FHI photo #4 2016

FHI photo #5 2016

FHI photo #6 2016

 

 

The Ferret also reported in September 2018 on shocking images published by photographer Corin Smith from The Scottish Salmon Company's lice-infested salmon farm at Vacasay in Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis:

 

Ferret on Vacasay #1

 

 

 

 

Gruesome footage of lice-ridden salmon captured by photographer Corin Smith at The Scottish Salmon Company was featured on the BBC's 'One Show' in September 2018 and also used in a recent video message by Sir David Attenborough. 

 

Corin photo One Show iPlayer

Mail On Sunday 31 March 2019 #1 Sir David

 

 

The Daily Mail reported in September 2018:

 

Daily Mail Suffering Salmon 5 September 2018 # Photo

 

 

 

Back in February 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch revealed that 99% of 'Scottish' salmon farming production was controlled/owned by six foreign companies including The Scottish Salmon Company (then owned/controlled by Ukrainian banker Yuri Lopatinsky via Northern Link and an anonymous account registered at the Swiss Stock Exchange). 

 

Nov 2020 blog #3

Scottish Scamon company logos & flags Local Destruction Overseas Profits

 

 

 

The Ferret reported in February 2019:

 

Nov 2020 blog #1

Nov 2020 blog #2

 

 

In June 2019, lawyers representing The Scottish Salmon Company's controlling shareholder Yuriy Lopatynskyy threatened legal action against Scottish Salmon Watch for publishing information via 'Scottish Scamon'.   Here's the legal threat served in June 2019:

 

Yuriy legal threat letter from Woods Whur 30 May 2019

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch did not remove the offending report and stands by the published information.    Find out more about the scam, sham and consumer con that is 'Scottish Scamon' online here.

 

 

 

 

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