Fish Farmer reported (18 February 2022):
SalMar's Q4 2021 report included:
Scamon Scotland reported (18 February 2022):
Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - 8m morts reported last year & half a million in first two weeks of 2022!! https://t.co/tBz56oIRHK @ScotlandSalmon @tavishscott
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 18, 2022
Anyone for yummy "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon? @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation pic.twitter.com/K8cU8Bo64Y
According to the Fish Health Inspectorate data published on 7 February 2022, Norwegian-owned Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk) reported 815,746 mortalities since 1 January 2021 (data up to mid-January 2022) via 135 'Mortality Event Reports' - including mass mortalities at Toyness and Westerbister (sites which are currently being audited for certification by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council) and in Loch Spelve where secret filming by Scottish Salmon Watch in May 2021 exposed welfare abuse and led to an official report of Infectious Salmon Anaemia to the World Organization for Animal Health in September 2021:
Anyone for M&S’s Virus-Laden Scottish Salmon (don’t worry, it’s “responsibly sourced” & @rspcaassured)?!https://t.co/A1AHbV9xFs @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @RSPCA_PATeam @Ecohustler
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 14, 2022
How many ISA-ridden Scottish salmon have been sold by M&S? #marksandspencer pic.twitter.com/kkNz7OcV1F
Scamon Scotland wrote to M&S (who sources "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon from Scottish Sea Farms) last week:
How many @marksandspencer Scottish salmon @scotseafarms are infected with diseases, pathogens & viruses such as Infectious Salmon Anaemia, Piscine Reovirus, Proliferative Gill Disease (Piscichlamydia) & Salmon Gill Poxvirus? https://t.co/A1AHbV9xFs @rspcaassured @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/a1nilFBfcx
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 14, 2022
Scottish Salmon Watch reported last month (11 January 2022):
EXPOSED: Over 100,000 dead farmed salmon @scotseafarms in one month at Toyness in Orkney @marinescotland - surely @ASC_aqua "farmed responsibly" certification is dead in the water? @Acoura_UK @lloydsregister @The_Orcadian @LeroySeafood @Folketrygdfond https://t.co/sl7E4vmN5y pic.twitter.com/XoH5hkCsqu
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 11, 2022
Scottish Salmon Watch reported in December 2021:
'Scottish' Sea Farms (real name Norskott Havbruk @LeroySeafood) claim an annual mortality rate of 9%* @scotseafarms yet data @ScotlandSalmon shows average cummulative mortality at farms harvested out in 2020 & 2021 was 14% with 41% in Loch Kishorn! https://t.co/YP7xPmmrFt pic.twitter.com/zOmL4I5G4S
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 13, 2021
Fish Farmer reported (10 December 2021):
SalMar - co-owner of @scotseafarms with @LeroySeafood - hit by Infectious Salmon Anaemia in Norway with ISA suspected at Grieg @GriegShetland https://t.co/A0O8E1lBpj @InfoMattilsynet @fishfarmermag
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 10, 2021
How many hidden cases of ISA are in Scotland? @ScotlandSalmon @marinescotland pic.twitter.com/H9Wd1rJe3d
In July 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch asked if ISA was back again in Scotland:
Leroy (co-owner of Norskott Havbruk) is plagued by Infectious Salmon Anaemia in #Norway @LeroySeafood @InfoMattilsynet https://t.co/XrE2BNkqxF @LeroySeafood
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 6, 2021
Scottish Sea Farms (Hydro Seafoods) spread ISA around #Scotland in the 1990s causing £100m losses - is ISA back again? pic.twitter.com/HooqhsxNU3
Scamon Scotland reported earlier this month (10 February 2022):
It’s Official: Infectious Salmon Anaemia Back to Haunt 'Scottish' Salmon - reported to the World Organization for Animal Health for the first time since 2012! https://t.co/pVdSQENcpZ @OIEAnimalHealth @marinescotland @DefraGovUK @ScotlandSalmon @scotseafarms @MairiMcAllan @scotgp pic.twitter.com/gBsig4qlc9
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 10, 2022
Scottish Salmon Watch reported in March 2021:
"Scottish Sea Farms is bringing the whole sordid salmon farming industry further into disrepute" said Scottish Salmon Watch "The lack of transparency over mortality reporting of Scottish salmon is a scandal" https://t.co/pvZAMsdhqC@scotseafarms @rspcaassured @Folketrygdfond pic.twitter.com/sdWnSWlbxP
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 9, 2021
Revealed: Scottish Sea Farms fail to report mortality numbers in 61% of 'Mortality Event Reports' @marinescotland - that's 167 missing cases which could be over 2 million @rspcaassured farmed salmon! @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @LeroySeafood @SSPOsays https://t.co/pvZAMsdhqC pic.twitter.com/vWsKR4apLC
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 9, 2021
In October 2020, lice-infested farmed salmon swimming inside Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Creran was published by Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots:
The shocking video footage was broadcast by BBC 's Countryfile in December 2020:
RSPCA claim they "did everything they reasonably could" with respect to welfare abuse @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @SSPOsays in Loch Creran @BBCCountryfile @joe_crowley https://t.co/G4dXeILsTk
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 7, 2020
Surely it is reasonable to question why @rspcaassured still certify salmon farms? pic.twitter.com/lfVVFa5GE8
Scottish Salmon Watch reported on mass mortalities at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Spelve in February 2020:
Does the RSPCA still certify Loch Spelve? @rspcaassured @scotseafarms A 6% survival rate is truly shocking - out of 382,344 salmon stocked in the farm only 24,000 were harvested! How can the RSPCA condone such cruelty & suffering? @RSPCA_Frontline @RSPCA_official @RSPCAChris https://t.co/nAUVPrV1oQ
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 12, 2020
Telephone inspection of @scotseafarms by @marinescotland in Loch Spelve - 366,000+ fish die (199,124 culled & 177,588 morts). Fish start dying on 16 Sept & site is fallowed on 29 Oct yet 'Mortality Event Reports' are dated 14 Nov with zero 'inspection' until phone call on 15 Nov pic.twitter.com/AHzlw7SrTo
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 12, 2020
Scottish Salmon Watch reported in January 2020:
Lice-infested & disease-ridden Scottish Salmon anyone? https://t.co/1CWQ6GdcT5 "Over 50" lice per fish @scotseafarms in Loch Kishorn states @marinescotland inspection report. Were these fish sold as Lochmuir & RSPCA Assured? @marksandspencer @rspcaassured @SSPOsays @LeroySeafood pic.twitter.com/9qxUjLl3FT
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2020
Photo: Lice-infested salmon farmed by Scottish Sea Farms
The Fish Health Inspectorate did not take photos from their inspection of Scottish Sea Farms lice-infested feedlot in Loch Kishorn in September 2019 (photos from previous inspections of Scottish Sea Farms are available online here and online here).
The BBC One Show broadcast video footage of mass mortalities at Loch Kishorn in December 2017.
Here's more photos of disease-ridden salmon farmed by Scottish Sea Farms (obtained via FOI despite threats by lawyers acting for Scottish Sea Farms and The Scottish Salmon Company):
Edie Bowles @Animallawyersuk said the dossier, compiled by Don Staniford, a critic of salmon farming, indicated “systemic and obvious” pain & suffering that could justify legal action against @scotgov @MairiGougeon @SSPOsays https://t.co/ZuzAis8gEr @SundayTimesScot @ciwf @scotgp pic.twitter.com/RPVIAL3KlS
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 2, 2020
Scottish Sea Farms is one of the ugly faces of RSPCA Assured Scottish salmon!
Why does @rspcaassured certify 70% of Scottish salmon farms as welfare-friendly when there is systemic suffering & abuse? @RSPCA_official @RSPCA_Frontline @AnimalLawCon @Animal_Alliance @animalpharm @AnimalEquality @AnimalAid @media_ciwf @PETAUK @HSIUKorg https://t.co/ZuzAis8gEr pic.twitter.com/1rWDdk5Hsc
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 2, 2020
Scottish Salmon Watch reported in June 2021 that Scottish Sea Farms had quietly dropped ther 'Lochmuir' fake branding in favour of the much-maligned RSPCA Assured certification:
M&S "phase out" Lochmuir fake brand in favour of RSPCA Assured - out of the frying pan into the fire!https://t.co/rufoN76EJl @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @rspcaassured
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 17, 2021
Thanks to @feedbackorg & @Ecohustler for campaigning against fake farmed salmon! @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/UaQKUBAW5x
Fish Farmer magazine reported in November 2019:
Sick Scottish Sea Farms (real name - Norskott Havbruk) "affected by an earlier than planned harvest of fish due to illness" https://t.co/SKqUC4BKVQ @fishfarmermag @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood https://t.co/q0iRAIMRra @markruskell @FergusEwingMSP @marinescotland @KateForbesMSP pic.twitter.com/aDXVMtlBIm
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 14, 2019
Read more on the Norwegian money behind 'Scottish Scamon' online here
Read more via:
ASC-Certified/Audited Mass Mortalities Pile Up at Lousy Mowi & Scottish Sea Farms!
Dead in the Water - Scottish Salmon's Mortality Mountain Piles Ever Higher in 2021!
Breaking News: ISA reported at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms on the Isle of Mull
Damning Disease Report for RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Spelve
Intrafish: "RSPCA suspends M&S farmed salmon supplier's eco-label for alleged welfare violations"
RSPCA Suspends Spelve Salmon Farm & 'Urgently Investigates' M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms!
2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?
The Killing Farms - Scottish Salmon's Horror Story Continues!
"Over 50" Lice Per Fish at Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Kishorn
EXPOSED: Photo Disclosures Opens Floodgates to More Diseased & Deformed Scottish Salmon
Welfare Warning for Scottish Salmon - stormy waters & prolonged periods of pain forecast!
Video Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured salmon farm sourced by M&S 'Lochmuir'
Bullshit Called on M&S's "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon! @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @Folketrygdfond @ScotlandSalmon @CMAgovUK @ASA_UK @TSScot @Ecohustler https://t.co/xw85ROAlM8 pic.twitter.com/qx1JoGZbg1
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 23, 2021
Update:
Meet the Norwegian Salmoney behind 'Scottish' Sea Farms - here's an article published in Fish Farmer (10 March 2022):
Meet the Norwegian Salmoney behind 'Scottish' Sea Farms (aka Norskott Havbruk): "It has been a tale with more twists & turns than TV’s media tycoon drama Succession – or an old Norse saga. As in all such tales one man came out on top. It was Gustav Witzøe"https://t.co/8bOHUlDxfy pic.twitter.com/VdqOZHcMYK
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 11, 2022
Meet one of the billionaire owners of Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) - he's a model public citizen although "he served two weeks in prison aged 19 after driving at 180kph in a 60kph zone" https://t.co/iIKJrIapvg @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 22, 2022