Photos/Video of Skinless Dead Salmon Makes Splash in Icelandic Press!

 

ICELAND: Yesterday (Feb 10th) Baskets of damaged and shredded farmed salmon are emptied into a Norwegian ship. Mass mortalities due to cold weather.

Too hot/too cold, needless animal cruelty continues. @MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllan @CVOScotland @D1HAJ https://t.co/8MDbFYr1T3

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) February 11, 2022

 

 

 

Here's the photos published in Stundin (11 February 2022):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyone for skinless salmon? Fresh from the Icelandic fjord! https://t.co/3OawBi4GIo @stundin @MFAIceland @PresidentISL @Iceland_Review pic.twitter.com/eSLI5lPdyD

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 11, 2022

 

 

 

Intrafish reported (13 February 2022):

 

 

 

“I used to say that Iceland is a viral free area," said Sigrud Petursson, founder of salmon farmer Arctic Fish. "I cannot say this any longer" https://t.co/owk5hqu15x
Why is Scotland permitting millions of salmon eggs (ova) to be imported from @WeAreBenchmark in Iceland? #ISA pic.twitter.com/GENVPocDEy

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 13, 2022

 

 

 

Earlier this week (9 February 2022), Scamon Scotland wrote to Scottish Ministers repeating calls to close the borders to imports of ova, parr and smolts - including imported ova from ISA-ridden Iceland:

 

Iceland Still Importing Ova to 'Scottish' Salmon Farms Despite Disease Risks! https://t.co/ObzuMSgMs2@HGSalmonUK @BetterBreeding @LochDuartSalmon @ScotlandSalmon @WeAreBenchmark @MowiScotlandLtd @scotgov @MairiGougeon @ScotGovNetZero @EFTAsecretariat @PresidentISL @MFAIceland pic.twitter.com/PL4n09Oqao

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 9, 2022

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch (renamed Scamon Scotland on 1 February 2022) reported in December 2021:

 

Laxar slaughter all fish in a farming area in Reyðarfjörður due to Infectious Salmon Anaemia @RUVfrettir https://t.co/QoPxw85BEa
Were infected salmon eggs (ova) @WeAreBenchmark the source of ISA? Will Scotland block shipments of ova from Iceland? @marinescotland @ScotGovNetZero

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 14, 2021

 

 

 

The North Atlantic Salmon Fund and Animal Concern reported in September 2021:

 

Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse Inside Salmon Cages in Iceland & Scotland - Go Pro cameras lift the lid on the horrors of factory fish farming! https://t.co/ve4uKy26l1
Campaigners are calling on open pen salmon farms to be closed down in the wake of horrific video footage pic.twitter.com/KLObWLqf1Y

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 18, 2021

 

 

 

 

“Factory fish farming is a welfare nightmare which must be closed down now” said Don Staniford of Animal Concern's 'Scottish Salmon Watch' campaign https://t.co/1VUuNo8S0z
"Secret filming inside salmon farms has captured horrific evidence of welfare abuse including death crowns" pic.twitter.com/HkHAHlVWIP

— Animal Concern (@animal_concern) September 18, 2021

 

 

 

 

Watch video footage shot inside salmon farms in Iceland via:

 

 

 

 

 

Nothing to see here - just a farmed salmon missing half its face. All perfectly normal in the world of "responsibly sourced" salmon. Move along now #SalMar #Arnarlax #ArcticFish #NorwayRoyalSalmon #Iceland https://t.co/X0oVELF61d pic.twitter.com/vyyofcaJzu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 30, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's photos from the secret filming inside salmon farms in Iceland:

 

 

 

 

 

A quick dip of the GoPro in a salmon feedlot - by Against The Current Iceland.

Look familiar?

Note lice infested, diseased lumpfish. It’s not just salmon that are dying in these cages.@SSPOsays @MairiMcAllan @_KateForbes @HamishMacdonell pic.twitter.com/9lmr643fXs

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) August 13, 2021

 

 

 

 

The shocking video footage featured on Icelandic TV:

 

 

 

 

And in Icelandic newspapers:

 

 

 

 

The secret filming was carried out by Veiga Grét­ars­dótt­ir:

 

 

 

Photos of dead salmon belly up on the surface of a farm in Iceland https://t.co/xxmozhpBmm
"It has taken them up to one and half hour to pump up dead fish from each net pen, this needs to be stopped right away" says Veiga Grét­ars­dótt­ir of 'Against the Current Iceland' #Iceland pic.twitter.com/pw18FwoILJ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 17, 2021

 

 

 

Icelandic TV featured the problems of salmon farming in a documentary featuring Jeremy Paxman screened in 2018:

 

Watch Jeremy Paxman attacking the "collateral consequences" of salmon farming in a documentary screened in Iceland (13 May) https://t.co/IF7NpxRjst More by Paxman in the FT https://t.co/cdrSpnzV3b @charliewhelan @ScotGamekeepers @fms_scotland @SalmonTroutCons @ScotSalmonTank pic.twitter.com/peUOqAJ8nK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 7, 2018