Iceland: A Hotbed of Disease & Death - Give Icelandic Salmon the Cold Shoulder!

“The fish that looks the worst and is in ribbons is a fish that has lain longer and the bay [waves] has worked on it. The fish will be like this in two to three days, the skin will be gone, and it will become wool. The fish that look better are newly dead” https://t.co/Czxk3BpNI6 pic.twitter.com/1P5CGZOkup
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 14, 2022

Iceland - where 'Scottish' salmon sources millions of ova and where Infectious Salmon Anaemia was officially confirmed in December 2021 - is in meltdown with mass mortalities, welfare problems and infectious diseases making waves in the media. Salmon Business reported (14 February 2022):

Fish Farming Expert reported (14 February 2022):

"When the salmon dies in the night, it sinks. Then it is pumped up from the bottom with a method called ‘Lift Up’ and then it goes into a cart. Part of this is a fish that is very badly damaged and damaged on the head, the eyes are gone" https://t.co/Czxk3BpNI6 @salmonfarming1 pic.twitter.com/qW5ZBrPdph
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 14, 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

Intrafish reported (16 February 2022):

Remember the scene in Jaws where the police chief says "You're gonna need a bigger boat"! In Iceland, such is the scale of the mass mortalities at Arctic Fish that they've called in the Norwegian monster vessel the Gannet to deal with all the dead fish!https://t.co/H53EXM98jS pic.twitter.com/YICHdeWd6g
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 16, 2022

Here's the photos of the morts at Arctic Fish published exclusively by Stundin (11 February 2022):

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

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

The photos of skinless salmon look eerily familiar to photos leaked by a whistleblower working on Mowi's Carradale salmon farm in March 2018 when storms battered 300,000 fish to death in the Kilbrannan Sound:

Here's what Mowi's @rspcaassured salmon looked like after 300,000 died in the Beast from the East in 2018 at their Carradale farm (the same site hit yesterday by Storm Ellen) https://t.co/hyztwncvhO Skinless Scottish salmon anyone? @MowiScotlandLtd @sainsburys @LidlGB @AldiUK pic.twitter.com/xjf3JM20jG
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 21, 2020

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There's no escaping Mowi's video nasty at Carradale in the Kilbrannan Sound! https://t.co/hXvXFWUeDP @MowiScotlandLtd Boycott Mowi salmon promoted by @rspcaassured @sainsburys @AldiUK @argyllandbute @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/sZ1AZFwHlM
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 21, 2020

Last 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

In August 2021, the North Atlantic Salmon Fund published gruesome video footage shot by Veiga Grétarsdóttir (who also shot the latest photos of skinless Icelandic salmon):