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02/18/2022

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - over 8 million morts reported last year & over half a million in first two weeks of 2022!!

Lifting Lid snapshot

 

 

 

 

 

Data published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate earlier this month (7 February 2022) is enough to out you off eating 'healthy' and "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon for life - here's a summary of the data which is sourced from 'Mortality Event Reports' submitted by salmon farming companies in Scotland.  Note that ca. 70% of salmon farming production is certified as 'wefare friendly' via RSPCA Assured with another 12,500 tonnes certified as 'organic' via the Soil Association and 14 salmon farms certified as "farmed responsibly" by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council with a further 12 Mowi and Scottish Sea Farms sites undergoing an 'initial audit' for ASC certification:

 

2022 data blog Feb #1 Summary Table

 

 

Greenwash graphic #5

 

 

 

Already during the first two weeks of 2022 there have been 30 'Mortality Event Reports' reported to the Fish Health Inspectorate totalling in excess of half a million dead farmed salmon (510,163) headed by The Scottish Salmon Company's Russel Burn hatchery near Applecross (which received £5 million in public funding in December 2021) -  data for the rest of January should be published in early March online here: 

 

 

 

 

2022 data blog Feb #7

2022 data blog Feb #8

 

 

Muck photo #2 morts in bin

 

ASC certified Mowi morts

 

 

 

According to the Fish Health Inspectorate data published on 7 February 2022, Norwegian giant Mowi has reported 3.1 million mortalities since 1 January 2021 (data up to mid-January 2022) via 184 'Mortality Event Reports' - here's the biggest mass mortalities in sea cages or freshwater cages headed by over 100,000 dead salmon at Grey Horse Channel Outer in North Uist:

 

2022 data blog Feb #9

 

 

FHI July 2019 Rum Photo #7 FHI July 2019 Rum Photo #8

 

 

 

 

According to the Fish Health Inspectorate data published on 7 February 2022, The Scottish Salmon Company reported 4.1 million mortalities since 1 January 2021 (data up to mid-January 2022) via 293 'Mortality Event Reports' - here's the biggest mass mortalities in sea cages including West Strome salmon farm in Loch Carron (where Scottish Salmon Watch filmed in September 2021):

 

2022 data blog Feb #10

 

 

 

 



 

 

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:

 

2022 data blog Feb #11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you look at the worst mortalities by number (where numbers are provided - over 20% of cases don't) the list of shame is dominated by mass mortalities in freshwater hatcheries headed by Mowi with over 1.5 million morts at Lochailort in March 2019.  However, The Scottish Salmon Company's Druimyeon Bay salmon farm off the Isle of Gigha makes it into 13th place with 148,628 morts reported on 25 October 2021 and in 20th place with 116,680 morts at the same site reported a week earlier on 18 October 2021 (no wonder Driumyeon Bay salmon farm recently reported a cummulative mortality figure of over 80%!):

 

2022 data blog Feb #4 2022 data blog Feb #5

 

 

 

 

If you look at the mortality data published by the Fish Health Inspectorate since 1 January 2021 (i.e. all of last year and the first two weeks of 2022) here's the worst mass mortalities reported by salmon farming companies headed by Mowi's Inchmore Hatchery (the same site where 500,000 farmed salmon died in the Autum of 2018):

 

2022 data blog Feb #6

 

 

 

 

 

Note that the mortalities reported via 'Mortality Event Reports' are not a comprehensive list and only include mass mortality events above the salmon farming industry's reporting threshold (understood to be 1%) - as the Scottish Government explains on their webpage:

 

2022 data blog Feb #2

2022 data blog Feb #3

 

 

Note that total numbers of mortalities has not been reported since 2013 when lobbying by the Scottish salmon farming industry stopped disclosure as it was deemed "commercially damaging": 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in March 2021 that Scottish Sea Farms had failed to report mortality numbers in 61% of cases:

 

 

 

 

The mortality data published on 7 February 2022 has missing information in terms of numbers of morts for over 600 'Mortality Event Reports - that's over 20% of the case where we simply do not know how many farmed salmon died.  That could be another 6 million dead fish in mass mortalities unaccounted for - not to mention all the other mortalities which come under the reporting threshold of 1%.   Annual mortalities of well in excess of 10 million farmed salmon - perhaps as high as 20 million - have been guesstimated and even the salmon farming industry admitted in 2017 a figure of "between 6 and 10 million fish, depending on their size" dying each year on salmon farms in Scotland. 

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in November 2020:

 

 

 

"Scottish Salmon Watch reckon ca. 20 million farmed salmon die each year in the sea phase of production with another 20 million fish dying each year in hatcheries and freshwater farms. So from hatch to catch (i.e. from import as eggs into the hatchery to harvest out of sea cages for processing to supermarkets) there could be ca. 40 million morts (maybe even 42 million)."

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whatever the true number of dead salmon, it's an incontrovertible fact that the weight of dead farmed salmon has increased.  Scottish Salmon Watch reported in July 2021:

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Scamon Scotland reported earlier this week (15 February 2022):

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in December 2021:

 

 

 

Here's the worst performing companies and sites - as judged by cummulative mortality rates reported during 2021:

 

Mort Rates 2021 up to October TSSC

 

Mort Rates 2021 up to October Loch Duart

 

Mort Rates 2021 up to October SSF

 

Mort Rates 2021 up to October Mowi

 

 

 

 

 

In April 2021, Salmon Scotland's chief executive Tavish Scott denied that farmed salmon were dying of infectious diseases:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch revealed last month (11 January 2022) that mass mortalities at ASC-certified salmon farms were piling up even higher than Tavish Scott's bullshit:

 

 

 

Greenwash graphic #1

 

 

 

 

 

Even faced with the facts - including data published by the Scottish Government sourced from returns submitted by salmon farming companies - Tavish Scott struggles to grasp the lethal reality of salmon farming in Scotland. 

 

 

 



 

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