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03/07/2022

1.8 Million Morts Reported on Scottish Fish Farms Already in 2022!

 



 

Damning data on mass mortalities on fish farms across Scotland was slipped out earlier today (7 March 2022) by the Scottish Government:

 

March 7 2022 FHI data blog #7

March 7 2022 FHI data blog #8

 

 

The mortality data - sourced from data returns submitted by salmon farming companies to the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate - details 90 'Mortality Event Reports' totalling 1,811,299 dead farmed fish reported thus far in 2022 (data up to mid-February) - including 715,592 dead farmed salmon in six incidents at The Scottish Salmon Company's Applecross Smolt Unit at Russel Burn on the shore of Loch Kishorn:

 

March 7 2022 FHI data blog #1 Applecross Russel Burn morts

 

 

 

 



 

 

In January 2022, Scottish Salmon Watch were tipped off by a whistleblower that The Scottish Salmon Company's Applecross/Russel Burn Hatchery was suffering a welfare disaster and filed a welfare complaint with the Scottish Government and the Animal & Plant Health Agency:

 

From: Don Staniford <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 10:11 AM
Subject: Welfare Complaint re. Applecross/Russel Burn Hatchery (The Scottish Salmon Company) - 600,000 dead?
To: <[email protected]>, SM-APHA-Enquiries APHA <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
 
I received a distressing phone call at 9am this morning from someone with a relative working at The Scottish Salmon Company's Applecross Hatchery (understood to be also called Russel Burn) in Kishorn. 
 
The tip-off claimed that 600,000 fish had died due to sulphite in the pipes/water and that there was an ongoing welfare disaster.  The person who provided the information said that they could not sleep last night worrying about the welfare problems at the hatchery and they were clearly extremely concerned.  They said that morts were piling up at the site - with 600,000 morts given as an estimate.  
 
Based on such intelligence would it be possible to conduct an inspection ASAP to allay any welfare concerns?
 
Scottish Salmon Watch understands that this is the same facility which was awarded £5 million in public sector funding last month: https://www.insider.co.uk/news/scottish-salmon-company-receives-5-25647318
 
Fish Farmer also reported last month that The Scottish Salmon Company had issued a profit warning reporting “extraordinary mortality” with a loss of 174.6 Danish kroner (DKK) – or £20m – during October and November: https://www.fishfarmermagazine.com/news/bakkafrost-profits-warning-after-high-mortality-in-scotland/
 
Mortality data published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate on 12 January 2022 (data up to the end of November 2021) details significant mortality at the Applecross/Russel Burn hatchery and the nearby Loch Damph facility operated by The Scottish Salmon Company during November 2021 (data for December 2021 and January 2022 has presumably been received by FHI but not yet published): https://www.gov.scot/publications/fish-health-inspectorate-mortality-information/
 
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'Case Information' for an inspection of Russel Burn and The Scottish Salmon Company's nearby Couldoran Hatchery (understood to be also called Appleburn) is still "awaiting publication": https://www.gov.scot/publications/fish-health-inspectorate-case-information-2021/
 
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A swift site inspection would assist in ground-truthing the claim that 600,000 fish had died.
 
Thanks,
 
 
Don Staniford
 
Director of Scottish Salmon Watch
 
 
 

 
 

 

 



 

 

When Scottish Salmon Watch visited The Scottish Salmon Company's Applecross/Russel Burn Hatchery in June 2019 we filmed a stash of cancer-causing chemicals (Formaldehyde):

 

 

 

 

 

In total, The Scottish Salmon Company has already reported a staggering 911,499 dead farmed fish in 37 incidents during 2022 including:

 

March 7 2022 FHI data blog #5 TSSC

March 7 2022 FHI data blog #6 TSSC

 

 

 

When Scottish Salmon Watch filmed inside The Scottish Salmon Company's disease-ridden salmon farm at West Strome in Loch Carron in September 2021 we found lice-infestation and diseased salmon clearly suffering unnecessarily:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Norwegian giant Mowi has already reported 668,235 dead farmed salmon in 38 incidents during 2022 (data up to mid-February 2022) - including mass mortalities at Ardintoul, Seaforth, Grey Horse Channel and Greshornish due to Complex Gill Diseases, Salmonid Rickettsial Septicaemia, Amoebic Gill Disease, Heart & Skeletal Muscle Inflammation and Pasteurella Skyensis leading to medication with antibiotics:

 

March 7 2022 FHI data blog #2 Mowi

 

 

March 7 2022 FHI data blog #3 Mowi

March 7 2022 FHI data blog #4

 

 

 

 

 

 



 



 



 



 

 

Last month (27 February 2022), Scamon Scotland reported on Mowi's mammoth increase in the use of antibiotics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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