EXPOSED: The Aquaculture Stewardship Council should be rebranded The Abominable Salmon Council! @ASC_aqua @Salmoskius https://t.co/zcpvAyB9TU
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 12, 2022
How the hell can mass mortalities, disease & welfare abuse be certified as "responsible"?
Shame on @sainsburys @Tesco @rspcaassured @ciwf pic.twitter.com/2PaGx4uzmO
New mortality data published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate on 6 October 2022 exposes the sham of certification via the Aquaculture Stewarship Council.
Search the website of the Aquaculture Stewardship Council and you will find a current list of salmon farms in Scotland which are certified as "farmed responsibly" and those sites currently being audited (as well as two Scottish Sea Farms sites who have had their "Certification Not Awarded" and one Mowi site which had its ASC-certification "Cancelled"):
Exposed: Certification of 'responsibly' farmed @MowiScotlandLtd via the Aquaculture Stewardship Council @ASC_aqua permits mortality rates at salmon farms in excess of 36% (not to mention the use of cancer-causing chemicals & antibiotics)! https://t.co/HsXs18bIo6 @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/XR0vxDDfrQ
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 13, 2021
Scottish Salmon Watch reported in January 2022 that Mowi's Sconser Quarry and Maol Ban salmon farms were cancelled in November 2020 due to excessive use of antibiotics.
Here's the ASC's cancellation notice:
Certification of @MowiScotlandLtd salmon farms has been cancelled @ASC_aqua "Carradale was cancelled due to an escape event; Cairidh due to administrative reasons; Maol Ban & Sconser Quarry because they were projected to exceed the permitted antibiotic treatments number" pic.twitter.com/byKk6EYukC
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022
Mowi's Cairidh salmon farm in Loch Ainort on the Isle of Skye was cancelled due to administrative reasons:
Here's the ASC cancellation notice:
In January 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch revealed that Mowi's Cairidh salmon farm in Loch Ainort was the source of roadspill onto the A86 in September 2019:
Here's a quaint video from the Highlands of Scotland with Scottish salmon leaping out of the haulage truck onto the A86. What a lovely sight & smell for tourists driving through the slick of diseased fish! https://t.co/RvKXv3GDD8 @st_alliance @12distilleries @lagganwolftrax pic.twitter.com/8nM8HGDE2J
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 14, 2019
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
In March 2021, Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' broadcast shocking video footage of mass mortalities at Mowi's ASC-certified salmon farm at Gorsten in Loch Linnhe:
Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' Exposes Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon – As Sponsored by the RSPCA & Aquaculture Stewardship Council! https://t.co/NiySHYotBu@seaspiracy @rspcaassured @ScotlandMowi @ASC_aqua @vivacampaigns @Ecohustler @SSPOsays @iamalitabrizi @media_ciwf @philip_ciwf pic.twitter.com/32CcvHUUKH
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 31, 2021
Norwegian salmon giant Mowi has reacted to Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' by publishing videos claiming to show healthy farmed salmon at their @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua salmon farm in Loch Linnhe which featured in @seaspiracy @ScotlandMowi @SSPOsays @iamalitabrizi https://t.co/DXJ6gnAUgl pic.twitter.com/Xf0W4GGlQg
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 16, 2021
Criticism of the ASC is making waves in Canada too:
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council’s new standard means up to 1,550% more parasites @TheTyee https://t.co/LNp3LwetRL @ASC_aqua @living_oceans @StanProbe @WatershedWatch_ @DavidSuzukiFDN @BCSalmonFarmers @CermaqCan @MowiCanadaWest @wildfirstcanada @alex4salmon @SeaChoice
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2022
"Their revenue comes from fees paid by farmers for certification so it’s a money-making preposition, certifying farms" @living_oceans @ASC_aqua "All they’ve done since they started business is lower that bar time after time after time" https://t.co/LNp3LwetRL @TheTyee @SeaChoice
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2022
Read more via:
Death Rates Soar at Salmon Farms (according to data published by Salmon Scotland)
Press Release: "Year of the Dead Salmon: Scottish Salmon Plagued by Mass Mortality Problems"
Media Backgrounder: Year of the Dead Salmon - Bakkafrost Scotland is the King of Death!
Exposed: 10 Million Morts at RSPCA Assured Mowi Since 2019!
Mowi's "Woes in Scotland" - Disease & Deaths Cause £5.6 Million Losses!
Over 80% Mortality at The Scottish Salmon Company!!!
ASC-Certified/Audited Mass Mortalities Pile Up at Lousy Mowi & Scottish Sea Farms!
New Mortality Data for Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon - 700,000+ in the first two weeks of December!
Open letter to the ASC: Please cancel all certification of Mowi's toxic Scottish salmon!
Mass mortalities at ASC-certified Mowi!
Rest Assured - the RSPCA has been captured, co-opted & corrupted by the Salmafia
Update: Mortality Rate Over 36% At RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon!
Mowi's 'Healthy' RSPCA Assured & ASC-Certified Salmon Farm at Gorsten (as featured in Seaspiracy)
Mowi Moves Goalposts on ASC Certification
ASC-Certified Scottish Salmon Dead in the Water!
Anyone for ASC-Certified Scottish Salmon Doused in Carcinogenic Formaldehyde?
ASC-Certified Shellfish Killers (not to mention seals, diseases, lice, pollution etc)
EXPOSED: Scottish Salmon's Sustainability Scam
Lipstick on a Pig - WWF's Makeover At Marine Harvest
WWF Greenwashes Marine Harvest
The Abominable Salmon Council - Buyer Beware!
Pepé Le Pew Loves Farmed Salmon!
Open letter to the ASC: Please cancel all certification of Mowi's toxic Scottish salmon! https://t.co/N9MwDaN0kQ @ASC_aqua @MowiScotlandLtd @fms_scotland @SalmonTroutCons
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022
Scottish salmon is farmed irresponsibly not responsibly! @rspcaassured @ASA_UK @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB pic.twitter.com/3L76as7mTY