Death Rates Soar at Salmon Farms (according to data published by Salmon Scotland)

Check out the new mortality data published @ScotlandSalmon for August 2022 - headed by 61.4% cumulative mortality at Bakkafrost's Vuia Mor salmon farm in Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis @Folketrygdfond @WHFP1 @HebridesNews @rspcaassured @ciwf https://t.co/R94JP3iYqX pic.twitter.com/TmLAFzyzA8
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 4, 2022

Mortality data just published by Salmon Scotland for August 2022 shows how death rates at salmon farms across Scotland are soaring to record levels:

Shout Out to @rspcaassured Loch Duart for leading the monthly mortality chart for August - a 27.4% death rate in Loch Laxford (a Special Area of Conservation) is way ahead of 18.2% at Wester Ross (Ardmair)! @LochDuartSalmon @WesterRossSalmo @MowiScotlandLtd @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/zwYPa2KMYe
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 4, 2022

Last week (30 September 2022), $camon $cotland wrote to the Scottish Parliament:

"Force the salmon farming industry to publish mortality numbers" @SP_RuralAffairs @ScotlandSalmon @ScottishEPA @marinescotland
"It is not difficult to see why the salmon farming industry do not want the data disclosed to the public" @TavishScott @ArianeBurgessHI @fincarson pic.twitter.com/Cb7pub2QDy
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 30, 2022

$camon $cotland reported (26 September 2022):

All hail Bakkafrost Scotland (formerly The Scottish Salmon Company) - Scottish salmon's King of Death! https://t.co/Ju6L8xNZjw
How can 82.1% mortality (that's 4 in every 5 fish dying a cruel death) be branded "responsibly sourced"? @rspcaassured @ScotlandSalmon @Folketrygdfond pic.twitter.com/zc4OuDlw2x
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 26, 2022

Death Deflation: 13 Million Morts On Scottish Salmon Farms in 2021 - More Like 22 Million (& maybe 50 million if you add freshwater)!

Letter to Scottish Parliament re. farmed salmon mortalities "increasing at an alarming rate" from former convenor of Rural Committee

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!

Herald On Sunday: "Inquiry into salmon farming demanded after "sickening" levels of fish deaths"

Fake News? Over 50% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms - how can supermarkets advertise it as "responsibly sourced"?

56% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Mowi (but don't worry, it's certified as "farmed responsibly" by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council)!

Over 80% Mortality at The Scottish Salmon Company!!!

Dead in the Water - Scottish Salmon's Mortality Mountain Piles Ever Higher in 2021!

Mass Mortalities - 66% in one month at The Scottish Salmon Company on the Isle of Gigha!

STV News: "Thousands of rotting salmon ‘stink out’ village after mass death at farm"

X-Rated Video: 90% Mortality at The Faroese/Norwegian 'Scottish' Salmon Company?!

"The shocking death rates on Scotland's salmon farms revealed"

2020: The Year of Diseased Scottish Salmon - 27,000 Tonnes of Dead Fish, the Worst On Record!

Update: Mortality Rate Over 36% At RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon!

Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon

Update: 25 Million Mass Mortalities on Scottish Salmon Farms

54 Million Farmed Fish Died in Norway in 2021 - How Many Farmed Salmon Died in Scotland?

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!!

52 million deaths in Norway - how many millions died on Scottish salmon farms in 2020?

The Case Against Scottish Salmon - An Update on Diseases & Mass Mortalities!

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

Alexa, how many salmon die each year on Scottish salmon farms? 42 million* (but we don't know for sure as the answer is deemed "commercially damaging")!

Over One Million Morts for Scottish Salmon in September 2020!

Survival of the Unhealthiest Scottish Salmon - New data reveals shocking mortality rates!

Dead in the Water - New Data Reveals Mass Mortalities & Disease on Scottish Salmon Farms

The Ferret: "Farmed salmon deaths from disease reach record high"

The Killing Farms - Scottish Salmon's Horror Story Continues!

Solving Scottish Salmon's Multi-Million Mortality Problem

Scottish Salmon's Mort Mountain Leaps Over 10 Million - FOI reveals 2.3 million dead salmon at Marine Harvest farms in 2017

A disgrace: Ten million salmon thrown away by fish farm industry in last year alone

Death rate at salmon farms doubles to 20m fish a year

Scottish watchdog labelled ‘lapdog’ after agreeing to keep fish farm deaths secret

How may farmed salmon died in Scotland last year?
We don't know because @ScottishEPA stopped publishing the data in 2013 after @ScotlandSalmon lobbied vs disclosure arguing publication would be 'commercially damaging'. But based on previous data it could be 22 million morts! pic.twitter.com/7b7YeE00Xw
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 29, 2022

Bernie Madoff Accounting - when @ScotlandSalmon claim £760m in value from salmon farming they fail to factor in welfare abuse, mass mortalities & toxic pollution. The true cost of cheap Scottish salmon is paid by millions of dead fish! @ciwf @onekindtweet @marinescotland @scotgp pic.twitter.com/Ip4VPPS9W2
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 6, 2022

Addendum:

From: Don Staniford <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 7:08 PM
Subject: FOI request re. farmed salmon & salmon farming mortalities since 1 January 2018
To: <[email protected]>

Please provide information on farmed salmon and salmon farming mortalities since 1 January 2020.

Please include any photos, videos, letters, emails and any other documents relating to farmed salmon and salmon farming.

Please include testing results, discussions and any other information relating to waste effluents from trucks and tankers transporting farmed salmon.

Please include any correspondence with SEPA, Marine Scotland, Salmon Scotland, Mowi, D R MacLeod, Billy Bowie, Ferguson Transport, Gogar Transport and any other haulage/transport companies in relation to farmed salmon and salmon farming mortalities.

As context, I posted this comment in a Facebook group earlier today via: https://www.facebook.com/groups/355584584105/posts/10160267169684106/