Green Around the Gills

Scottish Scamon: Piscine Reovirus, skin lesions/boils & "hanging" salmon in Loch Creran (sold by M&S as "responsibly sourced" & certified via RSPCA Assured)!

 

Gotcha: Secret filming inside @scotseafarms in Loch Creran in July triggered an inspection @scotgov revealing welfare & disease problems with Piscine Reovirus, Heart & Skeletal Muscle Inflammation, exothalmia & "hanging" salmon @rspcaassured @ScotlandSalmon @marksandspencer pic.twitter.com/VFWuJqmRF1

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 29, 2022

 

'Case Information' slipped out by the Scottish Government earlier this week (25 October 2022), exposes the scam of "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon certified via RSPCA Assured and sold by Marks & Spencer. 

 

Teaser: Which @rspcaassured salmon farm - and supplier of "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon @marksandspencer - are these eye-popping beauties from? @ScotlandSalmon @TavishScott @SSC_seafood @ClientEarth @LeroySeafood @scotseafarms @marinescotland https://t.co/2sBrJXv2dj pic.twitter.com/k8hqkSZynM

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 28, 2022

 

 

 

Here's the Fish Health Inspectorate's report detailing an inspection on 18 July 2022 (triggered by a welfare complaint by $camon $cotland who filmed welfare abuse inside the salmon farm operated by Norwegian giant Norskott Havbruk/Scottish Sea Farms on 8 July 2022) - including "skin lesions/boils", "secondary bacterial infection", Furunculosis, Piscine Reovirus, Heart & Skeletal Muscle Inflammation, "increased mortality", fish "belly up", "moribund" and "hanging" with 72,037 dead salmon in a nine-week period:

 

 

 

THE SCOTTISH SALMON FARMING SCANDAL: pic.twitter.com/ckLP3yfyKb

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) October 29, 2022

 

 

 

The Scottish Government Fish Health Inspectorate's report includes photographic evidence of disease and welfare problems including exothalmia, haemorrhaging and frayed gills:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Government's 'Fish Health Inspectorate Visit Report' dated 22 August 2022 detailed disease problems including Aeromonas salmoncida (Furunculosis), necrosis, ephitheliocystis, Paranucleospora theridion, Salmon Gill Poxvirus and Neoparamoeba perurans (Amoebic Gill Disease):

 

 

 

 

In July 2022, $camon $cotland covertly filmed inside four salmon farms operated by Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk) - including inside Loch Creran - leading to a welfare complaint filed with the SSPCA, RSPCA Assured, Marine Scotland, Police Scotland and the Animal and Plant Health Agency:

 

"Farmed fish are owed a duty of care & protection from unnecessary suffering under animal welfare law" (Edie Bowles @Animallawyersuk) "The findings in this most recent investigation suggest that these legal requirements are not being adequately enforced" @APHAgovuk @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/IRwR8UOLaP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salmon Farming is Criminal - video footage highlights breaches of welfare laws by @rspcaassured Norskott Havbruk @scotseafarms @marksandspencer https://t.co/INjBxAqRB1@ScotlandSalmon @APHAgovuk @marinescotland @Ecohustler @Animallawyersuk @onekindtweet @oceanrebellion @scotgp

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 22, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

The Times reported in July 2022:

 

"Diseased & dead salmon inside facilities owned by @scotseafarms were recorded this month by Don Staniford. Salmon are shown covered in parasites with open wounds & with eyes & chunks of their flesh missing" @timesscotland @rspcaassured @marksandspencer https://t.co/v8C8G9lomM

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 16, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

RSPCA Assured (which receive £500,000+ per year via certifying salmon farms in Scotland as 'welfare-friendly') clear @marksandspencer supplier @scotseafarms over welfare abuse claims @timesscotland @ScottishSPCA @Animallawyersuk @rspcaassured #Whitewash https://t.co/fYxk43hWzH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2022

 

 

 

This is not the first time that the operations of Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk) in Loch Creran have been scrutinised.  BBC Countryfile reported on welfare abuse inside Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk) in December 2020. 

 

How can you even start to explain yourselves?@tavishscott @RSPCA_official @TerryAHearn @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @FergusEwingMSP @strathearnrose @MairiGougeon @Feorlean @D1HAJ https://t.co/FRguw9wvqR pic.twitter.com/JEJx1Q5ZJE

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) December 7, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

The Herald reported in October 2020:

 

Fish found in ‘sickening’ conditions on Scottish salmon farms as sea lice problem escalates https://t.co/lI0BC4q01N @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @marinescotland @marksandspencer @SSPOsays @SalmonTroutCons @FergusEwingMSP @LeroySeafood @ProfCMDwyer

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 31, 2020

 

 

 

“The images & footage passed to us are truly shocking" https://t.co/MU6sddfkvE "The Scottish Government has failed to introduce a proper regime of regulation and enforcement on salmon farms & consequently parasite and disease issues are being allowed to run riot” @heraldscotland pic.twitter.com/ZcqgF8VABi

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 31, 2020

 

 

 

In July 2020, Scottish Sea Farms called the police after Matt Mellen of Ecohustler dived near their salmon farm in Loch Creran leading to a landmark apology from Police Scotland:

 

Scottish Sea Farms "sent a barge around seemingly to ram us" @Ecohustler "Then they called the police" @policescotland "tormenting sentient animals is okay but snorkeling over to witness the carnage is not" @scotseafarms https://t.co/8enYytYDRV @LeroySeafood @H_S_E @MCA_media pic.twitter.com/BBV8Hnij7i

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 28, 2020

 

 

 

 

Landmark Victory for Surveillance of Salmon Farms - Police Scotland apologises for wrongly protecting @scotseafarms from public access for filming & diving https://t.co/FJN8LmAX2w @policescotland pic.twitter.com/kU4IKfmGA5

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 15, 2020

 

Scottish Sea Farms also called the police in July 2019 when Scottish Salmon Watch dared to sail close to a salmon farm at Shuna in Loch Linne:

 

 

 

 

This is a very serious issue of @policescotland attempting to deny the public right to navigate freely. This is #Scotland moving towards #Trump politics. @HumzaYousaf @ScotGovFM @marinescotland @strathearnrose @markruskell https://t.co/hs8437gqKq

— Howard Wood (@howardlwood) July 15, 2019

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported earlier this month (4 October 2022) how death rates were soaring at salmon farms across Scotland - with 36.7% mortality reported by Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Creran:

 

 

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

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported last month (26 September 2022):

 

 

Lies, Damned Lies & Scottish Salmon: When @scotseafarms claim 90% fish survival & 100% @rspcaassured https://t.co/DevAkkEnYh
...What they fail to mention is 40%+ mortality in Kishorn, Lismore, Spelve & Nevis @ScotlandSalmon @marksandspencer @Ecohustler https://t.co/Ju6L8xNZjw pic.twitter.com/xiKHtNkkwJ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 27, 2022

 

 

 

$camon $cotland visited M&S's head office in London in June 2022:

 

Please boycott irresponsibly sourced Scottish Salmon - as greenwashed by @rspcaassured @scotseafarms & @marksandspencer https://t.co/xs2XwPzOCc@Ecohustler @Folketrygdfond @LeroySeafood @ScotlandSalmon @SalmonScotland pic.twitter.com/xNGATeh4TB

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 30, 2022

 

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported in February 2022:

 

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 - 8m morts reported last year & half a million in first two weeks of 2022!! https://t.co/tBz56oIRHK @ScotlandSalmon @tavishscott
Anyone for yummy "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon? @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation pic.twitter.com/K8cU8Bo64Y

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 18, 2022

 

 

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:

 

 

 

 

 

$camon $cotland wrote to M&S (who sources "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon from Scottish Sea Farms) in February 2022:

 

 

How many @marksandspencer Scottish salmon @scotseafarms are infected with diseases, pathogens & viruses such as Infectious Salmon Anaemia, Piscine Reovirus, Proliferative Gill Disease (Piscichlamydia) & Salmon Gill Poxvirus? https://t.co/A1AHbV9xFs @rspcaassured @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/a1nilFBfcx

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 14, 2022

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in January 2022:

 

EXPOSED: Over 100,000 dead farmed salmon @scotseafarms in one month at Toyness in Orkney @marinescotland - surely @ASC_aqua "farmed responsibly" certification is dead in the water? @Acoura_UK @lloydsregister @The_Orcadian @LeroySeafood @Folketrygdfond https://t.co/sl7E4vmN5y pic.twitter.com/XoH5hkCsqu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 11, 2022

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in December 2021:

 

'Scottish' Sea Farms (real name Norskott Havbruk @LeroySeafood) claim an annual mortality rate of 9%* @scotseafarms yet data @ScotlandSalmon shows average cummulative mortality at farms harvested out in 2020 & 2021 was 14% with 41% in Loch Kishorn! https://t.co/YP7xPmmrFt pic.twitter.com/zOmL4I5G4S

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 13, 2021

 

 

Named & Shamed @ScotlandSalmon - the salmon farms with the worst mortality. Headed by @scotseafarms with 41.3% mortality in Loch Kishorn followed by 32.8% mortality in Loch Spelve (where ISA was reported in May) & @salmon_scottish & @LochDuartSalmon sites https://t.co/rKHGuzMb37 pic.twitter.com/Atboh6H6ds

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 10, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in December 2021:

 

SalMar - co-owner of @scotseafarms with @LeroySeafood - hit by Infectious Salmon Anaemia in Norway with ISA suspected at Grieg @GriegShetland https://t.co/A0O8E1lBpj @InfoMattilsynet @fishfarmermag
How many hidden cases of ISA are in Scotland? @ScotlandSalmon @marinescotland pic.twitter.com/H9Wd1rJe3d

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 10, 2021

 

 

Revealed: Infectious Salmon Anaemia Lurking in Scottish Salmon - 7% of farmed salmon tested positive for ISA between 2002 & 2012 (396 out of 5,395 samples) https://t.co/CH5p5qoPJZ
How many more cases of ISA are hiding in Scotland? @ScotlandSalmon @scotseafarms @MowiScotlandLtd pic.twitter.com/qD23ovQPMS

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 2, 2021

 

 

In November 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch filed a complaint against M&S - exclusive supplier of Scottish Sea Farms - with trading and advertising standards.

 

Bullshit Called on M&S's "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon! @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @Folketrygdfond @ScotlandSalmon @CMAgovUK @ASA_UK @TSScot @Ecohustler https://t.co/xw85ROAlM8 pic.twitter.com/qx1JoGZbg1

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 23, 2021

 

 

 

 

#Greenwash alert / thread! 🚨

M&S say their factory farmed #salmon is "responsibly sourced." 💩

We know this is not true.

This summer, 115,000 UK shoppers signed our petition calling on M&S to come clean about the true impacts. 🌍

They are ignoring us - so we are escalating. pic.twitter.com/wQKpRzsuTv

— Ecohustler (@Ecohustler) November 23, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch covertly filmed inside Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk) in May 2021 - triggering an inspection of Loch Spelve by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate and a report of Infectious Salmon Anaemia:

 

Secret Filming Exposes RSPCA ‘Abused’ Scottish Salmon - Welfare Complaint Filed Against M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms https://t.co/FcNmyXrwxD @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @LeroySeafood @APHAgovuk @marinescotland @SSPCA_Mike @SSPCA_Kirsteen @Folketrygdfond pic.twitter.com/D212vYCn9z

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 13, 2021

 

 

Infectious Salmon Anaemia comes back to haunt Scottish salmon - positive test reported by @marinescotland @rspcaassured @scotseafarms on Isle of Mull. Buy your fresh virus-laden Scottish salmon @marksandspencer - how many more farms are infected? @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish pic.twitter.com/JUjMS335xa

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 30, 2021

 

 

 

"The ISA virus is a ticking time-bomb with the risk of spreading the deadly disease all too real. RSPCA Assured @scotseafarms in Loch Spelve could be ground zero in another ISA disease outbreak" https://t.co/d0hFOve4pg @scotgov @SSPOsays @rspcaassured @obantimes @scotgp pic.twitter.com/JguXT9RgkG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 30, 2021

 

 

Remember that the ISA outbreak in Scotland in 1998-9 was traced back to Norwegian-owned Scottish Sea Farms - it cost the 'Scottish' salmon farming industry £100 million & 200 jobs https://t.co/wyj5QQUImy@scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @Folketrygdfond @marinescotland @scotgov pic.twitter.com/feos13OzS7

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 30, 2021

 

 

Leroy (co-owner of Norskott Havbruk) is plagued by Infectious Salmon Anaemia in #Norway @LeroySeafood @InfoMattilsynet https://t.co/XrE2BNkqxF @LeroySeafood
Scottish Sea Farms (Hydro Seafoods) spread ISA around #Scotland in the 1990s causing £100m losses - is ISA back again? pic.twitter.com/HooqhsxNU3

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 6, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in March 2021:

 

Revealed: Scottish Sea Farms fail to report mortality numbers in 61% of 'Mortality Event Reports' @marinescotland - that's 167 missing cases which could be over 2 million @rspcaassured farmed salmon! @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @LeroySeafood @SSPOsays https://t.co/pvZAMsdhqC pic.twitter.com/vWsKR4apLC

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 9, 2021

 

 

Scottish Sea Farms fail to provide numbers of mortalities for 16 'Mortality Events' in October 2020 - including mass mortalities in Loch Creran (exposed by @BBCCountryfile @joe_crowley) https://t.co/YipDHj0eXL
Why is @rspcaassured @scotseafarms hiding the numbers of dead salmon? pic.twitter.com/U28zB5HvPM

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 14, 2020

 

 

Shocking mortalities revealed in Loch Spelve (Isle of Mull) @scotseafarms due to Complex Gill Disease. The site was stocked with 382,344 farmed salmon - 199,124 culled; 177,588 morts & 24,000 harvested https://t.co/ZeaqMoyyH1 40% mortality reported by @SSPOsays in October 2019 pic.twitter.com/Emov4npDWz

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 10, 2020

 

 

Telephone inspection of @scotseafarms by @marinescotland in Loch Spelve - 366,000+ fish die (199,124 culled & 177,588 morts). Fish start dying on 16 Sept & site is fallowed on 29 Oct yet 'Mortality Event Reports' are dated 14 Nov with zero 'inspection' until phone call on 15 Nov pic.twitter.com/AHzlw7SrTo

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 12, 2020

 

 

 

 

Here's photos of disease-ridden salmon which lawyers acting for Scottish Sea Farms and The Scottish Salmon Company (unsuccessfully) tried to block.

 

 

 

 

Download more photos of disease-ridden salmon farmed by Scottish Sea Farms online here

 

 

 

Read more via EXPOSED: Photo Disclosures Opens Floodgates to More Diseased & Deformed Scottish Salmon

 

 

Edie Bowles @Animallawyersuk said the dossier, compiled by Don Staniford, a critic of salmon farming, indicated “systemic and obvious” pain & suffering that could justify legal action against @scotgov @MairiGougeon @SSPOsays https://t.co/ZuzAis8gEr @SundayTimesScot @ciwf @scotgp pic.twitter.com/RPVIAL3KlS

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 2, 2020

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in June 2021 that Scottish Sea Farms had quietly dropped ther 'Lochmuir' fake branding in favour of the much-maligned RSPCA Assured certification:

 

M&S "phase out" Lochmuir fake brand in favour of RSPCA Assured - out of the frying pan into the fire!https://t.co/rufoN76EJl @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @rspcaassured
Thanks to @feedbackorg & @Ecohustler for campaigning against fake farmed salmon! @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/UaQKUBAW5x

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 17, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Salmon Farming is Criminal - breaches of welfare laws by RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms!

The Times: "Scottish salmon supplier to M&S cleared over welfare claims"

Video: Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) is a Sham, Scam & Consumer Con - Stop Salmon Farming Now!

The Times: "RSPCA investigates Scottish salmon supplier to M&S over lice accusations"

RSPCA Assured "now investigating" welfare abuse at Scottish Sea Farms in the Sound of Mull & Loch Creran!

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms

Photos of Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms

M&S Irresponsibly Sourced Scottish Salmon (as greenwashed by RSPCA Assured)!

Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) Report "Biological Challenges" (i.e. Deaths & Disease)!

Anyone for M&S’s Virus-Laden Scottish Salmon (don’t worry, it’s “responsibly sourced” & RSPCA Assured)?!

It’s Official: Infectious Salmon Anaemia Back to Haunt Scottish Salmon - reported to the World Organization for Animal Health for the first time since 2012!

ASC-Certified/Audited Mass Mortalities Pile Up at Lousy Mowi & Scottish Sea Farms!

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

ISA hits Scottish Sea Farms owner SalMar in Norway - how many hidden cases are lurking on salmon farms in Scotland?

Bullshit Called on M&S's "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon!

Ecohustler sticks it to "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon sold by M&S!

The Salmon Dance - M&S petition hand in event

Breaking News: ISA reported at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms on the Isle of Mull

Damning Disease Report for RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Spelve

Fish Farmer: "RSPCA Assured lifts Loch Spelve suspension"

RSPCA Sponsored Welfare Abuse of Salmon Farms - A Guide to Getting Away with Mass Murder (Theriocide)!

Video Scoop: RSPCA Assured Diseased Salmon from M&S

Herald On Sunday: "Scottish M&S supplier blames seals for salmon wounds as RSPCA Assured status is suspended"

RSPCA Suspends Spelve Salmon Farm & 'Urgently Investigates' M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms!

Secret Filming Exposes RSPCA ‘Abused’ Scottish Salmon - Welfare Complaint Filed Against M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

Locals Horse in Opposition to Scottish Sea Farms

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

BBC Countryfile features lice-infested RSPCA Assured salmon!

Leaked Email: Staff Cuts at Scottish Sea Farms Compromise Fish Welfare

Welfare Warning for Scottish Salmon - stormy waters & prolonged periods of pain forecast!

Herald: "Scottish salmon found in ‘sickening’ conditions across Scotland as sea lice problem escalates"

Video Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured salmon farm sourced by M&S 'Lochmuir'

Caveat Emptor - M&S's Fake 'Lochmuir' Scottish Salmon (sourced from Norwegian-owned Scottish Sea Farms)

"Over 50" Lice Per Fish at Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Kishorn

Sick 'Scottish' Sea Farms

Photo Dossier of Diseased, Deformed & Abused Scottish Salmon

Scottish Government rejects industry pleas on sick salmon photos

Salmon firms bid to block diseased photos

REVEALED: Legal Threats to Prevent Publication of Damning Photographs

 

 

Sick Scottish Sea Farms (real name - Norskott Havbruk) "affected by an earlier than planned harvest of fish due to illness" https://t.co/SKqUC4BKVQ @fishfarmermag @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood https://t.co/q0iRAIMRra @markruskell @FergusEwingMSP @marinescotland @KateForbesMSP pic.twitter.com/aDXVMtlBIm

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 14, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more on the Norwegian money behind 'Scottish Scamon' online here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shame on the RSPCA - please stop greenwashing welfare abuse, infectious diseases & mortalties on salmon farms in Scotland! @rspcaassured https://t.co/eM7t7BMZ7r
Boycott "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon @marksandspencer @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @ScotlandSalmon #RSPCA pic.twitter.com/UrjdI4t8Qv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 29, 2022

 

RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Infested with 50 Lice, Poxvirus, Necrosis, Lesions & Myocarditis!

 

 

'Case Information' slipped out by the Scottish Government on 25 October 2022 is enough to make your flesh creep (and put you off eating RSPCA Assured Scottish salmon for life). 

 

Lousy Scottish Salmon Quiz: Which @rspcaassured salmon farm suffered from a lice load of between 15 & 50 during a @scotgov inspection in July? @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/2sBrJXv2dj pic.twitter.com/x4vwB4botQ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 27, 2022

 

 

 

Here's a Fish Health Inspectorate report (2022-0229) detailing an inspection of an RSPCA Assured salmon farm operated by The Scottish Salmon Company (Bakkafrost) at Reibinish in East Loch Tarbert on the Isle of Harris on 27 July 2022 - including "ongoing gill challenges", "prolonged elevated mortality", "visibly lethargic and moribund fish", mortality "in excess of 60%" (57,110 morts reported in a four week period from late June to late July 2022), various disease issues and a lice load of 15 to 50 parasites per fish:

 

 

 

 

"Our sector supports more than 2,500 direct and 10,000 indirect jobs" says @TavishScott @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/6TUfgsx9x7
How many jobs are dependent on Scottish salmon's rising mortality mountain? @BillyBtankers @GogarServices @Ferguson_TPT @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms pic.twitter.com/MwprJH6a17

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 28, 2022

 

 

 

The Scottish Government Fish Health Inspectorate report published on 25 October 2022 features photographic evidence of welfare abuse in the salmon farmed by The Scottish Salmon Company (Bakkafrost) at Reibinish in East Loch Tarbert - including a lower jaw "sliced in half" and upper jaw "partially missing", "damage to the snout", "substantial damage to both eyes" and "damage to the operculum thought to be lice damage":

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 'Fish Health Inspectorate Visit Report' dated 25 August 2022 detailed Aeromonas salmoncida (Furunculosis), Piscine Myocarditis Virus, Vibrio, Paranucleospora theridion, Salmon Gill Poxvirus, Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus and Neoparamoeba perurans.  

 

 

 

Earlier this month (14 October 2022), $camon $cotland wrote to the RSPCA demanding that the certification of Scottish salmon as 'welfare friendly' via RSPCA Assured be stopped immediately.

 

Please end torture & cruelty on salmon farms in Scotland! @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd
Stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly sourced" @rspcaassured & "farmed responsibly" @ASC_aqua https://t.co/GdiaY00bHJ #RSPCA #ASC #Scottish #Scamon@philip_ciwf @Animallawyersuk pic.twitter.com/S6O6cYkQQc

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2022

 

 

 

Correspondence with the RSPCA suggests that 99% of salmon farming production in Scotland (all companies except Organic Sea Harvest) is certified as 'welfare-friendly' via RSPCA Assured:

 

From: Don Staniford <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 9:08 AM
Subject: Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC - please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!
To: <[email protected]>, Hello <[email protected]>, Clive Brazier <[email protected]>, Help Account <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Ray Goodfellow <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>

 

Here's an open letter to the RSPCA - please pass onto the board of trustees, patrons, vice-presidents and celebrity supporters:

 

Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC - please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!

 

Please acknowledge receipt.

 

And could you please (as requested in the letter) provide a list of all RSPCA Assured salmon farms (both marine and freshwater)?

 

Thanks,

 

Don Staniford

 

 

 

Director, $camon $cotland

From: Hello <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC - please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!
To: Don Staniford <[email protected]>

 

Hi Don,

Thanks for getting in touch, we will take a look at your letter.

As explained previously, we are unable to publish a list of all of our members but most salmon companies state which assurance schemes they are part of on their websites.

Kind regards

Emily

 

RSPCA Assured

 

 

 

 

 

From: Don Staniford <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC - please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!
To: Hello <[email protected]>

Emily,

 

Thanks - so if Mowi, for example, states that they as a company are RSPCA Assured does this mean that ALL their salmon farms are RSPCA Assured?

 

Fish Farming Expert reported in March 2021 via: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/compassion-in-world-farming-rspca-assured-salmon/scottish-salmon-farmers-urge-auditors-to-make-surprise-site-inspections/1360930

 

"All Scottish salmon farmers are now signed up to the RSPCA Assured accreditation scheme apart from Organic Sea Harvest, which adheres to organic standards through the Soil Association"

 

So does that mean that all Mowi, Scottish Sea Farms, Cooke, The Scottish Salmon Company/Bakkafrost, Loch Duart, Wester Ross and Kames have all their salmon farms certified via RSPCA Assured?

 

Cooke, for example, is certified via the Soil Association but not all of their salmon farms are certified as organic. 

 

And Mowi and Scottish Sea Farms are certified via the ASC but not all of their farms. 

 

What you seem to be suggesting is that RSPCA Assured certifies a company and by extension therefore certifies all of their salmon farms.  Is that correct?

 

Thanks,

 

Don

 

 

 

 

From: Hello <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC - please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!
To: Don Staniford <[email protected]>

Dear Don, 

Thank you for your recent letter.

We agree that there are many challenges facing salmon farming - as there are with terrestrial farming. Therefore we are working hard with RSPCA Assured members, the wider salmon industry and academics to find ways to tackle these issues, for example the challenge of disease and sea lice outbreaks. 

 

Some of them aren't easy to resolve but animal welfare is our absolute priority and, as an animal welfare charity, we are duty-bound to keep doing all we can to help improve the welfare of all animals, including salmon.  

 

That's why the RSPCA chose to develop around 500 standards aimed solely at improving the welfare of farmed salmon at every stage of their life. These standards have been a catalyst for change throughout the entire salmon industry, not just on RSPCA Assured certified farms.

 

But there is still much work to be done. Whilst we don’t have answers to all of the challenges at present, we are continually working with the salmon industry, retailers and experts to look at further ways to enhance the welfare of fish and reduce the risk of sea lice infestations and disease. We won’t give up trying to bring about further welfare improvements.

 

RSPCA Assured is a charity and, as explained to you previously, we do not profit from salmon farming. Our sole mission is to help improve farm animal welfare. 

 

You may not agree with us but we hope this helps explain why we are involved in salmon farming. We firmly stand by the approach we have taken, as it has helped bring about many significant improvements to the welfare of many millions of farmed salmon and will continue to do so. 

If we walked away from the salmon industry because of challenges like sea lice and disease, it could result in many millions of fish being reared to lower standards and an increase in health and disease problems. And, as an animal welfare charity, we will not turn our back on helping improve the lives of all farm animals.

Kind regards

 

RSPCA Assured

 

 

 

 

 

In 2020, Chris Packham claimed he would use his position as vice president of the RSPCA to tackle the problem of salmon farming in Scotland. "I'm on it" he said @ChrisGPackham @onekindtweet
Two years later millions of @rspcaassured salmon are dying cruel deaths @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/ljJvCxF8FX pic.twitter.com/hN3yA6gBMa

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 28, 2022

 

 

The Sunday Times reported in February 2020 that the RSPCA earned over £500,000 per year from certifying Scottish salmon as 'welfare friendly' via RSPCA Assured:

 

 

 

 

RSPCA sell their soul to Scottish farmed salmon for £500k per year https://t.co/2pKeU23WiP @rspcaassured @SundayTimesScot @onekindtweet @ciwf @RSPCA_official @RSPCAChris

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 9, 2020

 

 

As RSPCA 'VIPs' you have the power to stop suffering on salmon farms in Scotland - please tell the RSPCA executive to end certification of Scottish salmon! @rspcaassured https://t.co/oFC20taxzO @ChrisGPackham @brianblessed @BillOddie @DrBrianMay @PeterEgan6 @CarolineLucas #RSPCA pic.twitter.com/nYwOM5yTF6

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 5, 2020

 

 

 

Read more via:

Salmon Hell on 'God's Island' - Mass Mortalities Pile Up (Again) at RSPCA Assured Bakkafrost on Isle of Gigha!

Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC - please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!

Media Backgrounder: Year of the Dead Salmon - Bakkafrost Scotland is the King of Death!

Scottish Salmon Exposed - Photos highlight the disease & welfare nightmare at The Scottish Salmon Company!

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 'Scottish' Salmon Company Haemorrhages Salmoney!

Video Nasty: Scottish Salmon's Toxic Soup in Loch Carron!

Videos of Mort Disposal by The Scottish Salmon Company - like a serial killer disposing of dead bodies before the police arrive!

Videos of Welfare Abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron (West Strome salmon farm)

Animal Equality Exposes Scottish Salmon Slaughterhouse

Norwegian Government Asked to Divest from 'Unethical' & 'Irresponsible' Scottish Salmon!

Over 5 Million Dead 'Scottish' Salmon Since 2017 - Sponsored by Investors from Norway, the Faroes etc!

The Camera Never Lies About Scottish Salmon!

Photo Dossier of Diseased, Deformed & Abused Scottish Salmon

The Severely Damaged Scottish Salmon Company - For Sale Now!

Maaey day for the Scottish Salmon Company

Ground-truthing disease-ridden Scottish salmon

Mmmm Blind Scottish Salmon with Boils, Anyone?

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Salmon Hell on 'God's Island' - Mass Mortalities Pile Up (Again) at RSPCA Assured Bakkafrost off Isle of Gigha!

 

New Report Exposes Unhealthy Scottish Salmon:
"Extremely high" lice infestation, physical damage, haemorrhaging, Amoebic Gill Disease, Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus, Salmon Gill Poxvirus, Piscine Reovirus & Paranucleospora theridion https://t.co/6QD9vl4W13 @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/VrJ2XfGDII

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 28, 2022

 

Last year, the Isle of Gigha - meaning 'God's Island' in Old Norse - was awash with disease-ridden farmed salmon as mass mortalities at RSPCA Assured salmon farms in East Tarbert Bay and Druimyeon Bay led to a welfare nightmare which featured on STV News in October 2021:

 

Thousands of rotting salmon ‘stink out’ village after mass death at farm.https://t.co/hOoOmXr0n7

— STV News (@STVNews) October 20, 2021

 

 

 

 

A year later and the nightmare is recurring with 270,509 dead fish reported in July/August 2022 (a staggering 480,170 were reported in an 11 week period in 2021).  Here's 'Case Information' published earlier this week (25 October 2022) by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate relating to an inspection of East Tarbert Bay salmon farm off the Isle of Gigha operated by The Scottish Salmon Company (Bakkafrost Scotland) on 17 August 2022 - the inspection report cites "extremely high" lice infestation levels, the use of SLICE (Emamectin benzoate), PRV (Piscine Reovirus) and AGD (Amoebic Gill Disease):

 

 

 

Quiz: Which @rspcaassured salmon farm reported 750,000+ dead fish over a twelve month period (between September 2021 & August 2022)? @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/2sBrJXdrlL @marinescotland @scotgov @APHAgovuk @RSPCA_official @RSPCAChris @ChrisGPackham @TavishScott @coopuk @scotgp pic.twitter.com/3jCaTtOAFj

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 27, 2022

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Government Fish Health Inspectorate report (17 August 2022) detailed fish welfare problems at the East Tarbert Bay salmon farm operated by The Scottish Salmon Company (Bakkafrost) - including "evidence of physical damage", "lice damage" and "haemorrhaging": 

 

 

 

The 'Fish Health Inspectorate Visit Report' dated 29 August 2022 detailed a host of diseases, viruses, pathogens and bacteria including Vibrio, Aeromonas (Furunculosis), Amoebic Gill Disease (Neoparamoeba perurans), Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus, Salmon Gill Poxvirus, Piscine Reovirus, ulcerative dermatitis and Paranucleospora theridion:

 

 

 

 

 

Tavish Scott @ScotlandSalmon does not recognise the mortality & disease problems on salmon farms across Scotland so here's 'Case Information' published this week for East Tarbert Bay salmon farm off the Isle of Gigha https://t.co/2sBrJXv2dj @scotgov @marinescotland @TavishScott https://t.co/JLhCDIBS3N pic.twitter.com/7z3vPrpoKG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 28, 2022

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported last month (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

 

 

 

Salmon Scotland's monthly mortality reports detail growing problems at Bakkafrost - with 11.7% mortality reported at East Tarbert Bay in August 2022 and 10.2% mortality in July 2022:

 

 

 

 

Data published online by the Scottish Government on 6 October 2022 shows escalating mortality problems on salmon farms across Scotland - with East Tarbert Bay salmon farm featuring prominently:

 

 

 

Here's the largest mortalities reported since 1 July 2022 (data up to 12 September 2022):

 

 

 

Halloween Comes Early at Deadly Scottish Salmon - mortalities pile up due to viral disease, fungus, gill infections & lice infestations! @rspcaassured @ScotlandSalmon @Folketrygdfond @scotseafarms @LochDuartSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @WesterRossSalmo @scotgp https://t.co/m4lYno6kqZ pic.twitter.com/5mXsgw52ZP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 9, 2022

 

 

 

"Bakkafrost Scotland shrinking its carbon footprint" reports @salmonfarming1 #Bullshit https://t.co/gFgEpCezl8
As burgeoning mass mortalities, deadly viruses, parasites & infectious diseases continue to plague Bakkafrost Scotland! @Folketrygdfond @ScotlandSalmon @TavishScott pic.twitter.com/5qPBVqxgD5

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 4, 2022

 

 

 

Despite rising disease and mortality problems on salmon farms, Tavish Scott (chief executive of Salmon Scotland) refuses to acknowledge the issue. 

 

MILLIONS of farmed salmon are dying from lice infestations, chlamydia, heart disease, anaemia etc.

The CEO of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation @SSPOsays, Mr @TavishScott says it's a

"Pack of lies".

Make up you own mind who's the LIAR here. pic.twitter.com/C0T1aId4pn

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) April 19, 2021

 

 

Scottish salmon "die from lice infestatations, Chlamydia, heart disease, anaemia" @seaspiracy "Is that true?" @BBCScotNine "No, it's absolutely not true," replied @tavishscott "It's one of the pack of lies that these extreme activists produce all the time" https://t.co/L0V3L4ubNu pic.twitter.com/P7cBaRB6Yg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 7, 2021

 

 

"I don't recognise your figure (26% mortality)" says @tavishscott to @joe_crowley @BBCCountryfile https://t.co/orFCNlIgG7
Even Mr Magoo would recognise the fact that over a quarter of all Scottish salmon are dying in just the sea-phase of production! @marinescotland @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/OwDboVoqgA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 7, 2020

When @TavishScott appeared on @BBCScotNine last year he shamelessly denied millions of farmed salmon were dying from lice infestations & diseases @ScotlandSalmon
Since then 20 million+ have died on disease-ridden @rspcaassured salmon farms in Scotland! https://t.co/CM9bTCxmdI https://t.co/Ua4oDuFzl7 pic.twitter.com/SFDA55zCxq

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 28, 2022

 

Read more via:

Media Backgrounder: Year of the Dead Salmon - Bakkafrost Scotland is the King of Death!

Scottish Salmon Exposed - Photos highlight the disease & welfare nightmare at The Scottish Salmon Company!

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 'Scottish' Salmon Company Haemorrhages Salmoney!

Video Nasty: Scottish Salmon's Toxic Soup in Loch Carron!

Videos of Mort Disposal by The Scottish Salmon Company - like a serial killer disposing of dead bodies before the police arrive!

Videos of Welfare Abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron (West Strome salmon farm)

Animal Equality Exposes Scottish Salmon Slaughterhouse

Norwegian Government Asked to Divest from 'Unethical' & 'Irresponsible' Scottish Salmon!

Over 5 Million Dead 'Scottish' Salmon Since 2017 - Sponsored by Investors from Norway, the Faroes etc!

The Camera Never Lies About Scottish Salmon!

Photo Dossier of Diseased, Deformed & Abused Scottish Salmon

The Severely Damaged Scottish Salmon Company - For Sale Now!

Maaey day for the Scottish Salmon Company

Ground-truthing disease-ridden Scottish salmon

Mmmm Blind Scottish Salmon with Boils, Anyone?

 

 

Question @ScotlandSalmon - why are mortality rates so much higher at Bakkafrost (The Scottish Salmon Co) @Folketrygdfond & @WesterRossSalmo compared to @CookeScotland & @GriegShetland? https://t.co/Ju6L8xNZjw @LochDuartSalmon @fincarson @TavishScott @ArianeBurgessHI @scotgp pic.twitter.com/AxMzTuFLJ9

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 27, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Does the salmon farming industry still not recognise the fact - as detailed by @scotgov based on reports submitted by salmon farms - that over 25% of salmon die each year inside sea cages across Scotland? https://t.co/mqMZETNO66 @marinescotland @ScotlandSalmon @TavishScott https://t.co/TMdVEdB0K5 pic.twitter.com/QH38VIfC9q

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 28, 2022

 

Loch Long Salmon Farm Dead in the Water this Halloween!

 

Your opportunity to speak against Loch Long (Bienn Reithe) Fish Farm proposal at Public Hearing https://t.co/pt4V3tj59K @ArianeBurgessHI @BrendanOHaraMP @TheGAAIA @jackiebmsp @Ross_Greer pic.twitter.com/ROm0yDIs0t

— AFFtheClyde (@AFFtheClyde) October 22, 2022

 

Loch Long Salmon's controversial proposal to establish a new semi-enclosed fish farm inside a National Park in Scotland is fast becoming a nightmare - with the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Planning Board recommending refusal and a public hearing set for Halloween (31 October 2022). 

 

Please help stop Loch Long salmon farm! @AFFtheClyde @savelochlong https://t.co/rkycv1fAAJ pic.twitter.com/ub8j5CpIZc

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 24, 2022

 

 

 

Read the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Planning Board's 101-page paper recommending refusal - including:

 

 

Here's the reasons for refusal set out in Appendix 1:

 

 

 

The Herald reported (20 October 2022):

 

"There are currently no fish farms in Loch Long & a lot of people want to keep it that way" said @ArianeBurgessHI @heraldscotland "We should always think long & hard before giving away our iconic nature to these experiments" @loch_long @lomondtrossachs https://t.co/pGPWFkgMnX

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 21, 2022

 

 

 

Seafood Source reported (21 October 2022):

 

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported (19 October 2022):

 

The 101-page report concludes that the proposal does not comply with the relevant policies of the Local Development Plan & there are no material planning considerations which would justify a departure from the LDP @lomondtrossachs @loch_long @eviesnowcat https://t.co/UWhZ1UZOjZ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 19, 2022

 

 

 

Helensburgh Advertiser reported (19 October 2022):

 

Loch Long salmon farm: Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park recommends refusal - the proposal has attracted 192 objections @helensburghadv @lomondtrossachs @loch_long @eviesnowcat @AFFtheClyde @WildFishCons @ewangkennedy @ScottishEPA @scotgp https://t.co/aJb12380m6

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 19, 2022

 

 

 

The Fish Site reported (19 October 2022):

 

 

 

The Times reported (19 October 2022):

 

Developers of a pioneering “pollution-free” salmon farm in a Scottish sea loch face a battle with planners, who say it will risk damaging the landscape of a national park @Jerwatsonjourno @timesscotland https://t.co/9eSevArOIw @AFFtheClyde @eviesnowcat @lomondtrossachs @loch_long

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 19, 2022

 

 

 

Loch Long Salmon's Managing Director Stewart Hawthorn was still pissing in the wind in The Herald (27 October 2022):

 

 

"Our application has been supported by @nature_scot & @ScottishEPA and the technology has been endorsed by environmental groups such as the Atlantic Salmon Trust" claims Loch Long Salmon @heraldscotland https://t.co/tyAUjmBT7n @AST_Salmon is not an environmental group!!! pic.twitter.com/dJZ79P92Wm

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 28, 2022

 

 

Clayoquot Action in Canada - where the same semi-enclosed technology was trialled unsuccessfully by Cermaq - posted on Facebook on 17 October 2022:

 

"Cermaq's semi-closed fish farm experiment in Clayoquot Sound failed after only 1 year, because fish were dying from breathing their own urine"

 

 

As Dan Lewis from Clayoquot Action puts it: "What we learned was that there were 'fish welfare concerns resulting from chronic exposure to higher levels of ammonia'.  In other words, those fish were forced to breath their own urine, probably burning their gills…"

 

 

 

Cermaq's semi-closed salmon farming system is a "viral super-spreader" says @ClayoquotAction https://t.co/PZXxgeJhKK @CermaqCan @Cermaq
Using this flawed system in Loch Long would be sheer madness! @lomondtrossachs @loch_long @AFFtheClyde @WildFishCons @ewangkennedy @eviesnowcat pic.twitter.com/z6aHWjdcor

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 6, 2022

 

 

 

AFFtheClyde reported in August 2022:

 

 

As Dan Lewis @ClayoquotAction put it: "What we learned was that there were 'fish welfare concerns resulting from chronic exposure to higher levels of ammonia'. In other words, those fish were forced to breath their own urine, probably burning their gills" @AFFtheClyde @loch_long pic.twitter.com/9N93aP96sT

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 28, 2022

 

Victoria News reported in October 2021:

 

 

"This technology is not new, it has been used successfully in Norway, Canada and the Faroe Islands for decades" claims Loch Long Salmon @heraldscotland
If Stewart Hawthorn's idea of 'success' is thousands of salmon dying in their own urine then he can keep it! @lomondtrossachs https://t.co/ridKMprxsJ pic.twitter.com/p1efXbREgH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 28, 2022

 

 

Read more via:

Loch Long - flood of public opposition sinks salmon farm in National Park?

 

 

Representations to @lomondtrossachs National Park indicates majority opposed to Loch Long Beinn Reithe fish farm https://t.co/95mkEaSmDP @ArianeBurgessHI @RhodaGrant @jenni_minto @MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllan @FairlieCoastal @TheGAAIA @GuyLinleyAdams @TheSoundOfJura pic.twitter.com/D1b8E7f5LQ

— AFFtheClyde (@AFFtheClyde) August 2, 2022

 

 

Loch Long - flood of public opposition sinks salmon farm in National Park? @lomondtrossachs @loch_long @YesLochLong @long_loch @SaveLoch @scotgp @ArranCoast @WildFishCons @Argyll_Fish @SRTristan @craig_borland @TheSoundOfJura @ewangkennedy @helensburghadv https://t.co/xyKpO9f4Pk pic.twitter.com/YAiAiDBtAI

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 1, 2022

 

 

 

'Organic' Salmon Farming Quadruples in a Decade - 9% of Scottish farmed salmon now greenwashed by Soil Association!

 

Organic Scamon: Scottish Farmed salmon certified as 'organic' quadrupled over the last decade - from 4,597 tonnes in 2012 to 18,285 tonnes in 2021 @SoilAssociation @SoilAssocScot @scotgov https://t.co/LTIGM2E1xi @MowiScotlandLtd @CookeScotland @JoannaBlythman @peterk69 #Organic pic.twitter.com/GosbiQIMxO

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 27, 2022

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2021 (published earlier today - 27 October 2022 - by the Scottish Government) exposes the growing scam of 'organic' farmed salmon in Scotland - with 'organic' salmon farming production more quadrupling over the last decade from 4,597 tonnes in 2012 to 18,285 tonnes in 2021:

 

 

 

 

"So-called 'organic' salmon is a sham, scam and a consumer con," said Don Staniford, Director of $camon $cotland.  "Shame on the Soil Association for greenwashing pharmed salmon as environmentally friendly.  Mowi, Cooke Aquaculture and Organic Sea Harvest - the three salmon farming companies certified as 'organic' in Scotland - are a world removed from 'organic' farming.  Organic salmon farming is an oxymoron."

 

 

 

Read more via:

New Survey Lifts Lid on Falling Production & Rising Mortalities on 'Scottish' Salmon Farms!

Cooke's Organic Scamon Exposed by Gruesome Photos from Orkney - RSPCA Assured Ouseness Oozes Welfare Abuse!

Organic Scamon: Ocado Challenged Over Mowi's 'Responsibly' Farmed Salmon - 100% Bullshit not 100% Scottish!

Mowi's Pure Bullshit (#1 in a regular series): "hardly any chemical treatments at all"

Victory: The Pished Fish Sobers Up to False Claims Over "Sustainable" Scottish Salmon!

Scamon Alert: The Pished Fish Challenged Over "Sustainably Sourced" Scottish Salmon

Greenwashing 'Sustainable' Salmon - how supermarkets brand themselves as "responsible" via ClientEarth!

Supermarkets Investigated by Competition and Markets Authority - "Responsibly Farmed/Sourced" Green Claims Questioned!

Bullshit Called on M&S's "Responsibly Sourced" Scottish Salmon!

Irresponsibly Farmed Scottish Salmon - Complaints Filed Vs Supermarkets with Advertising & Trading Standards!

Media Backgrounder: Irresponsibly Farmed Scottish Salmon

Telegraph: "Cop26 organisers roasted for serving ‘environmentally unfriendly’ salmon"

Scottish 'Organic' Scamon Leaps 181% - 4,462 tonnes to 12,528 tonnes from 2019 to 2020!

National Geographic: "Why you might not be getting the salmon you paid for"

Mowi Caught Importing 'Organic' Smolts from Ireland to On-Grow on Skye - did they follow the SSPO's code & quarantine for three months?

'Organic' Salmon Fit for the Queen? Not Even Fit for Her Dogs!

Net Tightens on Lawsuits vs 'Salmafia' - Cooke "unable to quash lawsuit over deceptive marketing practices"

Result - Applecross Smokehouse deletes "sustainable fisheries" claim following complaint!

 

RSPCA Assured Scottish Scamon from Applecross Smokehouse - Another Case of Deceptive Marketing for Trading Standards!

 

Trading Standards Victory: "Our salmon is farm reared" admit Belhaven Smokehouse after complaint!

 

Bullshit Called On 'Boutique' Farmed Salmon from the Faroes - Rick Stein Deletes "Boutique" & "Truly Stunning" Claims from Web-Site!

BBC News: "Rick Stein's shop changes description of smoked salmon after complaint"

Victory: Rick Stein Forced to Advertise Faroese Farmed Salmon After Trading Standards Investigation

Mowi Settles Class Action Lawsuit for $1.3 million - prohibited from using phrases "sustainably sourced" & "all natural"

Toxic Salmon Corrodes Soil Association's 'Organic' Principles

Scottish salmon is so not organic!

Organic Salmon Belongs in the Bin Not Your Shopping Basket!

Norwegian Government Asked to Divest from 'Unethical' & 'Irresponsible' Scottish Salmon!

Dutch TV slams "organic" salmon

EXPOSED: Scottish 'Organic' Scamon

Organic” farmed salmon – let’s get real

Loch Duart drops "sustainable" claim after advertising ruling

Organic Scamon - The Greenwashing of Toxic Farmed Salmon

Why organic salmon is causing a nasty smell

Concern over organic salmon farms

"Organically Farmed Salmon Is An Oxymoron" (The Organic Standard, 2001)

 

 

 

Organic Scamon: here's what Cooke Aquaculture's salmon from Westray on Orkney look like (as inspected by @marinescotland in May) @The_Orcadian @bbcorkney @OrkneyCouncil
Why does the @SoilAssociation certify salmon farms as 'organic'? @SoilAssocScot @CookeScotland @cookeseafood pic.twitter.com/7FTcnt01zG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 24, 2022

 

New Survey Lifts Lid on Falling Production & Rising Mortalities on 'Scottish' Salmon Farms!

 

EXPOSED: The latest survival figures for sea cage salmon farms in Scotland is 74.4% - i.e. 25.6% mortality! @scotgov https://t.co/LTIGM2E1xi
Shamefully, @ScotlandSalmon refuse to disclose the total number of mortalities as the information is deemed 'commercially damaging'! https://t.co/2Rpf4NUrrN pic.twitter.com/EfZJCOfzzB

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 27, 2022

 

 

 

Today (27 October 2022), saw the publication of the Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2021 by the Scottish Government:

 

 

"In 2021, production of Atlantic salmon increased by 13,264 tonnes (7%) to 205,393 tonnes" @scotgov "This is the highest level of production recorded in Scotland" https://t.co/IKKHsFvRlY
No need to mention that 2022 production will fall 8% to 189,693 tonnes! @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/qJTIEokvfJ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 27, 2022

 

 

 

Download in full online here

 

 

Breaking News: Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey published today @scotgov forecasts sharp fall in salmon farming production in 2022 (lower than in 2017)! @ScotlandSalmon @ScottishEPA @MowiScotlandLtd @MairiGougeon @scotgp @CCNScotland https://t.co/mqMZETNO66 pic.twitter.com/QIVLrRstGe

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 27, 2022

 

Exposed: The sea survival of Scottish farmed salmon was only 66% (i.e. 34% mortality) in the North-West region & 72% (i.e. 28% mortality) in the Western Isles in 2021 @scotgov @ScotlandSalmon @TavishScott @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @GriegShetland https://t.co/LTIGM2E1xi pic.twitter.com/6bI7NJZe7n

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 27, 2022

 

Does the salmon farming industry still not recognise the fact - as detailed by @scotgov based on reports submitted by salmon farms - that over 25% of salmon die each year inside sea cages across Scotland? https://t.co/mqMZETNO66 @marinescotland @ScotlandSalmon @TavishScott https://t.co/TMdVEdB0K5 pic.twitter.com/QH38VIfC9q

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 28, 2022

 

 

Don Staniford, Director of $camon $cotland, said:

 

"This latest survey cannot hide the fact that millions of farmed salmon - perhaps as many as 50 million per year - are dying cruel deaths in sea cages, smolt farms and hatcheries across Scotland.  Salmon farming is a welfare nightmare which must be closed down as a matter of urgency.  The Scottish Government must force salmon  farms to disclose the number of all dead fish even if the publication of mortality information is deemed 'commercially damaging' and not collected by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.  Salmon farming production this year is forecast to fall dramatically due to infectious diseases, mass mortalities and lice infestations.  How on earth can a farming sector with a mortality rate in excess of 25% be marketed as 'responsible' via RSPCA Assured, the Soil Association and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council?  Salmon farming in Scotland is dead in the water!"

 

 

How on earth can a farming sector with a 25%+ mortality rate be marketed as 'responsible' via RSPCA Assured, the Soil Association & Aquaculture Stewardship Council? Salmon farming in Scotland is dead in the water! @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation https://t.co/OGT8HMHEwg pic.twitter.com/7DbB9FHfHP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 27, 2022

 

"In 2019, the last year for which survival can be calculated, the survival rate from smolt input to harvest decreased to 74.4%" reports @scotgov
In other words, a quarter (25.6%) of all farmed salmon died cruel deaths in @rspcaassured sea cages!https://t.co/mqMZETNO66 @ciwf pic.twitter.com/u7o6Fe1NPR

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 27, 2022

 

 

 

The Oban Times reported (10 November 2022):

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2020 (published in September 2021) forecast 236,000 tonnes of farmed salmon production in 2021:

 

 

Missing (Presumed Dead): what happened to the 30,607 tonnes of missing Scottish salmon in 2021!
The 2020 survey @scotgov predicted 236,000 tonnes in 2021 https://t.co/jhk6tKXCS2
The 2021 survey reported 205,393 tonnes with only 189,693 tonnes predicted in 2022! @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/iOFq4CqAKn

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 27, 2022

 

 

 

Read other fish farm production surveys published by the Scottish Government online here:

 

 

$camon $cotland reported last week (23 October 2022):

 

EXPOSED: 21% mortality in ONE WEEK at Mowi's Marulaig Bay salmon farm in South Uist - nothing to see here as it's certified as "farmed responsibly" @ASC_aqua & welfare-friendly via @rspcaassured https://t.co/Tzx20nWZRr @MowiScotlandLtd @ScotlandSalmon @TavishScott @MairiGougeon pic.twitter.com/8w3UwePVGG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 23, 2022

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in October 2021:

 

The scam that is 'organic' Scottish salmon - aka 'Organic Scamon' - has almost trebled in a year: increasing from 4,462 tonnes of 'organic' salmon reported in 2019 to 12,528 tonnes in 2020. That's a leap of 181% in a single year! https://t.co/VdswDPek3E @SoilAssociation pic.twitter.com/U6A3Isa3Hv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2021

 

 

The scam that is 'organic' Scottish salmon - aka 'organic scamon' - has almost trebled in a year: increasing from 4,462 tonnes of 'organic' salmon reported in 2019 to 12,528 tonnes in 2020.  That's a leap of 181% in a single year!    The 'Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2020' - published by the Scottish Government on 30 September 2021 - details:

 

 

 

 

New 'Scottish' salmon farming survey reveals just 6 companies (all foreign owned/controlled) account for 99% of 'Scottish' salmon farming (using imported ova) https://t.co/jhk6tLfdJA @marinescotland @SSPOsays @tavishscott @MairiGougeon @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms pic.twitter.com/nBjeKENs18

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 30, 2021

 

 

Read more via:

21% Mortality at Mowi's ASC-Certified & RSPCA Assured Marulaig Bay & Rum in ONE WEEK!!!

Halloween Comes Early at Deadly Scottish Salmon - mortalities pile up due to viral disease, fungus, gill infections & lice infestations!

Named & Shamed: The Most Deadly Salmon Farms in Scotland (as greenwashed as "responsible" via RSPCA Assured & the ASC)!

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

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!

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)!

New Fish Farming Survey - 6 Foreign Owned/Controlled Companies Account for 99% of 'Scottish' Salmon!

Scottish 'Organic' Scamon Leaps 181% - 4,462 tonnes to 12,528 tonnes from 2019 to 2020!

New 'Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2019' published

Press & Journal: "Figures for farm-raised salmon have taken a dip"

STV News on "huge drop" in Scottish salmon farming production

Shocking New Stats Show 23% Mortality on Scottish Salmon Farms & 18% Decline in Production

 

 

The @scotgov rural economy secretary @FergusEwingMSP: “The latest figures show record levels of salmon being produced by fish farms. I congratulate the sector for its efforts, delivering unprecedented production of this nutritious, quality seafood" https://t.co/ypqJNxccDD pic.twitter.com/TRR76MJg0X

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 19, 2020

 

 

“This is a sector we can all be proud of" said Hamish Macdonell, director of strategic engagement at the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation https://t.co/jBesJCGQOU @SSPOsays @HamishMacdonell @FergusEwingMSP @GreenerScotland @KateForbesMSP @Ianblackford_MP @strathearnrose pic.twitter.com/K8GVcvaYUZ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 20, 2020

 

 

New Scottish Government survey reveals that 89.7% of 'Scottish' salmon are derived from foreign sources (Norway, Iceland & Ireland) https://t.co/LX57bm5nfV @marinescotland @GreenerScotland @SSPOsays @WeAreBenchmark @HGSalmonUK @FergusEwingMSP pic.twitter.com/NH9CrYu1JK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 19, 2020

 

 

STV News tonight reporting on the "huge drop" in Scottish salmon farming production https://t.co/22cz7285vi @STVNews @SSPOsays @SalmonFeedlots @SalmonTroutCons @FergusEwingMSP @strathearnrose @GreenerScotland @scotgp @KateForbesMSP @marinescotland pic.twitter.com/6DpJ1j3cKM

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 30, 2019

 

 

Today's Press & Journal: "Salmon farming arch critic Don Staniford, who has fought long and hard to highlight fish welfare and mortality issues in the sector, said the figures showed the industry was “far from being a success story” https://t.co/d4M3eJ7Z1H @pressjournal @JulieHL pic.twitter.com/GGez7Y2OKc

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 1, 2019

 

The Ferret: "Row erupts between Marine Scotland and private firm over seal scarers"

 

NEW: A row has erupted between a private company and the Scottish Government over controversial devices called seal scarers which have been used by fish farms. https://t.co/pSrLNkhwsB

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) October 24, 2022

 

 

 

The Ferret reported (24 October 2022):

 

 

Corin Smith of Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots: "The continued discovery of ADDs on salmon feedlots comes despite repeated & recent claims to the contrary by the industry. We cannot trust the salmon farming industry to self regulate in this area or others" https://t.co/R49LjoGRSj

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 24, 2022

 

 

The Scottish Government reported (18 October 2022):

 

 

Read in full online here

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in September 2021:

 

Caught on candid camera - The Scottish Salmon Company claim to have an EPS licence to use ADDs at their salmon farm at West Strome in Loch Carron https://t.co/vvP9mJfXF1
I thought there were no EPS licences issued for ADDs on salmon farms! @nature_scot @marinescotland @SSPOsays

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 13, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported (20 September 2021):

 

 

 

Surveying for Acoustic Deterrent Devices in Loch Fyne & Loch Striven found almost every active salmon farm using ADDs. Every farm was operated by Faroese/Norwegian-owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company @salmon_scottish @Folketrygdfond @Try_Lochlander @SSPOsays https://t.co/wcTHtY3oSO pic.twitter.com/J6zsOzrzOA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 29, 2021

 

 

Read more via:

• Scottish Greens welcome effective ban on acoustic deterrent devices
• The Ferret: "Critics claim “landmark victory” after curbs on seal scarers"
• Landmark Victory: Sonic Torture of Cetaceans by Salmon Farm ADDs Is Dead in the Water!
• Damning Report: Marine Scotland Caught Breaking EU Law By Environmental Standards Scotland!
• Scottish Salmon Caught Telling Porkies on ADDs?
• "Salmon farms probed for using illegal 'scarers' which threaten dolphins" (Mail on Sunday)
• RSPCA Assured food label scheme accused of protecting ‘salmon farmers and retailers’
• FOI Exposes Lobbying by 'Scottish' Salmon on Killing of Seals & Use of ADDs
• The Oban Times: "Seal scarer devices may harm harbour porpoise"
• "Five out of the six top farms in Scotland" use GenusWave's 'Acoustic Startle Technology' - But is it MMPA compliant & does it comply with EU law?
• "Scientists sound warning over next-gen seal scarers"
• Journal of Applied Ecology: "Auditory impairment from acoustic seal deterrents predicted for harbour porpoises in a marine protected area"
• Fish Farmer: "Seal scarers could harm porpoises, study finds"
• Parliamentary Report: "ADD Use in the Aquaculture Sector"
• Scientific Study into Impact of Low Frequency ADDs Silenced!
• Pulling the Plug on ADD on salmon farms - is turning down the volume enough to comply with the law?
• Sunday Times: "Animal welfare campaigners sound out ban on acoustic seal deterrent"
• Mail On Sunday: "Salmon farmers are 'torturing' porpoises and dolphins with high-pitched noises to protect their stock, campaigners warn"
• Unlicensed use of ADDs in aquaculture is contrary to European Protected Species legislation & completely immoral!
• Daily Record: "Whales and dolphins being 'tortured' by anti-seal scare devices at Scottish fish farms"
• The Guardian: "Scottish salmon farmers to be banned from shooting seals"
• Caught Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea
• The Ferret: "Seal scarers used by fish farms branded 'sonic torture'"
• GenusWave 'Targeted Acoustic Startle Technology' - in compliance with the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act??
• Seal shooting at salmon farms doubles before ban
• Ban on seal shooting must be watertight
• Greens want ban on seal scarers
• BBC Countryfile on ADDs impacting on cetaceans
• Sounding Off On Salmon Farms - Acoustic Deterrent Devices evade Marine Noise Registry
• SARF report 112: "Influences of lower-frequency Acoustic Deterrent Devices (ADDs) on cetaceans in Scottish coastal waters"
• The Times: "Noisy fish farms ‘harm other marine life’"
• Mapping widespread and increasing underwater noise pollution from acoustic deterrent devices
• Sounding Off About Scotland's Noisy Salmon Farms - Turn Off Acoustic Deterrent Devices to Protect Cetaceans
• Deafening Impact of Salmon Farms on Cetaceans
• The National: "Warning salmon farm devices could hit wildlife tourism"
• Turning Down the Volume on Salmon Farms is Not Enough: 'Cetacean Friendly' Acoustic Deterrent Devices Still Harm & Must Be Banned 
• Cetaceans Sound Alarm On Salmon Farms - new research sparks EC complaint & call to ban Acoustic Deterrent Devices
• Sunday Herald: "Health of whales, dolphins and porpoises put at risk by underwater alarms"
• Noisy Salmon Farms - Switch Off Acoustic Deterrent Devices Now!

 

 

 

NEW: Marine conservationists are claiming a “landmark victory” after Environmental Standards Scotland effectively bans seal scarers. https://t.co/KPKELWKJTG

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) August 10, 2022

 

 

 

Don Staniford, director of $camon $cotland, previously called Scottish Salmon Watch, said: “The Scottish Government must immediately remove all ADDs on salmon farms across Scotland and prosecute companies for noise pollution” @FerretScot @marinescotland https://t.co/R49LjoGRSj

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 25, 2022

 

 

 

The manufacturer of the SealFence "has now ended all marketing & selling activities in relation to acoustic deterrents in Scotland" @OTAQ2 https://t.co/AUEDZrglJI
Thanks to @SealifeA @GuyLinleyAdams @EnvStanScot @marinescotland @scotgp @markruskell @ArianeBurgessHI @CCNScotland pic.twitter.com/6yIy0uXrHO

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 22, 2022

 

21% Mortality at Mowi's ASC-Certified & RSPCA Assured Marulaig Bay & Rum in ONE WEEK!!!

 

Question Time: How can supermarkets promote Scottish salmon as "farmed responsibly" & "responsibly sourced" when 20%+ of the poor fish are dying cruel deaths in ONE week? @MowiScotlandLtd @ASC_aqua @rspcaassured @ScotlandSalmon @TavishScott @philip_ciwf @ASA_UK @CMAgovUK @scotgp https://t.co/YEigQQ2R7y pic.twitter.com/9LtnYOZs4h

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 23, 2022

 

 

 

Mortality data published earlier this month by Mowi makes for grim reading - with reports of mass mortalities at Marulaig Bay and Stulaigh (both certified as "farmed responsibly" via the Aquaculture Stewardship and accredited as "responsibly sourced" via RSPCA Assured) for the week ending 25 September with 21.28% and 12.49% mortality in ONE week!

 

 

 

EXPOSED: 21% mortality in ONE WEEK at Mowi's Marulaig Bay salmon farm in South Uist - nothing to see here as it's certified as "farmed responsibly" @ASC_aqua & welfare-friendly via @rspcaassured https://t.co/Tzx20nWZRr @MowiScotlandLtd @ScotlandSalmon @TavishScott @MairiGougeon pic.twitter.com/8w3UwePVGG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 23, 2022

 

 

 

Data published for the week ending 18 September 2022 reveals further mass mortalities at ASC-certified and RSPCA Assured Muck and Stulaigh salmon farms with 15.5% and 19.5% mortality in ONE week!

 

 

 

Read & Weep: 19.5% mortality (that's one in every five fish dead) in ONE WEEK @MowiScotlandLtd in South Uist (Stulaigh) & 15.5% on Muck @ScotlandSalmon
How can you condone such profound animal cruelty as "responsible"? @ASC_aqua @rspcaassured @RSPCAChris https://t.co/Sc3IPkwtyg pic.twitter.com/03gjFRdXiT

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 23, 2022

 

 

Data published for the week ending 11 September 2022 reveal 21% mortality in ONE WEEK at ASC-certified and RSPCA Assured Rum salmon farm:

 

 

 

If 21% of the turkeys farmed by Bernard Matthews died in ONE WEEK would Sainsbury's still market the farm as "responsibly sourced"? @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua
Please end the welfare nightmare of Scottish salmon now! @philip_ciwf @ChrisGPackham @PeterEgan6 @brianblessed @RSPCAChris pic.twitter.com/x3j2NleSme

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 23, 2022

 

 

Data published online by the ASC reveals that there are 27 salmon farms already certified in Scotland - 25 of which are operated by Mowi - with 14 salmon farms currently being audited:

 

 

EXPOSED: The Aquaculture Stewardship Council should be rebranded The Abominable Salmon Council! @ASC_aqua @Salmoskius https://t.co/zcpvAyB9TU
How the hell can mass mortalities, disease & welfare abuse be certified as "responsible"?
Shame on @sainsburys @Tesco @rspcaassured @ciwf pic.twitter.com/2PaGx4uzmO

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 12, 2022

 

 

 

Earlier this month (14 October 2022), $camon $cotland wrote to the ASC and RSPCA Assured demanding an immediate end to the certification of Scottish salmon as "farmed responsibly" and "responsibly sourced".

 

Please end torture & cruelty on salmon farms in Scotland! @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd
Stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly sourced" @rspcaassured & "farmed responsibly" @ASC_aqua https://t.co/GdiaY00bHJ #RSPCA #ASC #Scottish #Scamon@philip_ciwf @Animallawyersuk pic.twitter.com/S6O6cYkQQc

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2022

 

 

 

 

Why does the R$PCA continue to condone cruelty, unnecessary suffering & mass mortalities on disease-ridden salmon farms in $cotland? @rspcaassured @RSPCA_official @RSPCAChris @DermotRSPCA @Emma_Slav @SSPCA_Kirsteen @SSPCA_Mike @ChrisGPackham @BillOddie @brianblessed @philip_ciwf pic.twitter.com/GUNTU9xB9i

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2022

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported in August 2022:

 

How can 56% mortality (i.e. over half the fish dying) be marketed as "responsibly farmed" & "responsibly sourced" @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @Tesco @sainsburys @MowiScotlandLtd ? https://t.co/PuckNO9qq9 @ASA_UK @ClientEarth @SSC_seafood @LidlGB @AldiUK @ScotlandSalmon #Greenwash pic.twitter.com/h9bILNMmWR

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 23, 2022

 

 

Here's data for June 2022 which reveals a staggering mortality rate of 55.9% at Mowi's Greanem salmon farm in North Uist (a site certified by the ASC in April 2022 and accredited as 'welfare-friendly' via RSPCA Assured):

 

 

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

 

 

 

Read more via: 

Abominable Salmon Certification - the Aquaculture Stewardship Council is Sponsoring Serial Killing in Scotland!

Named & Shamed: The Most Deadly Salmon Farms in Scotland (as greenwashed as "responsible" via RSPCA Assured & the ASC)!

Halloween Comes Early at Deadly Scottish Salmon - mortalities pile up due to viral disease, fungus, gill infections & lice infestations!

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!

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)!

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms

Exposed: 10 Million Morts at RSPCA Assured Mowi Since 2019!

Closing the Net on Welfare Abuse on Salmon Farms - Scottish Veterinary Service replaces APHA

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!!

Charitable Warning: Mowi's Salmon Wagon is Hitting the Road Again - there's no such thing as a free farmed fish lunch!

Mowi's "Woes in Scotland" - Disease & Deaths Cause £5.6 Million Losses!

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

Coming Clean on Welfare Abuse of Cleaner Fish - FOI lifts lid on 100% mortality of wrasse at The Scottish Salmon Company (& over half a million dead salmon)!

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!

Mowi's 'Host' With the Most....Toxic Chemicals & Antibiotics (certified as "responsibly farmed" by the ASC)!

ASC cancel Mowi certifications due to exceedances of antibiotics use, escape & "administrative reasons"!

Mass mortalities at ASC-certified Mowi!

Videos of Welfare Abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron (West Strome salmon farm)

Breaking News: "Horror Videos Reveal Welfare Abuse Inside Scottish Salmon & Trout Cages"

Rest Assured - the RSPCA has been captured, co-opted & corrupted by the Salmafia

Press Release: "Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Mowi - Campaigners call for Mowi to be fined & RSPCA certification rescinded"

RSPCA Sponsored Welfare Abuse of Salmon Farms - A Guide to Getting Away with Mass Murder (Theriocide)!

Secret Filming Exposes RSPCA ‘Abused’ Scottish Salmon - Welfare Complaint Filed Against M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms

Letter to Secretary of State re. Welfare Abuse at Scottish Salmon Farms

Whitewashing Welfare Abuse of Scottish Salmon (as sponsored via RSPCA, SSPCA & APHA)

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)

Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' Exposes Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon – As Sponsored by the RSPCA & Aquaculture Stewardship Council!

Media Backgrounder: The Welfare Nightmare of Scottish Salmon (Updated)

Mowi Moves Goalposts on ASC Certification

Covid measures ‘didn’t affect farmed salmon welfare’ claim Marine Scotland Science (who were not allowed to inspect farms for half of 2020)!

Ongoing welfare abuse & unnecessary suffering on salmon farms - why no prosecutions?

RSPCA Suspend Salmon Farm Inspections

Censored: Welfare Abuse on Salmon Farms

Photo Dossier of Diseased, Deformed & Abused Scottish Salmon

Welfare Abuse on Scottish Salmon Farms - Legal Action Vs Scottish Ministers & Salmon Farming Companies

Welfare Abuse at Scottish Salmon Farms - Why No Legal Enforcement Or Prosecutions?

Legal Complaint Vs Breaches of Animal Health & Welfare (Scotland) Act

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!

 

 

 

 

 

REVEALED: 21% Mortality at Mowi's ASC-Certified & RSPCA Assured salmon farms (Marulaig Bay & Rum) in ONE WEEK!!! https://t.co/Sc3IPkOCMo
Please stop greenwashing Scottish salmon as "responsibly sourced"! @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @SSC_seafood @ciwf pic.twitter.com/EFlaZIwlpb

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 24, 2022

 

 

 

Addendum:

 

From: Don Staniford <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 8:56 AM
Subject: 21% Mortality at Mowi's ASC-Certified & RSPCA Assured Marulaig Bay & Rum in ONE WEEK!!!
To: <[email protected]>, Jack Cutforth <[email protected]>, Chris Ninnes <[email protected]>, Bertrand Charron <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>

 

In view of the ongoing mass mortalities at ASC-certified salmon farms (see below for an update and online here), $camon $cotland demands that ASC-certification is immediately withdrawn from Mowi's Marulaig Bay, Stulaigh, Rum and Muck salmon farms (sites recently reporting mortality rates in excess of 15% in ONE WEEK due to 'Gill Infections').  Marketing claims by the ASC that Scottish salmon is "farmed responsibly" are dead in the water along with millions of dead Scottish salmon each year.  Shame on the ASC, RSPCA Assured and supermarkets such as Sainsburys and Tesco for greenwashing welfare abuse and unnecessary suffering on Scottish salmon farms as "responsibly sourced".  ASC-certification of Scottish salmon is a sham, scam and a consumer con.    

 

Please check out new mortality data published by Mowi: https://mowi.com/uk/sustainability/lice-mortality-reporting/

 

Here's the latest data for the week ending 25 September 2022 (Lice & Mortality reporting week 38 2022) including 21% mortality at ASC-certified & RSPCA Assured Marulaig Bay salmon farm in South Uist:

 

 

 

Here's data for the week ending 18 September 2022 (Lice & Mortality reporting week 37 2022) including 19.5% mortality at ASC-certified & RSPCA Assured Stulaigh salmon farm in South Uist and 15.5% at ASC-certified & RSPCA Assured Muck salmon farm:

 

 

 

 

Here's data for the week ending 11 September 2022 (Lice & Mortality reporting week 36 2022) including 21% mortality at ASC-certified and RSPCA Assured Rum salmon farm:

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via: 21% Mortality at Mowi's ASC-Certified & RSPCA Assured Marulaig Bay & Rum in ONE WEEK!!!

 

 

More background via:

 

Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC - please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!

 

Abominable Salmon Certification - the Aquaculture Stewardship Council is Sponsoring Serial Killing in Scotland!

 

Named & Shamed: The Most Deadly Salmon Farms in Scotland (as greenwashed as "responsible" via RSPCA Assured & the ASC)!

 

 

Best fishes,

 

Don Staniford

 

Director, $camon $cotland

 

 

 

Due to rising mass mortalities @rspcaassured & @ASC_aqua certified salmon farms, accreditation must be immediately withdrawn from Mowi's Marulaig Bay, Stulaigh, Rum & Muck sites where mortality rates are 15%+ in ONE WEEK! @MowiScotlandLtd @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/Sc3IPkOCMo pic.twitter.com/15cuQQ9xSR

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 24, 2022

 

 

 

From: Don Staniford <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC - please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!
To: <[email protected]>, Hello <[email protected]>, Clive Brazier <[email protected]>, Help Account <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Ray Goodfellow <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>

 

In view of the ongoing mass mortalities at RSPCA Assured and ASC-certified salmon farms (see below for an update and online here), $camon $cotland demands that RSPCA Asssured accreditation is immediately withdrawn from Mowi's Marulaig Bay, Stulaigh, Rum and Muck salmon farms (sites recently reporting mortality rates in excess of 15% in ONE WEEK due to 'Gill Infections').  Marketing claims via RSPCA Assured that Scottish salmon is 'welfare-friendly' are dead in the water along with millions of dead Scottish salmon each year.  Shame on RSPCA Assured, the ASC and supermarkets such as Sainsburys and Tesco for greenwashing welfare abuse and unnecessary suffering on Scottish salmon farms as "responsibly sourced".  RSPCA Assured certification of Scottish salmon is a sham, scam and a consumer con.    

 

Please check out new mortality data published by Mowi: https://mowi.com/uk/sustainability/lice-mortality-reporting/

 

Here's the latest data for the week ending 25 September 2022 (Lice & Mortality reporting week 38 2022) including 21% mortality at ASC-certified & RSPCA Assured Marulaig Bay salmon farm in South Uist:

 

 

 

 

Here's data for the week ending 18 September 2022 (Lice & Mortality reporting week 37 2022) including 19.5% mortality at ASC-certified & RSPCA Assured Stulaigh salmon farm in South Uist and 15.5% at ASC-certified & RSPCA Assured Muck salmon farm:

 

 

 

 

Here's data for the week ending 11 September 2022 (Lice & Mortality reporting week 36 2022) including 21% mortality at ASC-certified and RSPCA Assured Rum salmon farm:

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via: 21% Mortality at Mowi's ASC-Certified & RSPCA Assured Marulaig Bay & Rum in ONE WEEK!!!

 

 

More background via:

 

Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC - please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!

 

Abominable Salmon Certification - the Aquaculture Stewardship Council is Sponsoring Serial Killing in Scotland!

 

Named & Shamed: The Most Deadly Salmon Farms in Scotland (as greenwashed as "responsible" via RSPCA Assured & the ASC)!

 

 

Best fishes,

 

Don Staniford

 

Director, $camon $cotland

 

 

Marketing claims via @rspcaassured that Scottish salmon is 'welfare-friendly' are dead in the water along with millions of dead Scottish salmon each year. Shame on supermarkets such as @sainsburys & @Tesco for greenwashing welfare abuse! @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/Sc3IPkwtyg pic.twitter.com/4EBkmvSNz5

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 24, 2022

 

Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC - please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!

 

Please end torture & cruelty on salmon farms in Scotland! @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd
Stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly sourced" @rspcaassured & "farmed responsibly" @ASC_aqua https://t.co/GdiaY00bHJ #RSPCA #ASC #Scottish #Scamon@philip_ciwf @Animallawyersuk pic.twitter.com/S6O6cYkQQc

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2022

 

$camon $cotland today (14 October 2022) wrote to the RSPCA and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council asking them to stop greenwashing Scottish salmon - read the letter in full online here

 

 

Salmon farming is criminal not responsible!
Scamon Scotland urge @rspcaassured & @ASC_aqua to immediately withdraw certification of Scottish salmon @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB @AldiUK @Morrisons @waitrose @marksandspencer @ScotlandSalmon @SSC_seafood https://t.co/GdiaY00bHJ pic.twitter.com/gIhsqLgX4C

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2022

 

 

$camon $cotland's letter to the RSPCA and ASC includes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shame on the RSPCA & ASC for watering down standards to accommodate disease-ridden salmon farms! @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua #Movingthegoalposts @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/GdiaXZI2tB #Greenwashing @RSPCAChris @SSC_seafood @ClientEarth @scotseafarms @ScotlandSalmon @ScottishSPCA pic.twitter.com/HuzHmPhR7N

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read $camon $cotland's letter to the RSPCA and ASC in full online here

 

 

Why does the R$PCA continue to condone cruelty, unnecessary suffering & mass mortalities on disease-ridden salmon farms in $cotland? @rspcaassured @RSPCA_official @RSPCAChris @DermotRSPCA @Emma_Slav @SSPCA_Kirsteen @SSPCA_Mike @ChrisGPackham @BillOddie @brianblessed @philip_ciwf pic.twitter.com/GUNTU9xB9i

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

RSPCA lost all credibility and have taken the golden “bung” What a shame. I will never support them again and I am looking for animal charities where ethics and welfare come first, not coffers for misleading sales stickers and partnering in crime. @RSPCA_official @PrivateEyeNews https://t.co/QHtumOw5cA

— Jon Johnson (@Jonnynogaps) October 14, 2022

 

 

Yes - it seems the R$PCA receive over £500,000 per year in accreditation fees from disease-ridden salmon farms in Scotland @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @GriegShetland @LochDuartSalmon @kamesfishfarm @CookeScotland @WesterRossSalmohttps://t.co/XugKF5LYYu #RSPCA pic.twitter.com/t5uWSfvexx

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2022

 

 

 

I Tweeted yesterday (13 October 2022):

 

Will the Scottish Animal Welfare Commission report on aquaculture focus on the alarming mortality rates reported on salmon farms? @ProfCMDwyer @AndersonLibby @SSPCA_Mike @ALAWAnimalLaw @Animallawyersuk @onekindtweet @ciwf @PETAUK @HSIGlobal @LynneUSneddon @ScotlandSalmon @scotgp https://t.co/GkzQFfUbcO pic.twitter.com/757yH2RMJ8

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 13, 2022

 

 

"Aquaculture: Identify potential welfare issues and prepare a report on the areas of initial focus – salmon farming & ADDs. A lengthy-evidence gathering process has been undertaken, including a field visit to a salmon farm & conducting an ethical review" https://t.co/7SIURVvwIh pic.twitter.com/XiXlwCeuKX

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 13, 2022

 

Read more via: 

Abominable Salmon Certification - the Aquaculture Stewardship Council is Sponsoring Serial Killing in Scotland!

Named & Shamed: The Most Deadly Salmon Farms in Scotland (as greenwashed as "responsible" via RSPCA Assured & the ASC)!

Halloween Comes Early at Deadly Scottish Salmon - mortalities pile up due to viral disease, fungus, gill infections & lice infestations!

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!

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)!

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms

Exposed: 10 Million Morts at RSPCA Assured Mowi Since 2019!

Closing the Net on Welfare Abuse on Salmon Farms - Scottish Veterinary Service replaces APHA

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!!

Charitable Warning: Mowi's Salmon Wagon is Hitting the Road Again - there's no such thing as a free farmed fish lunch!

Mowi's "Woes in Scotland" - Disease & Deaths Cause £5.6 Million Losses!

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

Coming Clean on Welfare Abuse of Cleaner Fish - FOI lifts lid on 100% mortality of wrasse at The Scottish Salmon Company (& over half a million dead salmon)!

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!

Mowi's 'Host' With the Most....Toxic Chemicals & Antibiotics (certified as "responsibly farmed" by the ASC)!

ASC cancel Mowi certifications due to exceedances of antibiotics use, escape & "administrative reasons"!

Mass mortalities at ASC-certified Mowi!

Videos of Welfare Abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron (West Strome salmon farm)

Breaking News: "Horror Videos Reveal Welfare Abuse Inside Scottish Salmon & Trout Cages"

Rest Assured - the RSPCA has been captured, co-opted & corrupted by the Salmafia

Press Release: "Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Mowi - Campaigners call for Mowi to be fined & RSPCA certification rescinded"

RSPCA Sponsored Welfare Abuse of Salmon Farms - A Guide to Getting Away with Mass Murder (Theriocide)!

Secret Filming Exposes RSPCA ‘Abused’ Scottish Salmon - Welfare Complaint Filed Against M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms

Letter to Secretary of State re. Welfare Abuse at Scottish Salmon Farms

Whitewashing Welfare Abuse of Scottish Salmon (as sponsored via RSPCA, SSPCA & APHA)

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)

Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' Exposes Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon – As Sponsored by the RSPCA & Aquaculture Stewardship Council!

Media Backgrounder: The Welfare Nightmare of Scottish Salmon (Updated)

Mowi Moves Goalposts on ASC Certification

Covid measures ‘didn’t affect farmed salmon welfare’ claim Marine Scotland Science (who were not allowed to inspect farms for half of 2020)!

Ongoing welfare abuse & unnecessary suffering on salmon farms - why no prosecutions?

RSPCA Suspend Salmon Farm Inspections

Censored: Welfare Abuse on Salmon Farms

Photo Dossier of Diseased, Deformed & Abused Scottish Salmon

Welfare Abuse on Scottish Salmon Farms - Legal Action Vs Scottish Ministers & Salmon Farming Companies

Welfare Abuse at Scottish Salmon Farms - Why No Legal Enforcement Or Prosecutions?

Legal Complaint Vs Breaches of Animal Health & Welfare (Scotland) Act

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!

 

 

 

 

Please join me in taking the salmon pledge - boycott @rspcaassured pharmed salmon! https://t.co/eabybbX3Ha @ScotlandSalmon @scotseafarms @MowiScotlandLtd @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB @AldiUK @Morrisons @asda @marksandspencer @Ecohustler @RSPCAChris @ChrisGPackham @RSPCA_official

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2022

 

 

Addendum (correspondence with RSPCA Assured):

 

From: Don Staniford <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 9:08 AM
Subject: Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC - please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!
To: <[email protected]>, Hello <[email protected]>, Clive Brazier <[email protected]>, Help Account <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Ray Goodfellow <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>

 

Here's an open letter to the RSPCA - please pass onto the board of trustees, patrons, vice-presidents and celebrity supporters:

 

Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC - please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!

 

Please acknowledge receipt.

 

And could you please (as requested in the letter) provide a list of all RSPCA Assured salmon farms (both marine and freshwater)?

 

Thanks,

 

Don Staniford

 

Director, $camon $cotland

 

 

 

From: Hello <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC - please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!
To: Don Staniford <[email protected]>

 

Hi Don,

Thanks for getting in touch, we will take a look at your letter.

As explained previously, we are unable to publish a list of all of our members but most salmon companies state which assurance schemes they are part of on their websites.

Kind regards

Emily

 

RSPCA Assured

 

 

 

 

 

From: Don Staniford <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC - please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!
To: Hello <[email protected]>

Emily,

 

Thanks - so if Mowi, for example, states that they as a company are RSPCA Assured does this mean that ALL their salmon farms are RSPCA Assured?

 

Fish Farming Expert reported in March 2021 via: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/compassion-in-world-farming-rspca-assured-salmon/scottish-salmon-farmers-urge-auditors-to-make-surprise-site-inspections/1360930

 

"All Scottish salmon farmers are now signed up to the RSPCA Assured accreditation scheme apart from Organic Sea Harvest, which adheres to organic standards through the Soil Association"

 

So does that mean that all Mowi, Scottish Sea Farms, Cooke, The Scottish Salmon Company/Bakkafrost, Loch Duart, Wester Ross and Kames have all their salmon farms certified via RSPCA Assured?

 

Cooke, for example, is certified via the Soil Association but not all of their salmon farms are certified as organic. 

 

And Mowi and Scottish Sea Farms are certified via the ASC but not all of their farms. 

 

What you seem to be suggesting is that RSPCA Assured certifies a company and by extension therefore certifies all of their salmon farms.  Is that correct?

 

Thanks,

 

Don

 

 

 

 

From: Hello <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC - please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!
To: Don Staniford <[email protected]>

Dear Don, 

Thank you for your recent letter.

We agree that there are many challenges facing salmon farming - as there are with terrestrial farming. Therefore we are working hard with RSPCA Assured members, the wider salmon industry and academics to find ways to tackle these issues, for example the challenge of disease and sea lice outbreaks. 

 

Some of them aren't easy to resolve but animal welfare is our absolute priority and, as an animal welfare charity, we are duty-bound to keep doing all we can to help improve the welfare of all animals, including salmon.  

 

That's why the RSPCA chose to develop around 500 standards aimed solely at improving the welfare of farmed salmon at every stage of their life. These standards have been a catalyst for change throughout the entire salmon industry, not just on RSPCA Assured certified farms.

 

But there is still much work to be done. Whilst we don’t have answers to all of the challenges at present, we are continually working with the salmon industry, retailers and experts to look at further ways to enhance the welfare of fish and reduce the risk of sea lice infestations and disease. We won’t give up trying to bring about further welfare improvements.

 

RSPCA Assured is a charity and, as explained to you previously, we do not profit from salmon farming. Our sole mission is to help improve farm animal welfare. 

 

You may not agree with us but we hope this helps explain why we are involved in salmon farming. We firmly stand by the approach we have taken, as it has helped bring about many significant improvements to the welfare of many millions of farmed salmon and will continue to do so. 

If we walked away from the salmon industry because of challenges like sea lice and disease, it could result in many millions of fish being reared to lower standards and an increase in health and disease problems. And, as an animal welfare charity, we will not turn our back on helping improve the lives of all farm animals.

Kind regards

 

RSPCA Assured

 

 

 

 

 

Malcolm Johnstone, aquaculture manager for the @rspcaassured farm animal welfare programme, is to stand down from the role next week after 16 years https://t.co/jCraeXgElw
What a legacy! @ciwf @philip_ciwf @onekindtweet @RSPCAChris @ChrisGPackham @Animallawyersuk @animal_equality pic.twitter.com/6i2jphv2uu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 12, 2022

 

Abominable Salmon Certification - the Aquaculture Stewardship Council is Sponsoring Serial Killing in Scotland!

 

EXPOSED: The Aquaculture Stewardship Council should be rebranded The Abominable Salmon Council! @ASC_aqua @Salmoskius https://t.co/zcpvAyB9TU
How the hell can mass mortalities, disease & welfare abuse be certified as "responsible"?
Shame on @sainsburys @Tesco @rspcaassured @ciwf pic.twitter.com/2PaGx4uzmO

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 12, 2022

 

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

 

 

 

In 2018, a whistleblower working at Mowi's ASC-certified salmon farm at Carradale in Kilbrannan Sound leaked photos of welfare abuse following 300,000 dead farmed salmon:

 

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:

Named & Shamed: The Most Deadly Salmon Farms in Scotland (as greenwashed as "responsible" via RSPCA Assured & the ASC)!

Halloween Comes Early at Deadly Scottish Salmon - mortalities pile up due to viral disease, fungus, gill infections & lice infestations!

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!

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)!

Exposed: 10 Million Morts at RSPCA Assured Mowi Since 2019!

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!!

Charitable Warning: Mowi's Salmon Wagon is Hitting the Road Again - there's no such thing as a free farmed fish lunch!

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!

Mowi's 'Host' With the Most....Toxic Chemicals & Antibiotics (certified as "responsibly farmed" by the ASC)!

ASC cancel Mowi certifications due to exceedances of antibiotics use, escape & "administrative reasons"!

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)

Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' Exposes Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon – As Sponsored by the RSPCA & Aquaculture Stewardship Council!

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
Scottish salmon is farmed irresponsibly not responsibly! @rspcaassured @ASA_UK @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB pic.twitter.com/3L76as7mTY

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' scoops award for French translation - dire non au saumon d'élevage!

 

Congratulations to Elsa Vandaele on winning an award for translating the Netflix documentary 'Seaspiracy' into French @ataafr @seaspiracy @iamalitabrizi
Please watch 'Seaspiracy' & you'll never eat Scottish salmon ever again! @netflix @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/2zalUmhSR5 https://t.co/iHnVDWExsN pic.twitter.com/bzGH3XUCYv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2022

 

 

Please watch 'Seaspiracy' on Netflix - in French, English, Spanish, Chinese or any language you choose.  The message is the same in any language - please do not buy farmed salmon even if it is certified as "responsible" via RSPCA and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council!

 

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

 

 

Here's video footage shot with the Seaspiracy team filming at Mowi's ASC-certified and RSPCA Assured salmon farm at Gorsten on Loch Linnhe:

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Seaspiracy published shocking video footage shot inside Mowi salmon farms around the Isle of Shuna in July 2021 - racking up over 1 million views on Instagram and Twitter:

 

This shocking leaked footage shows salmon being eaten alive by lice at a fish farm in Scotland! pic.twitter.com/EoUO3dv5ee

— seaspiracy (@seaspiracy) August 2, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch the shocking video footage shot inside RSPCA Asssured Mowi salmon farms:

 

Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Mowi - Campaigners call for Mowi to be fined & RSPCA certification rescinded! https://t.co/dhVFllDjXX@rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd @marinescotland @APHAgovuk @MairiGougeon @SSPCA_Kirsteen pic.twitter.com/jzo2fi13xK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2021

 

 

 

 

"Scottish salmon farming is a horror story," says Andrew Holder of Dip in the Blue "When will the RSPCA stop condoning the torture of millions of farmed salmon in Scotland, by allowing it to be labeled as RSPCA Assured?" https://t.co/dhVFllDjXX @andrholder pic.twitter.com/IfAXFP72mv

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2021

 

 

 

Read more via:

Named & Shamed: The Most Deadly Salmon Farms in Scotland (as greenwashed as "responsible" via RSPCA Assured & the ASC)!

Seaspiracy 2: Mowi's Disease & Welfare Nightmare in Loch Linnhe!

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

Seaspiracy's Salmon Shocker: Please Boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon!

Mowi's 'Healthy' RSPCA Assured & ASC-Certified Salmon Farm at Gorsten (as featured in Seaspiracy)

Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' Exposes Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon – As Sponsored by the RSPCA & Aquaculture Stewardship Council!

The Sun: "Netflix doc Seaspiracy exposes filthy Scottish salmon farms where fish are infested with lice and chlamydia"

The Sunday Times: "Netflix hit shows scale of welfare abuses at fish farms"

Netflix Lifts the Lid on Diseased Scottish Salmon - 'Seaspiracy' Out Tomorrow (24 March)!

 

 

Jolted by Netflix's @seaspiracy there's been a spate of fishy advice. "If you do choose farmed salmon, look for products certified by @ASC_aqua" says @MashedHQ https://t.co/jkeufWsvoe
Ooops - the salmon farm exposed in Seaspiracy is certified by the ASC & @rspcaassured ! pic.twitter.com/u6ueKgUqsI

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 1, 2021

 

Named & Shamed: The Most Deadly Salmon Farms in Scotland (as greenwashed as "responsible" via RSPCA Assured & the ASC)!

 

Named & Shamed: The most deadly salmon farms as greenwashed via @rspcaassured & @ASC_aqua
Data sourced via 'Mortality Event Reports' submitted by salmon farms @ScotlandSalmon published via https://t.co/oZtlH0Dpft @scotgov
Bakkafrost is the king of death! @Folketrygdfond pic.twitter.com/tuS6naIjV0

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2022

 

A closer examination of new mortality data published on 6 October 2022 by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate reveals which salmon farms in Scotland are the most deadly in terms of mass mortalities.  Here's the list of Scottish salmon's worst serial killers since data was reported by salmon farming companies in 2017* - headed by hatcheries where mortalities are more pronounced in terms of numbers:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you just focus on the number of 'Mortality Event Reports' filed by fish farms here's Scottish salmon's worst serial killers:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Note that some data was reported for deaths prior to January 2017; some companies such as Scottish Sea Farms have been historically poor at reporting data in full and, as the Scottish Government points out: "the information presented is not a comprehensive record of fish farm mortality but only details situations where the mortality reporting thresholds have been reached and where this information has been reported to Marine Scotland by the industry or where information has been obtained through FHI surveillance". 

 

 

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported last month (30 September 2022):

 

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

 

 

Censored: 'commercially damaging' @SalmonScotland Did 22 million salmon die in sea cages & 26 million in freshwater hatcheries & farms last year? https://t.co/CM9bTCPvrQ
Surely it is time to force disclosure of mort numbers? @ScottishEPA @SP_RuralAffairs @scotgov @scotgp pic.twitter.com/yQF9mZAdZP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 30, 2022

 

 

The RSPCA rake in over half a million pounds per year for certifying deadly salmon farms in Scotland as "responsible" via RSPCA Assured:

 

Rest A$$ured - the R$PCA has been captured, co-opted & corrupted by the $almafia! @rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/UBBbCWGVRT @SSPOsays @scotseafarms @philip_ciwf @RSPCAChris @RSPCA_PATeam @RSPCA_official @RSPCA_Frontline pic.twitter.com/NxNAwo9emU

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 30, 2021

 

 

RSPCA Sponsored Welfare Abuse of Salmon Farms - A Guide to Getting Away with Mass Murder (Theriocide)https://t.co/dnZk1bhb0M @rspcaassured @RSPCAChris @CliveBrazier @RSPCA_official @RSPCA_PATeam @RachRSPCA @ChrisGPackham @onekindtweet @ciwf @Animallawyersuk @LynneUSneddon #RSPCA pic.twitter.com/fvBv9dRavi

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 19, 2021

 

 

The Sunday Times reported in February 2022:

 

 

Dear @ChrisGPackham - do you approve of salmon farming?

Open letter to the @RSPCA_official calls for an end to the @rspcaassured certification of Scottish salmon -https://t.co/KeVZaH0NBC @onekindtweet @TheGAAIA @philip_ciwf @RebelsAnimal @Animal_Watch @Team4Nature

— Ecohustler (@Ecohustler) February 7, 2020

 

 

As RSPCA 'VIPs' you have the power to stop suffering on salmon farms in Scotland - please tell the RSPCA executive to end certification of Scottish salmon! @rspcaassured https://t.co/oFC20taxzO @ChrisGPackham @brianblessed @BillOddie @DrBrianMay @PeterEgan6 @CarolineLucas #RSPCA pic.twitter.com/nYwOM5yTF6

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 5, 2020

 

 

 

In January 2022, Scottish Salmon Watch wrote to the ASC demaning an end to the certification of salmon farms in Scotland as "responsible":

 

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
Scottish salmon is farmed irresponsibly not responsibly! @rspcaassured @ASA_UK @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB pic.twitter.com/3L76as7mTY

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 6, 2022

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported in August 2022:

 

How can 56% mortality (i.e. over half the fish dying) be marketed as "responsibly farmed" & "responsibly sourced" @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @Tesco @sainsburys @MowiScotlandLtd ? https://t.co/PuckNO9qq9 @ASA_UK @ClientEarth @SSC_seafood @LidlGB @AldiUK @ScotlandSalmon #Greenwash pic.twitter.com/h9bILNMmWR

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 23, 2022

 

Here's data for June 2022 which reveals a staggering mortality rate of 55.9% at Mowi's Greanem salmon farm in North Uist (a site certified by the ASC in April 2022 and accredited as 'welfare-friendly' via RSPCA Assured):

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Read more via:

Halloween Comes Early at Deadly Scottish Salmon - mortalities pile up due to viral disease, fungus, gill infections & lice infestations!

Dishing the Dirt on Mowi's "Inadequately Maintained" Cleaner Fish Mortality & Movement Records

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

Bakkafrost is Dead in the Water in Scotland - 2021 Annual Report Details "Deadly Cocktail"!

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

 

 

Halloween Comes Early at Deadly Scottish Salmon - mortalities pile up due to viral disease, fungus, gill infections & lice infestations! @rspcaassured @ScotlandSalmon @Folketrygdfond @scotseafarms @LochDuartSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @WesterRossSalmo @scotgp https://t.co/m4lYno6kqZ pic.twitter.com/5mXsgw52ZP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 9, 2022

 

 

 

Heather Jones @sustain_aqua: "It is great to see such an important global summit returning to Scotland where our aquaculture sector is thriving"https://t.co/oPjfRqoyAz
Er, hold on a second, aren't mortality rates at record levels & lice infestations killing millions of salmon? pic.twitter.com/DgETJ60W7l

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2022

Halloween Comes Early at Deadly Scottish Salmon - mortalities pile up due to viral disease, fungus, gill infections & lice infestations!

 

New mortality data online now @scotgov https://t.co/oZtlH0Dpft
Bakkafrost (The Scottish Salmon Co), Loch Duart, Mowi, OSH & Scottish Sea Farms ravaged by viral disease, sea lice, fungus, anaemia & gill infections @ScotlandSalmon @LochDuartSalmon @Folketrygdfond @tavishscott pic.twitter.com/c5OwO5A4Zm

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2022

 

Halloween Comes Early at Deadly Scottish Salmon - mortalities pile up due to viral disease, fungus, gill infections & lice infestations! @rspcaassured @ScotlandSalmon @Folketrygdfond @scotseafarms @LochDuartSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @WesterRossSalmo @scotgp https://t.co/m4lYno6kqZ pic.twitter.com/5mXsgw52ZP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 9, 2022

 

New data published online by the Scottish Government on 6 October 2022 shows escalating mortality problems on salmon farms across Scotland:

 

 

 

 

Here's the largest mortalities reported since 1 July 2022 (data up to 12 September 2022):

 

 

What action is the Scottish Government taking against Bakkafrost (The Scottish Salmon Co) after a further 1.6 million mortalities at their Applecross Hatchery? https://t.co/oZtlH0Dpft
Rewarding a company with £5 million in public money for welfare abuse is a crime! @scotgov https://t.co/71mpMKm1x3 pic.twitter.com/erO0x7w1rY

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2022

 

 

 

Here's the latest mortalities reported by the Scottish Government:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking at the 'Mortality Event Reports' since 1 July 2022, salmon farms across Scotland are reporting alarming mortality problems.   A staggering 284,178 morts have been reported in six 'Mortality Event Reports' at The Scottish Salmon Company's salmon farms at Druimyeon Bay and East Tarbert Bay off the Isle of Gigha (The Scottish Salmon Company changed their name to Bakkafrost Scotland in June):

 

 

 

The Nightmare At Scottish Salmon - a horrific 284,178 morts reported in six 'Mortality Event Reports' at Bakkafrost's salmon farms at Druimyeon Bay & East Tarbert Bay off the Isle of Gigha since July @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/m4lYno6kqZ@argyllshiread @obantimes @TavishScott pic.twitter.com/y73Q2tC5tf

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 9, 2022

 

 

 

The mass mortalities off the Isle of Gigha echo the horror of last year when shocking video footage captured by Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots was featured on STV News:

 

Thousands of rotting salmon ‘stink out’ village after mass death at farm.https://t.co/hOoOmXr0n7

— STV News (@STVNews) October 20, 2021

 

 

 

The Scottish Government mortality data - collected via 'Mortality Event Reports' submitted by salmon farming companies - shows 116,764 morts due to virus disease, bacterial disease and Heart & Skeletal Muscle Inflammation at an RSPCA Assured salmon farm operated by Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) in Loch Creran via in nine 'Mortality Event Reports' since 1 July 2022:

 

 

 

When $camon $cotland visited Loch Creran in July 2022 we filmed mortality and disease inside the RSPCA Assured cages:

 

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms! https://t.co/PHFsqdRJ7i @rspcaassured @scotseafarms @marksandspencer @ScottishSPCA @APHAgovuk @ProfCMDwyer @LynneUSneddon @ciwf @Animallawyersuk @vivacampaigns @Ecohustler pic.twitter.com/RLJYPfe1w8

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 11, 2022

 

 

 

BBC Countryfile reported on the disease-ridden RSPCA Assured salmon farm in Loch Creran - a site supplying Marks & Spencer - in December 2020:

 

This is what Scottish salmon has become.

Why is anyone eating it?@FoodUnwrappedTV @GreggAWallace @JohnTorode1 @ChefTomKerridge @CorrigansFood @TomKitchin @GordonRamsay @raymond_blanc @NickNairn @michelrouxjr @marcuswareing @Alain_Ducasse1 @jc_novelli @ArpegeLive @ScottishSPCA pic.twitter.com/JwcMaeBhrO

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) December 7, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other salmon farms reporting alarming levels of mortalities since 1 July 2022 include RSPCA Assured Loch Duart in Loch Laxford (a Special Area of Conservation) where 120,875 morts have been reported via six 'Mortality Event Reports':

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Other hot spots for mass mortalities since 1 July 2022 include Scotasay (The Scottish Salmon Company/Bakkafrost) with 145,599 morts via 10 'Mortality Event Reports'; RSPCA Assured Ardmair and Ardessie (Wester Ross/Mowi) with 66,040 morts via 13 'Mortality Event Reports'; ASC-certified Stulaigh (Mowi) with 71,521 morts via three 'Mortality Event Reports'; Reibinish (The Scottish Salmon Company/Bakkafrost) with 97,149 morts via 9 'Mortality Event Reports'; ASC-certified Groatay with 51,397 morts via four 'Mortality Event Reports' and RSPCA Assured Loch Carnan (Loch Duart) with 66,658 morts via five 'Mortality Event Reports':

 

 

 

 

Scam Alert: New data @scotgov reveals over 120,000 dead fish at two ASC-certifed Mowi salmon farms (Stulaigh & Groatay) since July! @ASC_aqua @MowiScotlandLtd @rspcaassured https://t.co/m4lYno6kqZ
How can you sell it as "responsibly farmed"? @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB @AldiUK pic.twitter.com/dQt4bpk1kt

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 9, 2022

 

 

 

If the ASC really cares about fish welfare then why are millions of farmed salmon dying on ASC-certified salmon farms? @JonUngoedThomas @ASC_aqua @ciwf @vivacampaigns @rspcaassured @ciwf @onekindtweet @LynneUSneddon @animal_equality @Animallawyersuk @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms https://t.co/VVnkgyMkoH pic.twitter.com/1ucYpqIbhB

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 9, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported back in March 2022:

 

Breaking News: 715,592 dead fish reported at The Scottish Salmon Company's Applecross/Russel Burn Hatchery in 6 incidents during 2022! @salmon_scottish @Folketrygdfond @ScotlandSalmon
"Systemic investigation ongoing" reports @marinescotland @ScotGovRural https://t.co/DqDKfxGm84 pic.twitter.com/h8M0e8XElw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 7, 2022

 

 

A whistleblower told Scottish Salmon Watch in January that 600,000 farmed salmon had died in a welfare disaster @salmon_scottish's Applecross Hatchery - today @marinescotland reported 715,592 farmed salmon had died with a "systemic investigation ongoing"! https://t.co/DqDKfxFOiw pic.twitter.com/Hbb6bOPH2k

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 7, 2022

 

 

Hey taxpayer, @MairiGougeon gave £5MILLION of your cash to Faroese company Bakkafrost to build a salmon hatchery - in the name of “sustainable growth”.

☠️ 715,000 baby salmon just died there ☠️

Please tell her to stop this madness. https://t.co/wU1KZIYxc8

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) March 8, 2022

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported earlier this week (4 October 2022):

 

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

 

 

 

Last month (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

 

 

 

Read more via:

Dishing the Dirt on Mowi's "Inadequately Maintained" Cleaner Fish Mortality & Movement Records

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

Bakkafrost is Dead in the Water in Scotland - 2021 Annual Report Details "Deadly Cocktail"!

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

 

 

Exclusive: Scamon Scotland fleshes out the alarming death rates on fish farms using data published by @ScotlandSalmon @ScottishEPA & @marinescotland
Please stop greenwashing "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon! @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation https://t.co/OAfRglN8zB pic.twitter.com/CM8g4dd5s9

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 26, 2022

 

'Salmon Shame': An eye-opening video that exposes the horrors of open-net salmon farming in Scotland!

 

If anybody still harbours doubts about how filthy, damaging and toxic the salmon pharming industry is, watch this. Not for the faint hearted, but will gaurantee you'll never eat farmed salmon again. Doesn't say Wild on the packaging? It's defo farmed.https://t.co/mEprje5Gdx

— Niall McKillop (@Badabrach) October 7, 2022

 

Check out a new video by WildFish!

 

 

 

 

 

The Ferret reported in March 2021:

 

Compassion in World Farming has released video and photos claiming to show the salmon farming industry causing “silent suffering” in “cruel underwater factory farms” across Scotland.https://t.co/EWiEhKUePT

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) March 23, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms

Video nasty of the dead zone under a salmon farm in Iceland!

Video Compilation of Welfare Abuse Inside Salmon & Steelhead Trout Farms in Scotland!

Video of France 5s 'The Truth About Salmon' featuring Mowi & The Scottish Salmon Company

You Tube Streams 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' - watch the lid lifted on Scottish salmon!

Caught on Camera - How the Go Pro Dealt the Death Blow to Salmon Farming

Backgrounder: Secret Filming Exposes the Welfare Nightmare of Factory Fish Farming

Video Nasties of Dead Farmed Salmon Pile Up All Over the World!

Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse Inside Salmon Cages in Iceland & Scotland

Video Nasty: Scottish Salmon's Toxic Soup in Loch Carron!

Videos of Welfare Abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron (West Strome salmon farm)

Videos of Welfare Abuse at Kames Fish Farming in the Sound of Jura (Shuna Castle)

Seaspiracy's Salmon Shocker: Please Boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon!

Video/Photo Exclusive: Mowi's RSPCA Assured Welfare Nightmare - complaints filed for breaches of welfare laws

Secret Filming Exposes RSPCA ‘Abused’ Scottish Salmon - Welfare Complaint Filed Against M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms

Mowi's 'Healthy' RSPCA Assured & ASC-Certified Salmon Farm at Gorsten (as featured in Seaspiracy)

The Ferret: "Suffering ‘endemic’ at Scottish salmon farms"

Letter to Police Scotland re. violence & hostility by salmon farmers blocking filming

Policing Scottish Salmon: Landmark Victory for Surveillance of Fish Farms

Video Nasty: Death Threat & Assault by Salmon Farmer for Questioning Use of Carcinogenic Chemicals at Kames!

Lithgow Baron Warned by Police for Threatening Behaviour Over Filming at Hendrix Genetics

The Camera Never Lies About Scottish Salmon!

Video Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured salmon farm sourced by M&S 'Lochmuir'

Video Nasty: Chemically Embalmed Scottish Salmon at Kames in Loch Tralaig

Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Kames

"Leave Our Farms Alone" Demand Mowi. Here's What They're Hiding & Why Mowi Want the Public to Keep Away!

Video Nasty: Thermolicer - the Heated Torture Chamber for Scottish Salmon

Caught on Camera - Mowi's Reckless Breaches of Health & Safety in Loch Alsh

Video Nasty: Mowi's Dead Salmon at 'Bay of the Dead Heads'

Shocking Video Footage from Mowi's 'Bay of the Dead Heads' (Bagh Dail nan Ceann)

The Go Pro Camera Never Lies (Unlike Salmon Farmers)

 

 

Compilation of video evidence of welfare abuse at salmon & trout farms in Scotland - please share with any friends & family who are thinking of buying Scottish salmon this Xmas! #SalmonPledgehttps://t.co/KpDhQ6r9rf @salmon_scottish @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @kamesfishfarm pic.twitter.com/jChjco3xB7

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 25, 2021

 

 

 

 

Norway's $almafia Pay $33 Million to Settle Second US Price-Fixing Suit (after $85 million pay off in May & $852 million fine threat in Europe)!

 

The Prince Andrew "Not Guilty" Defence Strategy: Norwegian $almafia agree to pay $33 million to settle second US price-fixing suit (on top of $85 million paid in May & threat of $852 million fine in Europe) https://t.co/7lDlnT2TVc #Salmoney #Salmonopoly #Salmobsters #Salmonsters pic.twitter.com/e7q4YVKVjA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2022

 

Intrafish reported (7 October 2022):

 

 

Prince Andrew err I mean the $almafia settle US price-fixing lawsuit for $33 million
"The companies have not alleged wrongdoing in conspiring to fix salmon prices in the United States, lawyers for the plaintiffs said"
#$almoney #$almonopoly #$almobsters https://t.co/NTyNFpV9Al pic.twitter.com/McVMzyspJr

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2022

 

 

Salmon Business reported (9 October 2022):

 

The case is the 2nd price-fixing case lodged in the United States vs Norwegian salmon farmers. In May, Mowi, Grieg, Lerøy & SalMar settled for $85 million another US class-action lawsuit which alleged they conspired to fix prices of farmed salmon #Salmafia https://t.co/YMCNkZLT7I

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2022

 

Undercurrent News reported (7 October 2022):

 

 

Second US price-fixing settlement with up to 400,000 small firms to cost Norway farmers an extra $33m, reports Americas editor Jason Smith https://t.co/sgv89FeaJ6 pic.twitter.com/EU9aNMHPp3

— Undercurrent News (@undercur) October 7, 2022

 

Fish Farmer reported (11 October 2022):

 

 

Salmon price fixing dispute draws to a close in US - the dispute stretches back to 2019 when @EU_Competition raided Norwegian-owned salmon farms in Scotland. The EC has not dropped its own investigation & confirmed last year the issue remains active https://t.co/MSti296DEF

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 11, 2022

 

 

 

Bloomberg reported in September 2022:

 

 

Read the US court order approving the class settlement online here - including:

 

 

 

Nothing to See Here: "Neither the Settlement Agreement nor the settlement...is or may be deemed to be or may be used as an admission of, or evidence of, any fault or omission of any of the Released Parties in any civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding" #Salmafia #Salmoney pic.twitter.com/sYhU3MhRbW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 10, 2022

 

 

 

Intrafish reported in June 2022:

 

 

 

 

Reuters reported in May 2022:

 

 

 

Prince Andrew's lawyers - err I mean Mowi's lawyers continue to contest liability despite paying out millions of $$$$$$s https://t.co/twx0ohFNGr @MowiScotlandLtd @Cermaq @LeroySeafood @scotseafarms @GriegShetland

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 27, 2022

 

 

 

Intrafish reported in May 2022:

 

 

Salmon farming giants take a leaf out of Prince Andrew's chequebook and pay $85 million to make lawsuit go away - but deny wrongdoing! https://t.co/8o8Fht8WQ8 @Cermaq @LeroySeafood @MowiScotlandLtd @GriegShetland @Folketrygdfond

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 26, 2022

 

 

Intrafish reported in September 2021:

 

 

 

Fish Farmer reported in July 2021:

 

 

 

Intrafish reported in July 2021:

 

 

 

Bloomberg Law reported in March 2021:

 

 

Salmon Cartel Case Moves Forward Against Top Norwegian Companies @business @BLaw @Mike_S_Leonard @LeroySeafood @mowisalmon_us @ScotlandMowi @GriegShetland @Cermaq https://t.co/ziQTAf9orA#Salmafia #Salmoney #Salmonopoly

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 25, 2021

 

 

 

Salmon Business reported in March 2021:

 

 

"SalMar’s Witzøe attended a dinner meeting with Lerøy’s [CEO] Beltestad, during which they discussed a pricing model for their salmon based on NASDAQ spot prices. Witzøe & Beltestad were communicating with Jim Gallagher of [Scottish Sea Farms] via email" https://t.co/L8nWLUsVUR pic.twitter.com/EDV4nIOF2w

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 26, 2021

 

 

 

In March 2021, Norwegian salmon giant Mowi settled another class action lawsuit.  The National Law Review reported (21 March 2021):

 

 

Looking forward to more honest advertising by Mowi following their class action lawsuit settlement which outlaws "sustainably sourced" & "all natural" marketing messages @DucktrapRiver @mowisalmon_us https://t.co/Kvw5DI49iy@MowiCanadaWest @ScotlandMowi @TheCounter @natlawreview pic.twitter.com/mFC5c3d5Gr

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 22, 2021

 

 

 

 

Intrafish's Drew Cherry wrote (18 March 2021):

 

 

"The salmon farming giant may have inadvertently opened up the floodgates for similar suits....As part of the settlement, for a period of 2 years Mowi will be forbidden from using the term 'sustainably sourced'" @drewcherry @IntraFishNorge @DucktrapRiver https://t.co/Kvw5DI49iy pic.twitter.com/vW52hPdf2E

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 22, 2021

 

 

 

The $almafia are being investigated on both sides of the Atlantic with a potential fine in Europe of $852 million!   Intrafish reported in March 2019:

 

 

 

 

The Guardian reported in February 2019:

 

 

 

BBC News reported in February 2019:

 

 

 

Undercurrent News reported in February 2019:

 

 

The European Commission "could fine Norwegian salmon giants over $850m if price fixing found" reported @undercur in 2019 when investigators raided @MowiScotlandLtd @LeroySeafood @scotseafarms @GriegShetland https://t.co/aM5cs9jRSO#Salmafia #Salmobsters #Salmoney #Salmonopoly https://t.co/5EBlRJg6uT pic.twitter.com/YQcWZU5s9O

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2022

 

 

 

Intrafish reported in February 2019:

 

 

 

https://t.co/joaZo0QIW8 pic.twitter.com/2ukMBnwxHF

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) June 15, 2019

 

 

 

A press release issued by the European Commission in February 2019 stated that "The Commission has concerns that the inspected companies may have violated EU antitrust rules that prohibit cartels and restrictive business practices".

 

 

 

US court documents relating to the class action lawsuit vs Norwegian salmon farming companies dated April 2019 included:

 

 

 

The April 2019 US court documents also included:

 

 

 

 

The Ferret reported in February 2019:

 

As much as 99 per cent of farmed salmon production from Scottish-branded companies is controlled outwith Scotland. Most of the industry is Norwegian, and one major parent company is registered in Jersey, an offshore tax haven.https://t.co/vxzBIgSWYy

— The Ferret (@FerretScot) February 24, 2019

 

 

Meet Norway's Salmafia who control the majority of 'Scottish' salmon farming. Follow the Salmoney to reveal the Norwegian Salmonopoly! @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood @GriegShetland @salmon_scottish @Folketrygdfond @WeAreBenchmark @FerdOwner https://t.co/Kob2OOcz2m pic.twitter.com/bOaZaDHiBW

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 17, 2020

 

 

 

Follow the $almoney and it leads you to the $almafia and the $almonsters who have a shameless $almonopoly - read more via '$cottish $almon':

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch Salmonopoly online here

 

 

 

 

As Ecohustler wrote in July 2020:

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Salmonopoly Cartel Case in US Closes in on Norwegian Salmafia!

Norwegian Government Asked to Divest from 'Unethical' & 'Irresponsible' Scottish Salmon! 

Salmonopoly: How Norway's Salmafia Control 'Scottish' Salmon - Follow the Salmoney!

Massive Attack on "Rotten Edifice" of 'Scottish' Salmon

Norway's Infectious Salmon "Horror Show" Secretly Playing Now In Scotland?

Follow the Salmoney - the Norwegian tobacco billionaire behind the Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid

Meet the secretive billionaire behind factory farmed salmon 

Norway's Salmonopoly investigated by EU

'Secret' Scottish Salmon - Norwegian-owned Scottish Sea Farms refuse to disclose information for ova imports as it would "cause substantial harm to their commercial interests"

Complete Mockery of the Brand 'Scottish Salmon': Norway bans import of Scottish salmon eggs citing disease risks & genetic impacts under the Nature Diversity Act

 

 

The net closes in on Norway's #Salmafia as the US Department of Justice ramps up antitrust class action lawsuit on cartels, price-fixing, "suspicious meetings" & "law enforcement investigations" @TheJusticeDept @FTC https://t.co/c4KwTUjH7b #Salmonopoly #Salmoney #Salmonsters pic.twitter.com/8CkvDjzsT2

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 25, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The $almafia is being invested by the EU for price-fixing & illegal cartel activity - follow the $almoney and you will uncover the $almonopoly #Salmobsters https://t.co/NTyNFpV9Al pic.twitter.com/l3LSCAQiMP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 8, 2022

 

 

 

 

UPDATE:

 

Fish Farming Expert reported (18 January 2023):

 

 

 

 

Fish Farmer reported (18 January 2023):

 

Ocean Rebellion protest vs "environmental tragedy" of salmon farming makes waves outside Scottish Parliament

 

Protest outside Scottish Parliament to highlight deadly Scottish salmon farming industry @EveningStandard @oceanrebellion @ScotlandXr @ScotParl @ScotlandSalmon @scotgp https://t.co/qHnku0C6HZ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 7, 2022

 

 

Ocean Rebellion's protest against salmon farming outside the Scottish Parliament yesterday (7 October 2022) made a big splash in the media with coverage via ITV News, The Scotsman, The Evening Standard, The Independent, GB News, The Morning Star, The National, UK Daily News and MSN.

 

Activists @oceanrebellion staged the action in the pools outside Holyrood, carrying briefcases with “War on wild fish”, “farmed salmon” & “dirty money” emblazoned on them in a bid to highlight the “deliberate blindness” @scotgov https://t.co/UdDHl2Rnuo @ScotlandSalmon @itvnews

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 7, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dumfries & Galloway News reported (7 October 2022):

 

 

"The Scottish Government’s refusal to act on the Scottish Parliament’s warnings - blindfolding themselves and stuffing fish in parliament’s mouths - has left Scottish lochs & the people who live beside them at the mercy of greedy foreign corporations like Mowi & Bakkafrost" pic.twitter.com/aK3PIbLHDA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 8, 2022

 

The Guardian made a photo of the salmon protest one of 'Friday's Best Photos':

 

 

 

 

Here's more photos via the Press Association:

 

 

 

And via Getty Images:

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Ocean Rebellion protest vs M&S's "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon!

Ocean Rebellion Shine "Scottish Salmon Farming Kills Wild Salmon" on First Minister's Residence!

 

 

Ocean Rebellion protest vs M&S's "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon! @oceanrebellion @marksandspencer https://t.co/6a9F4F3dnW @Ecohustler @scotseafarms @ScotlandSalmon @LeroySeafood @rocsandford @Folketrygdfond @SalmonScotland pic.twitter.com/w7d9hUOEyT

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 15, 2021

 

 

 

"Salmon farming is destroying Scotland’s coastline, loch by loch, and with it the jobs of countless local people who depend for their livelihood on clean and living seas" says Roc Sandford of @oceanrebellion in today's Scotsman @TheScotsman #COP26 https://t.co/n1nBV27Cue pic.twitter.com/l1rNNXk3qp

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 4, 2021

 

 

 

Please join Roc Sandford of Ocean Rebellion in taking the pledge not to eat farmed salmon! https://t.co/FpKosacuJq @rocsandford @oceanrebellion @XRebellionUK @ScotlandXr @RebelsAnimal #SalmonPledge pic.twitter.com/LoFzGPx4gV

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 28, 2022

 

 

Dishing the Dirt on Mowi's "Inadequately Maintained" Cleaner Fish Mortality & Movement Records

 

Collateral Damage in Salmon Farming's War on Sea Lice
- 30,000 dead 'cleaner fish' not reported @MowiScotlandLtd
"Lumpfish mortality records were not maintained properly" @marinescotland @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/ZTOzwXcRVj @onekindtweet @ciwf @PETAUK @Animallawyersuk pic.twitter.com/t0CyIj9kgH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 7, 2022

 

'Case Information' recently reported by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate details mass mortalities of 'cleaner fish' at Mowi's Soay salmon farm in West Loch Tarbert on the Isle of Harris: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cleaner Fish - Dead in the Water at Lice-Infested @rspcaassured Mowi Scotland! https://t.co/ixqUarQb2I @MowiScotlandLtd @SRey_Planellas @fishfarmermag @scotseafarms @csar_ace @onekindtweet @APHAgovuk @SSPCA_Kirsteen #Boycott #Dirty #LiceInfested #Scottish #Salmon pic.twitter.com/ih9h9TdVTX

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 27, 2021

 

 

 

In February 2022, $camon $cotland lifted the lid on mass mortalities of 'cleaner fish' at salmon farms across Scotland - especially at Mowi:

 

EXPOSED: Salmon Scotland's Dirty Trade in Cleaner Fish https://t.co/Rt1GYWAoxV
Scottish salmon farming – along with millions of cleaner fish – is dead in the water! @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @marinescotland @onekindtweet @mcsuk @TheOpenSeas @ciwf @scotgp pic.twitter.com/xzuCm6fycp

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 1, 2022

 

 

 

Why is @scotgov turning a blind eye to welfare abuse of 'cleaner fish' on salmon farms? @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @scotseafarms https://t.co/Rt1GYWAoxV
Please end the welfare nightmare! @scotgp @ciwf @PETAUK @HSIGlobal @Animallawyersuk @onekindtweet pic.twitter.com/n3SID7Iy7B

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 1, 2022

 

 

 

 

Mowi is by no means the only company where tens of thousands of 'cleaner fish' are suffering cruel deaths.  'Case Information' recently published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate reveals mass mortalities of lumpfish at The Scottish Salmon Company's Quarry Point salmon farm in Loch Fyne (The Scottish Salmon Company was renamed Bakkafrost Scotland in June 2022):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Further 'Case Information' published by The Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate reveals mass mortalities at The Scottish Salmon Company's Ardcastle salmon farm in Loch Fyne:

 

 

The Dirt on 'Cleaner Fish' - The Scottish Salmon Company (Bakkafrost) reported 15,153 dead lumpfish in ONE week during 2021 with a mortality rate of 93.9%! @rspcaassured @ciwf @onekindtweet @Folketrygdfond @marinescotland @ScotlandSalmon @WildFishCons https://t.co/ZTOzwXtUXj pic.twitter.com/DSWDJKRjdr

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 7, 2022

 

 

Wrasse are caught in the wild - in Scottish, English and Irish waters - and farmed at Mowi's hatchery in Wales whilst lumpfish are all farmed with millions of ova imported from hatcheries in Norway.  Here's 'Case Information' published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate for the Otter Ferry hatchery on Loch Fyne:

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Press Release: "EXPOSED: Salmon Scotland's Dirty Trade in Cleaner Fish"

Letter to Scottish Minsters: Please Come Clean on the Dirty Trade in Wrasse & Lumpfish by Salmon Farms!

Dirty Secrets Exposed: Stop Scottish Salmon's Deadly Trade in 'Cleaner Fish'!

Game Ova for Imports & Exports: Close the Borders to Stop the Spread of Diseases & Genetic Pollution!

Cleaner Fish - Dead in the Water at Lice-Infested Mowi Scotland!

The Ferret: "Fish that eat lice off farmed salmon suffer, says report"

Sunday Times: "Scots salmon farmers ‘put English waters under threat’"

Sunday Times: "‘Clean fish’ bring danger of disease to salmon farms"

 

 

Scottish Ministers must establish a public register of shipments of cleaner fish; report monthly mortalities & test for infectious diseases on salmon farms https://t.co/faHC5W6D8n
Scottish salmon’s dirty trade in cleaner fish must stop now! @ScotlandSalmon @scotgov @scotgp pic.twitter.com/gxGAumIsgP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 1, 2022

 

 

 

 

Unsatisfactory Biosecurity: Disease Control 'Improvement' & 'Further Investigation' Required at Processing Plants Operated by Mowi & Loch Duart

 

Unsatisfactory Biosecurity: Disease Control 'Improvement' & 'Further Investigation' Required at Processing Plants https://t.co/BRT7jIXPOi @MowiScotlandLtd @LochDuartSalmon
Is @ScotGovNetZero finally closing the net on infectious diseases, pathogens & viruses? @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/SdjnvJqpGt

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 5, 2022

 

The Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate recently slipped out interesting 'Case Information' detailing 'improvement' and 'further investigation' required following inspections of processing plants operated by Mowi in Fort William and Loch Duart in Dingwall earlier this year.   The Fish Health Inspectorate sent Mowi a letter in June 2022 detailing "further investigation and improvement" to be implemented in order for the Blar Mhor processing plant in Fort William to be considered "satisfactory" (i.e. current biosecurity systems were unsatisfactory to deal with disease risks): 

 

 

Unsatisfactory Mowi: "The following areas require further investigation and improvement....biosecurity of vehicles enterering the facility including disinfection should be implemented" @scotgov @marinescotland @MowiScotlandLtd @APHAgovuk @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/BRT7jIXPOi pic.twitter.com/4c2866NKol

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 7, 2022

 

 

Here's details of the Scottish Government's Aquaculture Processing Establishment (APE):

 

 

The Scottish Government's document - 'Your Legal Obligation' - details:

 

 

 

Last month (16 September 2022), the Scottish Government updated a register on 'Authorised Aquaculture Production Businesses and Authorised Processing Establishments':

 

 

 

 

Additional 'Case Information' reported by the Fish Health Inspectorate relating to an inspection of  Mowi's Blar Mhor processing plant in May 2022 included:

 

 

 

Mowi's Blar Mhor processing plant has an appalling track record with Marine Harvest (renamed Mowi in 2019) fined £4,000 in 2005 for polluting the River Lochy with waste effluents - including fish viscera, blood and congealed fat deposits, scum and grease - following an investigation by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.   

 

 

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency reported in 2005:

“This was a serious incident. The discharge was of a highly offensive and polluting nature. Sewage fungus present in the River can smother the bed of a watercourse, and can damage invertebrates and insect life. Secondary problems associated with smell from decaying matter were also reported to SEPA.  The outfall to the River Lochy is immediately adjacent to a number of houses and Lochyside Primary School"

 

 

 

Fish Update reported in Juy 2005:

 

 

 

ENDS reported in July 2005:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sunday Herald reported in May 2006:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mowi was not the only company targetted by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate - Loch Duart's processing plant in Dingwall was inspected in April 2022 with many of the same 'improvements' identified.  The Fish Health Inspectorate sent Loch Duart a letter in June 2022 detailing 'improvements' to be implemented in order for the Dingwall processing plant in Fort William to be considered "satisfactory" (i.e. current biosecurity systems were unsatisfactory): 

 

 

 

 

Here's additional 'Case Information' reported by the Fish Health Inspectorate for Loch Duart's processing plant in Dingwall:

 

 

 

 

Next door to Loch Duart's processing plant in Dingwall is the processing plant for Wester Ross Fisheries.  I reported back in March 2014:

 

 

 

The Ross-shire Journal reported in March 2014:

 

 

 

 

The issue of bloodwater - potentially contaminated with infectious diseases, lice and other pathogens - raised its ugly head in Canada in November 2017 with the publication of damning video footage by Tavish Campbell:

 

 

 

 

 

Salmon Business reported in December 2019:

 

 

 

Watch the 2019 video footage broadcast by CTV News in Canada:

 

 

 

 

 

 

CTV News reported in December 2019:

 

 

 

 

The issue of processing plants discharging bloodwater and other wastes reared its head in Scotland back in 2018.  BBC News reported in January 2018:

 

 

The issue of processing plant wastewater releasing bloodwater - and sea lice - was raised back in 2010 by diver Twyla Roscovich and marine biologist Alexandra Morton when video footage of effluents containing blood and parasites was published on Vimeo:

 

 

 

BBC News reported in April 2018:

 

 

The Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture reported in January 2018:

 

 

GAAIA's press release in January 2018 pointed out:

 

'A Code of Practice to avoid and minimise the impact of Infectious Salmon Anaemia' includes:

According to guidance from the Scottish Government on ISA: "Untreated effluent from processing plants has also been identified as being a particular risk":

 

"The virus can be transmitted through water, but the highest risk factors for spread of disease are movement of live fish, discharge of untreated blood and contact with infected vehicles and equipment," states another Scottish Government fact-sheet. 

According to Scottish Government advice on 'Biosecurity & Disinfection': "Following the outbreak of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) in May 1998, the former Fisheries Research Services (FRS) Fish Health Inspectorate (FHI) (now Marine Scotland Science FHI) produced a disinfection guide, outlining strategies to minimise and prevent the spread of the virus, thereby reducing the spread of disease.  In June 2006, version IV was produced and this guide should be regarded as best practice at fish farm sites and processing plants". 

 

The 'Disinfection Guide Version IV: Practical Steps to Prevent the Introduction and Minimise  Transmission of Diseases of Fish' (2006) states:

 

"Another important factor was the disinfection of processing plant effluent and the disinfection and sealing of well boats (CoGPWG 2006)," stated a report - 'Report into the epidemiology and control of and outbreak of infectious salmon anaemia in the Shetland Isles, Scotland' - published by Marine Scotland Science in 2010 following the outbreak of ISA in Shetland.  "All waste from processing plants was disposed of by approved methods".

 

Photo: Fluids leaking from a Billy Bowie haulage truck transporting diseased farmed salmon from Loch Kishorn - broadcast by the BBC's 'The One Show' on 11 December 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Government wrote to me in February 2018 admitting that: "With regards to fish disease, Piscine Orthoreovirus (PRV) and processing plant effluent, the Scottish Government does not conduct testing of processing effluent for fish pathogens". 

 

 

 

 

 

In April 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch wrote to Scottish Ministers urging the testing of ova, smolts and farmed salmon in sea cages for infectious diseases, pathogens and viruses. 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in April 2020 that the Scottish Government does not test imported ova (eggs) for viruses, pathogens and diseases. 

 

 

 

 

In June 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch revealed that testing by Marine Scotland Science in 2018 and 2019 found Piscine Reovirus in over 50% of farmed salmon.

 

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported in February 2022 that Infectious Salmon Anaemia had been officially reported by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in Scotland:

 

It’s Official: Infectious Salmon Anaemia Back to Haunt 'Scottish' Salmon - reported to the World Organization for Animal Health for the first time since 2012! https://t.co/pVdSQENcpZ @OIEAnimalHealth @marinescotland @DefraGovUK @ScotlandSalmon @scotseafarms @MairiMcAllan @scotgp pic.twitter.com/gBsig4qlc9

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 10, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in December 2021:

 

Revealed: Infectious Salmon Anaemia Lurking in Scottish Salmon - 7% of farmed salmon tested positive for ISA between 2002 & 2012 (396 out of 5,395 samples) https://t.co/CH5p5qoPJZ
How many more cases of ISA are hiding in Scotland? @ScotlandSalmon @scotseafarms @MowiScotlandLtd pic.twitter.com/qD23ovQPMS

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 2, 2021

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in August 2021:

 

Infectious Salmon Anaemia comes back to haunt Scottish salmon - positive test reported by @marinescotland @rspcaassured @scotseafarms on Isle of Mull. Buy your fresh virus-laden Scottish salmon @marksandspencer - how many more farms are infected? @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish pic.twitter.com/JUjMS335xa

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 30, 2021

 

"The ISA virus is a ticking time-bomb with the risk of spreading the deadly disease all too real. RSPCA Assured @scotseafarms in Loch Spelve could be ground zero in another ISA disease outbreak" https://t.co/d0hFOve4pg @scotgov @SSPOsays @rspcaassured @obantimes @scotgp pic.twitter.com/JguXT9RgkG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 30, 2021

 

"The Scottish Government should immediately quarantine @scotseafarms & test all salmon farms in Scotland for Infectious Salmon Anaemia" https://t.co/d0hFOve4pg @scotgov @ScotGovNetZero @MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllan @marinescotland @SSPOsays @APHAgovuk @rspcaassured @salmon_scottish pic.twitter.com/V2NEPx4Rst

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 30, 2021

 

 

 

Read more via:

BBC News: "Scottish salmon farming petition signed by 30,500"

Shetland salmon packing factory leaks 'blood water' into sea

BBC Radio Shetland on Cooke's "untreated blood water" in Scotland

Press Release: "Cooke's Untreated Blood Water is "Gross" says SEPA - "Poor" processing plant pollutes Mid Yell Voe in Shetland"

Letter to SSPO re violation of Code of Practice by Cooke Aquaculture in Mid Yell Voe 25 Jan 2018

Letter to the Cabinet Secretary re. Cooke's violations of the Code of Practice to avoid ISA (26 January 2018)

Environmental Event report re. "raw effluent" and overflowing "blood water" at Cooke's Mid Yell processing plant - January 2017

Photo: Overflowing blood water and "raw effluent" from Cooke's processing plant into Mid Yell Voe

"Poor" SEPA Assessment for "gross" breach at Cooke's Mid Yell processing plant - August 2017

SEPA action points to Cooke "to prevent the overflow discharging untreated effluent directly to Mid Yell Voe" - August 2017

 

 

 

 

In April 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch wrote to Scottish Ministers urging the testing of ova, smolts and farmed salmon in sea cages for infectious diseases, pathogens and viruses. 

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

 

 

 

Read more via:

Bakkafrost is Dead in the Water in Scotland - 2021 Annual Report Details "Deadly Cocktail"!

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/

 

 

 

 

Here's a reply which suggests that CalMac conducted testing:

 

 

 

The Times article from June 2022 includes via https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/haulier-kicks-up-stink-over-ferry-ban-xzrmmq8w3

 

 

 

The Daily Mail reported in June 2022 via https://www.pressreader.com/uk/scottish-daily-mail/20220610/281981791239008

 

 

 

Please consider this an official request for information under the relevant FOI and Environmental Information regulations.

 

Please provide the information electronically.

 

Please provide a receipt for this FOI request.

 

You may be interested in new data on the shocking rise in farmed salmon mortalities via:

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

 

Thanks,

 

 

Don Staniford

 

Director, $camon $cotland

 

Bakkafrost is Dead in the Water in Scotland - 2021 Annual Report Details "Deadly Cocktail"!

 

New name: same mass deaths, disease & welfare abuse #Bakkafrost #ScottishSalmon
Unethical & morally bankrupt Bakkafrost is dead in the water in Scotland! @Folketrygdfond @NFdep @FerdOwner @ScotlandSalmon @Try_Lochlander @MairiGougeon @TavishScott @scotgp https://t.co/uqc2JDwH9G pic.twitter.com/F0SC8kFpOU

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 4, 2022

 

The bad news just keeps on coming for investors and shareholders in The Scottish Salmon Company (renamed Bakkafrost Scotland in June 2022).   Fish Farmer reported yesterday (3 October 2022):

 

Bakkafrost’s Scotland arm saw losses double in 2021 - "compromised gill health and secondary complications including blooms of micro jellyfish and fish handling during necessary treatments" @ScotlandSalmon @Folketrygdfond @NFdep #Bakkafrost https://t.co/y7oei699W7

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 3, 2022

 

Fish Farming Expert reported (3 October 2022):

 

 

Bakkafrost's 2021 Annual Report certainly makes for grim reading for Scotland:

 

 

 

Delve deeper into Bakkafrost's 2021 Annual Report and the lethal nature of Scottish salmon's "deadly cocktail" becomes apparent:

 

 

 

 

Bakkafrost's 2021 Annual Report details a "deadly cocktail" in Scotland https://t.co/EUMQwr47Oe
Is Bakkafrost (formerly called The Scottish Salmon Company) dead in the water in Scotland? @Folketrygdfond @NFdep @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/z1FfWaIqLT

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 4, 2022

 

 

Last month (26 September 2022), $camon $cotland exposed how Bakkafrost was Scottish salmon's King of Death:

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported last month (28 September 2022):

 

EXPOSED: Photos of diseased salmon taken by @scotgov health inspectors at visits to farms - how can such abuse be marketed as "responsible" & 'welfare-friendly'? @rspcaassured @ScotlandSalmon @SoilAssociation @SoilAssocScot @ASC_aqua @scotgp @ciwf @onekindtweet @Animallawyersuk pic.twitter.com/NEFMuk504z

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 28, 2022

 

 

Here's photos of disease-ridden farmed salmon from RSPCA Assured Bakkafrost Scotland (called The Scottish Salmon Company until June 2022) in Loch Roag at Taranaish - sourced from a Scottish Government inspection conducted in December 2021 (the Fish Health Inspectorate reported salmon gill poxvirus, epitheliocystis, Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis, and Neoparamoeba perurans, the causative agent of Amoebic Gill Disease):

 

 

 

 

The bad smell coming from Bakkafrost - whose largest shareholder is the Norwegian Government - reeks of rotten eggs.  The news of Bakkafrost Scotland leaking dangerous toxic gasses off Portree - as reported in August 2022 by BBC News, The Press & Journal, The National and other media - comes as no surprise to anyone who has tracked The Scottish Salmon Company since it reared its ugly head in Scotland back in 2009 (bankrolled by $almoney-launderer Yury Lopatinsky).  

 

BBC News: 'Rotten egg' gas leaking from fish feed barge wreck - a 500m exclusion zone has been placed around the wreck of a salmon feed barge near Portree on Skye https://t.co/nRuwKkZyTy @BBCScotlandNews @bbcalba @ScottishEPA @marinescotland @H_S_E @MCA_media @PoliceScotland

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 30, 2022

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported in March 2022:

 

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported in March 2022:

 

Breaking News: 715,592 dead fish reported at The Scottish Salmon Company's Applecross/Russel Burn Hatchery in 6 incidents during 2022! @salmon_scottish @Folketrygdfond @ScotlandSalmon
"Systemic investigation ongoing" reports @marinescotland @ScotGovRural https://t.co/DqDKfxGm84 pic.twitter.com/h8M0e8XElw

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 7, 2022

 

 

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:

 

 

 

A whistleblower told Scottish Salmon Watch in January that 600,000 farmed salmon had died in a welfare disaster @salmon_scottish's Applecross Hatchery - today @marinescotland reported 715,592 farmed salmon had died with a "systemic investigation ongoing"! https://t.co/DqDKfxFOiw pic.twitter.com/Hbb6bOPH2k

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 7, 2022

 

 

Hey taxpayer, @MairiGougeon gave £5MILLION of your cash to Faroese company Bakkafrost to build a salmon hatchery - in the name of “sustainable growth”.

☠️ 715,000 baby salmon just died there ☠️

Please tell her to stop this madness. https://t.co/wU1KZIYxc8

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) March 8, 2022

 

 

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

 

 

"Systemic investigation ongoing" by @marinescotland @APHAgovuk at The Scottish Salmon Company's Applecross Hatchery at Loch Kishorn following the deaths of over 700,000 farmed salmon! @salmon_scottish @ScotlandSalmon @Folketrygdfond https://t.co/DqDKfxFOiw
Nothing to see here! pic.twitter.com/AwVXS8F3g4

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 8, 2022

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported in February 2022:

 

The Scottish Salmon Co report 4.1 million mortalities since 1 January 2021 via 293 'Mortality Events' headed by Druimyeon Bay salmon farm off the Isle of Gigha with 148,628 morts in one week in October 2021! @salmon_scottish @Folketrygdfond @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/tBz56oIRHK pic.twitter.com/eHI9EZxIr1

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 18, 2022

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in January 2022:

 

Fresh Scottish Salmon anyone? Here's freshly published photos of disease-ridden fish farmed @salmon_scottish off Skye & the Isle of Gigha @marinescotland
Please boycott Scottish salmon! @Folketrygdfond @waitrose @coopuk @coopukpress @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/WK0SjATflz pic.twitter.com/MIBNEityBk

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 12, 2022

 

 

 

The 'Scottish' Salmon Company's Faroese/Norwegian owner Bakkafrost is also suffering from welfare problems at home in the Faroes. 

 

Faroes TV reports on a heavy fine for Bakkafrost - owner of The 'Scottish' Salmon Company @salmon_scottish & whose largest shareholder is the Norwegian Government @Folketrygdfond @NFdep @fiskeridir https://t.co/NuO5RChXaK @Tinganes @faroesenews @faroe_islands @Faroes2EU

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 7, 2021

 

 

Intrafish reported in December 2021:

 

Intrafish report: "Notification of Bakkafrost fine of 67 million creates complications - the warning comes as a result of a possible violation of the Animal Welfare Act". Bakkafrost was notified of the fine (£7.7 million) by the Prime Minister's office https://t.co/eDFgAvPi9d pic.twitter.com/HK4t4RYBzL

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 8, 2021

 

 

 

 

French TV reported in November 2021 on welfare abuse, mass mortalities and lice infestation at The Scottish Salmon Company's West Strome salmon farm in Loch Carron:

 

Video of French TV's 'The Truth About Salmon' featuring Mowi & The Scottish Salmon Company https://t.co/PIwqhztqhu @France5tv @hugoclement @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @ScotlandSalmon @Folketrygdfond @Try_Lochlander @waitrose @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB @AldiUK @SaumonLabel pic.twitter.com/u16uaGZ97K

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 21, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

STV News reported in October 2021:

 

Thousands of rotting salmon ‘stink out’ village after mass death at farm.https://t.co/hOoOmXr0n7

— STV News (@STVNews) October 20, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported in October 2021:

 

 

 

 

The Isle of Gigha - in Old Norse it means "God's island" or "good island" - has been hit by another Viking invasion in the shape of the Norwegian/Faroese-owned 'Scottish' Salmon Co. @salmon_scottish
What the hell are you doing? @Folketrygdfond @SSPOsays https://t.co/OzmwVhMj6p pic.twitter.com/F1wVVPyoGC

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 18, 2021

 

 

 

 

In November 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch wrote to the Norwegian Government (as the largest shareholder in Bakkafrost and shareholder in other salmon farming companies) asking it to divest from unethical and irresponsible salmon farming in Scotland.

 

Did you know that the Norwegian Government's Pension Fund (derived from Norway's oil revenues) is the largest or 2nd largest shareholder in companies which account for 80% of 'Scottish' salmon farming? @Folketrygdfond @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish https://t.co/4P1m3g2CvT pic.twitter.com/Sl6bFlcwaK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 30, 2020

 

 

 

Read more on The 'Scottish' Salmon Company's Faroese/Norwegian owners online here

 

Over 5 Million Dead 'Scottish' Salmon Since 2017 @salmon_scottish - sponsored by investors from Norway, Sweden, Faroes, USA, Denmark, Belgium & Luxembourg! @Folketrygdfond @NorwayMFA @fiskeridir @NFdep @Try_Lochlander @SSPOsays @FergusEwingMSP @strathearnrose @marinescotland pic.twitter.com/37ehamHX24

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 13, 2020

 

 

 

Read more via:

Media Backgrounder: Year of the Dead Salmon - Bakkafrost Scotland is the King of Death!

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

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

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

Scottish Salmon Exposed - Photos highlight the disease & welfare nightmare at The Scottish Salmon Company!

Channel 4 News on Scottish Salmon Spying on Corin Smith!

Bakkafrost (Faroese/Norwegian owner of The 'Scottish' Salmon Company) set for hefty fine in the Faroes!

Salmongate: Corin Smith's 'Subject Access Requests' to the Salmafia Reveal Spying by Scottish Salmon!

The Spy Who Loved 'Scottish' Salmon - from Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Norway & the Faroes with Love for Salmoney!

Herald/Ferret: "Scottish Salmon Company chief hired investigator to 'snoop' on fish farming critic"

Video of France 5s 'The Truth About Salmon' featuring Mowi & The Scottish Salmon Company

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?!

Photos of Welfare Abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron (West Strome salmon farm)

Videos of Welfare Abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron (West Strome salmon farm)

Animal Equality Exposes Scottish Salmon Slaughterhouse

Norwegian Government Asked to Divest from 'Unethical' & 'Irresponsible' Scottish Salmon!

Over 5 Million Dead 'Scottish' Salmon Since 2017 - Sponsored by Investors from Norway, the Faroes etc!

The Camera Never Lies About Scottish Salmon!

Photo Dossier of Diseased, Deformed & Abused Scottish Salmon

The Severely Damaged Scottish Salmon Company - For Sale Now!

Maaey day for the Scottish Salmon Company

Ground-truthing disease-ridden Scottish salmon

Mmmm Blind Scottish Salmon with Boils, Anyone?

Whistleblower Photos of The Scottish Salmon Company

 

 

Scottish Salmon never tasted good - but you wouldn't serve these poor creatures @salmon_scottish to your cat! These photos published @scotgov show why people should boycott @ScotlandSalmon! @waitrose @coopuk @asda @Morrisons @Tesco @sainsburys @AldiUK @LidlGB @marksandspencer pic.twitter.com/PtmKBgjuPi

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 12, 2022