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10/14/2022

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

 



 

$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

 

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

 

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

 

 



 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I Tweeted yesterday (13 October 2022):

 

 

 



 

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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:
 
 
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?
 
 
"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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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