Green Around the Gills

Exposed: Loch Duart's RSPCA Assured 'Healthy' Salmon (packed with viruses, diseases & bacteria)!

 

Anyone for @rspcaassured Loch Duart salmon fresh from Loch Laxford? Comes with Salmon Gill Poxvirus, Heart & Skeletal inflammation, Piscine reovirus, hyperplasic branchitis, vascular disturbance, haemorrhage & Bacterial dermatitis @LochDuartSalmon @ScotlandSalmon @TavishScott pic.twitter.com/qMbkN2bn4t

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 18, 2022

 

Here's a Fish Health Inspectorate report relating to an inspection in August 2022 of Loch Duart's RSPCA Assured salmon farm in Loch Laxford - published by the Scottish Government on 15 November 2022:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teaser for Tomorrow: Which @rspcaassured salmon farm are these 'welfare friendly' fish sourced from? Photos taken by inspectors @marinescotland https://t.co/2sBrJXdrlL
The fish tested positive for Salmon Gill Poxvirus, Salmonid alphavirus & Piscine reovirus @LochDuartSalmon pic.twitter.com/8yOMKXwGOk

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 17, 2022

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported in October 2022:

 

The Worst of the Worst @ScotlandSalmon - headed by 55.9% mortality in September @LochDuartSalmon in Loch Carnan: that's over half the fish dying in 30 days!!https://t.co/kjNDyAMOzI
But don't worry, Loch Duart is @rspcaassured - nothing to see here! https://t.co/UzZDt5a2qZ #RSPCA pic.twitter.com/6KKtrNoIsq

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 9, 2022

 

 

 

In September 2022, a report published by $camon $cotland highlighted Loch Duart's mortality problems:

 

Loch Duart's marketing slogan is "unrivalled Scottish salmon" (it used to be "the Sustainable Salmon Company" but that was dropped after @ASA_UK invervention) - 50.3% mortality @rspcaassured in the Sound of Harris beats most of their rivals for sure! @ScotlandSalmon @RSPCAChris pic.twitter.com/YKdu04E3Dg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 27, 2022

 

 

 

$camon $cotland reported in September 2022:

 

Mmm - yummy looking "unrivalled" Scottish salmon "With a natural as possible diet & space to swim, each fish grows fitter & healthier every day" claims @LochDuartSalmon https://t.co/OxXxkqxHPh
Err...except unhealthy fish from farms with mortality rates over 25%! @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/f50gytF6TQ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 28, 2022

 

 

 

Back in April 2019, The Ferret reported that the Advertising Standards Agency forced Loch Duart to drop the word 'sustainable' from their branding:

 

 

 

 

In 2018, Loch Duart was ranked the worst salmon farming company in Scotland for animal welfare by OneKind:

 

 

 

Watch a BBC report from October 2018 on how Loch Duart's 'cleaner fish' supplier was caught catching fish in a 'No Take Zone' (leading to the suspension of the supplier):

 

 

 

Read more via:

Exclusive: New Photos Expose Gruesome Not 'Responsible' Mowi Salmon!

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

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

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

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

Photos Expose Ongoing Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Salmon Farms!

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

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

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

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

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

The Camera Never Lies About Scottish Salmon!

RSPCA Assured Mowi Plagued by Mass Mortalities & Infectious Diseases on Skye

Be Sure to Boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon - Shocking New Photos Published of Mowi's North Shore Feedlot in Loch Erisort!

Photo Dossier of Diseased, Deformed & Abused Scottish Salmon

Maaey day for the Scottish Salmon Company

Ground-truthing disease-ridden Scottish salmon

Mowi's Welfare Nightmare on Rum - "blind", "physical damage", "anorexic" & over 40,000 dead fish!

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

Scottish Government rejects industry pleas on sick salmon photos

Mmmm Blind Scottish Salmon with Boils, Anyone?

Meet Pop-Eye the Scottish Salmon - Tortured by an Optilicer!

Cardiac Disease Arrests Mowi in Kingairloch

Salmon firms bid to block diseased photos

REVEALED: Legal Threats to Prevent Publication of Damning Photographs

FOI Dossier: Photographs of Diseased & Deformed Scottish Salmon - Scottish Government FOI disclosure despite legal threats from Scottish Sea Farms & The Scottish Salmon Company

Hard Evidence: Photos of Diseased & Deformed Scottish Salmon (August 2018)

FOI Disclosure 18-02235: Photos of Scottish Sea Farms

FOI Disclosure 18-01782: Photos of The Scottish Salmon Company and others

Horror photos of farmed salmon spark legal threat

EXPOSED: Gruesome Photos of Deformed & Diseased Scottish Salmon

Hard Evidence: Photos of Diseased & Deformed Scottish Salmon (June 2018)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exclusive: New Photos Expose Gruesome Not 'Responsible' ASC-Certified Mowi Salmon!

 

The truth about Mowi's @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua Scottish salmon: "The right eye was absent in fish #1 & exophthalmia was observed on fish #3. Lesions were visible on the flank & head of fish #5 & lice were observed on all fish"https://t.co/t5ivp3Co12
Photos published by @scotgov https://t.co/JfzwfyOklB pic.twitter.com/hOuEme9ww1

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 18, 2022

 

 

Here's a Fish Health Inspectorate report relating to an inspection in September 2022 of Mowi's ASC-certified and RSPCA Assured salmon farm at Stulaigh off South Uist - published by the Scottish Government on 15 November 2022:

 

Mystery Fish Competition: which @ASC_aqua & @rspcaassured salmon farm are these disease-ridden & lice-infested fish sourced from? @MowiScotlandLtd https://t.co/2sBrJXdrlL
Clue: you can find them in @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB @AldiUK marketed as "farmed responsibly" @ASA_UK pic.twitter.com/Cx08i27DBA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 17, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a Fish Health Inspectorate report relating to an inspection in March 2022 for Mowi's RSPCA Assured Kingairloch salmon farm in Loch a Choire/Loch Linnhe (the report was just slipped out by the Scottish Government on 15 November 2022):

 

You need your head examined if you're still buying 'responsibly sourced' Scottish salmon - here's photos published this week by the Scottish Government @marinescotland @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/2sBrJXdrlL
This Mowi salmon farm is shamefully certified via @rspcaassured #Mowi pic.twitter.com/XRs0yHacUX

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 18, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No wonder Mowi's PR people do not want the public from viewing such stomach-churning images (Marine Harvest was renamed Mowi in 2019 due to 'negative perception' in the name Marine Harvest).

 

Mowi: "the risk of people turning away from a healthy food such as salmon as a reaction to irresponsible use of photos for the sole purpose of creating fear in the consumer, is a risk to public health" https://t.co/u9Fk2kOkxz @MowiScotlandLtd @marinescotland @FergusEwingMSP pic.twitter.com/M3AyD3jMTm

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 24, 2019

 

 

 

 

Thankfully for consumers, the Scottish Government ignored Mowi's protestations - and legal arguments against disclosure from lawyers representing Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms) and The Scottish Salmon Company (now called Bakkafrost Scotland) - and the floodgates have been opened to more and more gruesome photos.

 

Teaser for tomorrow: which feedlot is this 'responsibly farmed' salmon sourced from?
Clue - it's certified as welfare & environmentally friendly by @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua
Correct answers win a prize - employees @MowiScotlandLtd @ScotlandSalmon are banned from participating pic.twitter.com/2SafRChEHp

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 23, 2022

 

 

RSPCA Assured Mowi Plagued by Mass Mortalities & Infectious Diseases https://t.co/vxZTjE37qA Boycott disease-ridden Scottish salmon treated with antibiotics @MowiScotlandLtd @rspcaassured @sainsburys @LidlGB @AldiUK Enteric Redmouth Disease (Yersiniosis) is like the Black Death! pic.twitter.com/Rry8Y5vFvq

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 27, 2020

 

 

Be Sure to Boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon! https://t.co/61yIroIUBp Shocking new photos published of Mowi's disease-ridden North Shore feedlot in Loch Erisort @marinescotland @MowiScotlandLtd "visibly moribund fish" & "significant lice damage" @sainsburys @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/gjLaeqpcFz

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 7, 2020

 

 

 

Moribund Mowi: "At the time of the visit moribund fish & some floating mortalities were observed in all cages" @marinescotland https://t.co/qr0tO3BMVR 73,459 morts (3,221 due to concussions from increased Caligus burdens), Salmon Gill Poxvirus, AGD & Anaemia @MowiScotlandLtd pic.twitter.com/GulKfO5p5z

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 27, 2020

 

 

 

Read more via:

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

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

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

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

Photos Expose Ongoing Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Salmon Farms!

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

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

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

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

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

The Camera Never Lies About Scottish Salmon!

RSPCA Assured Mowi Plagued by Mass Mortalities & Infectious Diseases on Skye

Be Sure to Boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon - Shocking New Photos Published of Mowi's North Shore Feedlot in Loch Erisort!

Photo Dossier of Diseased, Deformed & Abused Scottish Salmon

Maaey day for the Scottish Salmon Company

Ground-truthing disease-ridden Scottish salmon

Mowi's Welfare Nightmare on Rum - "blind", "physical damage", "anorexic" & over 40,000 dead fish!

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

Scottish Government rejects industry pleas on sick salmon photos

Mmmm Blind Scottish Salmon with Boils, Anyone?

Meet Pop-Eye the Scottish Salmon - Tortured by an Optilicer!

Cardiac Disease Arrests Mowi in Kingairloch

Salmon firms bid to block diseased photos

REVEALED: Legal Threats to Prevent Publication of Damning Photographs

FOI Dossier: Photographs of Diseased & Deformed Scottish Salmon - Scottish Government FOI disclosure despite legal threats from Scottish Sea Farms & The Scottish Salmon Company

Hard Evidence: Photos of Diseased & Deformed Scottish Salmon (August 2018)

FOI Disclosure 18-02235: Photos of Scottish Sea Farms

FOI Disclosure 18-01782: Photos of The Scottish Salmon Company and others

Horror photos of farmed salmon spark legal threat

EXPOSED: Gruesome Photos of Deformed & Diseased Scottish Salmon

Hard Evidence: Photos of Diseased & Deformed Scottish Salmon (June 2018)

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

Letter to Scottish Ministers re. "Explosive" Scottish Salmon - Please Defuse the Toxic Time-Bomb!

 

 

Letter to Scottish Ministers re. "Explosive" Scottish Salmon - Please Defuse the Toxic Time-Bomb! @scotgov @_KateForbes @MairiMcAllan @scotgp @MairiGougeon @ScottishEPA @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/3bpKF35ry0 pic.twitter.com/1GMwl4Z8lH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 18, 2022

 

 

Here's a letter to Scottish Ministers from $camon $cotland (18 November 2022):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 37-page letter concludes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Download the letter to Scottish Ministers from $camon $cotland (18 November 2022) in full online here

 

 

Why was no public warning issued to tourists, kayakers, swimmers, walkers, cruise ships, yachts, divers & residents endangered by the 'Toxic Threat Zone' off Portree? https://t.co/t1ux69sVwH @_KateForbes @Ianblackford_MP @PortreeHigh @fire_scot @HighlandCouncil @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/egBccWciAV

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 16, 2022

 

 

Why was the public not warned about "explosive" toxic gases leaking off Skye? Surely tourists in Portree, walkers along the coastal path near the salmon farm, kayakers, swimmers & divers should have been warned? @_KateForbes @Ianblackford_MP @scotgov @HighlandCouncil @fire_scot https://t.co/DTfPoW0OTT pic.twitter.com/t2lu9ALauz

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 14, 2022

 

 

 

Read more via:

The Times: "Secret plans to evacuate island homes over toxic gas"

Risk Assessment Highlighted 'High' Risk of Exposure to Public from Toxic Hydrogen Sulphide Gases - Why the f*ck was there no public warning?

Bakkafrost is Dead in Water in Scotland - "Explosive" FOI Disclosure Lifts Lid on Hazardous Scottish Salmon!

Document dump by Scottish Government following FOI review: floodgates opened on "explosive" salmon barge off Portree!

Bakkafrost's Scottish Salmon Nightmare Gets Worse with 10,000 Tonne Black Hole in Scotland!

"Explosive" FOI disclosure from SEPA on Toxic Gases Spewing from The Scottish Salmon Company (Bakkafrost) Off Portree!

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

Toxic Salmon Barge Salvaged This Month Off Portree (as revealed by FOI disclosure by the Maritime & Coastguard Agency)

500m exclusion zone near Portree Harbour in Skye as barge gives of rotten eggs smell

P&J: "Exclusion zone set up around Skye barge giving off rotten eggs smell"

"Experts tackle lethal gas leaking from sunken feed barge" (Fish Farming Expert)

BBC News: "'Rotten egg' gas leaking from fish feed barge wreck - 500m exclusion zone placed near Portree on Skye"

Toxic Gasses Spew From The Scottish Salmon Company (Bakkafrost Scotland) Off Portree

 

 

Burning Question: A Risk Assessment by HAZMAT emergency responders Vanderpers highlighted a 'High' risk of exposure to the public from toxic Hydrogen Sulphide gas & 'Low' risk of "exposure to explosion" in Portree https://t.co/3x9UugzrFs
Why the f*** was there no public warning? pic.twitter.com/hZNPbey74T

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 16, 2022

 

 

 

When "explosive" Hydrogen Sulphide gases at 55,000 ppm were detected in August off Portree the authorities planned for a 'worst case scenario' & emergency response due to explosion risk. Yet they failed to issue a public warning! @fire_scot @PoliceScotland @NHSScotland @scotgov pic.twitter.com/FNI1ya2Mld

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 14, 2022

 

 

 

ADDENDUM:

 

From: Don Staniford <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 9:28 AM
Subject: Letter to Scottish Ministers re. "explosive" feed barge off Portree
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, John Finlayson (Councillor) <[email protected]>, Calum Munro (Councillor) <[email protected]>, Drew Millar (Councillor) <[email protected]>, Ruraidh Stewart (Councillor) <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Media <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Forbes K (Kate), MSP <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>

 

Please find attached a letter to Scottish Ministers.

 

The letter can also be downloaded online here

 

It's also online via: Letter to Scottish Ministers re. "Explosive" Scottish Salmon - Please Defuse the Toxic Time-Bomb!

 

And via Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheGAAIA/status/1593536063930339329

 

More details in yesterday's Times newspaper via:

 

The Times: "Secret plans to evacuate island homes over toxic gas"

 

 

Read more via:

 

Risk Assessment Highlighted 'High' Risk of Exposure to Public from Toxic Hydrogen Sulphide Gases - Why the f*ck was there no public warning?

 

Bakkafrost is Dead in Water in Scotland - "Explosive" FOI Disclosure Lifts Lid on Hazardous Scottish Salmon!

 

Document dump by Scottish Government following FOI review: floodgates opened on "explosive" salmon barge off Portree!

 

"Explosive" FOI disclosure from SEPA on Toxic Gases Spewing from The Scottish Salmon Company (Bakkafrost) Off Portree!

 

Toxic Salmon Barge Salvaged This Month Off Portree (as revealed by FOI disclosure by the Maritime & Coastguard Agency)

 

 

Thanks,

 

Don Staniford

 

$camon $cotland