On Remembrance Day please spare a thought for ca. 50 million salmon who die each year inside cages & hatcheries in Scotland https://t.co/txsQ9C9ol9
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 11, 2022
Scottish Ministers @MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllan @scotgov should hang their heads in shame for ignoring the suffering @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/jZr1e5FKPz
As the world stops to remember the estimated 50 million people who died during World War II, please spare a brief thought for the estimated 50 million farmed salmon who die cruel deaths and suffer unnecessarily each year inside salmon farms across Scotland. Here's a letter sent to Scottish Ministers, RSPCA Assured, the SSPCA, Compassion in World Farming and other parties this morning (11 November 2022):
Read the Remembrance Day message - which also calls on supermarkets and certification bodies to stop greenwashing Scottish salmon - in full online here
Scamon $cotland calls for the immediate suspension of certification & accreditation of ‘responsibly sourced’ Scottish salmon @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 11, 2022
The shameless greenwashing of Scottish salmon @ScotlandSalmon must be stopped dead in its tracks! https://t.co/txsQ9BSlj9 pic.twitter.com/3v7e4oDcZr
Date: Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 10:42 AM
Subject: Remembrance Day Plea for the Millions of Farmed Salmon Killed in Scotland Every Year
To: <[email protected]>
If we wait until mortality data is published for October 2022 and beyond then it will be too late to save tens of millions of Atlantic salmon suffering unnecessarily inside cages in Scotland. Immediate action needs to be taken now – please intervene as a matter of urgency.
Back in July 2018, Scottish Salmon Watch warned the Animal & Plant Health Agency and Police Scotland’s Wildlife Crime Unit that the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 was being systematically breached by salmon farms across Scotland. Yet over four years later the problems are significantly worse. The industry-wide scale of mass mortalities – and undercover evidence of abuse - warrants urgent site inspections of all salmon farms by welfare agencies.
In the meantime, $camon $cotland has called for the immediate suspension of certification and accreditation of ‘responsibly sourced’ Scottish salmon via RSPCA Assured and the ASC (as well as Label Rouge and the Soil Association). The shameless greenwashing of Scottish salmon must be stopped dead in its tracks.
Continued government inaction by APHA– including their woeful lack of enforcement of welfare laws - is both unacceptable and unlawful. Similarly, amidst a rising tide of dead salmon, Scottish Ministers are ignoring their statutory duties under animal welfare laws.
It remains to be seen whether the Scottish Veterinary Service – which is scheduled to replace APHA in Scotland – will clamp down on endemic suffering and welfare abuse inside salmon farms. In the absence of APHA enforcement and inspection, $camon $cotland urges the Scottish Animal Welfare Commission (welfare issues on salmon farms were identified in a work plan published in July 2022) and the Scottish Parliament Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee to scrutinize the alarming mortality rates on salmon farms.
Consumers can take action too by joining the global boycott against farmed salmon and supporting WildFish’s ‘Off the Table’ campaign.
Tavish Scott (chief lobbyist for the Norwegian $almafia which controls 80%+ of ‘Scottish’ salmon) has a job which makes him blind, deaf & dumb to disease problems even though he is up to his neck in a stinky cess-pit of morts! https://t.co/txsQ9BSlj9 @TavishScott @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/Hkh9qelx0g
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 11, 2022
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All hail Bakkafrost Scotland (formerly The Scottish Salmon Company) - Scottish salmon's King of Death! https://t.co/Ju6L8xNZjw
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 26, 2022
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