FishyLeaks: Videos Expose Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon (as certified by RSPCA Assured)! https://t.co/wKCjfHozxx @rspcaassured @ScotlandSalmon @tavishscott @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @LochDuartSalmon @scotgp @philip_ciwf @ArianeBurgessHI @DavidBowles21 pic.twitter.com/hpjzQmSWJ7
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 20, 2023
FishyLeaks is publishing a library of stomach-churning video footage of diseased Scottish salmon - certified as 'welfare friendly' via RSPCA Assured - piling up across the Highlands and Islands of Scotland:
BIOSECURITY!
— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) January 20, 2023
Salmon farmers like to tell you about it, but their open cages have zero measures in place to protect wild fish.
But what about protecting birds from diseased morts?
Here’s Total Waste Management Alliance on Shetland. From https://t.co/rgSuGrVYTQ pic.twitter.com/R1yTqT1jJM
Leaked video footage of diseased Scottish salmon - certified as 'welfare friendly' via @rspcaassured - from Scottish Sea Farms (exclusive supplier to @marksandspencer) https://t.co/AujRq9aR8j
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 24, 2023
More video nasties online now via FishyLeaks https://t.co/wKCjfHozxx @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/hwHs3jVbpc
Leaked video footage @ciwf shows the gruesome nature of @rspcaassured salmon farming @scotseafarms - sold as "responsibly sourced" Scottish salmon @marksandspencer @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/UsFMUHSxI1
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 26, 2023
Shame on the RSPCA! @RSPCAChris @ScottishSPCA @philip_ciwf @PeterEgan6 pic.twitter.com/tVhYRf5hy4
The Ferret reported (16 January 2023):
NEW: The “illegal” dumping of dead farmed fish on a Hebridean beauty spot has been allowed to continue despite authorities’ plans to ban the practice in March 2022, The Ferret can reveal.https://t.co/6rdiY3s8Sg
— The Ferret (@FerretScot) January 16, 2023
The Ferret article included leaked video footage of diseased salmon being dumped at Whiteshore Cockles:
More details via: Media Backgrounder: Leaked Video & Photos from Whiteshore Cockles CIWF Investigation
Please stop dumping disease-riddden Scottish salmon! @rspcaassured @MowiScotlandLtd @LochDuartSalmon @Folketrygdfond @ScotlandSalmon @tavishscott @cne_siar @ScottishEPA @marinescotland @MairiGougeon @_KateForbes @WHFP1 @HebridesNews @uistgifts @scotgp https://t.co/STiqIgPFuq
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 20, 2023
Read media backgrounder in full online here
Leaked drone footage of the dead fish dump at Whiteshore Cockles @FerretScot https://t.co/igHguaqemX @cne_siar @APHAgovuk @ScottishEPA @MairiGougeon @_KateForbes @marinescotland @ScotGovNetZero @nature_scot @MowiScotlandLtd @LochDuartSalmon
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 19, 2023
Earlier this month (16 January 2023), Animal Equality published video footage of a 'mort sock' being lifted up at an RSPCA Assured salmon farm:
Last month, Dale Vince of Ecotricity published shocking video footage shot inside RSPCA Assured salmon farms during 2022:
Here's leaked drone footage of dead fish at RSPCA Assured Mowi in Loch Hourn:
Leaked drone footage of dead fish at Mowi's Loch Hourn salmon farm https://t.co/oFFqpwofFZ @MowiScotlandLtd @glenelggossip @CCNScotland @FaunaFloraInt
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 30, 2023
More visible morts were spilled onto the A86 - as sourced from RSPCA Assured Mowi on the Isle of Skye:
Chris Rea @tavishscott: "On your journey 'cross the wilderness from the desert to the well; You have strayed upon the motorway to hell; Well, I'm standing by a river but the water doesn't flow; It boils with every poison you can think of. Oh no this is the road to hell" pic.twitter.com/Bs442hGApV
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 30, 2023
At least people living near stinky farmed salmon on the Isle of Harris have a sense of humour!
When you have the misfortune to live near stinky salmon farms it's important to have a sense of humour - cartoon from Isle of Harris News @facebook https://t.co/LoPlgNG2DA @GogarServices @BBTankers @Ferguson_TPT @LochDuartSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @tavishscott @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/mG9RGzxPZS
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 30, 2023
Here's more leaked video footage shot by Compassion in World Farming investigators inside Bakkafrost's lice-infested - and RSPCA Assured - salmon farm at Quarry Point in Loch Fyne:
Leaked videos expose horrific lice infestation inside @rspcaassured Bakkafrost's Quarry Point salmon farm in Loch Fyne - soon to be certified as 'responsible' via @ASC_aqua https://t.co/SZ11rhCCQw
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 31, 2023
Please boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish salmon! @ScotlandSalmon @ciwf @philip_ciwf pic.twitter.com/aO20Fs4O8O
Read more via:
The Ferret: "‘Illegal’ dumping of dead fish in Outer Hebrides continues despite ban vow"
Closing the Net on Diseased Scottish Salmon - Whiteshore Cockles Finally Dumped in March!
The ‘illegal’ dumping of dead fish in Hebridean beauty spot set to end
FOI disclosure on Whiteshore Cockles by the Scottish Government (202100254831) on 8 December 2021
The Times: "Tougher curbs for island salmon graveyard in Outer Hebrides"
FOI disclosure on Whiteshore Cockles by the Scottish Government in August 2021
Scottish Government ‘exploring strategies’ for mort burial site
P&J: "Lives of Western Isles residents ‘severely hampered by rotting fish dump’"
The Times: "Fish graveyard ‘severely hampers’ life for islanders, officials claim"
Letter to Scottish Ministers on Illegal Dumping of Diseased Scottish Salmon in North Uist
Daily Mail: "Dumped into the dunes....thousands of rotten, disease ridden salmon"
Independent: "Scottish islanders raise a stink over vast salmon graveyard"
Video Exposes Mass Graves of Millions of Diseased Scottish Salmon
The Times: "Islanders raise a stink over vast salmon graveyard"
Sunday National: "The Millions of Dead Salmon Dumped, Burnt or Destroyed"
Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon
European Commission complaint over dead fish dumping forces rule change
Where have all the dead fish gone?
Diseased fish dumping continues
"Well worth making sure all ensiler hatches are clear of debris & no drippy bins of morts are lying around before he arrives" advises a salmon farmer in an internal email obtained via a Subject Access Request.
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 18, 2023
Top advice - we're watching! @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/Pq6nzt027t pic.twitter.com/9SS7zeCxSZ
Leaked video nasty from Shetland - please stop greenwashing disease-ridden Scottish salmon! https://t.co/nagxekM0JB @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @ScotlandSalmon @tavishscott @amcarmichaelMP @BeatriceWishart @scotseafarms @CookeScotland @ArianeBurgessHI pic.twitter.com/SjlqVuEbEp
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 22, 2023
Footage by @ciwf of @rspcaassured @scotseafarms morts waiting to be incinerated, or perhaps made into pet food. @RSPCA_official @RSPCA_PATeam : you should be ashamed of yourselves and stop your association with this appalling industry. pic.twitter.com/vHRvS25a2J
— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) January 26, 2023