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 reported (16 January 2023):
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
More details via: Media Backgrounder: Leaked Video & Photos from Whiteshore Cockles CIWF Investigation
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The Times: "Tougher curbs for island salmon graveyard in Outer Hebrides"
FOI disclosure on Whiteshore Cockles by the Scottish Government in August 2021
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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
Call it Karma, Hypocrisy or Irony?
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 28, 2022
Angus MacDonald & Whiteshore Cockles threaten @thetimes @thetimesscot with legal action over a news story of their illegal graveyard for diseased Scottish salmon @ScotlandSalmon
Now lawyers @scotgov close them down! https://t.co/LL9dCWFb5n pic.twitter.com/3mUS1Lgl9J