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3 February 2023

02/03/2023

Press Release from FishyLeaks: "Leaked Videos Expose Welfare Nightmare of RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon"

 



 

FishyLeaks reported via a press release (3 February 2023):

 

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Download press release and media backgrounder in full online here

 

 



 

The press release and media backgrounder from FishyLeaks includes from Compassion in World Farming:
 
 
"We are requesting the completion of an MOU – this is as we are naming the producers, so to try to protect ourselves from legal challenges have needed to be particularly careful for the wording of the investigation and corresponding materials."
 
 
CIWF Scottish Salmon Investigation March 2021 Graphics #1
 


 
 
 
"Any conversations that Compassion has had with the industry remain confidential, and I’m sure you appreciate why.  I’d rather not talk about the specifics on our team’s efforts to secure a media story in the UK and push back from industry, as the situation is still unfolding and we don’t want the details in the public realm because doing so could undermine our work.”
 
 
CIWF Scottish Salmon Investigation March 2021 Graphics #3
 
 
 
“At Compassion...we build relationships with retailers and producers through our food business work to improve the lives of many animals, and so directly targeting these groups can impact our other strands of work.  Although we do not purposefully mention the RSPCA, they certify farms covered by these producers, and as a result it’ll indirectly put pressure on them to improve/better enforce their standards for fish.”
 
 
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CIWF’s ‘Rethink Fish MOU for Groups’ (which Scottish Salmon Watch refused to sign) included:

 

“Agree to keep the focus, target and messaging on the Scottish government, not on the salmon producers, farmers or the RSPCA.  For example, please only tag the Scottish government in social media posts and target the Scottish government in any email action when calling for them to halt the expansion of the industry.  Please do not attack/criticise retailers in your country, or campaign against the producers where footage was gathered in the investigation (Mowi, etc) by targeting them on social/supporter emails/etc.  This is to ensure that Compassion can build on the impact of our global campaign by establishing relationships with these producers and working with them to improve welfare standards.”
 
 
CIWF MOU March 2021
 
 
 

 
 
“We are not making the individual farm details public because our role is to change the inherent, endemic, cruelty in salmon factory farming, not target individual farmers,” explained another CIWF document – ‘Scottish Salmon Investigation FAQ’ - marked ‘strictly confidential’
 
 
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“CIWF have now been completely cornered into doing a job for MOWI comms teams while at the same time providing a veneer of ostensible independent credibility,” wrote Corin Smith of Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots in an email to CIWF in August 2022.  “CWIF have been outthought, outmanoeuvred and are now out of credibility on salmon farming, certainly in Scotland and it would appear internationally too.  Just another captured greenwashing NGO à la RSPCA Assured.  I hope the cash was worth it.”
 
 
Corin Smith in wetsuit at salmon farm
 
 


 
 
“The public should know that BINGOs (Big Industrial NGOs) like CIWF are more interested in building close business relationships with salmon farming multinationals – and leaping into bed with the enemy - rather than removing this ethically bankrupt industry cage by cage” said Don Staniford, Director of $camon $cotland.  "Shame on CIWF for cravenly kowtowing to the $almafia’s lawyers and burying damning video evidence which exposes the welfare nightmare of RSPCA Assured Scottish salmon.  CIWF is turning a blind eye to endemic welfare abuse on RSPCA Assured salmon farms across Scotland."

 

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Watch the videos via FishyLeaks:

 

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A photo gallery is published online here

 

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In October 2022, $camon $cotland wrote to RSPCA Assured:

 

 

The Faces of Scottish Salmon Feb 2020 #7 RSPCA

 

 

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Media Backgrounder: Leaked Video & Photos from Whiteshore Cockles CIWF Investigation

‘Illegal’ dumping of dead fish in Outer Hebrides continues despite ban vow

Tens of Millions of Scottish Farmed Fish Dying Before Slaughter Each Year: Footage released by Animal Equality shows buckets full of dead salmon being collected from Meall Mhor Loch Fyne in Scotland, in a process known as ‘lift up’

The Times: Number of dead salmon at Scottish fish farms rises to 15 million

Observer: "Scottish salmon farms facing boycott call as fish deaths double"

64% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Nevis - as sold by M&S as "responsibly sourced"?!!

Uncovering Welfare Abuse on Salmon Farms - undercover filming since 2016 has lifted the lid in Scotland, Canada, US, Norway & Iceland!

Daily Express: "The 'cruelty' of Britain's salmon farms exposed - Dale Vince has released undercover footage exposing alleged 'cruelty and disease' at salmon farms across Scotland"

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

Go Pro Filming Inside Salmon Farms - the Inside Story!

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Video of France 5s 'The Truth About Salmon' featuring Mowi & The Scottish Salmon Company

You Tube Streams 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' - watch the lid lifted on Scottish salmon!

Caught on Camera - How the Go Pro Dealt the Death Blow to Salmon Farming

Backgrounder: Secret Filming Exposes the Welfare Nightmare of Factory Fish Farming

Video Nasties of Dead Farmed Salmon Pile Up All Over the World!

Video Compilation of Welfare Abuse Inside Salmon & Steelhead Trout Farms in Scotland!

Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse Inside Salmon Cages in Iceland & Scotland

Video Nasty: Scottish Salmon's Toxic Soup in Loch Carron!

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

Videos of Welfare Abuse at Kames Fish Farming in the Sound of Jura (Shuna Castle)

Seaspiracy's Salmon Shocker: Please Boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon!

Video/Photo Exclusive: Mowi's RSPCA Assured Welfare Nightmare - complaints filed for breaches of welfare laws

Secret Filming Exposes RSPCA ‘Abused’ Scottish Salmon - Welfare Complaint Filed Against M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms

Video Exposes Mass Graves of Millions of Diseased Scottish Salmon

Mowi's 'Healthy' RSPCA Assured & ASC-Certified Salmon Farm at Gorsten (as featured in Seaspiracy)

The Go Pro Camera Never Lies (Unlike Salmon Farmers)

 

 

 

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