Please meet on Tuesday (7 March) at 6pm on Grimsby Rd outside McDonalds - just outside Blundell Park (home of Grimsby Town FC)!
Shhhh - deep undercover in the North East of England protesting against a 5,000 tonne salmon farm which, if approved @NELCouncil, would be largest in the UK https://t.co/xY5UTIRwIH If you're in the Grimsby area on Tuesday please join our protest at 6pm outside @officialgtfcpic.twitter.com/Fc0Rr9Of3e
"Cramming millions of Atlantic salmon in land-based tanks is a welfare nightmare and an ecological disaster," said Don Staniford, Director of $camon $cotland. "Factory salmon farms are torture chambers - concentration camps for fish - plagued by mass mortalities, infectious diseases and unnecessary suffering. Discharging a staggering 1 million cubic litres of effluents per day into the Humber Estuary - a RAMSAR, SSSI and Special Protected Area - will inevitably spread viruses, pathogens, bacteria and parasites as well as environmental pollution. Local residents are revolting against this super-sized salmon farm which, if approved, would be the UK's largest at 5,000 tonnes (the largest salmon farm in Scotland is 3,950 tonnes). Noise pollution, impacts on wildlife (the site is a safe haven for deer, foxes, badgers, butterflies, bats and birds) and the bad smell emanating from the 40,000 square metre development have already spawned community objections. Grimsby Town FC - nicknamed 'The Mariners' - may have to swap for their Harry Haddock mascot for Skanky Salmon if this monstrous proposal gets the green light. That North East Lincolnshire Council is recommending approval without conducting an Environmental Impact Assessment - and without questioning the financial credentials of the fishy investors behind AquaCultured Seafood Ltd - raises alarm bells."
I just spoke to Humberside Police and there is a police log # of 180 - 1 March 2023.
My phone number is 07771 541826.
The protest is not against Grimsby FC but against the proposed 5,000 tonne stinky salmon farm which is planned for just over the railway line by Harrington St:
"Up to1,000m3/day of effluent will be generated from the aquaculture process. The effluent will be treated to a very high standard, usingthe best qualitywater filtration technologies developed by AquaMaof to producetreated effluent that is very low in nutrients and suspended solids.Effluent water will be treated and dischargedwith surface water through the AWA outfall locatedwithintheABP/AWAownership".
1,000m3 per day equates to 1 million cubic litres of effluent per day - what exactly does "a very high standard" mean in reality? What viruses, pathogens, parasites, bacteria, chemicals and contaminants will be in the wastewater and treated effluents?
And where exactly is the AWA outfall? Does this discharge effluents directly onto Cleethorpes Beach?
Fish Farming Expert reported on 13 February 2023: "Aquacultured Seafood plans to build a state-of-the-art 5,000 tonne per year salmon facility in Grimsby employing approximately 100 people at the new facility. The project will boost economic growth as the company invests approximately £100 million into the project over the next two years," said a spokesperson for the company. "The project, which has received excellent support from businesses and politicians, will feature cutting edge technology to become one of the most environmentally friendly ways of producing nutritious food."
Could you please provide more details on the £100 million investment?
In terms of "excellent support from businesses and politicians" could you please provide further details. I am unaware of any businesses and politicians speaking out publicly in support of what would be the UK's largest salmon farm.
Please note a new blog showcasing local objections via:
If you had time to meet at the proposed site on Tuesday 7 March it would be much appreciated (I would also be available to meet at the site on Monday 6 March).
Director of AquaCultured Seafood, Craig Anderson (the 'Spy Who Loved Scottish Salmon'), has my contact details and other background information already but I am available on 07771 541826.
Craig Anderson, when Chief Executive of The Scottish Salmon Company (Bakkafrost Scotland), hired a private investigator to spy on activist Corin Smith and a second unnamed person (understood to be Don Staniford):
Acting for investors and people guilty of illegal surveillance, illegal hacking and illegal money laundering may not be illegal in itself (I'm not a lawyer but your lawyers may be able to advise you in that regard). However, such behaviour is morally and ethically bankrupt.
"Fish can be seen clustering together near the surface of the water, where they are visibly cramped for some time. The blood pooling in the slaughter machinery suggests that the pump equipment used to transport fish from the pens onto the boat is likely causing extensive trauma" pic.twitter.com/gVK0MeTdAj
Salmon-spiracy continues…☠️ Before we shared shocking truth of salmon farming in Scotland. Now discovered dead fish carcasses are being used to produce electricity and gas. Action: 1. Stop buying farmed salmon 2. Contact your supermarket 3. Share this video#EndSalmonFarmingpic.twitter.com/2HzAEdO1Co
Local residents living next to a proposed 5,000 tonne salmon farm - which would be the UK's largest - are speaking out against the £75 million development which North East Lincolnshire Council is seeking to slip through the environmental assessment net. $camon $cotland visited Cleethorpes and Grimsby yesterday (21 February 2023) to hear from naturalist John Nelson about why the proposed site is now a haven for wildlife:
Here's more video reports shot along Cleethorpes Beach - where the proposed 5,000 tonne salmon farm would be located and where (according to planning documents submitted in December 2022) 1,000 cubic metres of effluent would be discharged daily into the Humber Estuary (a RAMSAR site, Site of Special Scientific Interest, Special Area of Conservation and Special Protection Area):
Campaigners on both sides of the Atlantic - in Canada and Scotland - have issued a clarion call to stop the expansion of semi-closed salmon farming dead in its tracks.
Campaigners on both sides of the Atlantic - in Canada and Scotland - have issued a clarion call to stop the expansion of semi-closed salmon farming dead in its tracks. "Cermaq’s new system is a viral super-spreader, just like any open-net pen salmon farm" says @ClayoquotActionpic.twitter.com/WXAqbyiQae
"What our divers found beneath the Semi-closed containment system was shocking—a rain of salmon sewage! The system pumps large amounts of water into and out of the farm, with no filtering of the effluent. So Cermaq’s new system is a viral super-spreader, just like any open-net pen salmon farm."
"We're learning the lessons about the perils of semi-closed containment the hard way here in British Columbia," added Lewis. "Hopefully in Scotland, campaigners can stop semi-closed systems dead in their tracks in Loch Long and in Loch Linnhe. The take home message from Canada is that semi-closed containment is a flawed and failed technology which should be avoided like the plague".
"Hopefully in Scotland, campaigners can stop semi-closed systems dead in their tracks in Loch Long & Loch Linnhe" said @ClayoquotAction "The take home message from Canada is that semi-closed containment is a flawed & failed technology which should be avoided like the plague" pic.twitter.com/i9ulGK2a3b
"Closed containment is like Low Tar salmon farming and is still seriously bad for the health of our global ocean and the welfare of farmed salmon," said Don Staniford, Director of $camon $cotland. "Closed containment - even so-called 'semi-closed' technology - may represent more of a welfare nightmare with mass mortalities and infectious diseases plaguing closed systems all over the globe. The use of toxic chemicals and lice infestation has also been reported in closed systems. Far from being a panacea for salmon farming's problems, closed containment systems may well exacerbate problems. And even if you buy the industry's salmon spin, the lesser of two evils is still evil. Put simply - there is no right way to do the wrong thing."
"There should be a global ban on salmon farming - whether that is in the sea in open cages, semi-enclosed cages or closed containment systems or on land. Cramming a migratory species like the King of Fish - the Atlantic salmon - in cages is ethically and environmentally bankrupt. Salmon farming has turned the Leaper (in Latin, Atlantic salmon is Salmo salar meaning the Leaper) into a leper. Factory salmon farming is akin to keeping Golden Eagles and albatrosses in cages and has no place in sustainable food systems or healthy ecosystems."
Loch Long Salmon claim on their website that sea lice will not be a problem and that no toxic chemicals will be used inside their FiiZK semi-closed containment system:
Lice infestation may be the least of Loch Long Salmon's problems in Loch Linnhe where the 8,000 tonne salmon farm proposal is already running into local opposition.
Campaigners against Loch Long Salmon's plans to site a semi-closed containment salmon farm in Loch Long - inside a National Park - have cited the problems experienced in Canada.
As Dan Lewis @ClayoquotAction put it: "What we learned was that there were 'fish welfare concerns resulting from chronic exposure to higher levels of ammonia'. In other words, those fish were forced to breath their own urine, probably burning their gills" @AFFtheClyde@loch_longpic.twitter.com/9N93aP96sT
"Cermaq's semi-closed fish farm experiment in Clayoquot Sound failed after only 1 year, because fish were dying from breathing their own urine".
As Dan Lewis from Clayoquot Action puts it: "What we learned was that there were 'fish welfare concerns resulting from chronic exposure to higher levels of ammonia'. In other words, those fish were forced to breath their own urine, probably burning their gills…"
Loch Long Salmon seem to have a cess-pool of bullsh*t clogging their gills and fogging up their brain.
"Even if closed containment can mitigate the risks of escapes & interaction of marine mammals, the problems of mass mortalities, infectious diseases and unsustainable feed resources will never go away. The lesser of two evils is still evil" @TheScotsmanhttps://t.co/qU5Ls4BG6N
Undercover surveillance inside salmon farms across Scotland during 2022 published by Dale Vince at Ecotricity has graphically illustrated the welfare nightmare of Scottish salmon - semi-closed containment salmon farming could be even worse!
Salmon-spiracy continues…☠️ Before we shared shocking truth of salmon farming in Scotland. Now discovered dead fish carcasses are being used to produce electricity and gas. Action: 1. Stop buying farmed salmon 2. Contact your supermarket 3. Share this video#EndSalmonFarmingpic.twitter.com/2HzAEdO1Co
Surveillance by $almafia: "Don Staniford is on the island - he is driving a Skoda...I'll see if I can find him...He will try to get a boat to take him out to the pens...Well worth making sure all ensiler hatches are clear of debris & no drippy bins of morts are lying around" pic.twitter.com/nEhpwym3Hq
Exclusive: Subject Access Request lifts lid on spying by the $almafia @ScotlandSalmon@CookeScotland "Don Staniford is hitting the freshwater sites now so need to be more vigilant than ever....Don Staniford came on the agenda yesterday which had to be dealt with" @tavishscottpic.twitter.com/IuItiQRH3D
"Long-time anti-salmon farming campaigner Don Staniford has objected that the site will be in close proximity to the Hunterston B nuclear power station. He described the combination of fish farming and nuclear energy as “a marriage made in hell”." https://t.co/rf65kCVqVb#Blinkypic.twitter.com/kc4SJ4ZWSH
News that Faroese/Norwegian giant Bakkafrost is planning a monster-sized salmon farm next to Hunterston nuclear power station - reported exclusively by $camon $cotland yesterday - is making waves in the trade press. Fish Farmer reported (15 February 2023):
The Scottish salmon farming industry - staggering from one crisis to another - is now scraping the very bottom of the toxic barrel by seeking to expand in the contaminated waters & land around Hunterston nuclear power station! @edfenergy@ScotlandSalmonhttps://t.co/t7nfF7AiAVpic.twitter.com/6e12HrsM2P
The Scottish salmon farming industry - staggering from one crisis to another - is now scraping the very bottom of the toxic barrel by seeking to expand in the contaminated waters and land around Hunterston nuclear power station!
Locals have raised concerns about proximity of the development to the nuclear effluent pipe and potential for radioactive cesium and tritium to enter food chain and/or creation of low level radioactive waste during filtration processes.
$camon $cotland visited the proposed site chosen by Bakkafrost Scotland (The Scottish Salmon Company) last week (7 February 2023):
"Setting up shop next to a nuclear power station is the only way Scottish salmon could ever be green," said Don Staniford, Director of $camon $cotland. "Salmon farming is such a toxic industry that even the nuclear industry may not want Bakkafrost as a noxious neighbour. Nuclear power and salmon farming is a marriage made in hell. If this radioactive proposal gets the green light, shoppers should be on the look out for glow in the dark Scottish salmon with three heads lurking at the back of their fridge. Scottish salmon is pharmed and dangerous and should be avoided like the proverbial plague."
The farming of fish at the Hunterston nuclear power station site would not be the first time the toxic fish farming industry has floated the crazy idea. Back in the 1970s, an "innovative marine fish farm at Hunterston" used warm water from the nuclear power station to rear turbot, Dover sole, sea bass and halibut. The fish farm at Hunterston nuclear power station still shows up on 'Scotland's Aquaculture' database with Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk) named as the operator:
The Scottish salmon farming industry - staggering from one crisis to another - is now scraping the very bottom of the toxic barrel by seeking to expand in the contaminated waters & land around Hunterston nuclear power station! @edfenergy@ScotlandSalmonhttps://t.co/t7nfF7AiAVpic.twitter.com/6e12HrsM2P
"Anyone in the council even considering this should be sacked. The area stinks enough without this monstrosity & this will kill what's left of the tourist industry. The negative impact this will have on the area will be massive." @GrimsbyLive@NELCouncilhttps://t.co/hqEnzrB5xjpic.twitter.com/EFsEbpVlAP
"It’s unprofessional, it’s possibly illegal & we’ll look into it further" said Craig Anderson (boss @salmon_scottish) in 2018 after Corin Smith filmed inside a disease-ridden salmon farm https://t.co/NGOxIOeDXV Then he hired a private investigator to look into it further!! pic.twitter.com/bMSWC6rht2
Yesterday (13 February 2023), $camon $cotland wrote to the planning team behind AquaCultured Seafood's super-sized salmon farm proposal asking where the £75 million in $almoney was coming from:
Craig Anderson, when Chief Executive of The Scottish Salmon Company (Bakkafrost Scotland), hired a private investigator to spy on activist Corin Smith and a second unnamed person (understood to be Don Staniford):
Acting for investors and people guilty of illegal surveillance, illegal hacking and illegal money laundering may not be illegal in itself (I'm not a lawyer but your lawyers may be able to advise you in that regard). However, such behaviour is morally and ethically bankrupt.
Fish Farmer: "Arch anti-fish farm campaigner Don Staniford travelled to Grimsby at the weekend to protest against the project, claiming that it 'had inspired a community backlash by brave residents' who, he says, have formed a protest group" https://t.co/soxUn8Igl8@fishfarmermagpic.twitter.com/VHiPji260t
"Firm behind Grimsby plan says it will mean 100 jobs" reports @fishfarmermag .....end world hunger, bring world peace, save the planet, solve all Brexit's problems & make everyone (including millions of farmed fish) happy as a clam! https://t.co/QmREhmz0gJ((
Campaigners are gearing up for a grim battle to sink a super-sized 5,000 tonne salmon farm which, if approved, would be the largest salmon farm in the UK (over 1,000 tonnes bigger than the largest salmon farm in Scotland and ten times England’s entire salmon farming production in 2020).
According to planning documents filed with North East Lincolnshire Council on 12 December 2022, the £75 million proposal by AquaCultured Seafood to farm salmon on a 40,000 square metre site next to Grimsby Football Club on the Humber Estuary (a RAMSAR site, Site of Special Scientific Interest, Special Area of Conservation and Special Protection Area) is estimated to generate 1,000 m3/day of effluents but no information has yet been provided on predicted mortalities, infectious diseases, the use of toxic chemicals, the number of fish, mitigation of the smell from dead salmon or how £75 million in investment will be raised.
$camon $cotland visited the proposed salmon farm yesterday (12 February 2023) to meet with concerned residents who are setting up a protest group to fight the factory fish farm. Julie Edwards and John Mooney spoke out against the super-sized salmon farm proposal by AquaCultured Seafood and were joined by Cllr Matthew Patrick and other residents:
“Strongly object to a salmon farm being built on that land,” wrote Kim Harvey of Manchester St in Cleethorpes in an objection filed with North East Lincolnshire Council last month (25 January 2023). “Records going back 40 years of all the wild life flowers migration of birds, deer, foxes, insects. Also a flood plain. To close to houses apart from the smell and all the crap that will end up being pumped in the sea. The north wall walkway should be a route to the docks but met with a locked gate. The docks is falling apart. Big objections from many people. Keep your back handers to the pocket park project and leave the area alone!”
“Deer graze on the proposed salmon farm site and seals have been seen on the slipway to Cleethorpes beach,” said resident Lynn Sayles who is opposed to an industrial salmon farm on her doorstep.
“Discharging huge amounts of effluents into the sea will undoubtedly impact on marine wildlife and beach tourism. Grimsby may have a fishy heritage but it is simply no place to locate a stinky salmon farm. AquaCultured should listen to local residents – as well as the foxes, birds, hedgehogs and wildflowers living on the proposed site - and ‘fish off’. North East Lincolnshire Council should be protecting the area as a wildlife park not promoting industrial fish farming.”
Here’s a 2-page leaflet prepared for local residents:
“It is Natural England’s advice, on the basis of the material supplied with the consultation, that there are potential likely significant effects on statutorily designated nature conservation sites or landscapes and further assessment is required,” commented Natural England in December 2022. “The proposed development is located within/partly within or has the potential for adverse effects on the following designated nature conservation sites or designated landscapes: Humber Estuary Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Humber Estuary Special Area of Conservation (SAC), Humber Estuary Special Protection Area (SPA), Greater Wash Special Protection Area (SPA) and Humber Estuary Ramsar Site.”
“The welfare nightmare of factory fish farming is a Hammer House of Horror story not a Brothers Grimm fairy tale with a happy ending,” said Don Staniford, Director of $camon $cotland who visited Grimsby yesterday (12 February 2023) to meet with concerned residents. “Even ‘Grimsby’ film star Sacha Baron Cohen would struggle to see the funny side of a torture chamber which kills between 50% of its stock.”
“Cramming millions of Atlantic salmon – the King of Fish – in closed cages is animal cruelty and a crime against nature. Community opposition has the power to stop this ethically and ecologically bankrupt proposal dead in its tracks. If this factory farm goes ahead, the crowd at Grimsby FC will need nose plugs to avoid the stench of farmed salmon and tourists will give Cleethorpes Beach a wide berth.”
Shocking video footage exposing cruelty inside a land-based salmon farm can be watched via Animal Outlook online here
Video footage detailing welfare abuse and mass mortalities inside Scottish salmon farming can be watched via ‘FishyLeaks’ and Ecotricity:
Salmon-spiracy continues…☠️ Before we shared shocking truth of salmon farming in Scotland. Now discovered dead fish carcasses are being used to produce electricity and gas. Action: 1. Stop buying farmed salmon 2. Contact your supermarket 3. Share this video#EndSalmonFarmingpic.twitter.com/2HzAEdO1Co
Data on mass mortalities piling up inside land-based salmon farms published on 1 February 2023 by the Scottish Government include weekly mortality events in excess of 1.5 million farmed salmon with death rates of up to 100% and disease problems such as Pancreas Disease, Fungus and Salmon Gill Pox:
Infectious diseases, lice infestation and mass mortalities are plaguing salmon farms in Scotland – with The Observer newspaper reporting last month (15 January 2023) that 15 million salmon died on farms during 2022 (almost double the previous year).
“Getting it right can be tricky,” reported Science last week (9 February 2023) in an article showcasing land-based salmon farming and Atlantic Sapphire in particular. “In 2021, about 500,000 salmon died at the Florida facility after a clogged drain increased turbidity that may have generated deadly gases. The company’s output that year was just 2400 tons, far short of its long-range target. Other companies have faced protests over plans to build salmon farms in Maine and California. Some communities fear the farms will deplete precious groundwater, or pollute aquifers or surface waters with their waste. In Maryland, one firm canceled plans to build a farm after scientists said its wastewater could harm endangered sturgeon.”
“For oceangoing fish confined to tanks, stress is a constant risk, especially when they are handled. “When the fish don’t want to be moved, they can really hurt themselves,” says Åsa Maria Espmark, an aquaculture researcher with Nofima, the Norwegian food research institute (as quoted by Science).
“Unsurprisingly, animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) is damning of Bluehouse and the 40 or so other firms developing such land-based fish farms around the world,” continued BBC News. “These include a planned barramundi farm in Arizona. "Fish farms [whether at sea, or on land] are pits of filth," says Dawn Carr, Peta's director of vegan corporate projects. "Fish are not fish fingers with fins, waiting to be cut apart, but feeling, thinking individuals capable of joy and pain, and they belong to themselves, not to humans. "Raising fish this way is wretchedly cruel and certainly unnecessary.”
Farmed salmon spend their entire lives in stressful, cramped, or polluted conditions, which leaves many of them to suffer with painful sores and infections.
“Land based salmon farming has an appalling track record of mass mortalities, infectious diseases and environmental pollution,” concluded Staniford. “If approved, this 5,000 tonne salmon farm would be larger than any in Scotland where the salmon farming industry is devastating local communities and polluting ecosystems. Do supporters of Grimsby FC really want a monster-sized salmon feedlot as their noxious neighbour? If this crazy proposal succeeds, the Mariners should rename themselves the Salmon Pharmers.”
From: Don Staniford<[email protected]> Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 7:11 AM Subject: FOI re. salmon farm proposal by AquaCultured Seafood To: <[email protected]>
Please provide information on a salmon farm proposed by AquaCultured Seafood Ltd next to Grimsby Football Club and Cleethorpes Beach.
The reference is:
DM/1079/22/SCR - Development of land at the former New Clee Sidings to provide an enclosed aquaculture facility for the cultivation and processing of salmon. Land At New Clee Sidings Salvesen Road Grimsby Docks Grimsby North East Lincolnshire
Please provide any other documents, emails, letters, diagrams, photos, environmental assessments, notes of meetings and phone calls and any other information relating to the proposal by AquaCultured Seafood Ltd.
Please include any correspondence with Seafish, the UK Government, development agencies, funding bodies or any other companies/agencies/parties in relation to setting up a salmon farm in North East Lincolnshire.
For example, how long have discussions been taking place? Who approached who in relation to the proposal which, if approved, would be the UK's largest salmon farm? Where is the £75 in investment coming from?
Further specific information is therefore requested under the relevant FOI and Environmental Information regulations.
Please provide the information electronically.
Please provide a receipt for this FOI request by $camon $cotland.
For further context on community opposition to this proposal please read:
Craig Anderson, when Chief Executive of The Scottish Salmon Company (Bakkafrost Scotland), hired a private investigator to spy on activist Corin Smith and a second unnamed person (understood to be Don Staniford):
Acting for investors and people guilty of illegal surveillance, illegal hacking and illegal money laundering may not be illegal in itself (I'm not a lawyer but your lawyers may be able to advise you in that regard). However, such behaviour is morally and ethically bankrupt.
From: Don Staniford<[email protected]> Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 4:00 PM Subject: Finance Earth support for Grimsby salmon farm? To: <[email protected]>
How much is Finance Earth contributing to the development of a 5,000 tonne salmon farm in Grimsby?
From: Allan Benhamou <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 3:47 PM Subject: RE: Finance Earth support for Grimsby salmon farm? To: Don Staniford <[email protected]>, Blue Impact <[email protected]>
Dear Don,
Re: Your email to Finance Earth of 13 February 2023, re: article on the FishSite about a salmon farm in Grimsby
Thank you for reaching out to us about the FishSite article.
We write to confirm the current position with relation to your questions in relation to the above.
The Blue Impact Fund is not live and therefore not making investments. We are therefore not affiliated with any investments being made in Grimsby or elsewhere.
We have written to the FishSite to request they correct their article.
We hope this fully answers your queries.
Kind regards,
Allan
Allan Benhamou
Senior Analyst
Enabling investment into conservation, climate and communities
Exclusive: Subject Access Request lifts lid on spying by the $almafia @ScotlandSalmon@CookeScotland "Don Staniford is hitting the freshwater sites now so need to be more vigilant than ever....Don Staniford came on the agenda yesterday which had to be dealt with" @tavishscottpic.twitter.com/IuItiQRH3D
Here's the Subject Access Request reply from Cooke Aquaculture earlier this week (7 February 2023):
From: Enquiries <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 5:19 PM Subject: RE: Subject Access Request from Don Staniford To: Don Staniford <[email protected]>
The Subject Access Request disclosure refers to Cooke being "bitty nervous" of being pranked/exposed by Don Staniford/Greenpeace (shhh - watch this space!):
The Subject Access Request disclosure suggests that the $almafia has insiders working in the media and certainly points to media surveillance:
The Subject Access Request disclosure reveals that the $almafia pressured journalists to drop stories - and that they have adopted a PR policy of not engaging with Don Staniford:
The Subject Access Request disclosure refers to things getting "a bit lively" during a flotilla protest in 2019 which triggered a discussion by the $almafia:
In November 2021, The Ferret and Herald revealed via a Subject Access Request filed by Corin Smith that The Scottish Salmon Company (since renamed Bakkafrost) had hired a private investigator to conduct surveillance and a 'deep dive' on Corin Smith and a second unnamed activist (understood to be Don Staniford):
"Smith has shown The Ferret photographs of a GPS tracker allegedly found on the underside of his car in June 2021. Police Scotland confirmed it had received a report from Smith about the tracking device and the TSSC ‘intelligence report’ and that “enquiries remain ongoing” pic.twitter.com/B6N6QSzam8
Off to Scotland soon for more secret filming & in view of all the snooping I've decided to invest in high tech countermeasures. Shhh - please don't tell any private investigators hired by 'Scottish' salmon! pic.twitter.com/TOYiJo2daN
Salmon-spiracy continues…☠️ Before we shared shocking truth of salmon farming in Scotland. Now discovered dead fish carcasses are being used to produce electricity and gas. Action: 1. Stop buying farmed salmon 2. Contact your supermarket 3. Share this video#EndSalmonFarmingpic.twitter.com/2HzAEdO1Co
"Salmon are majestic, intelligent creatures, evolved to swim thousands of miles in their lifetime, that’s their nature. Cramming them, 100,000 at a time into tiny nets is torture, like intensive chicken farming or killer whales in the goldfish bowls of Seaworld" @DaleVincepic.twitter.com/GP6PSIncYU
"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."
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" @ScotlandSalmon@philip_ciwfpic.twitter.com/vPw2MTqLJY
"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.”
“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.”
"At Compassion, we often don’t mention the names of farms/producers in our investigation. 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" @ciwf@rspcaassured@RSPCA_officialpic.twitter.com/Ddv7MxIMOJ
“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.”
Compassion Compromised: "Agree to keep the target on @scotgov not on the salmon producers, farmers or RSPCA. Do not attack/criticise retailers or campaign against the producers where footage was gathered in the investigation (Mowi, etc)" @media_ciwf@ScotlandSalmon@rspcaassuredpic.twitter.com/0UR8RXuW7U
“The public should know that BINGOs (Big Industrial NGOs) like @ciwf are more interested in building close business relationships with salmon farming multinationals – & leaping into bed with the enemy - rather than removing this ethically bankrupt industry cage by cage” #Mowipic.twitter.com/OFa0DFv5Pg
“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.”
"CIWF have now been completely cornered into doing a job for @MowiScotlandLtd while at the same time providing a veneer of ostensible independent credibility. Just another captured greenwashing NGO à la @rspcaassured. I hope the cash was worth it" (Corin Smith of ISSF) @ciwfpic.twitter.com/pueXkOPmtr
“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."
“Shame on @ciwf for cravenly kowtowing to the $almafia’s lawyers & burying damning video evidence which exposes the welfare nightmare of @rspcaassured Scottish salmon. The only way to end cruelty & torture inside salmon farms is to close down every cage in Scotland” @philip_ciwfpic.twitter.com/NoPbRRwsAa
