Green Around the Gills

"Bakkafrost Scotland heading back to court to seek ban on activist" (Fish Farming Expert)

 

"Salmon producer Bakkafrost Scotland is to resume its bid for a court order that would ban anti-salmon farming campaigner Don Staniford from its fish farms and other facilities" @salmonfarming1 @NFdep @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/iXs27Khsy1 pic.twitter.com/5iWIEVbW3v

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 20, 2024

 

 

 

Fish Farming Expert reported (20 May 2024):

 

 

 

Radio Del Mar in Chile reported (23 May 2024):

 

 

"Salmon farming has spread like malignant cancer on our shores. Cages plagued by diseases must be urgently removed to safeguard the health of the ecosystem," the activist said @radiodelmar https://t.co/TQ6001FnON @sernapesca @ECOCEANOS @GreenpeaceCL @SinSalmoneras @patagonia pic.twitter.com/08Ko6gsJGZ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 24, 2024

 

 

Read more via:

Faroes Visit Triggers Bakkafrost Legal Action in Scotland & Police 'Arrest' Following Filming at Forka!

"Anti-salmon farming activist loses court fight with Mowi - Staniford wins some ground but remains banned"

Slapback vs the $almafia: Scottish Anti-SLAPP Summit in Glasgow

"Mowi gives ground over ban on activist" (Fish Farming Expert)

Mowi vs Staniford Heads to the Sheriff Appeal Court in Edinburgh!

Crowd Justice campaign launched to fight legal action by Mowi, Bakkafrost & Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms)!

Mowi Appeal Hearing Set for 1 February 2024!

SLAPP Attack: Bakkafrost's Chilling Writ Attempts to Shut Down Surveillance!

Private Eye: "Kayak kibosh"

GEO Podcast: "When Staniford is on the move, salmon farmers' alarm bells are ringing"

The Herald's Vicky Allan: "David vs three Goliaths"

Norway's E24 reporting on 'Zombie' Bakkafrost's SLAPP!

Scottish Anti-SLAPP Summit in Glasgow in February 2024 - spotlight on the $almafia!

$LAPPing Back the $almafia!

Most Read: "Anti-salmon farm activist suffers new legal blow"

"Bakkafrost goes after anti-salmon farming activist in new legal case" (Intrafish)

'Zombie' Bakkafrost SLAPPs Back vs Horror Videos!

Fighting Back Vs the $almafia's $LAPPs (in the spirit of David slaying Goliath)!

Anti-SLAPP conference in London - fighting back vs the $almafia!

‘End Salmon Farming’ Tour Kicks Off Despite Legal Threats by Norwegian $almafia!

Legal Threat by Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk): "your actions....jeopardise the welfare of the fish"

Mail On Sunday: "Salmon activist who's been banned from going within 50ft of dozens of fish farms"

The Times: "Kayak vigilante goes undercover to expose salmon farming ‘horror’"

Private Eye on Mowi's SLAPP in the face of public access/interest!

Oban Times: "Fish farming giant denies it wants to gag activist"

"Mowi Scotland denies it wants to ‘gag’ activist" (Fish Farmer)

SLAPPed by Norwegian Giant Mowi!

"Mowi court battle with notorious salmon farming opponent gets underway in Scotland" (Intrafish)

The Oban Times: "Mowi takes anti-salmon farming campaigner to court"

Bakkafrost (Faroese/Norwegian owner of The 'Scottish' Salmon Company) set for hefty fine in the Faroes!

Pyrrhic Victory or Legal Loss - Mowi's 'asymmetric war' is doomed to failure!

Mowi Ignores Newton's 'Third Law of Motion' - for every action, there's an equal & opposite reaction!

Censored: Trade Press Ignore 'Droit de Response' (Right of Reply) - until politely asked to do so!

"The People Are Disgusted With Mowi's Legal Action Against Don Staniford - Stop Buying Mowi Salmon!"

Mowi Actively Courts Trade Press Backlash Vs 'Irrational' & 'Fanatical' Activist!

STV News: "Salmon farm firm takes legal action against animal welfare campaigner"

Press statement on lawsuit vs Mowi

Mowi press release: "Court order sought to protect health and safety"

 

 

 

'It's 5:30 in the morning on the Isle of Ulva...'@vicky_allan follows activists as she investigates Scotland's unfolding salmon mortality problem pic.twitter.com/kkxlVEUG8h

— The Herald (@heraldscotland) August 29, 2023

 

Faroes Visit Triggers Bakkafrost Legal Action in Scotland & Police 'Arrest' Following Filming at Forka!

 

 

Bakkafrost has blood on its hands - please boycott bloody salmon from the Faroe Islands! @Tinganes
Read more via: https://t.co/x26a2NRbKn pic.twitter.com/7kW271WrLL

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 20, 2024

 

 

 

The Faroe Islands - located in the bloody waters between the Shetland Islands and Iceland and home to the barbaric grindadráp - is a truly stunning place to visit.

 

 

 

My field trip to the home of salmon farming giants Bakkafrost and Hiddenfjord (Norwegian behemoth Mowi also operates here) will be something I will never forget as the stench of death and welfare abuse is already ingrained in my brain and on the inside of my nostrils (the smell of dead fish is everywhere). 

 

On location in the Faroe Islands - the early activist gets the salmon farmer! pic.twitter.com/oHFYc1zNdc

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 19, 2024

 

 

 

On Friday (17 May) I had my first ride in a policevan after being arrested - and later released without charge - following a visit to Bakkafrost's subsidiary Forka in the Faroese capital Torshavn. 

 

 

 

 

Earlier on my birthday - Norway's National Day - I visited the head office of Bakkafrost whose largest shareholder is the Norwegian Government (as represented by Folketrygdfondet).  After signing into reception at Bakkafrost's plush head office in Glyvrar to meet with CEO Regin Jacobsen he quickly told me to leave and refused to answer questions about Bakkafrost's $10 million fine for welfare abuse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The previous day (16 May), I visited the Faroese Food & Veterinary Authority to ask for more details on welfare abuse by Bakkafrost (Bárð Enni - the head of the Faroese Food & Veterinary Authority refused to answer questions about Bakkafrost's $10 million fine).

 

 

 

 

Intrafish reported in December 2021:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KVF - the Faroese state broadcaster - reported in December 2021: 

 

 

Faroes TV reports on a heavy fine for Bakkafrost - owner of The 'Scottish' Salmon Company @salmon_scottish & whose largest shareholder is the Norwegian Government @Folketrygdfond @NFdep @fiskeridir https://t.co/NuO5RChXaK @Tinganes @faroesenews @faroe_islands @Faroes2EU

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 7, 2021

 

 

On Saturday (18 May) I visited KVF hoping to speak to the journalists who wrote the story above but nobody was working (there is currently a strike in the Faroes).

 

On the trail of Bakkafrost & the $almafia in the Faroe Islands! @tweet_kvf @Tinganes @Faroes2EU @faroesenews @FaroesinLondon @dontvisitfaroe @VisitFaroe @TheFaroeIslands @NorwayMFA @NFdep #Bakkafrost #Salmafia #Faroes pic.twitter.com/YwoX0Pg1xj

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 19, 2024

 

 

 

 

The Faroese Police - used to dealing with sheep lying down on the road and drunken fishermen lying down outside the Torsholl pub in the capital Torshavn - were not on strike and were called out to a 'crime scene' near Bakkafrost's head office in Glyvrar on Friday (17 May).

 

 

 

 

Later on Friday afternoon (several hours after my brief handshake and non meeting with Bakkafrost's CEO Regin Jacobsen), Bakkafrost's lawyers in Scotland rebooted legal action seeking a permanent ban on filming inside salmon farms - including a ban on drones and an exclusion zone of 15 metres around all their salmon farms.   Here is a birthday email from Bakkafrost's trigger-happy lawyers Shepherd and Wedderburn:

 

From: "Leishman, Ruairidh" <[email protected]>
Date: 17 May 2024 at 15:01:25 GMT+1
Subject: Bakkafrost v Don Staniford - DNN-A29-23 - Motion for the Pursuer [SWLLP-LEGALDIV.FID4888692]

Dear Sirs,

Bakkafrost Scotland Limited v Don Staniford

Court Ref: DNN-A29-23

Motion for the Pursuer

 

We refer to the above and attach, by way of intimation, the Pursuer’s Form G6 – Motion and Form G7 – Form of Intimation of Motion.

Yours faithfully,

Ruairidh Leishman

Associate, Commercial Disputes and Regulation

Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

T:  +44 (0)131 473 5180

M: +44 (0)7894 480 865

F:  +44 (0)131 228 1222

shepwedd.com

 

 

 

Bakkafrost's 'Motion for the Pursuer' dated 17 May 2024 includes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bakkafrost's 'Form of Intimation of Motion' dated 17 May 2024 included:

 

 

 

Watch this space for further updates from my exciting trip to the Faroe Islands!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Undercover in Sørvágsfjørður in the Faroes Islands - is anyone from @hiddenfjord willing to blow the whistle on salmon farming? @chevytomylevi @Tinganes @VisitFaroe @Faroes @faroesenews
Does Hiddenfjord support the grindadráp? Does Hiddenfjord use fish from Russian trawlers? pic.twitter.com/VdILYI99sp

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 19, 2024

 

Read more via:

"Anti-salmon farming activist loses court fight with Mowi - Staniford wins some ground but remains banned"

Slapback vs the $almafia: Scottish Anti-SLAPP Summit in Glasgow

"Mowi gives ground over ban on activist" (Fish Farming Expert)

Mowi vs Staniford Heads to the Sheriff Appeal Court in Edinburgh!

Crowd Justice campaign launched to fight legal action by Mowi, Bakkafrost & Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms)!

Mowi Appeal Hearing Set for 1 February 2024!

SLAPP Attack: Bakkafrost's Chilling Writ Attempts to Shut Down Surveillance!

Private Eye: "Kayak kibosh"

GEO Podcast: "When Staniford is on the move, salmon farmers' alarm bells are ringing"

The Herald's Vicky Allan: "David vs three Goliaths"

Norway's E24 reporting on 'Zombie' Bakkafrost's SLAPP!

Scottish Anti-SLAPP Summit in Glasgow in February 2024 - spotlight on the $almafia!

$LAPPing Back the $almafia!

Most Read: "Anti-salmon farm activist suffers new legal blow"

"Bakkafrost goes after anti-salmon farming activist in new legal case" (Intrafish)

'Zombie' Bakkafrost SLAPPs Back vs Horror Videos!

Fighting Back Vs the $almafia's $LAPPs (in the spirit of David slaying Goliath)!

Anti-SLAPP conference in London - fighting back vs the $almafia!

‘End Salmon Farming’ Tour Kicks Off Despite Legal Threats by Norwegian $almafia!

Legal Threat by Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk): "your actions....jeopardise the welfare of the fish"

Mail On Sunday: "Salmon activist who's been banned from going within 50ft of dozens of fish farms"

The Times: "Kayak vigilante goes undercover to expose salmon farming ‘horror’"

Private Eye on Mowi's SLAPP in the face of public access/interest!

Oban Times: "Fish farming giant denies it wants to gag activist"

"Mowi Scotland denies it wants to ‘gag’ activist" (Fish Farmer)

SLAPPed by Norwegian Giant Mowi!

"Mowi court battle with notorious salmon farming opponent gets underway in Scotland" (Intrafish)

The Oban Times: "Mowi takes anti-salmon farming campaigner to court"

Bakkafrost (Faroese/Norwegian owner of The 'Scottish' Salmon Company) set for hefty fine in the Faroes!

Pyrrhic Victory or Legal Loss - Mowi's 'asymmetric war' is doomed to failure!

Mowi Ignores Newton's 'Third Law of Motion' - for every action, there's an equal & opposite reaction!

Censored: Trade Press Ignore 'Droit de Response' (Right of Reply) - until politely asked to do so!

"The People Are Disgusted With Mowi's Legal Action Against Don Staniford - Stop Buying Mowi Salmon!"

Mowi Actively Courts Trade Press Backlash Vs 'Irrational' & 'Fanatical' Activist!

STV News: "Salmon farm firm takes legal action against animal welfare campaigner"

Press statement on lawsuit vs Mowi

Mowi press release: "Court order sought to protect health and safety"

 

 

 

'It's 5:30 in the morning on the Isle of Ulva...'@vicky_allan follows activists as she investigates Scotland's unfolding salmon mortality problem pic.twitter.com/kkxlVEUG8h

— The Herald (@heraldscotland) August 29, 2023