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Breaking News: "Horror Videos Reveal Welfare Abuse Inside Scottish Salmon & Trout Cages" (12 September 2021)
Press Release: "Norwegian Government Asked to Divest from 'Unethical' & 'Irresponsible' Scottish Salmon!" (30 November 2020)
Report: SCOTTISH SCAMON: HOW FOREIGN INTERESTS CONTROL 99% OF 'SCOTTISH' SALMON FARMING (February 2019)
Watch shocking video footage via "Secret Filming Inside Scottish Salmon Farms - Diseased & Deformed Farmed Salmon (& Lice-Infested ‘Cleaner Fish’)"
Please help put Scottish salmon under the microscope - if you find any problems on salmon farms, examples of illegal labeling in supermarkets, tip-offs of pollution and disease problems or have suggestions for future investigations please contact Don Staniford (salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com).
In December 2017, the BBC's 'The One Show' broadcast shocking footage of leaking fluid wastes from haulage trucks on 'The Dead Salmon Run'. That's only half the sordid story of how Scottish salmon ends up on supermarket shelves. Keep track of Scottish salmon online here and via Hard Evidence: Dossier of Data on Lice, Diseases & Mortalities at Scottish Salmon Farms
Send the message that Scottish salmon is cheap and nasty - stop buying toxic Scottish salmon. Take the pledge today and tell your family & friends. Friends don't let friends buy farmed salmon! To register support please email Don Staniford via dstaniford@gaaia.org
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The list of diseases reported on Scottish salmon farms includes Amoebic Gill Disease, Anaemia, Cardiomyopathy Syndrome, Pasteurella skyensis, Salmon Gill Poxvirus and Pancreas Disease. Mmmm. Read more online here
Over a quarter (26.7%) of Scottish salmon die each year on farms in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland. That present a huge problem for the disposal of morts (dead salmon) which exceeded 20,000 tonnes in 2017 and are estimated at well over 10 million (perhaps as high as 20 million). More details online here
You may be shocked to discover that dozens of seals are killed each year by Scottish salmon farms (even those certified by the RSPCA). The seal killers are headed by Marine Harvest, Loch Duart, Scottish Sea Farms & the Scottish Salmon Company (all members of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation and RSPCA certified). Read more online here and download the latest 2017 data online here and 2011-2016 data online here
Parasites called sea lice have exploded on Scottish salmon farms - as lice have become resistant to toxic chemicals (read the latest data online here). New mechanical treatments such as the Thermolicer (a washing machine for lice-ridden farmed salmon) are being used but tens of thousands of salmon are dying each year (read more online here).
Thanks to Scotland's powerful Freedom of Information laws we have been able to access damning data on toxic chemicals, seals killed, lice levels, diseases, mortalities and other problems. Read more online here (warning: have the sick bag handy)!
The bad news about Scottish salmon just keeps on coming - as the can of worms is being opened. A Scottish Parliamentary inquiry into salmon farming during 2018 will lift the lid even further (read more from the Environment Committee online here). Keep track of the news online here.
Your support and contributions are much appreciated and will help fuel the fight against salmon farms - big thanks!
The Scottish Parliament is conducted an inquiry into salmon farming during 2018 - read reports online here and online here
Keep track of the news online here and read the latest press releases online here
Report misleading labeling now! Email dstaniford@gaaia.org
Read more via "Scottish Salmon's Mort Mountain Leaps Over 10 Million"
Read an introduction to Scottish salmon farming's problems online here
Read more about how the RSCPA has branded 70% of Scottish salmon production as "welfare friendly" online here and online here
Read how the Aquaculture Stewardship Council is greenwashing toxic farmed salmon via "Abominable Salmon Council: buyer beware!" and "WWF greenwashes Marine Harvest"
Read about the Global Salmon Initiative's sustainability scam via "EXPOSED: Scottish Salmon's Sustainability Scam"
Read how the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation's 'Label Rouge' scheme is a rogue label via "Red Alert for Label Rouge - Lousy Label Goes Rogue"
Read about M&S's fake label via "M&S fakes loch to launch salmon" and "M&S Lochmuir salmon... only Lochmuir doesn't exist"
Read more via "Farmed salmon are deaf – and now we know why"
Read more via "Humpback Whale Post Mortem Suggests Entanglement in Salmon Farm" and "Salmon Farming Kills Whales!"
Read more via "Fish farm closure call over lice" and "Scotland's worst sea lice offenders"
Read more via "A threat to your child's health" and "Scottish Salmon Farming 101"
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Can't sleep at night for worry about the dangers of farmed salmon? Then please read on - you can find out more via other web-sites including Alexandra Morton; Farmed Salmon Boycott; Farmed & Dangerous and GAAIA.
25 Reasons to Boycott Scottish Salmon (pdf)
Download25 Years of Scottish Salmon Shame (pdf)
DownloadScottish Salmon Farming 101 (pdf)
DownloadSlicegate: Anatomy & Chronology of an Environmental Lobotomy (pdf)
DownloadFarmed & Dangerous Salmon: the most contaminated food on the supermarket shelf (pdf)
DownloadUgly in Pink: cosmetically challenged farmed salmon (pdf)
DownloadSilent Spring of the Sea (pdf)
DownloadBig Fish in a Small Pond (pdf)
DownloadFive Fundamental Flaws of Sea Cage Fish Farming (pdf)
DownloadSea Cage Fish Farming: an evaluation of environmental and public health impacts (pdf)
DownloadOrganic Scamon: the greenwashing of toxic farmed salmon (pdf)
DownloadAbominable Salmon Council - Buyer Beware! (pdf)
DownloadWatch David Ainsley explain how salmon farms pollute the sea-bed
Watch Howard Wood of COAST explain how salmon farming off the Isle of Arran is a "smelly mess"
Watch John Robins of Save Our Seals Fund explain how salmon farming kills seals
Don Staniford explains the hidden extras lurking in farmed salmon
Don Staniford explains why Scottish salmon belongs in the bin!