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Read a press release (30 September 2019) online here
WARNING - do not watch on a full stomach!
Track the Scottish Parliamentary inquiry via our News section
Read more via "Hard Evidence: Dossier of Data on Lice, Diseases & Mortalities at Scottish Salmon Farms"
Watch video via "Dead salmon at the bottom of a cage in a salmon farm".
That's over a quarter of all Scottish salmon dying each that - over 22,000 tonnes (that's a lot of lorries hauling dead salmon to incinerators). Read more via "Scottish Salmon's Mort Mountain Leaps Over 10 Million - FOI reveals 2.3 million dead salmon at Marine Harvest farms in 2017" and "Media Advisory: Aquacalypse Now - Scottish Parliament TV features Scottish salmon horror show"
Diseases reported on Scottish salmon farms in 2017 include Salmon Gill poxvirus, Paranucleospora theridion, gill pathology, complex gill issues, Vibrio anguillarum, Proliferative Gill Disease, Amoebic Gill Disease, Pancreas Disease, fungus, cardiomyopathy syndrome, Haemorrhagic smolt syndrome, HSMI, Enteric redmouth disease and anaemia. Read award-winning food writer Joanna Blytham via The Grocer: ‘Scotland’s Farmed Salmon Industry Stinks’
Listeria contamination of Scottish salmon - including at Loch Duart in 2013 - has caused headaches for the salmon farming industry (and can induce vomiting and illness in people unknowingly eating listeria contaminated salmon). Read more via "Listeria Contamination in Farmed Salmon"
Amoebic Gill Disease (including Epitheliocystis, Chlamydia and Proliferative Gill Disease) has hit Scottish salmon farms hard over the last decade. Read more via "Gill Diseases: Scottish Salmon's Dirty Big Secret"
Diseases reported on Scottish salmon farms include Salmonid alphavirus, Epitheliocystis (Chlamydia), Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis, Infectious Salmon Anaemia, Salmon Gill Poxvirus and Pasteurella skyensis. Read more via "Fish Farmageddon: the Infectious Salmon Aquacalypse"
Scottish farmed salmon have experienced problems with Cardiomyopathy Syndrome (broken heart disease) since it was first reported in 2000. Read more via "Scottish Salmon's Mort Mountain Leaps Over 10 Million"
Scottish salmon is riddled with flesh-eating parasites called sea lice with over 60 salmon farms breaching lice limits in 2016-2017. Read more via "Supermarket salmon riddled with sea lice" and "Scottish salmon sold by Co-op, Tesco and Sainsbury's is crawling with sea lice up to 20 TIMES the acceptable levels"
Scottish salmon farms in 2017 reported the following: Salmon Gill poxvirus, Paranucleospora theridion, gill pathology, complex gill issues, Vibrio anguillarum, Proliferative Gill Disease, Amoebic Gill Disease, Pancreas Disease, fungus, cardiomyopathy syndrome, Haemorrhagic smolt syndrome, HSMI, Enteric redmouth disease & anaemia. Read more via "Scottish Salmon's Mort Mountain Leaps Over 10 Million"
Watch Global TV reporting on a virus found in blood water pouring into BC waters online here
Read more via "STV News: Fishermen in Western Isles losing up to 20% of stock as disease spreads" and watch interview with creel fisherman Angus Campbell online here. Read more via "Gill Diseases: Scottish Salmon's Dirty Big Secret"
Listen to BBC Radio reporting on Cooke Aquaculture's untreated blood water effluent pollution incident in Shetland online here
Watch the BBC's 'One Show' reporting on 'The Dead Salmon Run' online here
Watch video report online here (and read more via "Loch Duart - The (Really Not Very) Sustainable Salmon Company"
Watch "DFO suppresses ISA virus positive test results in BC salmon" online here (read more via 'Virus Tracking').
Read more background via "Racing A Virus" and "Virus Tracking".
And subscribe to news updates on why Scottish salmon should be avoided like the plague!
Read the letter to the Scottish Government online here
Read and sign the petition calling for the testing of effluents from salmon farming operations for infectious disease, pathogens and viruses - online here