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
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— 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" <Ruairidh.Leishman@shepwedd.com>
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