Scottish Salmon’s Deadliest ‘Catch’ – the most lethal farms & companies in Scotland named & shamed!

 

 

 

 

Mortality data published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate on 7 November 2023 is enough to out you off 'fresh', 'healthy', 'responsible', 'organic' and 'welfare friendly' Scottish salmon forever – with over 65 million dead fish (mostly Atlantic salmon but some rainbow trout and sea trout) reported on Scotland's farms since 2015.

 

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Download the Scottish Government mortality data online here

 

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As the Scottish Government so helpfully explains "the information presented is not a comprehensive record of fish farm mortality but only details situations where the mortality reporting thresholds have been reached and where this information has been reported to Marine Scotland by the industry or where information has been obtained through FHI surveillance":

 

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In other words, not all mortalities on salmon farms are reported.  The fact is that since 2013 there has been no data published – and perhaps not even officially collected – detailing the number of mortalities.  As Rob Edwards reported in The Sunday Herald in October 2013:

 

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The Times reported in October 2013:

 

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Here's the letter from the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (renamed Salmon Scotland in November 2021) to SEPA in February 2013:

 

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And here's SEPA's reply in March 2013:

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A decade later the $almafia are still desperately trying to stop the public lifting the lid on disease-ridden Scottish salmon with legal threats by Norwegian giants Mowi and Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms):

 

 

 

 

 

Yet mass mortalities – and video footage exposing welfare abuse and dead fish – keep on flowing:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Scottish Salmon is Dead in the Warming Water!

Zombie Salmon II – Bakkafrost’s RSPCA Assured Horror Show!

Sunday Mail: "Salmon horror is off the scale – drone footage shows thousands of dead fish"

Video: Bakkafrost is the King of Death in Scotland (as certified via R$PCA A$$ured)!

The Herald on Scottish salmon's rising mortality problem!

Press Release: "Video footage exposes ‘Vision for Sustainable Aquaculture’ as a welfare nightmare!"

Letter to Scottish Ministers: "End Deadly Salmon Farming Now in Scotland!"

Video Exclusive: RSPCA Assured 'Zombie' Scottish Salmon!

Sunday Mail: "Disturbing 'zombie salmon' video at Scots fish farm sparks welfare investigation"

EXPOSED: Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Wester Ross Salmon Farm

Scotland On Sunday front page splash turns up the heat on Scottish salmon!

Videos & Photos: Welfare Abuse at Wester Ross Fisheries (Mowi) in Loch Broom

Wester Ross Scamon – Photos Expose RSPCA Assured's 'Ethical' & 'Sustainable' Salmon!

Gruesome Photos: ‘MowiLeaks’ Blows the Whistle on RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon!

Sunday Post: "There is something fishy about salmon on offer in the supermarket – animal welfare campaigners in warning over deformities"

Daily Record: "Salmon farms must act quickly after graphic images showing death and disease emerged"

Video Exclusive: RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon fresh from Loch Linnhe!

Photo Horror of M&S Supplier Norskott Havbruk (Scottish Sea Farms)!

Death Deflation: 13 Million Morts On Scottish Salmon Farms in 2021 – More Like 22 Million (& maybe 50 million if you add freshwater)!

Letter to Scottish Parliament re. farmed salmon mortalities "increasing at an alarming rate" from former convenor of Rural Committee

Press Release: "Year of the Dead Salmon: Scottish Salmon Plagued by Mass Mortality Problems"

Media Backgrounder: Year of the Dead Salmon – Bakkafrost Scotland is the King of Death!

Herald On Sunday: "Inquiry into salmon farming demanded after "sickening" levels of fish deaths"

Fake News? Over 50% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms – how can supermarkets advertise it as "responsibly sourced"?

56% Mortality at RSPCA Assured Mowi (but don't worry, it's certified as "farmed responsibly" by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council)!

Over 80% Mortality at The Scottish Salmon Company!!!

Dead in the Water – Scottish Salmon's Mortality Mountain Piles Ever Higher in 2021!

Mass Mortalities – 66% in one month at The Scottish Salmon Company on the Isle of Gigha!

STV News: "Thousands of rotting salmon ‘stink out’ village after mass death at farm"

X-Rated Video: 90% Mortality at The Faroese/Norwegian 'Scottish' Salmon Company?!

"The shocking death rates on Scotland's salmon farms revealed"

2020: The Year of Diseased Scottish Salmon – 27,000 Tonnes of Dead Fish, the Worst On Record!

Update: Mortality Rate Over 36% At RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon!

Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon 

Update: 25 Million Mass Mortalities on Scottish Salmon Farms

54 Million Farmed Fish Died in Norway in 2021 – How Many Farmed Salmon Died in Scotland?

Revealed: 30+ Million Dead Scottish Salmon Since 2017 – over 8 million morts reported last year & over half a million in first two weeks of 2022!!

52 million deaths in Norway – how many millions died on Scottish salmon farms in 2020?

The Case Against Scottish Salmon – An Update on Diseases & Mass Mortalities!

2.2 Million Missing Mortalities at Scottish Sea Farms?

Alexa, how many salmon die each year on Scottish salmon farms? 42 million* (but we don't know for sure as the answer is deemed "commercially damaging")!

Over One Million Morts for Scottish Salmon in September 2020!

Survival of the Unhealthiest Scottish Salmon – New data reveals shocking mortality rates!

Dead in the Water – New Data Reveals Mass Mortalities & Disease on Scottish Salmon Farms

The Ferret: "Farmed salmon deaths from disease reach record high"

The Killing Farms – Scottish Salmon's Horror Story Continues!

Solving Scottish Salmon's Multi-Million Mortality Problem

Scottish Salmon's Mort Mountain Leaps Over 10 Million – FOI reveals 2.3 million dead salmon at Marine Harvest farms in 2017

A disgrace: Ten million salmon thrown away by fish farm industry in last year alone

Death rate at salmon farms doubles to 20m fish a year

Scottish watchdog labelled ‘lapdog’ after agreeing to keep fish farm deaths secret

 

 

 

 

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