Leaked Videos Expose Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Bakkafrost in Loch Fyne – soon to be ASC-certified as ‘responsible’?!

Leaked video footage shot by investigators hired by Compassion in World Farming reveals welfare abuse and lice infestation at RSPCA Assured Bakkafrost's salmon farm at Quarry Point in Loch Fyne:

Leaked videos expose horrific lice infestation inside @rspcaassured Bakkafrost's Quarry Point salmon farm in Loch Fyne – soon to be certified as 'responsible' via @ASC_aqua https://t.co/SZ11rhCCQw
Please boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish salmon! @ScotlandSalmon @ciwf @philip_ciwf pic.twitter.com/aO20Fs4O8O

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 31, 2023

Here's leaked images from inside RSPCA Assured Bakkafrost's salmon farm at Quarry Point in Loch Fyne sourced from CIWF's investigation: 

Leaked photos @ciwf from Bakkafrost's Quarry Point salmon farm in Loch Fyne – shame on @rspcaassured for greenwashing lousy Scottish salmon @ScotlandSalmon @RSPCA_official @RSPCA_PATeam @RSPCAChris @ChrisGPackham @philip_ciwf pic.twitter.com/W6bxfl0oah

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 31, 2023

Just last week, the UK's Department of Trade & Industry and Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs visited Quarry Point salmon farm to promote Scottish salmon to Brazilian chefs.   Fish Farming Expert reported (25 January 2023):

"If I were to define the Scottish market in one word, that word would be quality" says Brazilian chef visiting a salmon farm in Loch Fyne https://t.co/qhnh7WFuy9
If I were to define Scottish salmon in one word, that word would be completeanduttercrap @TavishScott @ScotlandSalmon pic.twitter.com/qAtGK1flid

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 25, 2023

Here's a photo of the Brazilian chefs with the UK trade delegation – posing in the same area as mass mortalities are stored and disposed of:

If the Brazilian chefs had visited RSPCA Assured Bakkafrost's Quarry Point salmon farm in April 2019 then they would have been horrified:

The opening frame of this video from WildFish is exactly where the Brazilian chefs are standing!

Watching such gruesome video evidence hardly inspires confidence in R$PCA Assured – who receive over £500,000 per year from the salmon farming industry in certification fees. 

HELP!

Faroese company Bakkafrost are torturing animals in Loch Fyne. @ScottishSPCA @RSPCA_PATeam @MairiMcAllan @LochfyneDeli pic.twitter.com/Q0WFUQJ8iy

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) January 31, 2023

Bakkafrost Scotland (known as The Scottish Salmon Company up to June 2022) has officially reported to the Scottish Government 145,250 dead salmon via 17 'Mortality Event Reports' since March 2017 at Quarry Point salmon farm – including mortalities due to Proliferative Gill Disease, Pancreas Disease and Complex Gill Disease:

Not only is Bakkafrost Scotland certified as 'welfare friendly' via RSPCA Assured but the Norwegian/Faroese-owned company is gearing up for certification as 'responsible' via the Aquaculture Stewardship Council – including salmon farms in Loch Fyne (Quarry Point, Meall Mhor, Tarbert South, Strondoir Bay, Glenan Bay, Ardcastle, Ardgaddan and Gob a Bharra):

Here's the ASC's website identifying Bakkafrost Scotland salmon farms currently undergoing initial audits:

Shame on the ASC and RSPCA for greenwashing Bakkafrost and other salmon farming companies spreading infectious diseases, lice infestation and welfare abuse across Scotland!

Here's gruesome video footage shot inside Bakkafrost's Meall Mhor salmon farm in Loch Fyne in April 2021:

Earlier this month (16 January 2023), Animal Equality published video footage shot in October 2022 of mass mortalities at Meall Mhor salmon farm in Loch Fyne:

#FarmedFish deserve to be treated like more than numbers on a page 🐟💙 Sign our petition if you agree ➡️ https://t.co/BYrGZy7Ao2

📸 @TheGAAIA pic.twitter.com/u8xYsHFqjI

— Animal Equality UK (@animal_equality) January 28, 2023

Whenever Scottish Salmon Watch has visited RSPCA Assured Bakkafrost in Loch Fyne the stench of disease-ridden Scottish salmon has been nauseating:

When Scottish Salmon Watch visited Bakkafrost's Quarry Point salmon farm in September 2020, warning signs told us to keep 15 metres away from the disease-ridden cages:

"No Unauthorised Access – Keep 15m Away" warn The Scottish Salmon Company. Nothing to See Here (Honest)! https://t.co/MI8Ui8POaf@salmon_scottish @Folketrygdfond pic.twitter.com/ZUD7Cnaywb

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 6, 2020