Photo Exclusive: Cooke's RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon - fresh from Shetland with eye damage, lesions, diseases & viruses!

Sneak Preview: Which @rspcaassured salmon farm are these delicious nay sustainable fish sourced from? Photos taken by the Fish Health Inspectorate @scotgov https://t.co/2sBrJXdrlL
Clue… @CookeScotland @TavishScott @Shetnews @ShFishermen @shetlandtimes @ScotlandSalmon @waitrose pic.twitter.com/HIQ8zJv4LG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 31, 2022

'Case Information' slipped out last month (25 October 2022) by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate exposes the scam that is "responsibly sourced" RSPCA Assured Scottish salmon.

Photo Exclusive: Cooke's @rspcaassured salmon – fresh from Shetland with eye damage, lesions & viruses @CookeScotland @ScotlandSalmon @TavishScott
Inspection @scotgov details moribund fish "hanging vertically", Piscine Myocarditis, Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis & heart disease pic.twitter.com/cht60wNv2x

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 7, 2022

Here's excerpts from the inspection report (2022-0110) which details eye damage, moribund fish with one fish "hanging vertically", lesions, infectious diseases and viruses reported at RSPCA Assured Cooke Aquaculture's Vee Taing salmon farm in Shetland during an inspection in April 2022:

Lifting the lid on @rspcaassured Scottish salmon – anyone for eye damage, "lesions on the flanks", Piscine Myocarditis, Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis, Cardiomyopathy syndrome, Vibrio & Moritella vicosa (Winter ulcer)? https://t.co/XiUU4MFz35 @CookeScotland @ScotlandSalmon #Cooke pic.twitter.com/ileRlk0qcz

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 7, 2022

A 'Fish Health Inspectorate Visit Report' dated 2 September 2022 – published by the Scottish Government on 25 October 2022 – detailed "varying degrees of eye damage and lesions to the flanks", "damaged tails and pectoral fins" and "erosion of the snouts" amongst 50 moribund and lethargic fish and positive tests for Piscine Myocarditis, Moritella vicosa, Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus and Vibrio as well as "pathology consistent with Cardiomyopathy syndrome", peritonitis and splenitis:

Last month (14 October 2022), $camon Scotland wrote to the RSPCA calling for an end to the greenwashing of Scottish salmon.

Please end torture & cruelty on salmon farms in Scotland! @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd
Stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly sourced" @rspcaassured & "farmed responsibly" @ASC_aqua https://t.co/GdiaY00bHJ #RSPCA #ASC #Scottish #Scamon @philip_ciwf @Animallawyersuk pic.twitter.com/S6O6cYkQQc

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2022

Enough is enough! Please stop greenwashing Scottish salmon as 'responsible' & 'organic'! @rspcaassured @SoilAssociation @ASC_aqua @ScotlandSalmon https://t.co/XiUU4MnpOX @ChrisGPackham pic.twitter.com/0rBCtg9mxI

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 7, 2022

Campaigners on Orkney are protesting against plans by Cooke Aquaculture to expand off Papa Westray:

Down Under in Tasmania, protestors earlier this month also raised objections to Cooke's expansion plans with a letter headed 'Tasmania is Cooked' published in newspapers across Australia:

Living Oceans & Global Salmon Farming Resistance allies published an open letter in Aussie 🇦🇺 newspapers, inc @themercurycomau, to Tasmanians & government warning them on Cooke Inc's public record of violations & disregard of regs in 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇱🇬🇧

Read 🧵to TAKE ACTION 👇 pic.twitter.com/a999YdxDI3

— Living Oceans (@living_oceans) November 3, 2022

"Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry" – published @PenguinBooks on 26 April https://t.co/WlBHM9flOl
"Richard Flanagan’s exposé of the salmon farming industry in Tasmania is chilling" #RichardFlanagan
When is the Scottish edition out? @tavishscott pic.twitter.com/uu78TGOKka

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 21, 2021

The Tasmanian Times reported (2 November 2022):

In August 2022, $camon $cotland published gruesome photos of Cooke Aquaculture's 'organic' salmon from Orkney (sourced from a Scottish Government inspection report):

Organic Scamon: here's what Cooke Aquaculture's salmon from Westray on Orkney look like (as inspected by @marinescotland in May) @The_Orcadian @bbcorkney @OrkneyCouncil
Why does the @SoilAssociation certify salmon farms as 'organic'? @SoilAssocScot @CookeScotland @cookeseafood pic.twitter.com/7FTcnt01zG

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 24, 2022

In what warped world can these fish be truly marketed as "responsibly farmed" and "responsibly sourced"?

Crook err I mean Cooke claim "various campaigners promote false information about the UK’s number one food export, farm-raised Scottish salmon" https://t.co/2YYUT4dw23
You mean this 'Case Information' @marinescotland showing welfare abuse at 'organic' @CookeScotland off Westray? pic.twitter.com/DDetOlvTiN

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 9, 2022

No wonder nearly 500 people have signed a petition against Cooke Aquaculture's expansion plans in Northern Orkney:

Petition leaps over 400 – please add your name to the call to stop salmon farming expansion @Change
Save Papay: "It's a simple plea: Enough is Enough!" https://t.co/IwVGwjrtIi @CookeSeafood @CookeScotland @ScotlandSalmon @MairiMcAllan @CCNScotland @ScotSalmonTank @amy_may

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 6, 2022