ICELAND: Yesterday (Feb 10th) Baskets of damaged and shredded farmed salmon are emptied into a Norwegian ship. Mass mortalities due to cold weather.
Too hot/too cold, needless animal cruelty continues. @MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllan @CVOScotland @D1HAJ https://t.co/8MDbFYr1T3
— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) February 11, 2022
Here's the photos published in Stundin (11 February 2022):
Anyone for skinless salmon? Fresh from the Icelandic fjord! https://t.co/3OawBi4GIo @stundin @MFAIceland @PresidentISL @Iceland_Review pic.twitter.com/eSLI5lPdyD
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 11, 2022
Intrafish reported (13 February 2022):
“I used to say that Iceland is a viral free area," said Sigrud Petursson, founder of salmon farmer Arctic Fish. "I cannot say this any longer" https://t.co/owk5hqu15x
Why is Scotland permitting millions of salmon eggs (ova) to be imported from @WeAreBenchmark in Iceland? #ISA pic.twitter.com/GENVPocDEy— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 13, 2022
Earlier this week (9 February 2022), Scamon Scotland wrote to Scottish Ministers repeating calls to close the borders to imports of ova, parr and smolts – including imported ova from ISA-ridden Iceland:
Iceland Still Importing Ova to 'Scottish' Salmon Farms Despite Disease Risks! https://t.co/ObzuMSgMs2@HGSalmonUK @BetterBreeding @LochDuartSalmon @ScotlandSalmon @WeAreBenchmark @MowiScotlandLtd @scotgov @MairiGougeon @ScotGovNetZero @EFTAsecretariat @PresidentISL @MFAIceland pic.twitter.com/PL4n09Oqao
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 9, 2022
Scottish Salmon Watch (renamed Scamon Scotland on 1 February 2022) reported in December 2021:
Laxar slaughter all fish in a farming area in Reyðarfjörður due to Infectious Salmon Anaemia @RUVfrettir https://t.co/QoPxw85BEa
Were infected salmon eggs (ova) @WeAreBenchmark the source of ISA? Will Scotland block shipments of ova from Iceland? @marinescotland @ScotGovNetZero— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 14, 2021
The North Atlantic Salmon Fund and Animal Concern reported in September 2021:
Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse Inside Salmon Cages in Iceland & Scotland – Go Pro cameras lift the lid on the horrors of factory fish farming! https://t.co/ve4uKy26l1
Campaigners are calling on open pen salmon farms to be closed down in the wake of horrific video footage pic.twitter.com/KLObWLqf1Y— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 18, 2021
“Factory fish farming is a welfare nightmare which must be closed down now” said Don Staniford of Animal Concern's 'Scottish Salmon Watch' campaign https://t.co/1VUuNo8S0z
"Secret filming inside salmon farms has captured horrific evidence of welfare abuse including death crowns" pic.twitter.com/HkHAHlVWIP— Animal Concern (@animal_concern) September 18, 2021
Watch video footage shot inside salmon farms in Iceland via:
Nothing to see here – just a farmed salmon missing half its face. All perfectly normal in the world of "responsibly sourced" salmon. Move along now #SalMar #Arnarlax #ArcticFish #NorwayRoyalSalmon #Iceland https://t.co/X0oVELF61d pic.twitter.com/vyyofcaJzu
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 30, 2021
Here's photos from the secret filming inside salmon farms in Iceland:
A quick dip of the GoPro in a salmon feedlot – by Against The Current Iceland.
Look familiar?
Note lice infested, diseased lumpfish. It’s not just salmon that are dying in these cages.@SSPOsays @MairiMcAllan @_KateForbes @HamishMacdonell pic.twitter.com/9lmr643fXs
— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) August 13, 2021
The shocking video footage featured on Icelandic TV:
And in Icelandic newspapers:
The secret filming was carried out by Veiga Grétarsdóttir:
Photos of dead salmon belly up on the surface of a farm in Iceland https://t.co/xxmozhpBmm
"It has taken them up to one and half hour to pump up dead fish from each net pen, this needs to be stopped right away" says Veiga Grétarsdóttir of 'Against the Current Iceland' #Iceland pic.twitter.com/pw18FwoILJ— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 17, 2021
Icelandic TV featured the problems of salmon farming in a documentary featuring Jeremy Paxman screened in 2018:
Watch Jeremy Paxman attacking the "collateral consequences" of salmon farming in a documentary screened in Iceland (13 May) https://t.co/IF7NpxRjst More by Paxman in the FT https://t.co/cdrSpnzV3b @charliewhelan @ScotGamekeepers @fms_scotland @SalmonTroutCons @ScotSalmonTank pic.twitter.com/peUOqAJ8nK
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 7, 2018