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

Halloween has come early at the Faroese/Norwegian owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company – video reveals mass mortalities & infectious diseases ravaging Isle of Gigha @salmon_scottish @SSPOsays
Why is the Norwegian Government still investing? @Folketrygdfond https://t.co/OzmwVhMj6p pic.twitter.com/O2lbyCxURe

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 16, 2021

Halloween has come early at The Faroese/Norwegian-owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company. Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots posted on Facebook (15 October 2021):

We surveyed @salmon_scottish Gigha farms a couple months ago and were using Acoustic Deterrent Devices illegally without EPS license and now trying to skip 500,000 diseased and dying fish before the Fish Health Inspectorate turn up. What definition of sustainable is this? pic.twitter.com/1XMbd4hiUx

— david nairn (@ClydePorpoise) October 15, 2021

Here's photo stills from the video footage:

The Isle of Gigha – in Old Norse it means "God's island" or "good island" – has been hit by another Viking invasion in the shape of the Norwegian/Faroese-owned 'Scottish' Salmon Co. @salmon_scottish
What the hell are you doing? @Folketrygdfond @SSPOsays https://t.co/OzmwVhMj6p pic.twitter.com/F1wVVPyoGC

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 18, 2021

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots posted on Facebook (18 October 2021):

Earlier this month (14 October 2021), Scottish Salmon Watch shared gruesome video footage of morts being disposed of at a salmon farm in the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Canada:

Video Nasties of Dead Farmed Salmon Pile Up All Over the World! https://t.co/J2Y7MiNXnE @ClayoquotAction @CermaqCan @ClayoquotFriend @claybiotrust @CCUNESCO @BCSalmonFarmers @Cermaq @WesterlyNews

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 14, 2021

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported last month (19 September 2021):

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported last month (10 September 2021):

Scottish Salmon Watch reported earlier this month (6 October 2021):

The Faroese-owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company blames "biology", Brexit & Covid for £19.4 million loss https://t.co/C1FEXXZAui
It was obviously nothing to do with welfare abuse, lice infestations, overstocking & rampant disease! @salmon_scottish @SSPOsays @Folketrygdfond #Bakkafrost pic.twitter.com/z7OdXCDPXl

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 6, 2021

In September 2021, Scottish Salmon Watch published shocking video footage of mass mortalities, lice infestation and welfare abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company's West Strome salmon farm in Loch Carron (a 'Special Area of Conservation'):

"This is the scum – all the salmon fat polluting our waters," says Jamie Moyes in a video from West Strome salmon farm @salmon_scottish "Absolutely disgusting, stinking. Oh my God, it is thick. It is a toxic soup – it makes you sick the smell" @SSPOsays https://t.co/6VlzcwKJh5 pic.twitter.com/RffPTrp9eg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 24, 2021

“Scottish salmon leaves me sick to the stomach,” said Jamie Moyes, a vegan activist who acted as boat support to Scottish Salmon Watch when we filmed inside The Scottish Salmon Company's West Strome salmon farm on 6 September 2021. “I used to work as a salmon farmer and I am ashamed that the Scottish Salmon Company is causing such horrific distress and suffering. Anyone who watches this video footage will be put off eating Scottish salmon for life. The Scottish Government needs to take immediate action to end the torture of thousands of farmed salmon dying in the cages in Loch Carron”.

Video footage of the mort disposal operation @salmon_scottish "The dead boat – absolutely packed to the gunnels with death: at least thirty tonnes of dead salmon on there today”.
Like a serial killer burying the dead bodies before the police arrive! https://t.co/jhrwnsC7Sk

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 13, 2021

The new film 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' (streaming now on AppleTV, Amazon, iTunes and You Tube) narrated by Kate Winslet features stomach-churning footage of the Titanic-sized disaster that is RSPCA Assured Scottish salmon farming.

Eating Our Way to Extinction – narrated by Kate Winslet – "aims to influence a sea-change in eating habits and to convince viewers to boycott farmed salmon" https://t.co/YQ07ck6yDI @SundayTimesScot @EatingOur #eating2extinction #eowte #Boycott #Scottish #Salmon @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/H9aolC5z9P

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 29, 2021

Here's more video nasties shot at The Scottish Salmon Company's disease-ridden salmon farms in Loch Fyne:

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in July 2021:

New Data: It's official – Scottish salmon is the worst ever! https://t.co/8w3aNU5XSp @ScottishEPA
27,000 tonnes of mortalities – almost four times more than the 7,000 tonnes officially reported in 2010!
Please boycott @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @SoilAssociation & @SaumonLabel pic.twitter.com/i0BFh6eCRT

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2021

Here's the worst monthly mortalities (by weight) reported on salmon farms during 2020 – headed by the Faroese/Norwegian owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company followed by Isle of Skye Salmon (owned by Norway's Grieg Seafood) and Norwegian-owned giants Mowi and Scottish Sea Farms.

Six out of the top twenty monthly mortalities since 2002 when data was made available were reported during 2020 – with The Scottish Salmon Company's salmon farm at Sgian Dubh in Loch Striven in August 2020 heading the list of shame.

Scottish Salmon Named & Shamed: here's the worst mass mortalities since 2002 & worst during 2020 according to official data @ScottishEPA https://t.co/8w3aNU5XSp @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @GriegShetland @scotseafarms @CookeScotland @LochDuartSalmon @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/3St570gNuk

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2021

In April 2019, Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots published video footage of morts being taken away in a convoy of yellow Billy Bowie trucks from the same salmon farm at Quarry Point:

The Scottish Salmon Company is even less Scottish than Donald Trump – it is owned by Faroese company Bakkafrost whose largest shareholder is the Norwegian Government Pension Fund controlled by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade.

Anyone for 'Scottish' salmon? Imported as eggs from Norway & Iceland and bankrolled by £££$$€€s in #Norway, #Faroes, #USA, #Denmark & #Belgium
'Exclusively from Scotland' claims @salmon_scottish "Provenance guaranteed" @waitrose @wjhm93 @Folketrygdfond https://t.co/NusyErqUWk pic.twitter.com/H2CZUVJEjD

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 13, 2020

Oops – Bakkafrost wrongly gives #Sweden not #Norway as the origin of Norwegian Government Pension Fund @Folketrygdfond
"This is clearly a mistake from our side – apologies for that. Folketrygdfondet is Norwegian and this will be corrected on our webpage" https://t.co/NusyErqUWk pic.twitter.com/Yq47zE5wMg

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 13, 2020

In November 2020, Scottish Salmon Watch wrote to the Norwegian Government asking them to divest from The Scottish Salmon Company – and other salmon farming companies – as it was unethical and irresponsible.

Did you know that the Norwegian Government's Pension Fund (derived from Norway's oil revenues) is the largest or 2nd largest shareholder in companies which account for 80% of 'Scottish' salmon farming? @Folketrygdfond @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish https://t.co/4P1m3g2CvT pic.twitter.com/Sl6bFlcwaK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 30, 2020

As largest shareholder in Bakkafrost, @Folketrygdfond should surely divest @salmon_scottish or exert influence to end welfare abuse! Norway's Pension Fund demands ethical & environmental investmenthttps://t.co/NusyErqUWk @NorwayMFA @fiskeridir @NFdep @erna_solberg @Stortinget pic.twitter.com/Fcc06y5hPD

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 13, 2020

Last month, Bakkafrost sought to distance itself from the bloody slaughter of dolphins and whales in the Faroes:

Hyprocrisy @salmon_scottish – Bakkafrost (Faroese owners of 'Scottish' Salmon Co) condemn slaughter of 1,500 dolphins as “totally unacceptable” yet condone welfare abuse of millions of farmed salmon & use of noisy ADDs which harm cetaceans!https://t.co/fI6y3IPk8W @ClydePorpoise

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 17, 2021

Scottish Salmon Watch reported (14 September 2021):

Caught on candid camera – The Scottish Salmon Company claim to have an EPS licence to use ADDs at their salmon farm at West Strome in Loch Carron https://t.co/vvP9mJfXF1
I thought there were no EPS licences issued for ADDs on salmon farms! @nature_scot @marinescotland @SSPOsays

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 13, 2021

The Sunday National and The Ferret reported (27 June 2021):

Probe launched over claims of ‘sonic torture’ at Scots fish farms @ScotNational @FerretScot @ClydePorpoise
"Can communities and the Scottish Government really trust what the salmon farming industry says?" @salmon_scottish @SSPOsays @marinescotland https://t.co/1eoZNmbW7X

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 27, 2021

Surveying for Acoustic Deterrent Devices in Loch Fyne & Loch Striven found almost every active salmon farm using ADDs. Every farm was operated by Faroese/Norwegian-owned 'Scottish' Salmon Company @salmon_scottish @Folketrygdfond @Try_Lochlander @SSPOsays https://t.co/wcTHtY3oSO pic.twitter.com/J6zsOzrzOA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 29, 2021

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in September 2019 (just before Bakkafrost bought The 'Scottish' Salmon Company from Ukrainian banker Yuriy Lopatynskyy):

Photographs taken by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate – slipped out unnoticed in April 2019 – reveal severely damaged farmed salmon at The Scottish Salmon Company's Strondoir Bay salmon farm in Loch Fyne in February 2019.

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in August 2019:

It's no surprise to read that The Scottish Salmon Company – registered in Jersey, floated on the Norwegian stock exchange and whose largest shareholder is listed as an anonymous account on the Swiss stock exchange believed to be controlled by Ukrainian businessman Yuriy Lopatinskyy who literally has a residence in Edinburgh next to the First Minister of Scotland – is "considering sale offers".

Buyers beware, however. Before you buy 'Scottish' salmon please take a hard look at the disease-ridden horror story.

Do you really want to buy a company farming blind salmon plagued by boils (not to mention infested with lice and riddled with infectious diseases, pathogens and viruses)?

Investors and consumers alike are encouraged to read the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate recently published report on The Scottish Salmon Company's salmon farm at Aird in Loch Shieldaig. The damning report – along with video footage shot by Scottish Salmon Watch in June and previous FHI reports – is enough to put you off Scottish salmon for life.

Given the horrific nature of their salmon farming business, it is little wonder that lawyers acting for The Scottish Salmon Company threatened legal action in 2018 to prevent the disclosure of damning photos of disease-ridden Scottish salmon.

Here's some of the photos – obtained by Scottish Salmon Watch via Freedom of Information – The Scottish Salmon Company did not want the public the see (published in June 2018 by The Ferret).

And more photos (sourced from Scottish Government Fish Health Inspections in 2017 and 2018) published by Scottish Salmon Watch in June 2018 and in August 2018)

And here's more stomach-churning photos of diseased salmon at The Scottish Salmon Company in 2016 (published by Scottish Salmon Watch in August 2018 – and sourced from the Scottish Government Fish Health Inspectorate surveillance):

The Ferret also reported in September 2018 on shocking images published by photographer Corin Smith from The Scottish Salmon Company's lice-infested salmon farm at Vacasay in Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis:

Gruesome footage of lice-ridden salmon captured by photographer Corin Smith at The Scottish Salmon Company was featured on the BBC's 'One Show' in September 2018 and also used in a recent video message by Sir David Attenborough.

The Daily Mail reported in September 2018:

Back in February 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch revealed that 99% of 'Scottish' salmon farming production was controlled/owned by six foreign companies including The Scottish Salmon Company (then owned/controlled by Ukrainian banker Yuri Lopatinsky via Northern Link and an anonymous account registered at the Swiss Stock Exchange).

The Ferret reported in February 2019:

In June 2019, lawyers representing The Scottish Salmon Company's controlling shareholder Yuriy Lopatynskyy threatened legal action against Scottish Salmon Watch for publishing information via 'Scottish Scamon'. Here's the legal threat served in June 2019:

Scottish Salmon Watch did not remove the offending report and stands by the published information. Find out more about the scam, sham and consumer con that is 'Scottish Scamon' online here.