Mowi’s Mortality Nigthmare – Farmed Salmon is Dead in the Water!

Mowi's Mortality Nigthmare – Farmed Salmon Is Dead in the Water https://t.co/psbmcoVanz
New data reveals 234,000 dead salmon in June with 118,000 dead due to "lack of oxygen" at Mowi's @rspcaassured Inchmore hatchery @MowiScotlandLtd @APHAgovuk @marinescotland @SSPOsays #Salmon pic.twitter.com/XurlBSPGqc

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 31, 2021

Data for mass mortality events officially reported by salmon farms to the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate (published online on 4 August 2021) should leave consumers of "responsibly sourced" RSPCA Assured salmon sick to the stomach – in the month of June alone there were 45 'Mortality Event Reports' detailing over 230,000 dead salmon with nearly 118,000 reported in a single incident due to "lack of oxygen" at Mowi's RSPCA Assured Inchmore hatchery (the same site where 500,000 farmed salmon died in 2018 from oxygen starvation). 

Check out new lice data too published online by the Scottish Government. 

New lice data shows the worst salmon farms – headed by 'sustainable' @rspcaassured Loch Duart with @salmon_scottish @MowiScotlandLtd @GriegShetland & @kamesfishfarm reporting high infestations https://t.co/61NMSzsEQP @SSPOsays @marinescotland @LochDuartSalmon @tavishscott pic.twitter.com/PwtUtV4IYh

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 31, 2021

Lack of oxygen is strangling the life out of farmed salmon all over the world.  

Salmon farming is dead in the water! https://t.co/p4tatOnQbo @IntraFish pic.twitter.com/uKtz6wG3nP

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 31, 2021

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reported earlier this month (2 August 2021): 

Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots reveals the shocking death rates on Scotland's salmon farms! "There are huge questions for @rspcaassured" says Corin Smith
Grieg Seafood tops the list with 78% mortality – that's four out of every five salmon dying!https://t.co/oO6wWCqTQB pic.twitter.com/tGvGEZNiaA

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 3, 2021

Scottish Salmon Watch reported last month (12 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

Mortality data published via the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate includes nearly 2 million dead salmon in five mass mortalities at hatcheries during 2019 including over 1.5 million at Mowi's Lochailort Recirculation Hatchery in March 2019 and another 89,000 in February 2019:

In October 2018, The Sunday Mail reported that 500,000 farmed salmon had died at Mowi's flagship hatchery at Inchmore – opened only a few months earlier by Scotland's Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy, Fergus Ewing.