Scottish Salmon Watch is calling on the Scottish Government to close down every salmon farm in Scotland by 2025! https://t.co/A0uRlkYvCO#Boycott #Scottish #Salmon @theSNP @scotgp @scotgov @ScotGovFM @ScotGovNetZero @marinescotland @SSPOsays @tavishscott @MowiScotlandLtd pic.twitter.com/jNsJkrN8NI
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 24, 2021
Scottish Salmon Watch is calling on the Scottish Government to close down every salmon farm in Scotland!
"Salmon farming is a malignant cancer on the coasts of Scotland," said Don Staniford, Director of Scottish Salmon Watch. "If the Scottish Government is serious about protecting the marine environment then ripping out every salmon cage is a good place to start. The new SNP-Green deal commits to 'Highly Protected Marine Areas' for inshore and offshore locations, which will cover at least 10% of Scottish waters where salmon farming will be prohibited. The SNP-Green co-operation agreement recognises that a transitional 'phasing-out' period within HPMAs will be needed and we urge that all sea cage salmon farms in Scotland are closed down by 2025 as it already taking place in British Columbia. The Scottish Government's plans to double salmon farming production by 2030 are dead in the water."
Photo: Compassion in World Farming
"The 'Scottish' salmon farming industry – 99% of which is foreign owned/controlled – claims that their marine footprint is currently just 168 hectares (less than 200 football pitches), that's 0.003% of Scottish territorial waters," continued Staniford who features in the forthcoming film 'Eating Our Way to Extinction' narrated by Kate Winslet. "Farming disease-ridden salmon in 'Special Areas of Conservation' and 'Marine Protected Areas' such as Lochs Creran, Alsh, Duich, Laxford and Roag is anathema to marine protection. Does Scotland want unhealthy salmon farms choking the life out of the coast or a healthy marine ecosystem which supports tourism and a sustainable marine economy?"
Did you know? The marine footprint of the Scottish salmon sector is just 168 hectares (less than 200 football pitches), that's 0.003% of Scottish territorial waters. (For comparison 144,899 hectares in the UK are used for growing potatoes). https://t.co/DjfYC8mADm pic.twitter.com/feoDhhYlqw
— Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (@SSPOsays) March 22, 2021
Fish Farmer reported (20 August 2021):
"The Agreement commits to a 'step change' in marine protection including a new category of 'Highly Protected Marine Areas' which will cover at least 10% of Scottish waters" within which "there will be no permitted aquaculture of any kind" @scotgp @theSNP https://t.co/ZX9fy1qqts pic.twitter.com/TrVwkfoa3A
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 21, 2021
Tavish Scott MSP slamming down the Greens in 2019 during a debate in the @ScotParl: "We have absolutely heard the Green position. By gosh, was it clear" https://t.co/MxPYlqASng @tavishscott @SSPOsays @scotgp @JohnFinnieMSP @markruskell @patrickharvie @lornagreens @ArianeBurgessHI https://t.co/8aOjQ3H8Wq pic.twitter.com/xl7aQvH6qj
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 21, 2021
Download the Scottish Government and Scottish Green Party co-operation agreement online here
The document includes:
And:
The latest survey of salmon farms – published by the Scottish Government in October 2020 – reveals that there were 226 salmon farms in 2019 (80 were 'inactive' i.e. zero production) with only six companies (all foreign owned/controlled) accounting for 99% of 'Scottish' salmon farming production:
"Closing down every salmon farm littering the coast of Scotland would help halt the spread of lice infestation, the killing of marine mammals and toxic pollution as well as allow marine wildlife such as wild salmon, sea trout, harbour porpoises, whales, dolphins and shellfish the space to thrive," concluded Staniford who appears in Netflix's global hit 'Seaspiracy'. "Tourists visiting Scotland do not want to see and smell the nauseating underbelly of Scottish salmon!"
Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' Exposes Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon – As Sponsored by the RSPCA & Aquaculture Stewardship Council! https://t.co/NiySHYotBu@seaspiracy @rspcaassured @ScotlandMowi @ASC_aqua @vivacampaigns @Ecohustler @SSPOsays @iamalitabrizi @media_ciwf @philip_ciwf pic.twitter.com/32CcvHUUKH
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 31, 2021
Read more via:
- Norway Deploys Banned Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid – Scotland, Chile & Canada Next in Firing Line!
- "The shocking death rates on Scotland's salmon farms revealed"
- Seaspiracy's Salmon Shocker: Please Boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon!
- Under the Surface of Salmon Farming: "The Issue of Trust"
- Calling All Whistleblowers, Divers, Boaters & Fishermen!
- Rest Assured – the RSPCA has been captured, co-opted & corrupted by the Salmafia
- "RSPCA clears Mowi Scotland after activist’s welfare abuse claim"
- New report: "Investing in troubled waters: the material risks of fish mortality and the use of wild-caught fish in feed for the aquaculture sector"
- Exposed: 'Legal' Salmon Dump in North Uist Caught Importing Diseased Fish From the Mainland (& they've still not applied to SEPA for a pollution permit)!
Seaspiracy's video shocker on @rspcaassured Scottish salmon @MowiScotlandLtd is approaching 1 million views – and has over 36,000 likes! @seaspiracy https://t.co/I80mzoym6j
Please boycott Scottish salmon! #Boycott #Scottish #Salmon pic.twitter.com/iagrnIMjFM— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 4, 2021
"Salmon farming is a malignant cancer on the coasts of Scotland. Does Scotland want unhealthy salmon farms choking the life out of the coast or a healthy marine ecosystem which supports tourism and a sustainable marine economy?" https://t.co/A0uRlkYvCO pic.twitter.com/Gun7S7RNzw
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 24, 2021