Video Exclusive: Salmon farming in Scotland is a disease-ridden dump! https://t.co/hLEPBM25OB
When will burial at Whiteshore Cockles be stopped & the law be followed not flouted? @_KateForbes @MairiMcAllan @cne_siar @ScottishEPA @salmon_scottish @LochDuartSalmon @WHFP1 pic.twitter.com/0FSuAht1R3— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 27, 2021
Read press release with media backgrounder and notes to editors in full - online here
“The authorities have turned a blind eye to the continued dumping of diseased farmed salmon in landfill for well over a decade,” said Staniford. “Scotland’s secret salmon graveyard stinks to high heaven & must be shut down now” @thetimes @GreenerScotland https://t.co/PUxDL1BKl1
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 27, 2021
Letter to Scottish Government, DEFRA & SEPA re breach of EU law dated 27 May 2021 - online here
Why is Whiteshore Cockles still being allowed to break the law by illegally dumping diseased salmon in North Uist? @GreenerScotland @ScottishEPA @cne_siar @EuropeanCommiss @EU_Health @APHAgovuk @DefraGovUK @MairiMcAllan @MairiGougeon @BenMacpherson https://t.co/PUxDL1BKl1
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 27, 2021
Letter to the Scottish Information Commissioner dated 25 May 2021 - online here
If you go down to the beach today, you're sure of a big surprise! @north_uist @cne_siar @OuterHebs
Here's a photo of one of North Uist's beautiful beaches near Whiteshore Cockles' disease-ridden salmon dump sent in by a tourist @_KateForbes @Ivan_McKee https://t.co/QoEbWUPghb pic.twitter.com/rwrMZ5rpuo— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 14, 2021
Scotland's hidden beaches #1 – the secret gems Visit Scotland keeps hidden from the public! https://t.co/q98umfGggt@north_uist @cne_siar @OuterHebs @_KateForbes@Ivan_McKee @VisitScotland @VisitScotNews @SSPOsays @salmon_scottish
HS6 5DY #WhiteshoreCockles #NorthUist #Bayhead pic.twitter.com/HBgbjSt0xr— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 14, 2021
Read more via The Times: "Islanders raise a stink over vast salmon graveyard"
Ewan Kennedy in today's Times: "It’s extremely concerning to learn that massive quantities of diseased fish, many dead from viruses, are still being dumped in open landfill" @thetimes @thetimesscot @ewangkennedy @_KateForbes @GreenerScotland @cne_siarhttps://t.co/PUxDL1BKl1
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 27, 2021
The Sunday Times reported back in July 2005:
The Salmon Farm Protest Group reported in July 2005:
The Salmon Farm Protest Group reported in September 2005:
The Scottish Information Commissioner ruled in January 2006 that Western Isles Council (Comhairle nan Eilean Siar) failed to respond to a FOI request from Bruce Sandison of the Salmon Farm Protest Group and ordered disclosure of information on the fish burial site [Whiteshore Cockles] (Decision 005/2006 Mr Sandison and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar).
Download as a PDF online here
Photographer Corin Smith filmed at the same salmon dump in North Uist in 2018 – leading to exposure on BBC Countryfile in September 2018.
If they have fixed the problem or not they have no right to dump and bury lice infected farmed salmon like this on the Isle of Lewis.
Our wild salmon have travel past these farms so you can imagine the infection they pick up. This is NOT an isolated case of infected salmon farms pic.twitter.com/pdCxyrfs3Y— Salmon & Trout Conservation WY (@SandTCUKYorks) September 11, 2018
The Ferret reported in April 2019:
Kate Forbes, the Scottish Government's Cabinet Secretary for Finance, visited the Whiteshore Cockles salmon dump in October 2019 when she was Digital Economy Minister:
Digital Economy Minister @KateForbesMSP visited Whiteshore Cockles in North Uist earlier this week to hear how they've used digital disruption as an opportunity to diversify and thrive pic.twitter.com/nct0dhG9sw
— Scot Gov Economy (@scotgoveconomy) October 2, 2019
The Ferret reported in July 2020:
The Ferret reported in March 2021:
Read more via:
Revealed: Burned, Buried & Ensiled Scottish Salmon
The Times: "Islanders raise a stink over vast salmon graveyard"