Captain Condom – coming soon to a salmon farm to stop the spread of STDs! https://t.co/BLBbRwWJJz
Please stand firm in the fight against disease-ridden farmed salmon! pic.twitter.com/AZLg7aERoe— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 1, 2021
They say it's fashionably late to arrive at a party after midnight but I've always been an early bird, ahead of my time. It seems I came to the closed containment party a decade too early. Here's me all dressed up as Captain Condom at a 'Superheroes 4 Salmon' protest in British Columbia in 2011.
A decade later it seems that closed containment is a concept whose time has come.
Ex-Marine Harvest CEO: Salmon farming in traditional netpens likely gone within this decade @IntraFishNorge https://t.co/O0qgTnbebG @GustavWitzoe @LeroySeafood @ScotlandMowi @MowiCanadaWest @GriegShetland @scotseafarms @salmon_scottish @SSPOsays @FergusEwingSNP @SalmonTroutCons pic.twitter.com/sFzXVSoeOU
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 29, 2021
Artist Anissa Reed nailed it with these cartoons over a decade ago.
Just this week (29 April 2021), Fish Farming Expert reported that Mowi had fitted super-sized lice 'skirts' to their new 160 metre cages and were "tired and grumpy" after they "pulled it off".
Now that's a bloody big skirt Captain Condom would like to get up close and personal to.
Captain Condom was the Director of 'Superheroes 4 Salmon' during 2011 when I was quoted in The New York Times in relation to the spread of Infectious Salmon Anaemia from Norway to Chile via infected ova (eggs).
Captain Condom packed up his cape and rubber hat in 2012 when I relocated to the UK with my now wife (spawning two children in the process) and writing a report on STDs (Salmon Transmitted Diseases) called "Gill Diseases: Scottish Salmon's Dirty Big Secret".
The issue of infectious diseases – including Chlamydia – has been recently raised via Netflix's global hit 'Seaspiracy'.
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
Over the coming months, Captain Condom will show stiff resistance to stop the spread of STDs – including Chlamydia, Anaemia, Pancreas Disease, Amoebic Gill Disease, Cardiomyopathy Syndrome, Salmon Poxvirus, Pasteurella skyensis and Piscirickettsia.
Scottish Salmon & The 'C' Word (that's Chlamydia not the Clap)! https://t.co/lYtFBlZaoL
What hidden extras are lurking in your Scottish salmon? @scotseafarms @salmon_scottish @rspcaassured @ASC_aqua @GriegShetland @ScotlandMowi @LochDuartSalmon @tavishscott @SSPOsays @coopuk pic.twitter.com/dWkE7fjM9i— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 7, 2021
Captain Condom firmly believes – like other "extreme activists" – that 'Scottish' salmon farming cannot stand close scrutiny.
You can buy Captain Condon outfits online
Scottish Salmon Watch is also looking for other superheroes to help save wild salmon and protect the pristine waters around Scotland (these photos are from a Superheroes 4 Salmon protest in Canada in 2011).
And here's a video report from 2011
If you're an Aquaman or Aquawoman and have diving skills like superhero David Ainsley we need your help!
Or if you're trained in espionage like Spiderman or Spidergirl and can bug secret meetings between Fergus Ewing and the Norwegian Salmafia then please contact Captain Condom via salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com (his official spokesman, Don Staniford, can also be contacted via dstaniford@gaaia.org).
Captain Condom and Superheros 4 Salmon's 'Justice League' are hopefully flying into Scotland from Canada (if restrictions and quarantine for Covid-19 permits)!
