Could you please explain why the SSPCA sanctioned the killing of a protected seal rather than saving it? @MikeScobbie @SSPCA_Kirsteen @Gilly_SSPCA @SSPCA_Mike @ScotlandMowi
Does the RSPCA condone illegal killing of seals? @rspcaassured @RSPCA_PATeam @RachRSPCA @RSPCAChris https://t.co/1DUKzS15YN— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 25, 2021
Photo Mystery: Salmon farmers in Scotland "aren't particularly good at providing" photos of seals they've slaughtered! https://t.co/OlIMhcxoBJ@strandings @SRUC @ConsultingSAC @BDMLR @SSPCA_Mike @rspcaassured @marinescotland @ConcernMarine @salmon_scottish @scotseafarms #Seals pic.twitter.com/9uluiwiKMT
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 28, 2021
Don't you read your emails? "If every attempt could be made to get some photographs of the shot seals so we can at least confirm the species next time that would be greatly appreciated" stated @strandings in an email @scotseafarms in May 2020 https://t.co/OlIMhcxoBJ@LeroySeafood pic.twitter.com/Hml5ZWCpvw
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 1, 2021
Whistleblower on RSPCA Assured salmon farmer killing seals illegally: "I know an insider at Mowi who confirms the company shoots a lot more seals than what they report" @ScotlandMowi "Plenty goes unreported" @MowiScotlandLtd @marinescotland @rspcaassured https://t.co/Y3kY2D6BoI pic.twitter.com/c8aKR6iz28
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 26, 2021
Download press release with Notes to Editors in full online here
Photos disclosed by the Scottish Government on 1 February 2021 (via FOI-202000118346):
Juvenile seal killed illegally – without a marine licence – by Mowi in Loch Ewe in January 2020 (case reported in February 2020 to Police Scotland's Wildlife Crime Unit – FOI request filed by Scottish Salmon Watch in February 2021 for further details):
Download PDF via #46 Photo of Mowi Loch Ewe seal killed
Download PDF via #48 Photo of Mowi Loch Ewe seal killed flipper wound
Download via #41 Photo Mowi Loch Ewe dead seal flipper
Download via #42 Photo Mowi Loch Ewe dead seal flipper close up
Photo Exclusive: Juvenile harbour seal killed by @ScotlandMowi in Loch Ewe – authorised by the SSPCA & certified via @rspcaassured but reported by @marinescotland to @policescotland for being killed without licence https://t.co/OlIMhcxoBJ@SealScotland @SOSealsFund @SSPCA_Mike pic.twitter.com/8xOsxTEYzS
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 25, 2021
Is this a harbour seal killed illegally by Grieg Seafood in Loch Dunvegan? @GriegShetland @SSPOsays @marinescotland @ConcernMarine @Dunvegan_Castle @ScotSalmonTank @SkyeforAll @strandings @Folketrygdfond @FergusEwingSNP @KateForbesMSP @Ianblackford_MP @WHFP1 @SealScotland #Seals https://t.co/G0PAbHGJgV
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 1, 2021
Read more via: Media Backgrounder: FOI Opens Sealed Documents on Killing by Salmon Farms
Read more via:
- Data Analysis – Lethal Scottish Salmon: the Norwegian-owned companies killing seals in Scotland! (1,000+ seals slaughtered since 2011)
- Greedy Salmon Farmers Demand £13 Million Compensation for Seal Attacks!
- £5,000 reward offered for information on illegal shooting of seals
- Victory Sealed After 50-Year Campaign – But the Battle to Save Marine Mammals from Salmon Farms Continues!
- The Guardian: "Scottish salmon farmers to be banned from shooting seals"
- Photo Gallery: Seals Against Salmon Farms!
- Caught Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea
- The Ferret: "Seal scarers used by fish farms branded 'sonic torture'"
- GenusWave 'Targeted Acoustic Startle Technology' – in compliance with the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act??
- Seal shooting at salmon farms doubles before ban
- Ban on seal shooting must be watertight
- Greens want ban on seal scarers
- Fergus Ewing – Minister for the Promotion of Norwegian Salmon Farming
- Seals in the Cross-Hairs of the Scottish Parliament
- Scottish Salmon's Slaughter of Seals Has Not Stopped!
- Sunday Herald: "Revealed: Scottish Government bid to exempt salmon farming from US seal-killing ban"
- RSPCA in firing line over Marine Harvest's seal-killing spree in Scotland – 118 seals killed by Marine Harvest's RSPCA Assured farms since 2011
- Marine Harvest: Scotland's #1 Seal Killer
- All At Sea: Seal-Killing Salmon Farms
- Scottish Salmon Blinded by Seal Killing
- The Two Billion Dollar Salmon Ban
- Closing the Net On 'Seal-Friendly' Scottish Salmon – last orders on the RSPCA's abuse of 'last resort' killing of seals?
- Seal shooting by fish farms to be banned to save exports to US
- Cecil the Seal Killers Named & Shamed in Scotland – Call for Boycott of "Seal Unfriendly" Scottish Salmon
- Media Splash for Seal-Killing Salmon Farms!
- VICTORY: Disclosure of Seal-Killing Salmon Farm Data Ordered by 21 August
- Scottish Salmon's Secret Seal Killers! – FOI refusal prompts call for boycott of farmed salmon
- Lethal Scottish Farmed Salmon: Serial Seal Killers Named & Shamed!
- Scottish Salmon's Seal Killers Named & Shamed!
