Champagne Moment: 'Organic' Salmon Farm Refused Planning Permission on Skye!

📢📢 CHAMPAGNE MOMENT!
New fish farm for #IsleofSkye REJECTED on appeal.

Congratulations to the tireless campaigners who fought the good fight 👏👏 pic.twitter.com/ztOfPjCZHk

— SST-T (@ScotSalmonTank) November 26, 2020

Thanks to a hugely significant planning decision yesterday (26 November), Skye's disease-ridden salmon farming industry will not be having yet another salmon farm to pollute and blight the seascape.

Read the planning decision in full online here

Victory: 'Organic' Salmon Farm Refused Planning Permission on Skye! https://t.co/ckbEi9cBwQ
"There remains some uncertainty regarding the significance of potential impacts upon wildlife & habitats" rules the Scottish Government @GreenerScotland @nature_scot @iasgairmuir pic.twitter.com/mSXQb3fBC0

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 27, 2020

Fish Farmer magazine reported (27 November 2020):

Organic Sea Harvest loses Skye planning appeal@fishfarmermag @RobertOutram3 https://t.co/1Odek2Cw5a
"We will take our time to discuss the decision with our legal advisors before making any decision on further steps"@timbrouwer89 @iasgairmuir @HighlandCouncil #Organic #Scamon

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 28, 2020

Fish Farming Expert reported (27 November 2020):

The Press & Journal reported (1 December 2020):

Plans for a massive fish farming site off the Skye coast have been thrown out by the Scottish Government @pressjournal https://t.co/mUGSswOuQn
One down – only 200 to go! #Toxic #Scottish #Salmon #Organic #Scamon

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 1, 2020

The Press & Journal reported in January 2020:

Earlier this month (3 November 2020), Scottish Salmon Watch reported:

'Case Information' published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate reveals shocking levels of mortalities and disease on salmon farms across Scotland in August 2020.

Mass mortalities of cleaner fish and farmed salmon were reported by the Fish Health Inspectorate at Organic Sea Harvest's Invertote salmon farm off North East Skye.

'Organic' Sea Harvest caught using lobster-killing Deltamethrin (Alphamax) https://t.co/MMIY8aUAEj @marinescotland "Deltamethrin is highly toxic to lobster larvae" https://t.co/FebQVQadbe @alexmacinnessnp @SoilAssocScot @Jonnynogaps @IanDobb pic.twitter.com/Io7556yMqf

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 22, 2020

A letter dated 6 August 2020 from the Fish Health Inspectorate detailed lice and mortality problems.

Exposed: Mass mortalities, lice infestation, skin infections, "opportunistic bacteria" & use of lobster-killing chemical Deltamethrin at 'Organic' Sea Harvest https://t.co/ZmOjQ0nHKY @SoilAssocScot @iasgairmuir @HighlandCouncil @marinescotland @KateForbesMSP @WHFP1 pic.twitter.com/1OX2W6y47a

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 3, 2020

What’s this Scotch mist? Put your spin on this. Organic my arse. Chemicals used with first stock. Public deception… you bet! By the way re dairy… not seen 50,000 cattle running about 😂@TalkSalmon @SSPOsays @morrison_derek1 @NicolaSturgeon @SoilAssocScot @SoilAssociation https://t.co/soRrMVVDCn

— Jonathan Johnson (@Jonnynogaps) November 3, 2020

Scottish Salmon Watch filmed disease and mortality problems on Skye's salmon farms in July 2020:

Video Nasties – Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon & Toxic Soup! https://t.co/Wz31vwPNtW @MowiScotlandLtd @GriegShetland @SSPOsays @APHAgovuk @marinescotland @FergusEwingMSP @KateForbesMSP @strathearnrose @HamishMacdonell @rspcaassured @SSPCA_Mike @RSPCA_Frontline @scotgp @WHFP1 pic.twitter.com/PJwDfFKnlM

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 27, 2020

Another visit to Skye in September 2020 had Scottish Salmon Watch reaching for the sick bucket not the shopping basket!

A Freedom of Information disclosure by the Scottish Government in February 2020 revealed that Organic Sea Harvest imported 584,000 salmon eggs in February 2019 from Mowi Ireland to be on-grown by Landcatch Natural Selection Ltd at their Ormsary Hatchery in Argyll with another 675,00 salmon eggs imported in November 2019 from virus-laden Stofnfiskur in Iceland (read more online here).