The Case Against Scottish Salmon Continued - new data for January 2020

Revealed: Here's the hatchery sourcing 'Organic' Sea Harvest with @SoilAssociation certified "organic" salmon – doused with carcinogenic chemical Formalin & suffering from shocking welfare abuse, fungus, lesions, deformities & mortalities @BetterBreeding https://t.co/QZmD3ykx4b pic.twitter.com/vuuXZFudju

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 22, 2021

'Case Information' published today (6 April 2020) reveals mass mortalities, infectious diseases, fungus and use of the carcinogenic chemical Formalin and the antibiotic Florfenicol on Scottish salmon farms inspected by the Scottish Government during January 2020 (2019 'Case Information' including photos is available online here).

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The Fish Health Inspectorate reported (6 April 2020) 99,369 mass mortalities at Cooke's Cairndow Hatchery on Loch Fyne in Argyll on 17/18 January 2020 (120,000+ morts since hatch of ova in December 2019) with a further 70,000 morts in May 2019 and 153,356 morts in June 2019 (i.e. over 340,000 morts in a year):

A letter from Marine Scotland dated 12 February 2020 included:

The Fish Health Inspectorate reported in January 2020 on mass mortalities at Landcatch's Ormsary Hatchery in Argyll – including 54,629 morts due to "shock" and deformities with 28,390 morts in stock owned by the Scottish Salmon Company in January 2020.

The Fish Health Inspectorate reports that the Landcatch Ormsary Hatchery uses the carcinogenic chemical Formalin "twice a week".

In March 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch visited Landcatch's Ormsary Hatchery.

Another Fish Health Inspectorate report for January 2020 detailed disease problems ("likely Flavobacterium" – the causative agent of Bacterial Cold Water Disease) at Landcatch's Ormsary Smolt Unit including use of the antibiotic Florfenicol (Floricol), the antimicrobial Bronopol (Cress) and the carcinogenic chemical Formalin.

Please note that Cress is the trade name for the antimicrobial fungal disinfectant Bronopol – as explained in a FHI report published in October 2019 for a Mowi salmon farm:

The Fish Health Inspectorate report for January 2020 also cites fungus problems and Formalin use at Landcatch's Clachbreac Hatchery which supplies smolts for on-growing by Loch Duart and Organic Sea Harvest.

Watch a video report of Formalin use in Loch Arkaig by Mowi: