Maaey Day for The Scottish Salmon Company

Anyone for fresh Scottish salmon straight from the loch? Here's some mouth-watering nay award-winning salmon farmed by The Scottish Salmon Company at Maaey (East of Loch Uiskevagh) in the Outer Hebrides (the photos were published on 15 October by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate).

These shocking images show how far the 'King of Fish' has sunk since the advent of factory fish farming. Bakkafrost – the new Faroese owners of The Scottish Salmon Company – will have a challenging job marketing this salmon as 'Superior'.

The Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate conducted an unannounced inspection in June 2019 following a tip-off from a whistleblower but the report including photos was only published on 15 October 2019. The report detailed 48,500 mortalities in just one week in May 2019 "attributed to Pancreas Disease, exacerbated by handling during treatments":

The Fish Health Inspectorate report detailed moribund, anorexic and haemorrhaging fish with laboratory testing revealing cardiomyopathy, Salmonid Alphavirus (the causative agent of Pancreas Disease), Aeromonas sp and Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis virus.

The Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate also publish mortality data which reveals that The Scottish Salmon Company's Maaey salmon farm topped the league of death during 2019 (with six entries in the Top 20 including the four highest mortality event reports and a total thus far during 2019 of 231,810 dead fish attributed to Pancreas Disease, post-transfer and physical damage):

Here's some more freshly sampled fish from The Scottish Salmon Company's salmon farm at nearby Maragay Mor in June 2019. The photos were slipped out just this week on 15 October 2019 by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate:

If I'm not very much mistaken this farmed salmon from The Scottish Salmon Company is so fresh it is marked with a capital 'F'.

This salmon would struggle to make the cut for The Scottish Salmon Company's 'Native Hebridean Salmon'.

And this salmon's luscious red lips may well rule it out from The Scottish Salmon Company's "responsibly sourced" 'Tartan Salmon'.

The lovely pink pattern on its tail may be attractive to some but French chefs may struggle to flog it via le magnifique Label Rouge label.

The Fish Health Inspectorate laboratory report dated July 2019 detailed internal and external haemorrhaging at The Scottish Salmon Company's Maragay Mor salmon farm in the Outer Hebrides:

This fish is so fresh from the farm that it has lice still attached to it.

In fact, the Fish Health Inspectorate report detailed high lice loads on all five fish sampled.

Laboratory testing by the Fish Health Inspectorate reported Aeromonas sp and positive tests for Salmonid alphavirus and Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis virus:

Mortality data published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate reveals that The Scottish Salmon Company's Maragay Mor salmon farm has officially reported 41,892 dead farmed salmon thus far during 2019 (data up to September) attributed to Pancreas Disease and post treatment.

Mortalities from The Scottish Salmon Company's Maragay Mor and Maaey salmon farms are disposed of via Whiteshore Cockles in a controversial mort pit.

Watch shocking video footage of the burial pit at Whiteshore Cockles in North Uist online via Corin Smith – and broadcast on the BBC One Show in September 2018.

The sorry Scottish salmon photographed by the Fish Health Inspectorate sadly don't look the same as the salmon used by the marketing men to promote The Scottish Salmon Company's Lochlander brand:

These salmon probably won't have made the cut for The Scottish Salmon Company's 'Superior' or 'Label Rouge' range:

If you're looking for a job then The Scottish Salmon Company is currently hiring at Maragay Mor. Applicants can rest assured that "The Scottish Salmon Company produces Scotland’s Finest Sea Loch Fresh Salmon with Pride and Passion".

Here's video footage from The Scottish Salmon Company's award-winning operations in Loch Roag when photographer Corin Smith swam out to the Vacasay salmon farm in August 2018. His stomach-churning video footage opened the public's eye to the reality of modern battery salmon farming.

Download photos and footage made publicly available by photographer Corin Smith online here

Corin Smith's damning video footage was broadcast by the BBC's The One Show in September 2018 and by BBC Panorama in May 2019.

The Daily Mail reported in September 2018:

In June 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch filmed welfare abuse inside a salmon farm operated by The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Shieldaig.

When questioned by STV News, The Scottish Salmon Company questioned whether the video footage and photos were from their site.

In June 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch filmed wild fish swimming inside a salmon farm operated by The Scottish Salmon Company in Lamlash Bay on the Isle of Arran.

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If job applicants have any concerns, then they should remember that The Scottish Salmon Company (written with a straight face and without a hint of irony) "are committed to the highest standards of animal husbandry" and "have a team of highly motivated and professional veterinarians and biologists who take the welfare of the stock under their care extremely seriously".

The Scottish Salmon Company is more coy about divulging photos of their disease-ridden operations. In 2018, lawyers acting on behalf of The Scottish Salmon Company (TSSC) threatened legal action if the Scottish Government disclosed damning photos of disease-ridden farmed salmon. As The Ferret reported in August 2018:

Here's some of the photos – obtained by Scottish Salmon Watch via Freedom of Information – The Scottish Salmon Company did not want the public the see (published in June 2018 by The Ferret).

And more photos (sourced from Scottish Government Fish Health Inspections in 2017 and 2018) published by Scottish Salmon Watch in June 2018 and in August 2018)

And here's more stomach-churning photos of diseased salmon at The Scottish Salmon Company in 2016 (published by Scottish Salmon Watch in August 2018 – and sourced from the Scottish Government Fish Health Inspectorate surveillance):

Here's more photos graphically illustrating the absurdly high welfare standards at The Scottish Salmon Company.

Download online here

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Here's photos leaked by a whistleblower in 2018 working for The Scottish Salmon Company at their facility at Toward near Dunoon in Argyll (the whistleblower was sick to the stomach at their poor welfare and hygiene standards):

Here's nauseating video footage of diseased salmon in skips at The Scottish Salmon Company's operations in Loch Fyne.

The Scottish Salmon Company's marketing video strangely does not include the gruesome photos or shocking video footage from Loch Fyne.

Nor does the marketing video include deformed fish from The Scottish Salmon Company sold in Billingsgate Market in London in December 2018:

Or deformed salmon swimming inside The Scottish Salmon Company's salmon farm at Quarry Point in Loch Fyne in July & August 2018:

Or this beauty photographed by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate from The Scottish Salmon Company's Glenan Bay salmon in Loch Fyne in 2016.

In June 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch uncovered a stash of Formaldehyde at The Scottish Salmon Company's operations at Russel Burn Hatchery on the shore of Loch Kishorn.

Expect yet more awards to flood in during 2019 for the truly unbelievable The Scottish Salmon Company.

I'd personally love to present The Scottish Salmon Company with the Certified Bullshit of the Year 2019 award.

Or the When Pigs Fly trophy.