When Alexandra Morton first inserted a Go Pro camera into a salmon farm in 2016 she exposed the industry's lies that farmed salmon was healthy, welfare friendly and responsible. And her amazing work has triggered further filming inside salmon farms with Go Pros not just in British Columbia but also in Norway, Scotland and Ireland.
Her shocking video footage made waves around the world with further damning images obtained in 2017, 2018 and 2019 with the help of Sea Shepherd Society and First Nations leaders in British Columbia.
In July 2019, Pamela Anderson boarded a salmon farm in British Columbia armed with a Go Pro camera to tell the world the unfiltered truth about salmon farming.
During 2018, Scottish Salmon Watch filmed inside lice-infested salmon farms operated by The Scottish Salmon Company and Scottish Sea Farms.
The video footage is taken using a Go Pro camera (ca. £150 from Amazon) mounted on a 3.5m telescopic pole (£10.99 from Amazon).
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.
Read more via Ground-Truthing Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon
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.
In July 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch filmed dead and dying cleaner fish floating on the surface of Mowi's aptly named 'Bay of the Dead Heads' salmon farm south of Oban.
In July 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch filmed dead salmon floating on the surface of Mowi's salmon farm in Lough Swilly in Ireland.
And biofouling at Mowi Ireland.
STV News broadcast video footage taken by Scottish Salmon Watch at The Scottish Salmon Company's salmon farm in Loch Shieldaig in June 2019:
The Sunday Mail newspaper featured video footage taken by Scottish Salmon Watch in November 2018 under the headline:
In October 2018, The Sunday Post published an article featuring Scottish Salmon Watch's underwater video footage:
Kayaks, canoes and rowing boats have all been used to visit the salmon farms – with biosecurity precautions and disinfection protocols adhered to prior to and following every salmon farm visit.
The vital importance of adhering to biosecurity precautions before, during and after filming at salmon farms cannot be stressed enough.
Read a profile published in The Shooting Times in October 2018:
In 2017, Swedish film-maker Mikael Frödin swam out to a Grieg owned salmon farm in Altafjord armed with a Go Pro on an extendable pole.
His shocking footage of lice damage and welfare abuse was broadcast in 2018 on Swedish TV and on Norwegian TV.
"They're all sick, look at them," said Frödin as he filmed inside the cage:
Frödin's footage featured in the 2019 film 'Artifishal'.
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Scottish photographer Corin Smith also swam out to a salmon farm in August 2018 – his stomach-churning video footage of The Scottish Salmon Company's factory feedlot in Loch Roag and burial pits for dead farmed salmon 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 March 2019, Sir David Attenborough added his powerful voice to the plight of wild salmon and the threats posed by salmon farms.
Watch Sir David Attenborough's video message online here
Scottish Salmon Watch has used the Gro Pro camera to lift the lid on the use of toxic chemicals and mass mortalities on salmon farms. In July 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch uncovered a cache of carcinogenic chemicals at a Mowi salmon farm in Loch Arkaig.
In May 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch filmed rows upon rows of chemical containers to be used on salmon farms across Scotland.
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.
In 2018, Scottish Salmon Watch published video footage of vats of Formaldehyde at Kames Fish Farming near Loch Melfort in Argyll.
And video footage of toxic chemicals at Wester Ross Salmon.
And another stash of toxic chemicals at Loch Duart.
Video footage of mass mortalities piled high in skips has been amassed by Scottish Salmon Watch via secret filming at salmon farms across Scotland during 2018 and 2019.
In December 2017, the BBC One Show broadcast video footage of 'The Dead Salmon Run'.
In September 2019, video footage of dead salmon spilling onto the A86 main road shocked the public.
The Daily Record reported (17 September 2019):
When Scottish Salmon Watch filmed at a Scottish Sea Farms salmon farm at Shuna in Loch Linnhe in July 2019 it triggered a visit from Police Scotland who claimed we needed permission from the salmon farming company to be in public waters close to the farm.
In September 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch were blocked from filming by Mowi.
Mowi's menacing tactics in Scotland are similar to the surveillance, intimidation and harassment employed by Mowi in Canada.
In October 2019, Scottish Salmon Watch published drone footage of a Thermolicer operating at a RSPCA Assured Mowi salmon farm in Loch Leven.
Here's farmed salmon being sucked and forced up a pipe into the Thermolicer.
And here's video footage of farmed salmon which died before making the tortuous trip into the Thermolicer.
And video footage from a boat close to the Thermolicer operation.
Video footage taken in July 2019 on a Mowi salmon farm at Ardgour in Loch Linnhe prompted an investigation by the Health & Safety Executive.
Photos (taken from video footage) leaked by a worker at Mowi's salmon farm at Carradale in Kilbrannan Sound exposed the horror story of 300,000 farmed salmon flayed alive – battered to death in storms in March 2018.
Here's photos leaked by a whistleblower in 2018 working for The Scottish Salmon Company at their facility at Toward near Dunoon in Argyll:
Here's drone footage of a Scottish salmon farm published by Scottish Salmon Watch in 2019.
Andrew Holder also used a drone to document plastic pollution of Loch Creran Special Area of Conservation in a video posted in September 2019.
Diver David Ainsley has also published video footage under salmon farms in Scotland via his Vimeo page.
Prior to the Go Pro camera inserted inside a salmon farm the public relied on videos taken by divers like David Ainsley showing waste impacts under salmon farms in Scotland.
Videos from the Green Warriors of Norway showing waste impacts under salmon farms in Norway.
And videos from British Columbia showing waste impacts under salmon farms.
And video footage of a dead sea lion in a salmon farm from much missed film-maker Twyla Roscovich.
Who can ever forget Twyla Roscovich's 'Salmon Confidential' film?
Also in British Columbia there's revolting video footage of bloodwater gushing from a salmon farming processing plant in 2017 from Tavish Campbell.
More videos of salmon farms in Scotland are freely available via my Vimeo channel.
Watch more videos exposing the sordid truth about salmon farming online here
Earlier this month undercover video footage broadcast by Compassion Over Killing exposed welfare abuse at a Cooke Aquaculture salmon farm in Maine.
And CBC News exposed Mowi's mass mortality problems in Eastern Canada.
Later this month Scottish Salmon Watch will be protesting outside Mowi's stinky and noisy feed factory on the Isle of Skye.
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- Video Nasty: Mowi Madness in Canada Exposed by CBC News!
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- Welfare abuse Scottish salmon farms – why no legal enforcement or prosecutions?
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- Secret Filming in Ireland – Mowi Salmon is Dead in the Water!
- Shocking Video Footage from Mowi's 'Bay of the Dead Heads' (Bagh Dail nan Ceann)
- 'Salmonwatch' Exposes Scottish Salmon's Dirty Secrets
- Police Scotland Acting as Private Security Enforcement for Norwegian-Owned Scottish Sea Farms?
- Photos of Secret Filming in Irish & Scottish Salmon Farms
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- Exposed: Mowi's Cache of Carcinogenic Chemicals on Conservative MSP's Estate
- Ground-Truthing Disease-Ridden Scottish Salmon
- Scottish Salmon Exposed – Photos from Secret Filming on Arran & in Shieldaig
- Gotcha: Wild Fish Caught on Camera Inside Scottish Salmon Farm
- The Ferret: "‘Sick’ salmon film prompts government probe into Scottish fish farm"
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- Whistleblower photos of The Scottish Salmon Company
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- French & Latvian TV coverage of Scottish salmon
- Scottish salmon farms in disease hell row after tons of rotting fish dumped in skips
- Dirty Rotten Scottish Salmon – Videos lift lid on can of worms, beetles & maggots!
- Photos: Dirty Rotten Scottish Salmon – Lifting the Lid!
- Video Reveals Maggot-Infested Salmon on Scottish Farms
- Underwater film reveals salmon with twisted spines as fears mount over cages
- Shocking Video Exposes Cruel Salmon Farming in Scotland
- Horrific Footage Exposes Factory Salmon Farming
- The Secrets of Scottish Salmon Farming
- BBC One Show on Lice-Infested Scottish Salmon
- SSPCA under fire over lice-infested salmon filmed at fish farm
- Dirty Secrets Lurking Under Scottish Salmon's Lice Skirt
- Suffering Salmon: Watchdog investigates farm over claims that more than 300,000 fish are infested with lice
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- Secret Filming Reveals Shocking Images of Unhealthy Scottish Salmon
- Salmon firms bid to block diseased fish photos
- Hard Evidence: Photos of Diseased & Deformed Scottish Salmon (August 2018)
- Legal Complaint Vs Breaches of Animal Health & Welfare (Scotland) Act
- Hard Evidence: Photos of Diseased & Deformed Scottish Salmon (June 2018)
- Horror photos of farmed salmon spark legal threat
- Exposed: Gruesome photos of diseased and deformed Scottish salmon