Media Backgrounder: "Marine Harmfest Scotland"

A dossier of damning information circulated today to MSPs reveals stomach-churning facts about Marine Harvest's salmon farms in Scotland – including:

134 doses of the toxic organophosphate Azamethiphos during 2017 (with many more instances via well boats)
46 doses of the lobster-killing chemical Emamectin benzoate during 2017
26 doses of the toxic chemical Deltamethrin during 2017
3,333,356 litres of Hydrogen Peroxide used in 2017
Antibiotic use at 12 sites during 2017 including 206,800 grams of Aquatet (Oxytetracycline hydrochloride) and 314,351 grams of Florocol (Florfenicol)

19 salmon farms breaching lice limits in 2016-2017
9 sites assessed by SEPA as "Poor" in 2016 with 13 "failing" sites in 2015
Systematic breaches of Environmental Quality Standards for toxic chemicals in sediments and breaches of SEPA's biomass limits
Over 3 million mortalities in 2017 (ca. 5,000 tonnes) with over 750,000 mortalities in the first 10 weeks of 2018
"Complex gill health and severe anaemia" reported in Loch Greshornish during 2018
Cardiomyopathy Syndrome, Amoebic Gill Disease, Proliferative Gill Disease, Anaemia, Pasturella skyensis and Pancreas Disease reported during 2017
65 sites using Acoustic Deterrent Devices which are known to recklessly disturb cetaceans
121 seals killed between 2011 and 2017 (2018 data is not yet available)

Read more about Marine Harvest's appalling environmental track record in Scotland via 'Media Backgrounder: Marine Harmfest Scotland (download as a Word file online here)