The official transcript of the Scottish Parliament's inquiry into the environmental impacts of salmon farming on 6 February is now online here (and as a PDF online here)
Watch a video report online here – featuring oral evidence from David Sandison of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation, Sam Collin of Scottish Wildlife Trust, John Aitchison of Friends of the Sound of Jura, Anne Anderson from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Rob Raynard & James McKie from Marine Scotland and Mark Harvey from Highland Council.
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Read more via "Slicegate: Anatomy & Chronology of an Environmental Lobotomy"
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In fact, a Scottish Parliamentary Reply in January 2018 shows how the mortality rate is going up and now stands at 26.7% with 12.85 million missing farmed salmon!
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Read more via Photo Gallery: Dead Salmon from Scotland's Disease-Ridden Salmon Farms
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Read more via Sunday Herald: "Health of whales, dolphins and porpoises put at risk by underwater alarms" ; "Cetaceans Sound Alarm On Salmon Farms – new research sparks EC complaint & call to ban Acoustic Deterrent Devices" and "Large-scale underwater noise pollution from Acoustic Deterrent Devices (ADDs) on the west coast of Scotland"
Read more via "Freedom for Fish" and "RSPCA/Freedom Food & Seal Killing FOI Backgrounder (May 2017)"
Read more via Sunday Times: "‘Clean fish’ bring danger of disease to salmon farms" and "Risk assessment of fish health associated with the use of cleaner fish in aquaculture"
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And here's the last exchange of the morning panel before the panel changed:
After the break a new panel featuring the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Marine Scotland and Highland Council resumed:
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Data on Mortalities & Diseases at Scottish Salmon Farms
Sunday Times: "Scots councils ‘failing to enforce EC laws on leaky salmon trucks’"
Daily Mail: "Thousands of fish thrown in a truck – and troubling new questions for salmon farms"
Watch the BBC's 'The One Show' (11 December 2017) online here (read more via "BBC's 'Dead Salmon Run' Opens Can of Worms" )
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Here's a Tweet following the meeting:
A press release issued by the Scottish Green Party (6 February) included:
You can download and share video clips from the meeting online here
Read more via:
Scottish Parliamentary inquiry calls for more evidence
Victory for Freedom of Information
Media Update: Scottish Salmon Pledges to Publish Data on Diseases & Lice Infestations
Video: Scottish Parliament inquiry into the environmental impacts of salmon farming
The National: "Scotland's fish farmers to release salmon mortality figures"
Tweet storm at the Scottish Parliament's salmon farming inquiry
'Militant' MSPs Grill Scottish Salmon
Update: Scottish Parliament inquiry into the environmental impacts of salmon farming
The Scottish Salmon Polluters Organisation (SSPO)
Loch Duart – The (Really Not Very) Sustainable Salmon Company
Daily Mail: "Salmon crisis as 2.3m are dumped in nine months"
The National: "Environmental groups urge Scottish fish farms to scale back"
SSPO "sets the record straight"
Transcript of Scottish Parliament inquiry into the environmental impacts of salmon farming
GAAIA's written submission to the Scottish Parliament inquiry
Daily Mail: "Thousands of fish thrown in a truck – and troubling new questions for salmon farms"
The Scotsman: "Fish farms increase could lead to more seals being shot"
Press Release: "Scottish Salmon Farming 101 – Scottish Parliament inquiry opens 'in early 2018'"
Media Backgrounder: Inquiry into Salmon Farming by the Scottish Parliament
"First Minister questioned on leaking wastes from morts – call for a moratorium from Greens"
"Campaigners say 'no more salmon farms' after disease on Lewis kills 125,000 fish"