Front Page of Sunday Herald: “Revealed: Scandal of 45 Lochs Trashed by Pollution”

Download article as a PDF online here

 

 

 

 

Here's the table of contaminated lochs:

 

 

Here's a Tweet from the Sunday Herald:

 

 

 

And here's the Sunday Herald's Leader Comment:

 

 

 

The Sunday Herald reported (26 February 2017):

 

 

The article was also reported by The Ferret (28 February 2017) via "Mapped: the 45 lochs polluted by fish farm pesticides"

 

 

Here's a comment posted after the article:

 

 

 

Read more background on benthic pollution of salmon farms via:

Press Release: "Toxic Toilets: Salmon Farms Pollute Scotland's Lochs"

Press Release: "Failing Fish Farms – 18% rated "poor" by SEPA in 2015"

 

"Fish company investigated after salmon farm pollutes Scottish loch"

"Revealed: the dirty dozen salmon farms that contaminate lochs with pesticides"

"Seabed pollution at almost two thirds of Scottish salmon farms is either ‘unsatisfactory’ or ‘borderline’, analysis of FOI information reveals"

"Salmon farms turn sea bed into graveyard"

 

 

 

Download an Excel spreadsheet made available by SEPA via FOI in December 2016 online here

 

Download summaries of the data online here and online here