The Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture wrote today (9th July) to WWF with the simple message:
Please withdraw your support for the slaughter of marine mammals (including pregnant seals and protected sea lions) by salmon farms.
Read the letter to WWF online here
GAAIA’s ‘Salmon Farming Kills’ campaign is calling for a global boycott of all ‘seal unfriendly’ and ‘sea lion unfriendly’ farmed salmon – and that shamefully includes WWF-endorsed farmed salmon.
The ‘Final Standards for Responsible Salmon Aquaculture’ published by WWF last month specifically (and shockingly) promote the killing of marine mammals. By supporting the certification of farmed salmon via the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) and lethal farmed salmon standards via the ‘Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue’, the ‘Killer Panda’ is effectively pulling the trigger and has blood on its paws.
"Not only is the killing of marine mammals by salmon farmers in Scotland, Chile, Canada, Ireland, Norway and other countries abhorrent in nature but it is also illegal under the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)," stated the letter (9 July) addressed to WWF International's Director General James Leape. "In fact, a legal opinion obtained by your brother Gerry Leape stated that the U.S. MMPA “provides a strong and directly applicable legal tool”. Why is WWF ignoring the laws of nature as well as legal and public opinion by lending support to serial seal killers?"
Read more via 'Killer Panda'
For more background read 'The Killing Farms'
Read more via Marine Scotland - online here
Read more via a FOI appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner - online here
Read correspondence with the US Government - online here
Read the Sunday Times article " Fish Farms in Shooting Seals Row"
