Nothing to see here – just a photo of a farmed salmon in Norway attacked by jellyfish! @Havforskningen @IntraFish https://t.co/1cc9iaeFtG
Please boycott farmed salmon this Xmas – salmon farming is a welfare nightmare! pic.twitter.com/3IV027BW5j— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 20, 2023
Intrafish reported (19 December 2023):
Unfortunately, the Intrafish article above is in Norwegian and is stuck behind a paywall but a Google Translation of other Norwegian articles helps shine a light on Norway's jellyfish nightmare. iLaks reported (18 December 2023):
iLaks reported (20 December 2023):
iLaks reported (21 December 2023):
iLaks reported (1 December 2023):
$camon $cotland warned of the 'Silent Sting' back in October 2023:
“Salmon farming in Scotland is dead in the warming water," said Don Staniford, Director of $camon $cotland, in a press release (20 October 2023). "A deadly cocktail of rising temperatures, swarms of jellyfish, toxic algal blooms, plagues of parasites and gill diseases is the death knell for Scottish salmon. This lethal industry is losing so much $almoney that shareholders in Norway must be crying into the fjords. Mass mortalities are leaping so fast that salmon farming in Scotland may not even last the decade. Feedlots must be closed down now as a matter of urgency to end the welfare nightmare for millions of suffering salmon. Shame on RSPCA Assured, the Soil Association and the ASC for greenwashing Scottish salmon.”
Dr Lisa-ann Gershwin – author of Stung! – On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean – told $camon $cotland via a Zoom call from Tasmania:
“Salmon farming makes jellyfish worse and jellyfish kills salmon so it’s a vicious cycle where salmon farming is exacerbating this problem that’s actually a problem for themselves. They’re kind of doing themselves in – suffering from their own success. It’s a self-inflicted wound – it’s the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”
“It’s insane. If you formed a committee to help jellyfish flourish and you white-boarded this with all the experts in the world the salmon farming system is what you’d come up with.”
“Jellyfish love warming water – you haven’t seen anything yet. They love warm water – the jellyfish go into super-amped up mode. Global warming is a dream come true for jellyfish.”
“If you want to talk about animal welfare: the acute mortalities from jellyfish are probably the kindest to the farmed salmon: shocking to the workers watching – they suffocate, but at least it’s quick. The salmon which die of Amoebic Gill Disease are in prolonged agony – you wouldn’t wish it on anyone.”
“I believe there's every probability that aquaculture is making the jellyfish problem worse,” said Dr Lisa-ann Gershwin in an interview with ABC News in 2019. “We do have good data from places overseas that shows aquaculture stimulates the growth of the very organisms that cause problems for the aquaculture industry. It's a vicious cycle, where the aquaculture is making the problem worse.”
Read more via a scientific submission by Dr Lisa-ann Gershwin to a salmon farming inquiry in Tasmania in November 2019.
The Nightmare Before Xmas – jellyfish attack farmed salmon! @Havforskningen @SjomatNorge @LeroySeafood @NFdep @InfoMattilsynet @LisaGershwin https://t.co/qJReFZ9uT1 pic.twitter.com/5UjuYHidhG
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 22, 2023
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Press Release & Media Backgrounder: Microjellies Suffocate Scottish Salmon to Death