The first two items on BBC Radio Shetland today (26 March 2018) were salmon farming issues – both sourced from FOI data obtained by Scottish Salmon Watch. Listen online here (and archived via You Tube online here)
Listen to a longer version featuring interviews with John Robins of Save Our Seals Fund and Grant Cumming of Grieg Seafood online here
Read more on the US ban on Scottish salmon via:
- BBC News: "Scottish officials sought seal shooting ban exemption"
- Sunday Herald: "Revealed: Scottish Government bid to exempt salmon farming from US seal-killing ban"
FOI documents obtained from SEPA detailing problems with waste disposal of farmed salmon in Shetland are available for download below:
Including a SEPA Incident Notification from TWMA dated 3 November 2017:
Download as a PDF online here
And a SEPA Incident Notification from TWMA dated 25 October 2017:
Another SEPA Incident Notification from TWMA dated 2 November 2017 included:
SEPA's compliance assessments for the TWMA Vatser Depot included:
Read in full online here
An Environmental Event Report dated 2 November 2017 included:
Read in full online here
An undated document details:
Download as a PDF online here
Here's an email from SEPA's Janet Davies to Fiona Donaldson of the National Operations Waste Unit:
Read more on Scottish salmon's mort problems via:
Hard Evidence: Dossier of Data on Lice, Diseases & Mortalities at Scottish Salmon Farms
"Scotland's fish farmers to release salmon mortality figures"
Data on Mortalities & Diseases at Scottish Salmon Farms
Photo Gallery: Dead Salmon from Scotland's Disease-Ridden 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"
"First Minister questioned on leaking wastes from morts – call for a moratorium from Greens"
"BBC's 'Dead Salmon Run' Opens Can of Worms"
"Millions of Scottish Salmon Going Up in Smoke"
BBC's The One Show: "The Dead Salmon Run"
"125,000 salmon die in disease outbreak at Lewis fish farms"
"Campaigners say 'no more salmon farms' after disease on Lewis kills 125,000 fish"
"A disgrace: Ten million salmon thrown away by fish farm industry in last year alone"
"Death rate at salmon farms doubles to 20m fish a year"
"Welfare fears after claim deaths of farmed salmon have doubled"
"Thermal treatment for lice blamed for salmon deaths"
"Poached alive – fish die as farm overheats water"
"Oops: fish farm firm kills 175,000 of its salmon by accident"
"European Commission complaint over dead fish dumping forces rule change"
"Scottish watchdog labelled ‘lapdog’ after agreeing to keep fish farm deaths secret"
"Farmed salmon killed by disease leaps to 8.5 million"
"Where have all the dead fish gone?"
