Tomorrow (Tuesday 7 July 2015) the Scottish Information Commissioner will publish two decisions regarding seal-killing salmon farms (available on the SIC web-site):
Background Documents:
Read rulings by the Scottish Information Commissioner (SIC) forcing disclosing of seal killing data by the Scottish Government:
26 November 2012: http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/uploadedFiles/Decision193-2012.pdf
23 April 2013: http://robedwards.typepad.com/files/sic-decision-to-enforce.pdf
Read a "Press Statement on the enforcement of Decision 193/2012" issued by the SIC in April 2013
Download site specific seal killing data for 2011, 2012 and 2013 published by the Scottish Government – online here
Read GAAIA's request for a review (21 August 2014) following the Scottish Government's refusal to disclose the names of seal killing salmon farms - online here
Read a press release (24 August 2014): "Scottish Salmon's Secret Seal Killers!– FOI refusal prompts call for boycott of farmed salmon"
Read also:
"Lethal Scottish Farmed Salmon: Serial Seal Killers Named & Shamed!" (GAAIA, 8 May 2013)
"Victory for freedom of information: seal killers in Scotland named and shamed by 7 May" (The Killers, 5 May 2013)
"Scottish Salmon's Seal Killers Named & Shamed!"(GAAIA, 2 December 2012)
News Coverage:
"End Secrecy Over Seal Deaths" (The Sunday Times, 24 August 2014)
"Seal campaigners call for salmon farm cull" (The Sunday Times, 12 May 2013)
"Scottish government ordered to name seal-shooting salmon farms" (The Sunday Herald, 28 April 2013)
"U-turn on naming fish farms that shoot seals" (The Sunday Herald, 13 January 2013)
"Government ordered to reveal secret seal shooters" (The Sunday Herald, 2 December 2012)
For more background read Don Staniford's blog "The Killers" and GAAIA's web-pages "Killing Farms" and "Killer Panda"
Watch video reports via:
"Marine Harvest's Slaughter of Seals in Loch Alsh, Scotland"
"Santa's Message to the Scottish Government: Stop Shooting Seals!"
"Unnecessary Seal Deaths: Mark Carter explains Why"
Here's photos of seals killed near a Marine Harvest Scotland salmon farm in Loch Alsh:
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Read a media backgrounder online here
Read a press release – "Landmark Rulings on Seal-Killing Salmon Farms" – online here