Please find enclosed various data sets (obtained via FOI) on mortalities and diseases on Scottish salmon farms:
FOI reply from SEPA on 29 January 2018 – monthly data on mortalities at Marine Harvest (January to September 2017):
Download Excel spreadsheet: Marine Harvest mort numbers & weights (Jan to Sept 2017)
FOI replies from the Scottish Government dated 13 December 2017 and 18 January 2018 – 'Mortality Event Reports' for Marine Harvest, The Scottish Salmon Company and Scottish Sea Farms:
Marine Harvest mort events in 2017
Scottish Salmon Company mort events in 2017
Scottish Sea Farms mort events in 2017
Mortalities for 2010, 2011 and 2012 (as published by Rob Edwards in The Sunday Herald in 2013 – data on mortalities was subsequently stopped after lobbying from the SSPO claiming publication would be "commercially damaging"):
Read more via:
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"