Whiteshore Cockles claim in a letter @scotgov that there have been no complaints since October 2020. "We have been overwhelmed by the support from the local community since the illegal break in by Mr [Redacted]" https://t.co/6dqHEUMVgN @cne_siar @ScotGovNetZero @ScottishEPA pic.twitter.com/VzhCNlnAbo
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 7, 2021
Following a FOI request filed by Scottish Salmon Watch in July, the Scottish Government disclosed information on Whiteshore Cockles in August 2021:
Read a media backgrounder online here – including:
The Scottish Government wrote to Whiteshore Cockles on 5 July 2021:
Whiteshore Cockles wrote to the Scottish Government on 6 July 2021:
I posted on Facebook in May 2021 (the post was deleted):
Scottish Salmon Watch reported (28 July 2021):
Revealed: Scottish Government wrote to Whiteshore Cockles re. concerns raised @cne_siar over the import of diseased salmon from the mainland (in contravention of their derogation i.e. being permitted to break EU law) @scotgov @MairiMcAllan @ScottishEPA https://t.co/HUi4MeAwYg pic.twitter.com/w1it4uV45y
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 28, 2021
Revealed: Whiteshore Cockles has still not applied to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency for a Pollution Prevention & Control permit (as of 14 July 2021)@ScottishEPA @TerryAHearn
Why is the dumping of diseased salmon in North Uist still being permitted? @marinescotland pic.twitter.com/qz3gQ5qNX4— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 28, 2021
When Bruce Sandison of The Salmon Farm Protest Group blew the whistle on the illegal dumping of diseased salmon in North Uist back in 2005, I bet he didn't think Whiteshore Cockles would still be raising a stink nearly two decades later.
Bruce Sandison (aka Old Trout in Private Eye) sadly died in 2016 – the year Whiteshore Cockles was given a six-month temporary derogation by the European Union to continue burying diseased farmed salmon at their stinky cesspool in North Uist.
Salmon farmers in Scotland were "struggling" with guidance to their members on the legality of waste disposal back in 2015 – why in 2021 is it still not clear that dumping diseased salmon in landfill is illegal? https://t.co/xFJFgjSgJj (F0187308) @ScottishEPA @APHAgovuk @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/krOzOmlYS2
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 2, 2021
The Times reported earlier this month (1 July 2021):
Another report by The Times in May 2021 has led to the threat of legal action by Angus MacDonald, boss of Whiteshore Cockles.
Where there's a hit, there's a writ! An article in The Times on the dumping of diseased farmed salmon "is the subject of a legal complaint from Angus MacDonald & Whiteshore Cockles" https://t.co/PUxDL1BKl1
Watch video footage here before lawyers remove it! https://t.co/rerpUNE1Hd pic.twitter.com/1SWdfkKXC3— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 28, 2021
Remember that the owner of Whiteshore Cockles claimed on the BBC One Show in September 2018 that dumping of diseased salmon would not continue for "much longer".
When @_KateForbes visited Whiteshore Cockles was the illegal dumping of disease-ridden salmon raised? Did @marinescotland inspect the leaching cess-pit or did @ScotGovNetZero look the other way? https://t.co/wDdz2GMJ0x @cne_siar @APHAgovuk @ScottishEPA @SSPOsays @MairiGougeon https://t.co/8cA2mRSXq1 pic.twitter.com/fPkiBqGuUa
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 1, 2021
Video Exclusive: Salmon farming in Scotland is a disease-ridden dump! https://t.co/hLEPBM25OB
When will burial at Whiteshore Cockles be stopped & the law be followed not flouted? @_KateForbes @MairiMcAllan @cne_siar @ScottishEPA @salmon_scottish @LochDuartSalmon @WHFP1 pic.twitter.com/0FSuAht1R3— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 27, 2021
Read more via:
- Exposed: 'Legal' Salmon Dump in North Uist Caught Importing Diseased Fish From the Mainland (& they've still not applied to SEPA for a pollution permit)!
- Taking the Fish – Illegal Salmon Dump Caught Taking Diseased Fish from the Mainland Despite 'Derogation'!
- Scottish Government ‘exploring strategies’ for mort burial site
- P&J: "Lives of Western Isles residents ‘severely hampered by rotting fish dump’"
- The Times: "Fish graveyard ‘severely hampers’ life for islanders, officials claim"
- FOI Lifts Lid on the Stench of Scottish Salmon: Government Legal Department Target Illegal Dumping of Diseased Salmon
- Appeal to Scottish Information Commissioner re. FOI refusal by Western Isles Council on Whiteshore Cockles
- Letter to Scottish Ministers on Illegal Dumping of Diseased Scottish Salmon in North Uist
- Daily Mail: "Dumped into the dunes….thousands of rotten, disease ridden salmon"
- Independent: "Scottish islanders raise a stink over vast salmon graveyard"
- Video Exposes Mass Graves of Millions of Diseased Scottish Salmon
- The Times: "Islanders raise a stink over vast salmon graveyard"
A rather misleading name, Whiteshore Cockles, when you’re filling the machair with dead fish. Here they are in 2019 with @jamiehepburn , all very cosy and cheery, making loads of dosh out of a derogation. Not very nice, is it, @MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllan ? @TheGAAIA https://t.co/w5VrLy2hJP pic.twitter.com/uPJYjGbsWY
— Eòghann MacUalraig (@ewangkennedy) September 6, 2021