Ever wondered what Scottish salmon looks like fresh from the loch? Well look no further than these tasty specimens from Mowi's salmon farm at Kingairloch in Loch a Choire (Loch Linnhe) tested by the Scottish Government for various infectious diseases, pathogens, bacteria and viruses (only five fish are sampled by the Fish Health Inspectorate – the rest end up marketed as 'healthy' and 'delicious' Scottish salmon by Mowi and sold predominantly through Sainsbury's, Aldi & Lidl).
Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
Here's a map showing Mowi's salmon farm at Kingairloch:
Given the disease problems at their salmon farms it is not surprising that Mowi is not welcoming to visitors.
The Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate slipped out a report in August 2019 detailing an inspection of Mowi's salmon farm at Kingairloch in April 2019 – including Cardiomyopathy Syndrome (CMS), Pasteurella skyensis, multifocal hepatic necrosis, Salmonid Alphavirus, anorexia, lesions, haemorrhaging and deformed hearts:
More gruesome photos of welfare abuse and disease problems at Mowi's farm off the Isle of Rum were published online by the Scottish Government on 10 September 2019:
Do these lice-infested, "blind", "physically damaged" and "anorexic" salmon look the picture of health as claimed by Mowi's slick marketing?
Surely Scottish Ministers should think twice before gorging themselves on Mowi's disease-ridden salmon?
Here's more photos of Mowi's disease-ridden salmon obtained via Freedom Information in 2018:
Read more via:
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Hard Evidence: Photos of Diseased & Deformed Scottish Salmon
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Mowi is all too aware of the risks of diseases writing in their Integrated Annual Report 2018 (published on 27 March 2019) that "continued disease problems may also attract negative media attention and public concerns" .
For more data on diseases and mortalities please read a report published by Scottish Salmon Watch in March 2019 including Fish Health Inspectorate 'Case Information' on Marine Harvest salmon farms during 2018:
Little wonder that Marine Harvest changed their name to Mowi on 1 January 2019 (despite objections from the Mowinckel family in Norway and indigenous artist Ernie Smith – whose tradition name is Mowisaht – in Canada). As Intrafish reported in March 2019:
Welfare Abuse at Scottish Salmon Farms – Why No Legal Enforcement Or Prosecutions?
Mowi's Welfare Nightmare on Rum – "blind", "physical damage", "anorexic" & over 40,000 dead fish!
The Fish Pharm Menace – Mowi is Like a Bad Movie (& Dick Dastardly)!
"Mowi are talking rubbish" says National Trust in the Financial Times
Ministers Gorge on Scottish Salmon à la John Gummer
Scottish Salmon's Mort Mountain Piles Ever Higher in 2019
BBC Countryfile on ADDs impacting on cetaceans
Video sparks HSE scrutiny of Mowi in Loch Linnhe
Proposed salmon farm raises environmental concerns in Hebrides
Memo to MOWI – You Got to Move it, You Got to Move it Mowi!
Mowi “holding communities to ransom” over relocation of fish farm sites says campaigner
Shocking Video Footage from Mowi's 'Bay of the Dead Heads' (Bagh Dail nan Ceann)
Mowi's Fungus Pollution of the River Polly
Fish farms urged to stop use of toxic chemical in Scottish waters
EXPOSED: Mowi's Cache of Carcinogenic Chemicals On Conservative MSP's Estate
Salmon farming giant Mowi probed over chemical use
Mowi's Disease-Ridden Mortalities – 1.6 million+ in 101 incidents (2017-2018)
The Sorry State of Scottish Salmon Farming in 2018
Negative perception of Marine Harvest behind switch to Mowi
X-Rated Mowi: Preview of Marine Harvest's Horror Show
Media Backgrounder: MOWI – Unfit for Purpose
Scottish salmon farms in disease hell row after tons of rotting fish dumped in skips
Whistleblower photos of Marine Harvest
Sunday Mail: "Gutted – 300,000 salmon are killed as storm batters fish farm"
The welfare status of salmon farms in Scotland
Named: Supermarkets selling salmon from 'poor' welfare firms
EXPOSED: Gruesome Photos of Deformed & Diseased Scottish Salmon
Horror photos of farmed salmon spark legal threat
Media Backgrounder: "Marine Harmfest Scotland"
24,500 fish escape from Marine Harvest farm after storm damage
Mapped: the 45 lochs polluted by fish farm pesticides
RSPCA in firing line over Marine Harvest's seal-killing spree in Scotland
16,000 salmon escape Argyll fish farm after storms
Revealed: the dirty dozen salmon farms that contaminate lochs with pesticides
Marine Harvest fined £23,500 for pollution
Campaigners want polluted salmon farm endorsed by Oliver to be shut