Icelandic Salmon Exposed by Secret Filming

Nothing to see here – just a farmed salmon missing half its face. All perfectly normal in the world of "responsibly sourced" salmon. Move along now #SalMar #Arnarlax #ArcticFish #NorwayRoyalSalmon #Iceland https://t.co/X0oVELF61d pic.twitter.com/vyyofcaJzu

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 30, 2021

Watch a horror film shot inside a salmon farm in Iceland:

Here's photos from the secret filming:

A quick dip of the GoPro in a salmon feedlot – by Against The Current Iceland.

Look familiar?

Note lice infested, diseased lumpfish. It’s not just salmon that are dying in these cages.@SSPOsays @MairiMcAllan @_KateForbes @HamishMacdonell pic.twitter.com/9lmr643fXs

— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) August 13, 2021

The shocking video footage featured on Icelandic TV:

And in Icelandic newspapers:

The secret filming was carried out by Veiga Grétarsdóttir:

Follow Veiga on Facebook's 'Against the Current Iceland':

Veiga posted an update on Facebook on 17 September 2021:

Photos of dead salmon belly up on the surface of a farm in Iceland https://t.co/xxmozhpBmm
"It has taken them up to one and half hour to pump up dead fish from each net pen, this needs to be stopped right away" says Veiga Grétarsdóttir of 'Against the Current Iceland' #Iceland pic.twitter.com/pw18FwoILJ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 17, 2021

Veiga's journey in 'Against the Current' was chronicled in The New York Times in June 2021:

Icelandic TV featured the problems of salmon farming in a documentary featuring Jeremy Paxman screened in 2018:

Watch Jeremy Paxman attacking the "collateral consequences" of salmon farming in a documentary screened in Iceland (13 May) https://t.co/IF7NpxRjst More by Paxman in the FT https://t.co/cdrSpnzV3b @charliewhelan @ScotGamekeepers @fms_scotland @SalmonTroutCons @ScotSalmonTank pic.twitter.com/peUOqAJ8nK

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 7, 2018