During 2018 and 2019 Scottish Salmon Watch has been filming secretly at salmon farms in Scotland and Ireland – with shocking video footage taken inside salmon farms owned by Mowi, Scottish Sea Farms and The Scottish Salmon Company.
The video footage is taken using a Go Pro camera (ca. £150 from Amazon) mounted on a 3.5m telescopic pole (£10.99 from Amazon).
STV News broadcast video footage taken by Scottish Salmon Watch at The Scottish Salmon Company's salmon farm in Loch Shieldaig in June 2019:
The Sunday Mail newspaper featured video footage taken by Scottish Salmon Watch in November 2018 under the headline:
In October 2018, The Sunday Post published an article featuring Scottish Salmon Watch's underwater video footage:
Kayaks, canoes and rowing boats have all been used to visit the salmon farms – with biosecurity precautions and disinfection protocols adhered to prior to and following every salmon farm visit.
The vital importance of adhering to biosecurity precautions before, during and after filming at salmon farms cannot be stressed enough.
Read a profile published in The Shooting Times in October 2018:
Read more via Don Staniford's blog, Scottish Salmon Watch, Scottish Scamon, Salmon Pledge and Salmon Farming Kills
The use of a Go Pro camera inside a salmon farm was pioneered in 2016 by biologist Alexandra Morton in British Columbia, Canada.
Her video footage recorded the first 'hard evidence' of wild fish swimming inside salmon farms in addition to a raft of welfare and disease problems.
In 2017 and 2018 further damning video evidence was secured by the Sea Shepherd Society, Alexandra Morton and First Nations leaders filming inside salmon farms in British Columbia, Canada.
CBC News reported in 2017:
In 2017, Swedish film-maker Mikael Frödin swam out to a Grieg owned salmon farm in Altafjord armed with a Go Pro on an extendable pole.
His shocking footage of lice damage and welfare abuse was broadcast in 2018 on Swedish TV and on Norwegian TV.
"They're all sick, look at them," said Frödin as he filmed inside the cage:
Frödin's footage featured in the 2019 film 'Artifishal'.
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Scottish photographer Corin Smith also swam out to a salmon farm in August 2018 – his stomach-churning video footage of The Scottish Salmon Company's factory feedlot in Loch Roag and burial pits for dead farmed salmon opened the public's eye to the reality of modern battery salmon farming.
Corin Smith's damning video footage was broadcast by the BBC's The One Show in September 2018 and by BBC Panorama in May 2019.
The Daily Mail reported in September 2018:
In March 2019, Sir David Attenborough added his powerful voice to the plight of wild salmon and the threats posed by salmon farms.
Watch Sir David Attenborough's video message online here
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