Over 5 Million Dead 'Scottish' Salmon Since 2017 - Sponsored by Investors from Norway, the Faroes etc!

Over 5 Million Dead 'Scottish' Salmon Since 2017 @salmon_scottish – sponsored by investors from Norway, Sweden, Faroes, USA, Denmark, Belgium & Luxembourg! @Folketrygdfond @NorwayMFA @fiskeridir @NFdep @Try_Lochlander @SSPOsays @FergusEwingMSP @strathearnrose @marinescotland pic.twitter.com/37ehamHX24

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 13, 2020

The 'Scottish' Salmon Company – actually owned by Faroese/Norwegian controlled company Bakkafrost – is experiencing huge losses due to mass mortalities and disease problems such as Pancreas Disease, Anaemia, Vibriosis, Amoebic Gill Disease, Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis, Fungus, Moritella Viscosa (Winter Ulcer), Enteric Redmouth Disease (Yersiniosis), Proliferative Gill Disease, Cardiomyopathy Syndrome and Haemorrhagic Smolt Syndrome.

Data published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate on 6 November 2020 reveal that The Scottish Salmon Company has officially reported a staggering 590 'Mortality Events' since February 2017 (data up to the end of September 2020) totaling 5.3 million dead salmon (94 cases did not provide/disclose numbers so that figure will be significantly higher). Here's the top 20 (i.e. worst in terms of numbers of morts) 'Mortality Event Reports':

590 'Mortality Events' @salmon_scottish with 5 million+ dead since 2017 due to Pancreas Disease, Anaemia, Vibriosis, Amoebic Gill Disease, Fungus, Moritella Viscosa (Winter Ulcer), Cardiomyopathy Syndrome & Haemorrhagic Smolt Syndrome https://t.co/utAZi5zhMZ @Folketrygdfond pic.twitter.com/Xi9SQzR6v8

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 13, 2020

Here's video footage shot by Scottish Salmon Watch at The Scottish Salmon Company's disease-ridden salmon farm at Quarry Point in Loch Fyne in 2018:

Weekly mortality rates have approached 40% in some of the worst cases reported by The Scottish Salmon Company – including cases in Loch Striven over the Summer of 2020:

Revealed: 102,344 dead salmon (40% mortality) in one week at one farm @salmon_scottish in August https://t.co/AsVyIRDGip
Please boycott Scottish salmon! @coopuk @Try_Lochlander @sainsburys @LidlGB @waitrose @marksandspencer @Morrisons @asda @Tesco https://t.co/FpKosacuJq pic.twitter.com/NEsA57HP99

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 3, 2020

Fish Farming Expert reported (10 November 2020):

Bakkafrost, which was registered on the Oslo Stock Exchange in Norway in 2010, reported financial information on 10 November 2020 under the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5 -12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.

The Q3 2020 presentation included:

Bakkafrost's Q3 2020 accounts included:

Salmon Business reported in November 2018:

If the salmon farmed by The Scottish Salmon Company was a wine it would not be fit to drink (not even as vinegar on your fish and chips)!

Photos published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate reveal widespread welfare abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company:

Given the scale of welfare abuse, it is no wonder that lawyers for The Scottish Salmon Company attempted (unsuccessfully as it turned out) to prevent publication.

Here's photos leaked by a whistleblower in 2018 working for The Scottish Salmon Company at their facility at Toward near Dunoon in Argyll (the whistleblower was sick to the stomach at their poor welfare and hygiene standards):

And little wonder that there is growing community opposition to The Scottish Salmon Company's expansion plans.

Mass mortalities and infectious diseases are sadly nothing new at The Scottish Salmon Company. Seafood Source reported in November 2016:

Shocking video footage of welfare abuse inside a salmon farm operated by The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Roag and a burial pit for mass mortalities was broadcast by the BBC One Show in 2018: