Scottish Salmon Exposed - Photos from Secret Filming on Arran & in Shieldaig

Here's photos from secret filming inside salmon farms operated by The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Shieldaig (8 June) and in Lamlash Bay on the Isle of Arran (9 June).

Lamlash Bay, Isle of Arran (9 June 2019):

Wild fish (thought to be juvenile herring or sprats) swimming inside the salmon farm alongside a 'cleaner-fish' (a lumpsucker):

Watch a short video clip of a shoal of wild fish swimming inside the Lamlash Bay salmon farm online here

Lice-infested farmed salmon in the Lamlash Bay salmon farm (located within a Marine Protected Area):

'Cleaner-fish' (lumpsuckers):

Other photos inside the Lamlash Bay salmon farm:

The Lamlash Bay salmon farm is in the shadow of sacred Holy Isle.

But there's nothing sacred about a salmon farm which employs noisy Acoustic Deterrent Devices (ADDs) and which is a disease-ridden nightmare.

Aird Ardheslaig, Loch Shieldaig (8 June 2019):

Welfare problems including damage to snouts, tails, flanks and eyes:

Watch video footage online here

Last year, Scottish Salmon Watch published photos inside salmon farms operated by The Scottish Salmon Company at Quarry Point in Loch Fyne and Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Spelve and in Scallastle Bay in the Sound of Mull.

Scottish Salmon Watch also obtained photos via Freedom of Information from the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate in June 2018 and August 2018 (photos which lawyers acting for The Scottish Salmon Company and Scottish Sea Farms tried unsuccessfully to block):

In November 2018, Scottish Salmon Watch published photos of a mass mortality at Marine Harvest's salmon farm at Carradale in the Kilbrannan Sound leaked by a whistleblower:

Photographer Corin Smith also captured shocking images of welfare abuse inside The Scottish Salmon Company's salmon farm at Vacasay in Loch Roag in August 2018:

Video footage was broadcast by the BBC One Show in September 2018:

And by the BBC's Panorama show in May 2019:

The shocking footage also prompted reaction from Sir David Attenborough: