Sneak Preview: "A Big Campaign to Invite the Public to Scotland's Salmon Farms"

Shock Horror! "Salmon farmers urge auditors to make surprise site inspections". If you go down to a salmon farm today you're in for a nasty surprise! @rspcaassured @RSPCA_PATeam @RSPCA_Frontline @RachRSPCA @RSPCAChris @DermotRSPCA https://t.co/q0KNiy8uh0 @ciwf @onekindtweet pic.twitter.com/A1y291Ni6Y

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 25, 2021

"A big campaign to invite the public to Scotland's salmon farms" was sadly abandoned by the Scottish salmon farming lobby last year but thanks to the power of video footage the public doesn't need to feel too disappointed.

The Fish Site reported today (25 March 2021):

Shetland News reported (25 March 2021):

"Salmon farming has nothing to hide, says industry boss" @Shetnews @tavishscott @SophiePeutrill @ciwf https://t.co/KSk0EX8Z8J

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 26, 2021

Fish Farming Expert reported (25 March 2021):

RSPCA Assured Mowi Plagued by Mass Mortalities & Infectious Diseases https://t.co/vxZTjE37qA Boycott disease-ridden Scottish salmon treated with antibiotics @MowiScotlandLtd @rspcaassured @sainsburys @LidlGB @AldiUK Enteric Redmouth Disease (Yersiniosis) is like the Black Death! pic.twitter.com/Rry8Y5vFvq

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 27, 2020

Earlier this week (22 March 2021), Scottish Salmon Watch criticised a Marine Scotland Science study (which reported that salmon farm welfare had not been compromised by Covid-19) for failing to tell readers that 'Passive Surveillance Inspections' of salmon farms (i.e. no physical on-site inspections) took place between late March and late August 2020.

Covid measures ‘didn’t affect farmed salmon welfare’ claim Marine Scotland (who were not allowed to inspect farms for half of 2020)! @marinescotland @sciencedirect @ElsevierVetNews https://t.co/bLZPKOaNOO @ScotlandMowi @rspcaassured @salmon_scottish @scotseafarms @GriegShetland pic.twitter.com/XqLFoULdCt

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 22, 2021

Scottish Salmon Watch reported in May 2020:

RSPCA suspend salmon farm in-person inspections in favour of WhatsApp, Google Meet & Google Hangout! https://t.co/utN4DXzstt @rspcaassured @RSPCAChris @RachRSPCA @RSPCA_Frontline "Contactless assessments" by mutual agreement on 1 June. "Physical visits are not mandatory" pic.twitter.com/6mYeRw96GH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 30, 2020

In December 2020, Hamish Macdonell of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation wrote in Fish Farmer magazine:

Writing in The Herald this week (9 March 2020), Tavish Scott of the SSPO wrote:

Fish Farming Expert reported in August 2019:

So please "apply your critical facilities" when you watch video footage of welfare abuse on salmon farms in Scotland – and if you don't wish to venture past the water's edge here's more video footage shot at salmon farming land bases where disease-ridden mortalities are stored:

If you're lucky, when you visit a salmon farm you could get a police escort!

But be careful for an irate salmon farmers blocking the public's right of navigation:

And don't despair that international travel is banned – video footage from Canada has captured the conditions inside salmon farms in British Columbia: