When Corin Smith filed 'Subject Access Requests' (SARs) with salmon farming companies back in 2021 he cleverly opened the floodgates to a mass of sensitive information – dubbed 'Salmongate' and featured in The Ferret and The Herald. SARs filed in December 2022 by myself – as Don Staniford and Director of $camon $cotland (formerly Scottish Salmon Watch) – have dredged up more interesting emails and other information held by the $almafia. Sometimes SAR disclosures throw up more questions than answers. For example, a SAR disclosure by Bakkafrost on 16 March 2023 detailed a minute of a 'Mainland North' meeting referring to "a known activist and associate of Don Staniford":
A SAR disclosure on 17 January 2023 by Benchmark – the Norwegian company behind the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid – included details of social media tracking which has all the hallmarks of stalking:
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A SAR disclosure by Gael Force on 13 January 2023 included:
A SAR disclosure by Bakkafrost on 16 March 2023 included:
Information prior to late 2022 was deleted – as Bakkafrost explained:
From: Communications <communications@bakkafrost.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 10:51 AM
Subject: RE: Data Subject Access Request
To: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Good morning,
We have disclosed all personal information we hold about you.
To the extent there may have been any of your personal information collected between 1 January 2018 and late 2022, we no longer hold this information, and we can confirm the information has been deleted in line with our internal policies.
Kind regards
$camon $cotland reported in February 2023:
In November 2021, The Ferret and Herald revealed via a Subject Access Request filed by Corin Smith that The Scottish Salmon Company (since renamed Bakkafrost) had hired a private investigator to conduct surveillance and a 'deep dive' on Corin Smith and a second unnamed activist (understood to be myself, Don Staniford):
Channel 4 News reported in December 2021:
Tavish knows nothing about it. pic.twitter.com/Z6Q8i9NqLw
— Salmon Scotland (@SalmonScotland) December 21, 2021
- "Dangerous" disclosure on murky ownership of Yuri Lopatinsky triggers sale of shares at Associated Seafoods?
- Spy Kames – CCTV surveillance, Police complaints & car tracking!
- "Don Staniford is on the island….he is driving a white Skoda estate….well worth making sure no drippy bins of morts are lying around"
- Subject Access Request Lifts Lid on Surveillance of Activists!
- Lopatinsky outed as owner of Associated Seafoods & Loch Fyne Oysters by Undercurrent News
- Lopatinsky's Laundromat – More Dirt on the "Mysterious Millionaire Oligarch With Links to Russian Spy" & Russian spy agencies!
- Yuri Lopatinsky: The $py Who Laundered $almoney for the Russian/Norwegian $almafia (& is a neighbour of the First Minister of Scotland)?
- Channel 4 News on Scottish Salmon Spying on Corin Smith!
- Salmongate: Corin Smith's 'Subject Access Requests' to the Salmafia Reveal Spying by Scottish Salmon!
- The Spy Who Loved 'Scottish' Salmon – from Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Norway & the Faroes with Love for Salmoney!
- Corin Smith – interview with the man who is being spied upon by 'Scottish' salmon!
- Herald/Ferret: "Scottish Salmon Company chief hired investigator to 'snoop' on fish farming critic"