SSPO “sets the record straight”

 

Scott Landsburgh, Chief Executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation, wrote in Fish Farmer magazine (January 2018): 

 

 

Here's two of "the voices of the militant part of the wild fish lobby" – Andrew Graham-Stewart and Guy Linley-Adams of Salmon & Trout Conservation – who are heavily armed with their double-barrel surnames, fishing rods and the power of Freedom of Information. 

 

 

Read more via Salmon & Trout Conservation's dangerous arsenal of damning sea lice data:

"FOI Number Five – getting you the information they don’t want you to see!"

"Scottish salmon farming’s ‘liciest’ farms named and shamed"

"Scotland’s worst sea lice offenders: Full Farm List"

 

 

Scott Landsburgh, who has wined and dined the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, continued:

 

 

 

 

Scott Landsburgh (who was due to retire in 2017) continued:

 

 

 

 

 

Scott Landsburgh, who is giving oral evidence to the Scottish Parliament's inquiry into the environmental impacts of salmon farming next week (6 February), continued:

 

 

 

Read more via "25 Years of Scottish Salmon Shame" and "Scottish Salmon Farming 101"

 

 

Scott Landsburgh continued:

 

 

Read more via  "Red Alert for Label Rouge – Lousy Label Goes Rogue"

 

The Chief Executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (which represents salmon farming companies including Cooke Aquaculture, Loch Duart, Marine Harvest, the Scottish Salmon Company, Scottish Sea Farms and Wester Ross Salmon), then accused the "militant lobby" of "hyperbole (without evidence)":

 

 

Maybe Scott was referring to the recent report "Impacts of salmon lice emanating from salmon farms on wild Atlantic salmon and sea trout"?

 

Read more via:

"Report backs negative sea louse claims"

The Scotsman: "Call for curb in fish farms as study shows pest risk to wild fish"

"New scientific study underlines damage to wild salmon and sea trout populations from salmon farm parasites – in Scotland, Norway and Ireland"

Daily Mail: "Up to third of wild salmon 'eaten alive by fish farm lice'"

"Fish farm lice are killing wild salmon" 

"EC Complaint concerning the failure of the UK to draw up and take appropriate measures pursuant to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive in relation to the impact of sea lice emanating from Scottish marine salmon farms on wild Atlantic salmon and sea trout"

 

 

Scott Landsburgh concluded:

 

 

 

 

Read Scott Landsburgh 'setting the record straight' in the January 2018 issue of Fish Farmer magazine online here

 

 

Read more via:

Transcript of Scottish Parliament inquiry into the environmental impacts of salmon farming

GAAIA's written submission to the Scottish Parliament inquiry

Review of the Environmental Impacts of Scottish Salmon Farming – call for written evidence (deadline of 8 February)

Media Backgrounder: Inquiry into Salmon Farming by the Scottish Parliament

Daily Mail: "Thousands of fish thrown in a truck – and troubling new questions for salmon farms"

The Scotsman: "Fish farms increase could lead to more seals being shot"

Press Release: "Scottish Salmon Farming 101 – Scottish Parliament inquiry opens 'in early 2018'"

Scottish Salmon Farming 101

"Parliamentary Question: to ask the Scottish Government how many farmed salmon have died in each year since 2012"

"First Minister questioned on leaking wastes from morts – call for a moratorium from Greens"

"Campaigners say 'no more salmon farms' after disease on Lewis kills 125,000 fish"