Today's Sunday Times: "Animal welfare campaigners sound out ban on acoustic seal deterrent" https://t.co/jvVxtOvxMr @SundayTimesScot
"The Scottish government needs to get on with banning these cruel devices” @markruskell @GreenerScotland @SealifeA @ClydePorpoise @whalesorg pic.twitter.com/6bkWrLif6Y— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 21, 2021
The Sunday Times reported (21 February 2021):
Did lawyers finally have the bottle to affirm to @GreenerScotland @NicolaSturgeon @strathearnrose that ADD use was illegal? https://t.co/jvVxtOvxMr
Did @SSPOsays see the writing on the wall? @OTAQ2 @aceaquatec @nature_scot @SealifeA @whalesorg @HWDT_org @tex_sim @chazz_findlay https://t.co/0Tunz9ZRqy pic.twitter.com/ObrkjxRrwK— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 21, 2021
11 days to save porpoises and dolphins from legalised disturbance/injury. Check petition update Pls RT. @FergusEwingSNP @BenMacpherson @Feorlean @Seasaver @Protect_Wldlife @SealScotland @seasave @ClydePorpoise @JohnFinnieHI @marinescotland https://t.co/JxVXdwXrL1 via @UKChange
— Sealife-Adventures (@SealifeA) February 17, 2021
Yesterday evening (20 February 2021), the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation issued a press release (presumably because they knew the Sunday Times article was coming):
It is critical that salmon farmers have a suite of deterrents available to offer protection against predation, but the sector is voluntarily withdrawing EPS licence applications due to the continued lack of clarification… https://t.co/3M9OFgzFpT pic.twitter.com/T0X92a8BP7
— Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (@SSPOsays) February 20, 2021
The SSPO's statement prompted a flurry of Tweets:
It was always illegal. Deliberate or reckless Disturbance of any dolphin, porpoise or whale is illegal.
— Sealife-Adventures (@SealifeA) February 20, 2021
A VERY GOOD QUESTION! Many in government and gov. Agencies should hang their heads in shame. Remember, this is the government that wont define 'SUSTAINABLE'! https://t.co/DuGwzUT8KQ
— Marine Concern (@ConcernMarine) February 20, 2021
Some very simple legal facts.
1 Unlicensed use of an ADD is illegal. Builders of piers, rigs etc know this.
2 @marinescotland know this too.
3 Companies use them, MS don't act.
4 Crown Office know too, don't act.
5 Private Prosecution isn't available.
6 Result:nasty stalemate. https://t.co/UaaI0zqD14— Eòghann MacUalraig (@ewangkennedy) February 21, 2021
What a joke, @theSNP are about to give them free rein to use acoustic deterrents. How about using thicker nets instead? https://t.co/F6ms1lBoE5
— Mark Ruskell MSP (@markruskell) February 20, 2021
The Oban Times reported (22 February 2021):
An online petition to stop the ‘legalisation’ of cruelty to dolphins has helped win a U-turn by salmon farmshttps://t.co/afvN51r4QS@obantimes @marinescotland @SealifeA @scotseafarms @OTAQ2 @aceaquatec @ScotlandMowi @salmon_scottish @SSPOsays @strathearnrose @FergusEwingSNP pic.twitter.com/IRBoes3yVi
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 22, 2021
"If you use the right nets, you don’t have to use ADDs" said David Ainsley @SealifeA "Now is the time to say to Marine Scotland they must enforce the law" @marinescotland https://t.co/afvN51r4QS@OTAQ2 @aceaquatec @nature_scot @SSPOsays @strathearnrose @GreenerScotland pic.twitter.com/C5J6Cm90bO
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 22, 2021
Read more via:
- Mail On Sunday: "Salmon farmers are 'torturing' porpoises and dolphins with high-pitched noises to protect their stock, campaigners warn"
- Unlicensed use of ADDs in aquaculture is contrary to European Protected Species legislation & completely immoral!
- Daily Record: "Whales and dolphins being 'tortured' by anti-seal scare devices at Scottish fish farms"
- The Guardian: "Scottish salmon farmers to be banned from shooting seals"
- Caught Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea
- The Ferret: "Seal scarers used by fish farms branded 'sonic torture'"
- GenusWave 'Targeted Acoustic Startle Technology' – in compliance with the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act??
- Seal shooting at salmon farms doubles before ban
- Ban on seal shooting must be watertight
- Greens want ban on seal scarers
- BBC Countryfile on ADDs impacting on cetaceans
- Sounding Off On Salmon Farms – Acoustic Deterrent Devices evade Marine Noise Registry
- SARF report 112: "Influences of lower-frequency Acoustic Deterrent Devices (ADDs) on cetaceans in Scottish coastal waters"
- The Times: "Noisy fish farms ‘harm other marine life’"
- Mapping widespread and increasing underwater noise pollution from acoustic deterrent devices
- Sounding Off About Scotland's Noisy Salmon Farms – Turn Off Acoustic Deterrent Devices to Protect Cetaceans
- Deafening Impact of Salmon Farms on Cetaceans
- The National: "Warning salmon farm devices could hit wildlife tourism"
- Cetaceans Sound Alarm On Salmon Farms – new research sparks EC complaint & call to ban Acoustic Deterrent Devices
- Sunday Herald: "Health of whales, dolphins and porpoises put at risk by underwater alarms"
- Noisy Salmon Farms – Switch Off Acoustic Deterrent Devices Now!
Surely someone on inside track at @marinescotland & @nature_scot has the bottle to affirm to @GreenerScotland @NicolaSturgeon @strathearnrose that unlicensed use of ADDs in aquaculture is contrary to European Protected Species legislation and completely immoral? pic.twitter.com/yfQQZhjaI8
— david nairn (@ClydePorpoise) October 12, 2020