NEW: The “illegal” dumping of dead farmed fish on a Hebridean beauty spot has been allowed to continue despite authorities’ plans to ban the practice in March 2022, The Ferret can reveal.https://t.co/6rdiY3s8Sg
— The Ferret (@FerretScot) January 16, 2023
The Ferret reported (16 January 2023):
Leaked drone footage of the dead fish dump at Whiteshore Cockles @FerretScot https://t.co/igHguaqemX @cne_siar @APHAgovuk @ScottishEPA @MairiGougeon @_KateForbes @marinescotland @ScotGovNetZero @nature_scot @MowiScotlandLtd @LochDuartSalmon
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 19, 2023
More details via: Media Backgrounder: Leaked Video & Photos from Whiteshore Cockles CIWF Investigation
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Daily Mail: "Dumped into the dunes….thousands of rotten, disease ridden salmon"
Independent: "Scottish islanders raise a stink over vast salmon graveyard"
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Sunday National: "The Millions of Dead Salmon Dumped, Burnt or Destroyed"
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Call it Karma, Hypocrisy or Irony?
Angus MacDonald & Whiteshore Cockles threaten @thetimes @thetimesscot with legal action over a news story of their illegal graveyard for diseased Scottish salmon @ScotlandSalmon
Now lawyers @scotgov close them down! https://t.co/LL9dCWFb5n pic.twitter.com/3mUS1Lgl9J— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 28, 2022