Salmon Farming is Dead in the Warming Waters of Scotland

 

 

 

Data slipped out by the Scottish Government’s Fish Health Inspectorate earlier this month (2 February) reveals that mass mortalities on salmon farms in Scotland reached record levels in 2023.  Mortalities of farmed fish reported in 2023 were 17.4 million (the highest on record) compared to 17.2 million in 2022 with 8.6 million in 2021; 5.8 million in 2020; 6.4 million in 2019; 3.8 million in 2018; 5.1 million in 2017; 2.9 million in 2016 and 1.7 million in 2016.

 

 

 

 

Read and weep at the mortality data online here

 

PR Deadly Mowi Drives Mortalities to Record High 12 February 2024 #1 graph years

 

PR Deadly Mowi Drives Mortalities to Record High 12 February 2024 #2 graph Mowi

 

 

PR Deadly Mowi Drives Mortalities to Record High 12 February 2024 #3 graph Freshwater

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s the most deadly salmon farms in Scotland (based on all ‘Mortality Event Reports’ filed with the Scottish Government’s Fish Health Inspectorate since February 2015) – headed by Mowi’s Inchmore hatchery closely followed by Bakkafrost’s Applecross/Russel Burn hatchery:

 

PR Deadly Mowi Drives Mortalities to Record High 12 February 2024 #4 table most deadly

PR Deadly Mowi Drives Mortalities to Record High 12 February 2024 #5 table most deadly

 

 

 

 

Here’s the Top 20 most deadly ‘Mortality Event Reports’ for seawater since 2015:

 

PR Deadly Mowi Drives Mortalities to Record High 12 February 2024 #6 most deadly seawater

 

 

 

Data published by the Scottish Government on 2 February 2024 details 620,424 mortalities where jellyfish and/or microjellyfish were cited via 51 ‘Mortality Event Reports’ filed since 1 January 2023 (data up to early January 2024) – here are the most deadly incidents:

 

PR Deadly Mowi Drives Mortalities to Record High 12 February 2024 #7 jellyfish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Salmon farming in Scotland is dead in the warming waters,” said Don Staniford, Director of $camon $cotland.  “A deadly cocktail of climate change, jellyfish swarms, plagues of parasites, infectious diseases and mass mortalities is killing off millions of farmed salmon – and cleaner fish – crammed inside cages littering the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.  Like King Canute, Tavish Scott is desperately trying to push back the incoming tide.  The only solution is to stop farming salmon.  Investors must be blind not to view Scottish salmon as a toxic trade which should be avoided like the proverbial plague.  Follow the $almoney and you find mass mortalities, welfare abuse and huge losses.  It’s only a matter of time before banks pull the plug on the welfare nightmare that is Scottish salmon.  A lethal industry riddled with 50% mortalities – from hatch to 'catch' – is ethically bankrupt.  2023 will be looked back on as the year when Scottish salmon died.  RIP the $almafia in Scotland.”

 

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Here’s the Top 10 most deadly ‘Mortality Event Reports’ in 2023 (all freshwater except Organic Sea Harvest’s Culnacnoc salmon farm off the Isle of Skye) – dominated by deaths at Mowi’s Inchmore hatchery near Loch Ness:

 

PR Deadly Mowi Drives Mortalities to Record High 12 February 2024 #8 2023 worst

 

 

 

 

Data published by the Scottish Government on 2 February 2024 details 357,329 mortalities where seals and/or predators has been cited via 67 ‘Mortality Event Reports’ filed since 1 January 2023 (data up to early January 2024) – here are the most deadly incidents:

 

PR Deadly Mowi Drives Mortalities to Record High 12 February 2024 #9 seals

 

 

 

 

Here’s the Top 20 most deadly ‘Mortality Event Reports’ for Mowi in 2023:

 

PR Deadly Mowi Drives Mortalities to Record High 12 February 2024 #10 Mowi

 

 

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“Anyone who has dared to venture into the deadly waters of salmon farming can testify to the operation of a $almafia,” continued Staniford.  “Follow the $almoney and you will find $almobsters operating behind a shameless $almonopoly.  The EC's shakedown of the salmon farming industry cartel is long overdue.  A forensic examination of the $almafia's accounts will hopefully prove illegal price-fixing to add to the catalogue of crimes committed by salmon farming – including greenwashing and profiteering at the expense of the environment and fish welfare.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

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Disease halves profits of Scottish salmon farming firm Mowi

'Unsustainable': Disease halves profits of Scottish salmon farming firm

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After tough Q2 for Bakkafrost, “darker skies” cloud Scottish operations

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Bakkafrost is Dead in the Water in Scotland – 2021 Annual Report Details "Deadly Cocktail"!

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Bakkafrost's Scottish Salmon Nightmare Gets Worse with 10,000 Tonne Black Hole in Scotland!

8,000 tonne shortfall for Scottish Sea Farms (Norskott Havbruk) due to "biological challenges"!

Scottish harvest for Bakkafrost almost halved in Q4

Bakkafrost Haemorrhages $almoney

 

 

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