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Northern Bottlenose Whales breaching at Tighnabruaich:
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“Revealed: The nauseating underbelly of Scotland’s £1 billion salmon farms”
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Undercover footage showing open air spraying of toxic chemicals directly onto the water surface at a salmon farm:
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Biohazard at sea, biohazard on the road.
Salmon farming mortalities, the ugly truth:
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BREAKING NEWS | Aberdeen Art Gallery bans farmed salmon from its menus, along with twenty two other leading british art institutions.
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HISTORIC: Argentina became the first country in the world to ban salmon farming!! 🍾 🎉🎊🥳👏🏻🙌
@MairiGougeon
@MairiMcAllan
@TerryAHearn
@D1HAJ
@NicolaSturgeon
@scotfoodjames
@SSPOsays
@HamishMacdonell
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An angler drowned in our local river last week.
Remember Hugh’s advice if you fall in:
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This is one reason why Björk and others are protesting in Iceland.
Farmed salmon escaped a feedlot and have been infecting local rivers.
Here are 2 of 24 fish caught last week, heads eaten by lice.
This has been happening in Scotland for decades.
@scotgov
enables it.
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Thousands upon thousands of dead farmed salmon being vacuumed up into Billy Bowie tankers.
This isn’t food production. This is industrial waste disposal.
These fish have been fed on globally sourced wild fish. It’s beyond repulsive.
@MairiMcAllan
@_KateForbes
@ScottishEPA
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“Birds are also victims of salmon farming”
These are the “well paid jobs for rural communities” : shovelling lice-ridden, diseased dead salmon and killing wild birds.
There is nothing good about this industry.
@rspcaassured
stamp it “welfare assured”.
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Farmed salmon does not belong in a “wellbeing economy” (whatever that is).
It is cruel, it pollutes and it kills wild animals.
@MairiMcAllan
Thanks to
@ProsperScot
for inviting
@MairiMcAllan
to speak with the business community in her new role as economy secretary.
The
#Scottishsalmon
sector is ready to invest and create jobs. At a time when growth is flatlining we need to ensure that Scotland is open for business.
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"Mowi’s licence for a €9m salmon farm in Co. Cork has been overturned by the High Court, following a legal challenge involving anglers, environmentalists and Inland Fisheries Ireland":
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More farmed salmon in one cage than all the wild salmon left in Scottish west coast rivers.
Lice & disease are running amok.
Is it any wonder why wild salmon are disappearing? And this is just one of their problems 🤬
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A seal having wild salmon for lunch on the River Carron near Falkirk.
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Another day, another explosion at a fish farming facility.
This time an oxygen explosion kills 200,000 arctic char.
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This is another Mowi feedlot, in Loch Sunart. It suffered a near 100% mortality event. Only a few large fish left.
Look at the location. How are resident and migratory fish meant to cope with lice and disease emanating from this toxic barrier?
This used to be a wonderful place.
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Today
@1edmountain
put the appalling facts of salmon farming across to
@MairiGougeon
& was told it was “nonsense”
36,000tonnes of dead fish✅
25% of all salmon die✅
168x increase in antibiotics✅
REC recommendations ignored✅
How can anything be solved if facts are dismissed?
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The venerable
@Feargal_Sharkey
fires across the bow of politicians - “wild salmon will be extinct in 20yrs without action”. 👍🏼
@MairiGougeon
@MairiMcAllan
@ScotGovNetZero
@lornaslater
@ArianeBurgessHI
@fincarson
@1edmountain
@D1HAJ
@CVOScotland
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Kayaker in Iceland discovers every single salmon in an entire feedlot eaten alive by lice.
“All the fish are sick or dead at Arctic Fish: "No one has seen anything like this before"
@MairiGougeon
@MairiMcAllan
@CVOScotland
@RSPCA_PATeam
@ScottishSPCA
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21,000 salmon died through lack of oxygen. Same issue that killed 60,000 in July during “delousing operations”.
Almost a daily occurrence in Scotland.
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Welcome to Scotland. We’ve got millions & millions & millions of DEAD SALMON!
Gross stats uncovered by award winning Canadian environmental journalist:
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“The Aftermath”
Salmon farming in a Marine Protected Area.
A film by
@andrholder
Please do not eat farmed
#salmon
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Translated: “Strong warning from a salmon researcher: - It is likely that wild salmon & sea trout will disappear completely
The use of open breeding cages in the sea will probably destroy all wild salmon & sea trout in Norway, warns salmon researcher”
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Approximately 150 tonnes of dead salmon.
Last year 17 THOUSAND tonnes died.
3-5kg of WILD fish are needed to grow 1kg of these fish.
@FergusEwingMSP
&
@SSPOsays
still talk of
#sustainable
production 🤷🏼♂️
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There is never-ending footage of mass cruelty on salmon farms and a carefully orchestrated “omertà” by
@rspcaassured
and
@scotgov
to avoid witnessing it.
They’ve had 50yrs to sort it out and it’s getting worse.
Now they’re creating huge unemployment problems.
Their time is up.
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Ferguson mort tankers queuing up for 2 days at Kyle of Lochalsh, removing dead fish from a salmon farm carrier vessel.
Gill disease and fresh water treatment for diseased & weak fish suspected.
“The Sustainable Blue Economy”
@MairiGougeon
@MairiMcAllan
@GillianMSP
@ScottishEPA
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Help
@RSPCA_Frontline
!
Here’s Fred. He has gill disease, spinal & cranial deformity, fin rot, bacterial & lice infestation & he’s got 20 million of his pals struggling to escape their caged existence.
@rspcaassured
say “end the cage age” but take £700,000 from salmon farmers 🤷🏻
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Staff writer at
@newscientist
Graham Lawton says he’ll never buy farmed salmon again.
"It's a monstrous way to produce food," says Jón Kaldal at the Icelandic Wildlife Fund:
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The farmed salmon industry want to drop the “farmed” bit.
If you feel that this will mislead consumers, please object:
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Salmon farming.
Would you even handle soft fruit like this?
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MOWI CEO Ivan Vindheim say they are "disappointed with the decision to pull out of BC, since traditional marine salmon farming is absolutely sustainable".
What part of 25% mortalities, killing wild fish, birds and other wildlife is “sustainable”??
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“Danish minister introduces legislation to halt traditional (open pen salmon feedlot) aquaculture growth”
Meanwhile our Scottish government goon
@FergusEwingMSP
is actively promoting it!
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“Clothing giant launches new attack on salmon farming”:
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Some big contenders for the redds on the River Thurso.
Battling it out in high water.
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President of Chile has declared that “as a minimum, salmon farming WILL NOT BE PERMITTED in protected areas”.
When will
@scotgov
wake up and realise salmon farming is killing wildlife and threatening the future of Scotland?
@MairiMcAllan
@MairiGougeon
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“Fish vet”
@ronniesoutar
tries to defend tonnes of dead fish being removed before MSPs visit as “routine” and not a coverup measure as claimed.
Tonnes of dead fish “routine”? What kind of “vet” are we dealing with here?
Past president of
@BritishVets
and Chair of
@ScottishSPCA
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SHOCKING scenes from Loch Fyne, home of
@LochFyneOysters
@LochfyneLangous
etc - where
@CookeScotland
salmon farm waste is seen spewing out into the Kinglas Water ☠️☠️
@MairiGougeon
@MairiMcAllan
@CVOScotland
@D1HAJ
@ScottishEPA
@OCSAM_Scot
@ScotSciChief
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Ever wonder why wild salmon smolts are disappearing?
They are attracted to underwater feedlot lighting, get through the nets and end up in the hydrolicer.
Same as herring, sprats, mackerel etc.
Please stop this industry. It’s killing the sea.
@MairiGougeon
@MairiMcAllan
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Private Eye reporting on the
@MairiGougeon
/
@ScotlandSalmon
farce: spiralling salmon mortalities and
@scotgov
“sustainability” greenwash.
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Organic Sea Harvest reported 86.8% mortalities at the end of their salmon production cycle. Only 13.2% of their stock survived.
This company and their director (
@theSNP
Councillor)
@iasgairmuir
should be banned from farming salmon.
@Ruraidh_Stewart
@ScottishEPA
@_KateForbes
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Megan McCubbin from
@BBCSpringwatch
visits the Faroe Islands with
@NeptunesPirates
to investigate Bakkafrost and, lo and behold - they are just as bad there as in Scotland.
This is not a sustainable industry, and
@rspcaassured
is a cynical scam
@_KateForbes
@ScottishEPA
@D1HAJ
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Sir David Attenborough was having none of it two years ago.
Did anybody in government listen and act?
#ScottishSalmonScandal
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Mowi confirm salmon escape event.
50yrs of farming salmon in the sea and they still can’t contain them safely.
Because there is no safe way to farm salmon in the sea.
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A fish that salmon farmers could only dream about.
Full fins, full tail, no gill or skin disease, no cataract, no lice infestation etc
A salmon like this this is impossible to grow in a sea cage the way they are at the moment. Why?
Because the industry is ROTTEN TO THE CORE!
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ONE salmon farm produces the equivalent sewage waste as the entire west coast human population:
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NEWS: All salmon fishing in the sea and in 33 rivers of Norway to cease.
“Salmon lice, escaped farmed salmon, and infections related to salmon farming are the greatest anthropogenic threats to Norwegian wild salmon.”
@MairiGougeon
@SP_RuralAffairs
Fra 23. juni stenger laksefisket i 33 elver og i sjøen fra svenskegrensen i sør til og med Trøndelag, etter rapporter om svært lite laks hittil i år.
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So much for “providing much needed jobs for local communities” 🙄
Mowi now control automated feeding from a remote centre in Ft William - hoping to control all their coastal feedlots from there.
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Craig’s been busy hauling out dead fish.
The Isle of Gigha - meaning 'God's Island' in Old Norse - was awash with disease-ridden farmed salmon as mass mortalities at
@rspcaassured
salmon farms in East Tarbert Bay and Druimyeon Bay led to a welfare nightmare which featured on STV
Part of our new
#DayInTheLife
series, watch the first instalment featuring Craig Johnstone, a site manager at a salmon farm for
#BakkafrostScotland
.
This series offers an insight into the people of the
#Scottishsalmon
industry who work to produce the
#UK
’s largest food export.
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“50 Years of Litter on Skye”
Loughborough University review how the sea & beaches around Skye are being devastated since the salmon farming industry moved in.
It’s worse than you ever thought. This industry needs booted out.
@_KateForbes
@ScottishEPA
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Well, this doesn’t happen every day. A salmon farm refused planning permission!
🥳🎉👏🏻
After losing 86.8% at Culnacnoc feedlot, Organic Sea Harvest and their director, (local SNP councillor
@iasgairmuir
) should be banned from keeping salmon in cages.
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How is it that images of salmon eaten alive by sea lice don’t trigger a national public outcry to rid our seas of toxic farmed salmon?
-Because the industry has captured government to protect and defend itself at ALL costs!
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Salmon escape in Ireland estimated 30,000 fish.
“This major escape will have a devastating impact on the Erriff & Delphi rivers flowing into Killary Harbour & other nearby rivers such as Kylemore river, Clifden river, Culfin river & Ballynahinch river”
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Hundreds of farmed salmon escape from a “cutting edge tech” Norwegian boat in Iceland after a pipe bursts
If you allow salmon farming in the sea, you are allowing the destruction of iconic native species
Shame on any politician allowing this, anywhere.
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Icelandic Police now investigating farmed salmon escape as a possible criminal case.
Disrupting wild fish DNA as a result of negligence is the epitome of an unsustainable industry.
@MairiGougeon
@MairiMcAllan
@GillianMSP
@_KateForbes
@AngusRobertson
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“A Canadian federal court has upheld the decision not to renew salmon farming licenses in the Discovery Islands, British Columbia”
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How bad does farmed salmon welfare have to get before action?
Industry, government and
@RSPCA_official
all complicit in breaking welfare laws.
@MairiGougeon
@ScottishEPA
@ScottishSPCA
@TerryAHearn
@SSPOsays
@SSPCA_Kirsteen
@SSPCA_Mike
@MairiMcAllan
@CVOScotland
@_KateForbes
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If the billionaire-controlled foreign salmon farming industry in Scotland want to pollute our press with misinformation and propaganda, they should expect to be called out.
@MairiGougeon
@MairiMcAllan
@ScotlandSalmon
@AngusRobertson
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New footage taken by Abolish Salmon Farming from a Bakkafrost feedlot at Strome, Lochcarron.
Clearly
@TheGAAIA
is not the only person concerned enough to take footage of this appalling blight on Scotland’s environment.
@ScottishEPA
@GMartinMSP
@MairiMcAllan
@CVOScotland
@D1HAJ
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Imagine a swift, having just flown thousands of miles to feed, suddenly encountering swarms of airborne lice, avian flu and other exotic diseases from a nearby industrial ‘swift farm’, on re-arrival in the UK to find a mate.
This is a reality for wild Atlantic salmon.
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Escaped farmed salmon in Ireland are now entering the river Erriff and the Delphi.
Pictures below of the tail and dorsal fin of an escapee show the poor health of these farmed salmon.
These fish are carrying disease, straight into the territory of endangered wild fish.
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£15million of “seal-proof” netting.
Now that shooting seals is illegal, maybe salmon farms just need to move away from where the seals live?
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This river used to have a plentiful stock of salmon and sea trout. The riparian habitat is 1st class.
The only negative here in 40yrs is the arrival of the 1st salmon farms in Scotland, many polluted themselves out but many still remain.
No salmon return.
No voice.
No chance.
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MOWI want to extract 15hectares of peat near their Kyleakin feed plant,and create massive concrete tanks in which to grind up dead salmon.
Is this all part of the Scottish “Blue Recovery”
@MairiMcAllan
?
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Should farmed salmon carry disease history on labels and at the fresh fish counter?
In the interests of honesty and transparency, of course…
@MairiGougeon
@CVOScotland
@MairiMcAllan
@GillianMSP
@ShonaRobison
?
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“Catastrophe strikes: 10,000 fish found dead overnight”
Poisoned gas from dead fish, killed even more fish.
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MOWI advert bragging about their animal welfare backfires spectacularly when a salmon with open sores is featured in their own promo video!!!
@MairiGougeon
@MairiMcAllan
@GeorgeMonbiot
@ChrisGPackham
@SSPOsays
@LynneUSneddon
@CVOScotland
@RSPCA_official
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Vegetable oils in farmed salmon feed lead to “fat necrosis”.
So the industry is turning to krill - the lifeblood of the entire Antarctic ecosystem.
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Mowi says sea lice “modelling” is flawed and there is no cause for concern over lice numbers.
Meanwhile all operators in Scotland are systematically failing to meet even their own guidelines.
Salmon “lies” are at an all time high.
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One of the 73,600 escaped Colonsay salmon caught on river Oich on Friday.
The wild Scottish salmon gene pool is seriously under threat from these Norwegian strains and it appears NOTHING is being done.
It’s absolutely shameful.
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It’s going to be a wild night for caged farmed salmon in the Sound of Mull and all over the west coast. Hundreds of thousands broke free last storm. The industry is not fit for purpose.
@FergusEwingMSP
@strathearnrose
@MairiGougeon
@HamishMacdonell
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Salmon farmer steers boat aggressively towards cameraman as he films staff on 2 diesel workboats trying to free (or kill) seagulls, trapped inside the netting.
This net design was sanctioned by
@NatureScot
as a “bird friendly design”.
Watch full video:
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Mowi are developing an ROV to hoover up morts and electrocute dying fish so the public don’t see them first.
They’re concerned about the “false impression” video evidence of some of the 17,500,000 recorded dead fish might lead to:
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Scottish Farmed Salmon.
“Unregulated, Unethical, Unsustainable”.
A film by
@SalmonFeedlots
PART 1:
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Norwegian Food Safety Authority stops salmon farm expansion due to concerns of disease and lice affecting wild salmon.
Will
@MairiGougeon
@ScottishEPA
@ScotGovMarine
@SP_RuralAffairs
@NatureScot
@SAMSoceannews
ever do the same in Scotland?
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Salmon farming media Intrafish reports:
“The critics are right: it’s time to 'close down' salmon farms.
It will take time and significant investment, but declining fish health is pushing the industry in one, undeniable direction.”
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Chris Packham calls for a halt to “catastrophic expansion of Scottish salmon farms”:
@MairiGougeon
@ScotGovMarine
@ScotGovRural
@MairiMcAllan
@GMartinMSP
@D1HAJ
@CVOScotland
@AngusRobertson
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Over 160 groups from around the World will present an open letter to the UN’s FAO, demanding that carnivorous fish farms be excluded from its definition of ‘sustainable aquaculture’.
@ScotGov
is promoting a lie that salmon farming can be part of a
#SustainableFuture
@_KateForbes
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Norway: “Trucks carrying dead salmon banned following discharge of mucus and blood onto roads”.
Meanwhile in Scotland,
@scotgov
likes to brush these things “under the carpet”.
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Are
@jackiebmsp
@RhodaGrant
&
@Torcuil
aware of the truth behind the 💩 they’re promoting?
17.4 MILLION salmon died in cages last year, fed on globally sourced wild fish and other ingredients.
And how much really ends up on the plates of humans and how much into pet food?
Great atmosphere at the
@ScottishLabour
conference and a busy morning sponsoring (along with our good friends at
@ScotchWhiskySWA
) a
#foodanddrink
roundtable focusing on
#BrandScotland
,
#exports
and inward
#investment
with
@jackiebmsp
,
@RhodaGrant
and
@Torcuil
🍣 🥃
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“Wild fish should be eaten, not fed to farmed salmon”, say four leading UK universities.
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“Dark Seas – the muddy truth behind farmed fish”.
If the last fish you ate was a carnivorous species, such as salmon, sea bass, or sea bream, it’s probably starving West African families of their traditional diet and destroying centuries-old livelihoods.
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Last night a salmon farm feed barge sunk.
Tugboat skipper pulling barge was drunk.
You don’t have to make it up - it’s salmon farming!
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Iceland:
Over 12% of the entire population have signed a petition calling for the end to open-cage salmon farming - delivered to the Speaker of the House, the Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries & the Chairman of the Industrial Affairs Committee
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Beautiful view from near Clach Na Criche Wishing Stone over to Mull today….ruined by the stinking industrial process of vacuuming thousands of lice covered diseased feedlot salmon into a big diesel “fish carrier” while a landing craft stood by for the dead fish.
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Down on the feedlot:
Another beautiful day spent watching dead salmon being hoovered out of their cages whilst wildlife swims through their
@ScottishEPA
@ScotGovMarine
@ScotGovRural
@rspcaassured
@ASC_aqua
“regulated” and “certified” effluent. Yum!
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Some of the wild Atlantic salmon being caught in UK rivers right now are spectacular. And a relative miracle, given their migratory pressures.
Compare these with the disfigured, stressed-out, bloated frankenfish grown in tanks.
Salmon farming is an affront to nature.
Norwegian salmon tax pushes land farming to Scotland. 224 tanks holding migratory fish that will have their highly evolved sensory networks nullified by concrete and will never see the sky.
Also, “400 jobs” is a lie.
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There is no doubt that if open feedlots were removed from Scottish waters, wild salmon numbers would increase.
So, why are they there?
Jobs and a “gross value added” vanity project. 0.31% of Scotland’s GDP.
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It is confirmed that the Norwegian salmon farming industry emits 100tonnes of microplastics - more than the nations entire microplastics emissions from laundry washing.
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50% of farmed salmon are deaf.
25% die before harvest.
100% are forced to live a short life of abject cruelty in cages.
This industry should be closed down.
@CVOScotland
@MairiGougeon
@philip_ciwf
@alicksimmons
@SSPCA_Kirsteen
@tavishscott
@D1HAJ
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