Below is a link to an update on Alexandra Morton’s efforts to protect wild salmon from salmon farms. She has hope we will be successful, but it is now a race against extinction of some wild runs. However, so many people are involved now that wild salmon have a much better chance for survival. On […]
Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland (S&TC Scotland) is today leading a call for an immediate moratorium on any new open cage marine salmon farms in Scotland or any expansion of existing sites. The call is supported by a wide cross section of 27 environmental NGOs and other bodies, demanding that: Until the current failings in […]
Piscine reovirus may be the biggest industrial spill in the history of British Columbia – for more information and access to the documents in this film see alexandramorton.typepad.com/racing_a_virus. Racing a Virus – Short Film from Alexandra Morton on Vimeo.
This week BBC One TV’s the One Show broadcast two short films which starkly expose the dirty reality of intensive salmon farming in the West Highlands and Islands. Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland features in the second film and their role in instigating the upcoming Parliamentary Inquiry is emphasised in the subsequent studio discussion. Incidentally […]
Data reveals astonishingly high sea lice levels, Scottish Government regulation of salmon farms shown to be wholly inadequate. Following the formal decision by the Scottish Information Commissioner (See here) that Scottish Ministers unlawfully tried to withhold information naming fish farms that had breached Scottish Government trigger levels for the numbers of adult female sea lice on […]
The Scottish Information Commissioner has last week published a formal Decision that Scottish Ministers unlawfully tried to withhold information naming fish farms that had breached Scottish Government trigger levels for the numbers of adult female sea lice on farmed salmon. http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/uploadedFiles/Decision142-2017.pdf Late last year and this year, Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland (S&TC Scotland) made […]
Salmon farming has done ‘enormous harm’ to fish stocks and the environment, Jeremy Paxman has warned, as he called for an overhaul of the industry to protect wildlife. The presenter, and keen angler, said many fisheries traded on the image that salmon arrived at the table ‘fresh from the wild seas’ when, in reality […]
Salmon & Trout Conservation needs your help with their latest campaign. The growing demand for Atlantic salmon on our dinner tables has supported the boom of fish farms around the west coast of Scotland. Unfortunately, the growth of this industry has been at the peril of wild fish. Did you know that high levels of […]
Hello, Over 112,000 people have signed this petition to the provincial government of British Columbia. Thank you ! Now another push is needed. Canada will be voting on a federal bill to remove salmon farms from the ocean, we need to speak louder than the Norwegian/Japanese salmon farmers. This is not easy because somehow the […]
The Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw First Nations are a group of four Tribes. One third of the BC salmon farming exists in their territory (Broughton Archipelago) despite nearly 30 years of opposition. The salmon farming industry does not have permission to operate in Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw territory. Last spring up to 40% of the young salmon leaving their […]