Important Hebridean adult wild salmon run decimated by parasites as sea lice numbers on local salmon farms rise and dead farmed fish are taken ashore for burial. A substantial proportion of this year’s wild adult salmon run, into one of the Hebrides’ most renowned rivers, has been killed by a plague of parasitic […]
![A noteworthy scientific paper which confirms impact of sea lice on sea trout has just been published in the prestigious Journal of Fish Biology, entitled “The influence of aquaculture unit proximity on the pattern of Lepeophtheirus salmonis [SEA LICE] infection of anadromous Salmo trutta [SEA TROUT] populations on the Isle of Skye, Scotland”.](https://flyfishing-blog.com/flyfishing-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Lice-300x211.jpg)
A noteworthy scientific paper which confirms impact of sea lice on sea trout has just been published in the prestigious Journal of Fish Biology, entitled “The influence of aquaculture unit proximity on the pattern of Lepeophtheirus salmonis [SEA LICE] infection of anadromous Salmo trutta [SEA TROUT] populations on the Isle of Skye, Scotland”. The lead author is Isabel Moore […]
Salmon & Trout Conservation is kicking off the year squashing the ‘no evidence of sea lice from salmon farming damaging wild salmon and sea trout populations’ excuse used frequently by Scottish Government. In the second week of January a report by experts in the field (Prof Eva B. Thorstad and Dr Bengt Finstad) and commissioned […]
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 […]
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 […]
A formal petition, lodged in the Scottish Parliament in February 2016 by Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland, seeking protection for wild salmonids from sea lice from Scottish salmon farms, has resulted in MSPs launching an Inquiry into the salmon farming industry in Scotland. Read more: http://www.salmon-trout.org/stcs-campaign-and-petition-leads-to-parliamentary-inquiry-into-scottish-salmon-farming/news/440. National survey identifies lethal problems below the surface of […]
Marine Harvest’s performance on sea lice control in Scotland is drastically worse than any of its other worldwide operations. Newly published data in the 2016 Annual Report from Marine Harvest, the world’s largest salmon farming company, shows that its Scottish salmon farms are very far behind its operations elsewhere in the world in controlling the […]
Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland’s video on Loch Maree showing sea lice and the need for aquaculture reform. This new film explains the catastrophic collapse of sea trout stocks in Loch Maree, once one of the world’s truly great wild fisheries, following the arrival of salmon farming in the adjacent sea loch. Salmon & Trout […]
Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland makes a formal complaint to European Commission on Scottish Government’s failure to address the impacts of sea lice parasites produced by Scottish salmon farms threatening west coast wild salmon and sea trout. The Scottish Government is called upon to improve dramatically the protection of wild salmon and sea trout from […]