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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

@mairigougeoun.bsky.social assertions are not borne out by the facts. 1/4 of the #salmon that went to sea died before harvest last year, that is over 10.9 million fish. The suffering and waste is off the scale. #FarmedSalmon #ScottishSalmon #TasteOfScotlan UN #SustainableSeafood #ShameofScotland

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

'Oysters dont like soft sediment.' they say, 'They are very fussy about what they settle on....' 🤔

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Thank you to Sunna Van Kampen in @thetimes.com for highlighting this. We should all be questioning a food system that uses more, better, protein than it produces, impoverishing coastal communities that rely on the fish pelletised to feed sad factory farmed #salmon in the global north.

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

First Garfish I have found washed up on the shores of Loch Broom. #MarineLife

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Rhetoric V Reality. 5% of the #salmon died at this WRS (a.k.a Mowi) site in June. That equates to thousands of fish suffering and dying, they are also forgetting the infernal 'hum' of the feed barge. Nothing traditional or peaceful about this 'blue revolution'. #Offthetable

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Lovely bright butterfish in the oyster hoisters today. #marinelife

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

We are very grateful to the Loch Broom and Ullapool Community Trust for part funding oyster cages with a larger mesh than the ones we had. Bigger mesh makes for easier cleaning and more water flow, which equals happy cage scrubbers, and happy oysters! #Seawilding #MarineLife

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

4/4 #Salmon farms in Scotland are foreign owned. They pay relatively little tax, and strive for automation, whilst leaving us a legacy of pollution and damage. This is the antithesis of what should constitute a 'Good Food Nation' @mairigougeon.bsky.social

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

A lovely palaemon shrimp in the oyster hoisters today. #marinelife

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Beautiful wrasse in the oyster hoisters on Ullapool pontoons today. I see a male frequently here, they are very territorial so it could well be the same fellow, if it is, he clearly doesn't mind being taken on board and ogled on a regular basis.

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Lots of lovely moon jellies in Loch Broom at the moment.

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

A further 3,000 native oysters released in Loch Broom, still way off our targets due to continuing spat shortages, but we have kept these oysters in the cages for longer than normal, so they are spawning size + safe from most predators. Fingers crossed for spawning! #Seawilding

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

We have had a fun couple of days in Ullapool helping local kids understand that to get cool stuff at the top of the food chain, you need to look after the hard working habitat builders at the bottom. They get it, lets hope our politicians do too🤔

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

A beautiful wrasse in an oyster hoister. Hopefully Scottish Gov are reviewing the wrasse fishery in light of the science on the breeding season. #Wrasse are caught to service #salmon farms who use this 'keystone species' to eat their lice before discarding them.

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

🧵Open season for trapping wild wrasse starts tomorrow in Scotland (in no way avoiding the breeding season), purely to supply the #salmon farming industry. Removing wrasse damages our coastal environment because of their vital role in the food chain. Its also incredibly cruel.

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

We at @seawilding.bsky.social deployed an array of 'oyster hoisters' on the #Ullapool Harbour pontoons at the weekend, they will permanently house a gang of hard-working native #oysters capable of filtering around 240 litres each per day, and hopefully spawn if the water gets warm enough this year.

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

First barrel jellyfish of the season (for me). Summer must be coming.

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Fat farmed rainbow trout caught in the River Add, Argyll where they are NOT meant to be. They compete with - and eat the juveniles of - native species, and are potential disease vectors. Nearest farmed rainbows are at a Mowi site in Loch Craignish. @theferret.scot

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Great day out yesterday releasing native #oysters in Loch Broom with Ullapool Primary Gaelic class. Its important for all of us to remember that we have the power to enact positive change. Good luck to the oysters.💕 @seawilding.bsky.social

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Oyster gobblers on the low spring tides.

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Small is beautiful, and a whole load warmer than big!

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Really nice to see this list of 'foods to eat every week' in @thetimes.com including sprats (forage fish) and not the usual lazy inclusion of farmed salmon (which are fed forage fish, whilst simultaneously polluting Scotland's coastal environment). Cut out the middle man (fish)! #Offthetable

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Reduction fisheries are fisheries that catch wild fish to make fishmeal and fish oil, instead of selling them directly to humans. This is what #salmon farms specialise in, taking peoples food and feeding it to farmed fish. Swerve the smoked farmed salmon this Christmas! @mairigougeon.bsky.social

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

If you are in Ullapool this week check out the beautiful Coastal Testimonies exhibition in the ferry terminal. There is also a screening of ‘the Limit’ tonight, and as if that were not enough…we have a creel tree….

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

‘Despite pronounced seasonal + interannual variation, #seagrass restoration increases fish abundance and diversity.’ If we want diverse fisheries with more opportunities than just shellfish, we need to recover seabed habitats. @seawilding.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The view shortly before some painful, free, outdoor, facial microdermabrasion.

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Just read this excellent book. It’s changed the way I think about the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ The real tragedy is that there are not enough commons, and mismanagement and greed are impacting the ecosystem that supports us all. Mon the revolution!

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Snow day in #Ullapool. I look forward to a day of trying to work as the kids pile wet clothes over every surface, whilst simultaneously flooding the floor. Bring it on!

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The rowan tree outside my ‘office’ (kitchen table) window is alive with redwings and fieldfares chattering away. It’s magical.

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Lots of empty native #Oyster shells in front of #Ullapool golf course on the low spring tides, evidence of the lost populations that we are restoring in Loch Broom. Oysters were once abundant here, they would have had a huge impact on coastal water quality. We need to restore at scale #Seawilding

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

A small scallop on the low spring tide today, covered in an encrusting sponge. You can see it’s beautiful mirrored eyes.

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Bathyscope was useful today looking for #Nativeoysters that we at #Seawilding released in Loch Broom this summer. Lots of live spotted, and no open shells so its all looking good!

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

#Nativeoysters, the cleaner one lives with an urchin, the dirty pair dont. This could save me a lot of scrubbing…

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Little chancer in the #oyster hoisters today.

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

#Ullapool tonight. A very beautiful village with no houses for the hoi polloi.

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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Have jumped off toxic twitter to this little butterfly, hoping I can find some of the others that jumped before me!

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