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Don Staniford

@donstaniford.bsky.social
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Campaigner against the welfare nightmare & environmental pariah that is salmon farming

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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
'Tesco suspends fish farm after claims lice-infested salmon left in pen' reports BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tesco suspends fish farm after claims lice-infested salmon left in pen
Bakkafrost Scotland says a
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Say no to Yo Sushi this Xmas - farmed salmon is a welfare nightmare and environmental pariah. Please join the global boycott - it's time to abolish salmon farming
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Today's @thetimes.com reports: 'Salmon giant Mowi stripped of royal warrant after fish escape: Chris Packham called for the Norwegian firm to be cancelled and Feargal Sharkey praised the King for ‘leading from the front’ Read in full via archive.ph/lkV2K
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Toxic salmon pharming kills
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
End the cage age - it's time to abolish salmon farming @snp.org @scottishgreens.org
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Please join the global boycott against farmed salmon
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Shout out to the Captain Paul Watson Foundation for supporting my legal battle vs the $almafia www.instagram.com/p/DMU7f96KKL9/
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
'Fury after fish giants get £50,000 handout' reports today's Sunday Mail @dailyrecord.co.uk.web.brid.gy 'Wealthy salmon farmers net taxpayer haul for marketing' Read via www.pressreader.com/uk/sunday-ma... @foodrise.bsky.social @wildfishcons.bsky.social
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Bullied and bloodied by Norway’s $almafia: It was a bad bad day in Oban Sheriff Court yesterday as lawyers representing Norskott Havbruk - operating in Scotland as Scottish Sea Farms - forced me into a permanent undertaking which is effectively an injunction/interdict. The truth hurts.
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Please help stop the $almafia privatising public waters around disease-ridden feedlots across Scotland - donate via @gofundme.com: www.gofundme.com/f/stop-the-a...
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Today's @theguardian.com newspaper is worth a read - thanks to @tomburgis.bsky.social for exposing the sinister world of salmon farming. Online via www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Revealed: spies for hire used ‘Big Brother’ tactics on salmon farm activists @theguardian.com 'Wildlife activists who exposed horrific conditions at Scottish salmon farms were subjected to “Big Brother” surveillance by spies for hire' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Revealed: spies for hire used ‘Big Brother’ tactics on salmon farm activists
Guardian investigation sheds light on private intelligence industry that runs covert surveillance operations
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Smith's racism leaves a bad taste in the mouth - very much like the 'Scottish' salmon he has done so much to expose www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The fish fightback starts here – the public has a moral duty to speak out against the welfare nightmare and environmental pariah that is salmon farming. We need to give a voice to millions of Atlantic salmon dying inside virus-laden cages and that means secret filming to expose the horrific truth
Read via https://donstaniford.typepad.com/files/pr-ssf-notice-of-opposition-30-april-2025-1.pdf
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Just say no to drugs, say no to Scottish salmon. This Easter, consumers should follow the French in rejecting Scottish salmon contaminated with steroids, listeria, E.coli, enterococci and coliforms
https://donstaniford.typepad.com/files/pr-bakkafrost-beta-nandrolone-april.pdf
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Breaking News: Bakkafrost's Scottish salmon from Cairndow in Argyll contaminated with steroid Beta nandrolone
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
'Alert issued after steroids found in salmon bound for France' reports today's Herald On Sunday @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
REFUSED: The UK Government refuse to disclose information on rejections of Scottish salmon by France claiming it woud 'prejudice commercial interests' and 'could lead to financial losses' Does DEFRA/APHA work for consumers or the $almafia?
Read letter in full via https://donstaniford.typepad.com/files/apha-foi-april-letter.pdfRead letter in full via https://donstaniford.typepad.com/files/apha-foi-april-letter.pdf
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Video Exclusive: here's how Scottish Sea Farms burn all the dead bodies spewing from factory salmon farming - filmed on the Isle of Kerrera in the shadow of Oban. This is not on the tourist tour.
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
If you've ever wondered how legal bills rack up during a SLAPP here's the 'Account of Expenses' itemised by Mowi's lawyers who are demanding £82,761.15 Read the 66 page report via donstaniford.typepad.com/files/mowi-e...
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Asked whether he had the money to meet the bill, Staniford said: “Mowi is pissing in the wind. Mowi has more chance of getting blood out of a stone.”
Via https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/court-of-session-don-staniford-legal-costs/anti-salmon-farming-activist-handed-83k-legal-bill-by-mowi/1918362
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Foodrise @foodrise.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Triodos, what happened to your sustainable ambitions? 🤔 As of November 2024, Triodos has invested a shocking $16 million dollars in Bakkafrost, one of the world’s largest fish farming companies. (1/5)
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Foodrise @foodrise.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
⚠️70% of salmon produced worldwide is farmed. Our new report exposes how this toxic industry is draining our ocean, worsening food security & fueling food colonialism in regions like West Africa. It’s time for banks to stop financing this harm. #DefundBigSalmon feedbackglobal.org/fishy-finances
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Four shipments of Scottish salmon were "rejected & returned" by France - the latest in January 2025. Sadly APHA claims that "searching for and gathering it would involve a significant cost and diversion of resources". Why were the shipments of Scottish salmon rejected by France?
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
An open invitation has been sent out to salmon farmers, Police Scotland, the Crown Estate, tourist operators and other coastal users to discuss a safety protocol for swimming, kayaking, diving and filming near salmon farms. The public meeting will be held in Oban on Friday 21 March.
Press release via https://donstaniford.typepad.com/files/pr-protocol-for-filming-7-march-2025.pdf
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Scottish salmon farming is dead in the water
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Listen to a discussion about the evils of salmon farming on Caledon Radio via caledonmedia.scot/2025/02/27/d...
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Don Staniford 27th Feb 25
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“It’s horrific, and it’s the sign of an industry that’s out of control” archive.ph/btkji
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
EXCLUSIVE: "Any Crown Estate Scotland agreement cannot preclude public right of navigation & cannot stop anyone approaching a farm site....Anyone has the right to navigate (or swim) up alongside moored cages"
Press release via https://donstaniford.typepad.com/files/pr-crown-estate-disclosure-blows-bakkafrost-slapp-out-of-water-25-feb-2025-1.pdfVideo report via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CTnWsii19c
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Salmon farmers in Scotland - aided & abetted by their legal friends - are resorting to legal action to shut down covert surveillance. Please help shine a light on the murky world of Scottish salmon!
Details via https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-mowi-privatising-public-waters-in-scotland/
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the high environmental cost & poor welfare standards of farmed salmon" said Lex Rigby at WildFish. Want to take farmed salmon off your table? Follow the link below to join the campaign today wildfish.org/latest-news/...
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The Reality of Scottish Farmed Salmon | WildFish
WildFish has published a new report about the marketing tactics that Scottish salmon farming companies use to mislead consumers.
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Mowi is goodness - mmmowi yumi salmon
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Remember Harvey Keitel's character in Pulp Fiction disposing of dead bodies with toxic chemicals? The deadly salmon farming industry disposes of carcasses in the same way! You have blood on your hands if you buy salmon from the Faroes - find out more via www.neptunespirates.uk/blood-salmon
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Utah Phillips famously said: "The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses". Follow the $almoney to the $almafia, $almonsters & $almobsters #$almonopoly
https://donstaniford.typepad.com/my-blog/2022/10/norways-almafia-pay-33-million-to-settle-second-us-price-fixing-suit-after-85-million-pay-off-in-may.html More via https://donstaniford.typepad.com/my-blog/2022/10/norways-almafia-pay-33-million-to-settle-second-us-price-fixing-suit-after-85-million-pay-off-in-may.html Read more via https://www.fishfarmermagazine.com/fish-farmer-all-content/salmon-companies-face-nervous-wait-following-cartel-hearing/Via https://globalcompetitionreview.com/article/norwegian-salmon-producers-fight-jurisdiction-in-uk-supermarket-claims
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Today I filed a complaint vs Faroese/Norwegian giant Bakkafrost with Police Scotland for threatening behaviour in Loch Fyne. The $almafia cannot be allowed to intimidate & threaten the safety of kayakers in public waters in Scotland!
Read complaint in full via https://donstaniford.typepad.com/files/police-scotland-complaint-vs-bakkafrost-feb-2025-1.pdf
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Victory vs Frankenfish - the battle against AquaBounty's GM salmon took over 30 years but we finally won, by working together. Thanks to a powerful coalition of food safety, community, environmental, indigenous, fisheries, legal & consumer groups!
News on the victory vs AquaBounty via https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/6979/victory-ge-salmon-company-aquabounty-shutting-down-operations
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Here's why the Faroese/Norwegian $almafia wants to shut down covert surveillance inside salmon farms - the camera never lies, unlike Bakkafrost!
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Deep undercover in Loch Fyne exposing deadly Bakkafrost - can you see through my cunning disguise?
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"You can see for yourself how injunctions banning me from filming inside 75% of salmon farms (Bakkafrost, Mowi & Scottish Sea Farms) would curb filming inside salmon farms" Staniford told Intrafish. "Staniford said he will continue to fight two legal actions but they will take up 90% of his energy
Online via https://www.intrafish.com/salmon/notorious-anti-salmon-farming-opponent-retires-from-front-line-activism/2-1-1769804
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
In a statement to Salmon Business, Staniford criticized the company for attempting to shield its operations from public scrutiny. “Norwegian giant Scottish Sea Farms - trading in Scotland as Norskott Havbruk - is still desperately trying to fence off public waters around their salmon farms” he said
Online via https://www.salmonbusiness.com/scottish-sea-farms-revises-activist-legal-restrictions-to-match-mowi-case/
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
After Lord Forsyth asked the Crown Estate to strip salmon farms of licences if found to be “causing environmental damage or significant animal welfare issues” I filed a FOI. Here's the 'Refusal Notice' from the Crown Estate Scotland citing "commercial confidentiality" - WTF?!
Article via https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/11/08/tory-peers-jumping-bed-eco-extremists-fish-farm-vote/
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Guy Linley-Adams, solicitor @wildfishcons.bsky.social, said: "We now need the Charity Commission to examine whether RSPCA Assured, as a private company limited by shares and enjoying the ‘charitable umbrella’ of being RSPCA-owned, should really be considered a charity"
Press release via https://wildfish.org/latest-news/wildfish-calls-on-charity-commission-to-investigate-rspca-assureds-charitable-status/
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"Anti-salmon farming activist gears up for court fight over sites ban" reports Fish Farming Expert on my legal battle with Norskott Havbruk. "I look forward to debating the public’s right to know what’s really going on inside RSPCA Assured salmon farms and the law around chattel trespass"
Read in full via https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/don-staniford-mowi-scotland-oban-sheriff-court/anti-salmon-farming-activist-gears-up-for-court-fight-over-sites-ban/1883341
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The truth hurts.....corporate reputation! Here's stomach-churning video footage I shot inside Mowi Scotland - a few months later the Norwegian giant filed legal action to stop covert surveillance inside their lousy cages. The camera never lies (unlike the $almafia)
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Please join the global boycott against farmed salmon! Salmon farming is a welfare nightmare & environmental pariah - avoid like the proverbial plague @foodwatchde.bsky.social
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Watch video footage of dead salmon at 'Organic' Sea Harvest off the Isle of Skye. "String jellyfish are notorious for unleashing a devastating assault on salmon by using their venomous tentacles to inflict burns on the fish’s skin, eyes & gills" @oceanographicmag.bsky.social
Watch via https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/200000-fish-die-in-single-worst-jellyfish-attack-on-scottish-salmon/
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Just back from walking my dog Daisy - it's entirely appropriate that dog walkers are using a Bakkafrost salmon box as a dumping ground for poo bags. Please boycott shitty farmed salmon whether it's from the Faroes, Scotland or Norway - it's all a pile of utter crap!
Video footage of shitting farmed salmon via https://www.neptunespirates.uk/blood-salmon
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“This jellyfish attack is the latest example of how the fish farming industry is failing to cope with environmental challenges" says @dalevince.com in today's @theguardian.com "We routinely see them using the land and sea as a sewer for their toxic business, and now nature is fighting back.”
News via https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/20/campaigners-call-for-action-over-threat-of-jellyfish-to-scottish-salmon-farmsScottish Government data via https://www.gov.scot/publications/fish-health-inspectorate-mortality-information/News via https://donstaniford.typepad.com/my-blog/2023/12/attack-of-the-killer-jellyfish-caught-on-camera.htmlNews via https://donstaniford.typepad.com/my-blog/2023/12/attack-of-the-killer-jellyfish-caught-on-camera.html
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Who's calling who unlawful? Here's video footage shot inside salmon cages in Scotland - please judge for yourself who's committing a crime. Are the film-makers guilty of unlawful trespass and/or is the $almafia guilty of breaching animal welfare laws?
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Don Staniford @donstaniford.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Please join the boycott against R$PCA A$$ured Scottish salmon - shame on @rspcaoffficial.bsky.social for selling out to the $almafia. Given the shocking welfare abuse it's no wonder @chrisgpackham.bsky.social & @carolinelucas.bsky.social left the R$PCA in disgust
Read how the R$PCA sold their soul to the devil https://www.thetimes.com/article/rspca-assured-earns-700-000-for-salmon-stamp-of-approval-9hghmrtf8Read more via https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13631267/BBCs-Springwatch-presenter-Chris-Packham-quit-horror-footage-injured-salmon-Scots-fish-farm.htmlRead more via https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/11/chris-packham-calls-for-halt-to-catastrophic-expansion-of-scottish-salmon-farmsRead more via https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/salmon-farming-a-monstrosity-says-chris-packham-after-dumping-video-88tlkbltz
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