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Brigitte Wear @brigitte-whl.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🔴 NEW 🔴 The world’s largest salmon producer Mowi stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its “polluting, smelly and invasive” fish farms, say local residents and fishers, in what used to be “pristine” Highlands lochs. with @desmog.com
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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New investigation | Extreme cruelty in Scottish trout slaughterhouse
YouTube video by Animal Equality UK
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 13/06/2025
Planned Grimsby land-based salmon farm presents huge risk to community and animal welfare After the mass die-off of 170,000 salmon in Japan, Grimsby’s planned facility risks bringing the same mass suffering and disaster to the UK By Natalie Bennett @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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Planned Grimsby land-based salmon farm presents huge risk to community and animal welfare
After the mass die-off of 170,000 salmon in Japan, Grimsby’s planned facility risks bringing the same mass suffering and disaster to the UK
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Jen Scotney @jenscotney.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Time to stop salmon farming expanding without proper scrutiny… Please sign to protect our waters 🌊 greens.scot/ProtectScotl...
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Protect Scotland’s Waters – Pause New Salmon Farms
Protect Scotland’s Waters – Pause New Salmon Farms -
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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 · 12/03/2025
📢 EXPOSED: Big banks and investors are pouring $ BILLIONS into the salmon farming industry, driving its enormous growth and huge profits at the expense of wild fish populations and communities around the globe. Here are 5 key takeaways from our new report that you should know about 🧵(1/6)
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Antibiotic resistance in farmed salmon is way worse than previously recognised. thefishsite.com/articles/stu...
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
www.vice.com/en/article/n... Vice, cover the recent escape of salmon in Norway
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Norwegian Company Just Put a Bounty on 27,000 Escaped Salmon
Norwegian company Mowi, is offering a reward for each escaped salmon caught after around 27,000 fish busted out of a local farm.
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Farmed salmon from Scotland in the news again today, hard to believe that salmon are considered a healthy choice of food to eat. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Humpback whale that was trapped on a salmon farm at the Isle of Skye is now free, but with an increase of these whales visiting Scotland, it's only a question of when not if this happens again.
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Wild Atlantic Salmon in Ireland are under threat from farmed salmon. Inter breeding with farmed salmon could wipe them out. afloat.ie/port-news/fi...
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The Soil Association and the RSPCA assured scheme are not fit for purpose, neither has an upper limit for mortality, a farmer could lose 99% of their fish and the remaining 1% would still get the "high welfare" rubber stamp. Why?
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Pearl Jellyfish wipe out 200,000 salmon, the industry blames rising sea temps. If that's the case isn't it time that the industry called it a day? or do they have some clever tricks on how to reverse climate change? oceanographicmagazine.com/news/200000-...
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Lots of papers today covering the report from Scottish parliament committee. It's a shame organisations like the RSPCA & Soil Association can't pay attention to this report, they need to stop certifying farms with high mortality. archive.ph/zvXSb
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The man, the myth, the legend, Don Staniford has joined Bluesky. Give him a follow @donstaniford.bsky.social
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Salmon farming now banned in Washington after huge escape of salmon from farms in 2017. Meanwhile in Scotland the largest escape in a decade is hidden from the public for 2 years…
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Salmon farmers don’t have to report when farmed fish escape during transport! Wild Atlantic salmon are an endangered species and escapes like this could finish them off. archive.ph/uBdaX
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Don’t put poison on the plate this Christmas.
Santa with badge saying "I say no to farmed salmon"
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 23/12/2024
Salmon farming is a dirty business… How do you know the salmon you eat isn’t a diseased zombie salmon? Go on fish eaters - tell me how much you love eating zombie salmon…
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 22/12/2024
Who’s made my naughty list this year…? Anyone I missed? Tag them below
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Animal Rising @animalrising.org · 21/12/2024
It speaks to the gravity of the problems across the Assured scheme that Chris, who was so proud to represent the RSPCA, has decided his only choice now is to leave. By endorsing animal agriculture instead of protecting those trapped within it, the RSPCA has lost its way.
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Well done @carolinelucas.bsky.social cas.bsky.social and @chrisgpackham.bsky.social ham.bsky.social for making a stand against the RSPCA's hypocrisy. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme... archive.ph/6A7UM
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RSPCA accused of ‘failure of leadership’ as Chris Packham resigns
Packham and Caroline Lucas stood down as president and vice-president after workers at the charity’s approved abattoirs were filmed mistreating animals
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The Soil Association can’t escape the fact that chemicals they’ve banned have been routinely fed to “organic salmon” that’s currently for sale www.thegrocer.co.uk/comment-and-...
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How many more controversies can the salmon sector survive?
Yesterday's revelations over organic fish farms in Scotland should set further alarm bells ringing
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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Azamethiphos used in #salmon farming to control parasites. Effects linked to neurological disorders, decreasing male fertility, foetal abnormalities, chronic fatigue syndrome and Parkinson's disease.' Use up in Scotland 33% between 2018 - 2023. Please don't eat farmed salmon. mol.im/a/14177313
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Salmon exposed to banned chemicals unwittingly sold by UK supermarkets
Norwegian firm Mowi, which describes itself as the 'world's most sustainable protein producer' has been selling fish exposed to dozens of chemicals to UK supermarkets as 'organic'.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 17/12/2024
1/3 This scandal with so-called 'organic' salmon is just the tip of the iceberg. Not only are consumers being duped into paying premium prices for farmed salmon doused in toxic chemicals, but the entire practice of fish farming is an environmental disaster. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Salmon exposed to banned chemicals unwittingly sold by UK supermarkets
Norwegian firm Mowi, which describes itself as the 'world's most sustainable protein producer' has been selling fish exposed to dozens of chemicals to UK supermarkets as 'organic'.
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The Soil Association have been certifying farmed salmon that contain banned chemicals, which they themselves say can lead to Parkinson’s!! www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Salmon exposed to banned chemicals unwittingly sold by UK supermarkets
Norwegian firm Mowi, which describes itself as the 'world's most sustainable protein producer' has been selling fish exposed to dozens of chemicals to UK supermarkets as 'organic'.
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
An explainer about Scottish salmon farming.
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Emma Roddick MSP @emmaroddicksnp.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The Rural Affairs and Islands Committee is sitting in private today to try and find answers to questions we've been taking evidence on for the last six months. Here are some of the questions and issues I've been raising throughout the salmon farming inquiry 👇
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Neal Haddaway @nealhaddaway.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
🐟 The fight against salmon farming: Activist Don Staniford exposes environmental harm, welfare abuses & corporate SLAPP tactics. Read about his relentless battle & the hidden cost of "sustainable" salmon: medium.com/the-new-clim... #Activism #Environment #SalmonFarming #FoodImperialism
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The Activist Taking on the Salmon Farming Industry
Multinational MOWI has won a case barring activist Don Staniford from its salmon farms. But could this prove an own-goal for the industry?
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Robeloo @robeloo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Protest today was full of passion, as we all came together to fight for our beloved Storm Bay. Our pristine south eastern bays and coastlines, where we live, swim, fish and surf, are in danger of environmental disaster. Please! NO MORE FISH FARMS!
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Feargal Sharkey - fan @feargalsharkey.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The stretch of the River Cam in Cambridge which has been designated bathing water, Sheep’s Green, failed the phosphate test, failed the nitrate test and failed the ammonia test. You have been warned. www.lbc.co.uk/news/feargal...
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'I'd stay well away from swimming there': Feargal Sharkey tests the River Cam after site was awarded bathing status
One of Britain’s top swimming spots is 'failing' on water quality due to pollution, according to environmental testing conducted by LBC.
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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 08/12/2024
🔴NEW: Seven fish farming companies have been accused by the Scottish Government’s green watchdog of breaking the law by failing to provide information on fish numbers. Find out more: theferret.scot/fish-farming...
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Thank you Peter Egan for speaking out about salmon farming.
In any intensive food production industry the animals suffer... fish are suffering the same as livestock or poultry, they suffer in exactly the same way... They get stereotypic behaviour, their immune system is blasted, the fish in these salmon farms have got fish lice all over their
bodies.

~Peter Egan
(actor and animal activist speaking on TalkTV)
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Have an elderly relative or someone with health problems in your family that you don’t like? Give them some smoked salmon this Christmas! www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Urgent health warning issued over smoked salmon and cured fish
The Food Standards Agency (FDA) is advising pregnant women and anybody with a weakened immune system to avoid the foods due to the risk from listeria bacteria.
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Robeloo @robeloo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Change of date for SALMON FARM protest to next Sunday Dec 8th. Bluesky Tassie people, come out and save Storm Bay from TOXIC pollution and help save my beautiful view and everyone's favorite surf beaches. Heidi and I love Storm Bay #Stormbay #Fishfarm #Protest #Pollution #nature
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Don Staniford of Scamon Scotland claimed “Scottish salmon is a welfare nightmare that should be avoided. Yet retailers are flouting fish labelling laws and misleading consumers" www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1982...
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Harrods and Fortnum & Mason accused of 'misleading' customers with fish labels
The retail giants have came under fire from campaigners after they found a label without adequate information.
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Boycott salmon to save the whales. Investigations have found that krill is used by the two major Tasmanian aquaculture companies & their feed suppliers. They are literally stealing krill from the whales’ mouths. tasgreensmps.org/parliament/a...
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Tasmanian Greens MPs | Aquaculture - Effects on Wild Fish
The impact on wild fish populations is significantly higher than has previously been reported.
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thank you Dale Vince for being committed to fighting the entirely foreign owned Scottish salmon farm companies: GET THEM OUT OF THE UK www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/... archive.ph/5ycAE
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Millionaire to fund more investigations into salmon farming
Dale Vince said his preference would be for the ‘immediate closure of all salmon farming operations in Scotland’
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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Ireland: 'Are seals to blame for eating 8,000 missing farmed salmon?' Interesting headline choice. I prefer: 'Are #Salmon farmers responsible for the release of 8000 farmed salmon into the environment - to the potential detriment of wild salmon stocks?' www.salmonbusiness.com/ireland-are-...
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Ireland: Are seals to blame for eating 8,000 missing farmed salmon?
Marine Institute says fish either migrated to the sea or ‘succumbed’ to predatory mammals. Marine mammals, including seals and dolphins, are believed to have consumed a significant portion of the 7,00...
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Thank you Max Maclean for speaking out against farmed salmon.
"Salmon farming is a disgusting example of profiteering with complete abandon for the natural world and its inhabitants."
Max Maclean
Former head chef at Silo in London, the world's first zero-waste restaurant
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Salmon farming is killing the planet: www.seafoodsource.com/news/aquacul...
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Humpback whale deaths near Cooke, Australis salmon grow-out centers draw scrutiny in Chile
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Italian media reporting on Mowi in Loch Torridon Salmon, what's happening in Scottish farms? - The video investigation video.corriere.it/animali/salm...
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Salmoni, cosa sta succedendo negli allevamenti in Scozia? - La videoinchiesta | Corriere TV
Il problema del riscaldamento delle acque, delle malattie degli animali e dell'elevato tasso di mortalità. I numeri impressionanti
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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Wild fish extraction for aquaculture feed is particularly intensive for carnivorous species. Farming a single Atlantic salmon can require extracting over a thousand anchovies from the ocean. When we consider collateral mortality during fishing, the ratio climbed higher yet.
Farming carnivorous species consumes multiple times the food it produces.

Salmon feed can result in the mortality of anywhere between 1.9 to more than 6 times the biomass it produces, depending on the source used for feed composition.

Figure 3
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 21/11/2024
🔵 NEW 🔵 Fish Farming Industry is Using ‘Misleading’ Figures to Downplay its Role in Overfishing, New Research Finds 📝@brigitte-whl.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2024/11/21/f...
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Fish Farming Industry is Using ‘Misleading’ Figures to Downplay its Role in Overfishing, New Research Finds
Aquaculture is the world’s fastest growing food sector – one that proponents have long argued can help conserve wild fisheries. The argument goes that farming seafood instead of catching it will provi...
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Brigitte Wear @brigitte-whl.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
🔴 NEW 🔴 We also published two new profiles – Skretting and Cargill Aqua Nutrition – in our industrial aquaculture database for World Fisheries Day today! desmog.com/industrial-a... @desmog.bsky.social A thread on World Fisheries Day!
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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Scotland's marine muds sink more carbon than our forestry, peat, + terrestrial soils combined. If damaged (e.g. by bottom dragged fishing gear or #salmon farming) the sinks lose their function + can become Carbon sources. @thesnp.bsky.social must protect them. spice-spotlight.scot/2021/03/24/o...
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Out of the blue: Is blue carbon the next frontier for climate change mitigation in Scotland?
This blog explains the current understanding of carbon captured and stored in Scotland’s coastal and marine environment, known as ‘blue carbon’. It also outlines known threats to …
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Ailsa McLellan @ailsamcl.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
“Salmon with mixed genes from farmed fish are less viable than wild salmon in the Vosso River, but still displace wild salmon - a new study shows” Genetic, nutrient and chemical pollution from #Salmon farms are destroying habitats and ecosystems. www.fiskeavisen.no/vosso-laksen...
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Vosso-laksen svekka av oppdrettsgen
Biletet viser Vossolaks registrert i kilenot.|Foto: Norce Laks med innblanda gen frå oppdrettsfisk er mindre levedyktig enn villaks i Vossoelva, men fortrengjer likevel villaksen, viser ny studie. …
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Free Salmon @freesalmon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Well done Jamie Moyes for helping to show the realities of salmon farming. news.mongabay.com/2024/11/scot...
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Scottish salmon farms seek growth despite mounting fish deaths and environmental concerns
ULLAPOOL, U.K. — The fish float on the surface by the dozen, their bellies pointing toward the still-dark sky of the early morning. We are peering into a cage of an intensive Atlantic salmon farm, own...
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Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Open letter call on the @ScotGov to urgently address salmon farming’s negative economic & environmental impacts >50 organisations have asked them to urgently re-evaluate its economic claims about open-net salmon farming. wildfish.org/latest-news/...
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Open Letter Calls Out Negative Salmon Farming Impacts | WildFish
Over 50 Scottish groups call on the Scottish Government to urgently address salmon farming’s negative economic and environmental impacts.
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