Press Releases

Animal campaigns charity OneKind has launched a petition to the Scottish Parliament with partners Scottish Salmon Think-Tank, Save Seil Sound and the Salmon Aquaculture Reform Network Scotland (SARNS) calling for a moratorium on the expansion of the salmon farming industry until welfare and environmental concerns are addressed. It comes as the aquaculture industry, backed by… Read more

Scotland’s animal campaigns charity has released a new report highlighting the serious welfare issues on Scotland’s salmon farms. Fish welfare on Scotland’s salmon farms exposes a number of welfare breaches including mass mortality, sea lice infestations, disease and escapes. Scotland is the largest producer of farmed Atlantic salmon in the EU, and the third largest… Read more

Animal campaigns charity OneKind has released a new report, The welfare status of salmon farms and companies in Scotland, which highlights the worst and best salmon farms for animal welfare in Scotland in 2017. The report collates publicly available data on mortalities, escapes, biomass exceedance, seal shooting and sea lice burdens for the 184 active… Read more

Disease, lice infestations and mass mortality events continued to cause suffering on Scotland’s salmon farms in the first quarter of 2018, new data has revealed. The data shows that up to three million fish died (assuming all salmon that died weigh 1kg) in mortality events between January and March 2018. This is an 8.5% increase… Read more