New WildFish report – Breaching the limits – exposes high sea lice levels on Tasmanian salmon farms in 2022
A new report from WildFish has found that the Scottish salmon and trout farming industry is allowing parasitic sea lice levels to reach over 5 million lice on a single farm at one time[i], with up to 2 billion sea lice being emitted over the course of a week, risking fatal spread to wild fish.[ii] […]
Scottish salmon farming in the spotlight
WildFish explore the UK and international news articles which expose the plight of wild Atlantic salmon and the industry wide environmental, sustainability and welfare issues associated with the intensive farming of Atlantic salmon in Scotland. Declining wild Atlantic salmon stocks The wild Atlantic salmon is one of the UK’s most iconic species. Beginning its life […]
WildFish launches Off the Table
Today we launch our new campaign Off the table, which aims to raise awareness of the environmental, sustainability and welfare impacts of open-net salmon farming, and calls on chefs and restaurants to take farmed salmon off their menus. There is no question that the salmon on your plate comes at a huge cost, not only […]
New WildFish report exposes the Scottish salmon farming industry
A new report from WildFish finds the Scottish salmon farming industry is exploiting loopholes to obscure the true reality of open-net salmon farming In Scotland. Investigation by UK charity WildFish finds industry leaders such as Loch Duart are failing to take decisive action on sea lice and disease at their farms – with cumulative mortality […]
Top Hobart chef joins our Off the Table campaign
Award-winning Edinburgh chef Lloyd Morse has today called on fellow chefs and restaurants across Scotland and the UK, to join in him refusing to serve farmed salmon at their restaurants. The head chef and co-owner of The Palmerston, recently named one of the top 100 restaurants in the UK, is part of a new campaign […]
Scottish salmon farming continues to expand despite failing to address key environmental and mortality issues
In 2018, the independent Scottish Parliamentary report on the environmental impacts of salmon farming concluded that there had been “lack of progress in tackling the key issues previously identified [in 2002] and unacceptably high levels or mortalities persist”.¹ Five years on, the industry has expanded further, but again little, if anything, has been done to […]
Award winning chefs join the Off the table campaign
In October last year, we launched Off the table – calling on chefs and restaurants to take farmed salmon off their menus. The coalition campaign aims to raise awareness of the horrendous impacts on wild salmon and the wider environment, as well as sustainability and welfare issues linked the salmon farming industry, in Scotland and […]