A Disgrace: Ten Million Salmon Thrown Away by Scottish Fish Farm Industry in Last Year Alone
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Herald Scotland] by Rob Edwards - October 9, 2017
The Scottish fish farming industry has admitted that it threw away up to ten million salmon last year – nearly a quarter of its stock – because of diseases, parasites and other problems.
Official figures reveal the tonnages of dead fish that had to be disposed of has more than doubled from 10,599 in 2013 to a record high of 22,479 in 2016. Most are transported south to be burnt at an incinerator in Widnes near Warrington in northwest England.
Campaign groups warn that the industry is facing an “environment catastrophe”, is “haemorrhaging cash” and “shames Scotland”. Companies accept that they have been plagued by disease and sea lice, and that their businesses have suffered.
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