Anti-Farmed Salmon Campaigners Target Marks and Spencer with Zombie Seal Campaign
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Independent] by Jamie Merrill Sept. 4, 2015
Marks & Spencer is at the centre of a seal culling scandal after it was revealed that it gets salmon for its premium range from the Scottish fish farm with the worst record for killing the protected mammal.
The Lochmuir range is farmed exclusively for Marks & Spencer by Scottish Seafarms across the far north of Scotland, but the high street retailer now risks protests outside its stores after it was revealed by campaigners that the Norwegian-owned salmon producer had legally killed 56 seals since 2013 under a Scottish government licence scheme.
The fish-farming industry, worth more than £500m annually to the Scottish economy, and SNP ministers in Holyrood had sought to keep the “commercially sensitive” data over seal culling secret, but a court victory by the campaigners forced the full disclosure earlier this week.
The documents show that in 2013 and 2014 more than a third of Scotland’s 200 fish farms shot at least one seal...
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