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An animal welfare charity says it filmed tonnes of dead and dying salmon being removed from a fish farm just hours before MSPs visited the site.
Members of the Scottish Parliament’s rural affairs committee visited Dunstaffnage fish farm near Oban on Monday for a fact-finding mission.
The committee is holding a follow-up inquiry into how the sector has changed since a damning report in 2018 raised environmental concerns.
Animal Equality UK has accused the fish farm operator of trying to paint a „wholly inaccurate“ picture of the industry but Scottish Sea Farms insists the footage shows „routine“ operations.
Representatives from the salmon farming industry are due to appear before the committee next week.
A spokesperson for the committee said it had heard concerns about fish mortality on salmon farms during its inquiry, and added: „This footage raises further questions for the committee.“
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[T]he number of fish dying on farms has been increasing, with a record 17 million salmon deaths reported in Scotland last year.
Warm sea temperatures have led to a significant increase in micro-jellyfish which cause harm to farmed salmon.
There are also long-standing concerns around parasitic sea lice and the use of chemical treatments in open waters.
In 2018, Holyrood’s environment committee concluded that Scotland’s marine ecosystem faced „irrecoverable damage“ from an expansion in fish farming.A report by the regulator Sepa, in the same year, found that almost one in five salmon farms in Scotland failed to meet statutory environmental standards.
Another report, by the Scottish parliament’s rural economy committee, made 65 recommendations for improvement but stopped short of backing a moratorium on new fish farms.
The current inquiry is examining to what extent those recommendations have been implemented.