Meanwhile in Stephenville, Newfoundland, Northern Harvest Smolt Limited in April and May 2020 killed 450,000 juvenile Atlantic salmon to try to stop an outbreak of infectious salmon anemia. “If the current trend continues, wild salmon could be extinct across Scotland within the next 20 years,” the Missing Salmon Alliance warned. The salmon conservation strategy document, Edwards said, “pointed out that the population of wild salmon in rivers and seas had crashed by 75% in the last 20 years,” coinciding with the growth of the salmon farming industry, which in turn brought more salmon disease––and fish lice––to Scottish waters. Introducing Princes William and Harry to hunting at the ages of seven and 10, respectively, against the wishes of their late mother Princess Diana, Prince Charles and friends reportedly shot 12,000 pheasants at Sandringham at Christmas 1991. This is the same Prince Charles who during a six-week spree at Christmas 1987, after his father Prince Philip became titular head of the World Wildlife Fund, participated with Prince Philip in shooting nearly 18,000 captive-raised pigeons, pheasants, partridges, ducks, geese, and rabbits at Sandringham. (Beth Clifton collage) A “Missing Monarchy Alliance” would do more for wildlife The proposal is included in a private strategy document drawn up by the Atlantic Salmon Trust, which campaigns to protect wild salmon fisheries,” while coincidentally killing many of the same species as commercial salmon farms, under the umbrella of the Missing Salmon Alliance,” described by Edwards as “a coalition of angling and conservation groups launched in November 2019 by the trust’s patron, Prince Charles.” “Now estates with salmon rivers and angling businesses are preparing to bid for more licenses to sanction more shooting. They included 1,560 goosanders, 777 cormorants, 246 red-breasted mergansers and 37 grey herons. “ The Ferret reported in July 2019,” continued Edwards, “that licenses to kill over 2,600 fish-eating birds had been issued in Scotland over the previous five years. (Beth Clifton collage) The “Missing Salmon Alliance”īut that gain was immediately jeopardized, reported Rob Edwards of The Ferret on July 5, 2020, when the owners of recreational salmon fishing facilities drew up “plans to lobby for blanket permission to shoot more birds to stop them from eating salmon.” (See Scotland to stop shooting seals to save salmon farm profits––but not until 2021.) The Scottish Parliament on Jrepealed a provision of the 2010 Marine Scotland Act which allowed salmon farmers to shoot seals. Robins and predecessors at Animal Concern Scotland have for more than 50 years been fighting against salmon industry massacres of wildlife, to protect open-air salmon sea pens. There are fears,” Robins mentioned, “as to what the removal of large numbers of these fish from the south coast is going to do to the local ecology.” “They are being transported from the South of England to the North of Scotland and the islands, 600 to 800 miles, and those who survive the journey don’t last long in the salmon farms due to disease and bad practice. “There are big problems here with cleaner fish, most of which were never before caught for human consumption, becoming very valuable when delivered live to salmon farms,” Animal Concern Scotland director John Robins confirmed to ANIMALS 24-7. “What will removal of cleaner fish do to the local ecology?” John Robins of Animal Concern Scotland and Save Our Seals. Zohar also claimed that “tiny microbes from the marine environment remove dissolved waste from the water,” and that “The solid waste (sludge) created during salmon farming will be converted into energy in the form of fuel-grade methane,” helping to “offset operations costs at the facility, as will solar panels that cover the entire roof of the huge warehouse,” the Bay Bulletin added. “There,” Dance said, “Yonathan Zohar and colleagues have for two decades been researching sustainable aquaculture methods and technologies that AquaCon and other companies could license.”Ĭontrary to the Baltimore Sun mention that large amounts of fresh water would be needed to factory-farm salmon in land-based tanks, Zohar and AquaCon chief executive Paal Haldorsen told the Chesapeake Bay Bulletin that the salmon farm water would be “recycled, cooled and reused with almost zero discharge,” so that “99.994% of the operation’s water will be reused.” “AquaCon officials said they chose Maryland because of its history of seafood production, proximity to lucrative seafood markets, access to large amounts of fresh water needed for salmon farming, and a partnership with researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor,” Dance continued.

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