Post by Hoppy on Aug 17, 2006 18:32:08 GMT -1
The Salmon Farm Protest Group
An ruda na bo bhroin, cha bhi e na do thmhnadh
‘That which you have wasted will not be there for future generations’
17th August 2006
Soiled association?
The UK Soil Association, one of the world’s most respected food certification bodies, has awarded (16/8/06) full organic status to the factory-farm salmon that it certifies. Scotland director Hugh Raven said, “Organic aquaculture practised to Soil Association standards produces the highest quality fish that money can buy.”
Salmon Farm Protest Group chairman Bruce Sandison said: “In my view this is complete nonsense. There is nothing ‘natural’ about salmon farming. From start to finish the farming of salmon is an artificial process.
The eggs and sperm used to produce farmed salmon are artificially stripped from captive brood-stock salmon. The fertilised eggs are artificially hatched and the progeny artificially reared. They are transported to sea in tubs on the backs of lorries or by boats designed for the purpose, or in containers slung from helicopters.
In the sea their growth rate can be artificially enhanced to such a degree that ordinary factory-farmed farm salmon might reach slaughter weight in less that two years; so-called organic salmon can live longer before slaughter, about two and a half to three years.
At slaughter, farmed fish weigh approximately 5lb/6lb. A wild salmon of the same age weighs only a few ounces and is still living in the river where it was born.”
Sandison commented: “It is sad that the Soil Association has allowed itself to be drawn into the fetid waters of salmon farming. The only ‘dereliction of duty’ I think I see here is that the public might be persuaded that buying Soil Association certified organic factory-farmed salmon, rather than ordinary farm salmon, will somehow mitigate the disastrous impact this dirty business is having upon Scotland environment and its wild salmon.”
For information about the work of the SFPG see www.salmonfarmmonitor.org or contact Bruce Sandison on tel: 01847 611274
An ruda na bo bhroin, cha bhi e na do thmhnadh
‘That which you have wasted will not be there for future generations’
17th August 2006
Soiled association?
The UK Soil Association, one of the world’s most respected food certification bodies, has awarded (16/8/06) full organic status to the factory-farm salmon that it certifies. Scotland director Hugh Raven said, “Organic aquaculture practised to Soil Association standards produces the highest quality fish that money can buy.”
Salmon Farm Protest Group chairman Bruce Sandison said: “In my view this is complete nonsense. There is nothing ‘natural’ about salmon farming. From start to finish the farming of salmon is an artificial process.
The eggs and sperm used to produce farmed salmon are artificially stripped from captive brood-stock salmon. The fertilised eggs are artificially hatched and the progeny artificially reared. They are transported to sea in tubs on the backs of lorries or by boats designed for the purpose, or in containers slung from helicopters.
In the sea their growth rate can be artificially enhanced to such a degree that ordinary factory-farmed farm salmon might reach slaughter weight in less that two years; so-called organic salmon can live longer before slaughter, about two and a half to three years.
At slaughter, farmed fish weigh approximately 5lb/6lb. A wild salmon of the same age weighs only a few ounces and is still living in the river where it was born.”
Sandison commented: “It is sad that the Soil Association has allowed itself to be drawn into the fetid waters of salmon farming. The only ‘dereliction of duty’ I think I see here is that the public might be persuaded that buying Soil Association certified organic factory-farmed salmon, rather than ordinary farm salmon, will somehow mitigate the disastrous impact this dirty business is having upon Scotland environment and its wild salmon.”
For information about the work of the SFPG see www.salmonfarmmonitor.org or contact Bruce Sandison on tel: 01847 611274