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[@LORDwilliamsDJ]

No Seagulls ! Now that tells us something serious

[@FayCreative]

They know farmed salmon is full of inflammatory omega6 from all the soy and grains.

[@karlcolt]

LOL!! Yes, you are correct as "SEAGULLS" do not exist!!!!!!!!

[@LORDwilliamsDJ]

Seagulls as we know will eat anything .so fumes must be keeping them away ?

[@dcd231]

@@karlcolt dont talk shite its a recognised name in the dictionary

[@jennyhicks1930]

That’s exactly what I wondered… very worrying

[@ModelsExInferis]

The real scandal is that seemingly millions of innocent salmon are being treated like literal rubbish! As if fish falling isn't horrendous enough to begin with (most fish farms are chronically overcrowded leading to stress and, ultimately, death), now they just get dumped? Disgusting waste of lives!

[@davidcrabb3967]

Stop buying farmed salmon

[@quinncreel6091]

Exactly! It's unethical, and it harms both the environment and our health. Don't fund it!

[@frenchconnection7570]

Never bought them, always caught ones and fresh

[@NicolasValentinScotland]

Tell the French and Spanish

[@arniec5707]

Wouldn't feed the rotten stuff to a cat

[@davidhughes9398]

This sort of mortality would never be allowed in any livestock or poultry farm. It's a disgrace. Salmon are a migratory species - they are not meant to live (and die) in cages. Those poor chaps are just trying to clear up the mess left by the salmon farmers. The whole industry stinks and is an environmental disaster.

[@graememckay9972]

Fish farms are an ecological disaster. I scuba dive. There's one site I dive at in a small bay. The mouth of the bay has a fish farm. One side of the bay is covered in silt and mud and devoid of life, the other is covered in anemones and fish life. The way the current runs pushes the waste from the fish farm onto the dead side which has suffocated the life.

[@davidbarnes241]

A vile industry 😡

[@fablecabletv340]

I remember seeing this plant on Eating our Way to Extinction, a documentary I watched on here, you soon get an idea why so many fish are dead after watching that and I haven’t touched the stuff since, the chemicals they use are atrocious.

[@fishingireland7719]

Stop eating farmed salmon

[@buckwheater1]

The fact that they are refusing to answer all the questions goes to show that they have things to hide, same goes for asking for the camera to be turned off at a certain point. Dumping fish in such a slack way along with the Scottish Government unwilling to react shows the lack of will to do anything properly.

[@andreasbalaskas7292]

Since the moment she has recorded footage, and asked (2) allow her enter inside the facilities and record images and interview without taking directly answers. She should say thank, (4) the few questions they answer. She is reporter + investigator which I interpreter this one, she knows exactly what (2) later on

[@jtr549]

You do realise the only environmental concern here is the Karen that doesn't like the smell. The drone footage is illegally filmed footage, you can't send a drone up to purposely capture operations of a business. If you have a concern you tell the council, non of the footage can be used in court, hence no comment, nothing will happen because that's the law mate.

[@mistertrouble8059]

@@jtr549 Why do you need to be told your opinion by the courts!. You either find this awful working practice or not, & eat the salmon or not!.

[@rodneycooperLMSCoach]

Politicians..watch and be proud of what you have done????

[@waikanaebeach]

Scottish government needs to shut them down and prosecute

[@jtr549]

This comment section is full of dimwits, the drone footage is illegally filmed footage, you can't send a drone up to purposely capture operations of a business. If you have a concern you tell the council, non of the footage can be used in court, hence no comment, nothing will happen because that's the law.

[@truth-lg7xy]

Illegally filmed drone footage?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@user-jn7pl3ofu]

They need to go to prison!! This country is a joke!!

[@jtr549]

@@user-jn7pl3ofu You're insane. The Salmon production for Scotland is what pays for the maintenance of the prison you're talking about. Burying some fish on a beach is completely harmless to the environment apart from a bad smell. If you're that bothered by this then I assume you'll never eat Salmon again.

[@MurrayO7]

@@jtr549 Can't be illegal if filmed from a public area. CAA own the airspace not the company.

[@leeyo5494]

these guys are so clearly telling lie after lie, they even look at each other to see their on the same page

[@mistertrouble8059]

💯 🙌!!

[@hughw2377]

It's contaminated fish! Of course it needs to buried, not fit for consumption! Only right question is, why was the fish bad and why were they not keeping the fish healthy?

[@culturecurator]

Is the shame of the business and the evidence that they sell unhealthy rubbish

[@leafy803]

Farmed salmon live in high risk environment. Crowded and less aerated, less movement, filtration to the water. So diseases grow and spread quickly. Think I read new diseases develop, like said in Chinese food markets, animals living in poor conditions, unhealthy animals with low immune system. I saw a video / article previously. I'd think birds could eat dumped or tanked salmon and spread the disease into the wild. Which then becomes potential human risk. Mutated diseases. Farmed salmon are also not as healthy, little current to water, probably other reasons also such as diet, stress.

[@jtr549]

Fish in the quantity that are being farmed will have diseased fish, just like we catch diseases, the more fish in the farm, the more disease.

[@Debbie-henri]

If it is contaminated, is unhealthy and unfit for consumption - then it should have been processed into fish, blood and bone fertiliser for agri/horticulture instead. But I suppose these farmers either didn't think of that (unlikely), couldn't get a worthwhile price from a fertiliser manufacturer, manufacturers get their fish from foreign sources, all relevant fertiliser manufacturers operate abroad anyway, or (as is usual) there is no emergency procedure these fish farmers can turn to in order to get rid of the fish en masse like that. Living in Scotland myself, I'm always amazed at just how difficult, lengthy or just how many obstacles you have to go through to get even the simplest thing done. I'm not defending what these men did, not at all; but I can imagine them deciding it's simpler and quicker to just dig a hole and dump the fish in it than go through a lot of complicated (and possibly expensive) rigmarole. More people are doing as they do - avoiding red tape, cutting corners, avoiding extra costs, saving time - and not doing things as they ought. You should see just how much fly-tipping there has been around here since the pandemic. Not just household waste, but also business waste, farm waste, kennel waste. Everyone is fed up to the back teeth of rules, regulations, forms to fill out, endless phone calls - only to be diverted to puzzled people in the wrong department, the time and steps procedures take, and the cost of it at a time when money gets tighter and tighter. When my local council imposed a £100 disposal fee for disposing of TV sets, our woods were full of them. When people had to go online and book the disposal of white goods - they'd sooner drive 8 miles from town and dump them by the road. Asbestos sheets litter our river banks. The councils should make things easier, not more difficult. It costs them more to send someone out to retrieve a broken up fridge from a river than it would cost to just say - Bring it along to the recycling centre. Likewise, governments should be responsible enough to set up 'retrieval' mechanisms to get rid of spoiled fish, if they allow such industries to exist in our waters. The blame goes two ways, in my opinion. If a government allows a major industry to set up such as this, it must be responsible for researching, providing, or ensuring the relevant industry can handle its own waste issues.

[@muckle8]

@Debbie-Henry agreed with every word - and very well said , Great Britain the country that makes EVERYTHING as difficult and EXPENSIVE as possible. Wished I’d got out 30 years ago.

[@alecthegreat6132]

Says something when you have footage of them breaking law and nothing at all is enforced.

[@shafishafique6412]

Poor Salmon 😢😮

[@jimcy1319]

They're dead.

[@dmystify1381]

salmon have a right to defend themselves😏

[@mistertrouble8059]

@@jimcy1319 exactly, killed by humans for what reason!

[@mistertrouble8059]

@@dmystify1381 Yip Cmon the Salmon ✊!! 👍

[@michaelmckibbin9665]

Just shut the people down

[@stevenchan3822]

Somethings fishy about this.

[@emmareeve4190]

Need to keep àn eye on this situation

[@emmareeve4190]

Both smiling when they answer you they know what they done

[@alanheath7056]

The Scottish Government should send a Team of Environmental worker's to check the surrounding beach and sea of illegal dumping as there dodgy as Hell.

[@Fornaxfornax1]

From this farming life. But there's no apologies. No sorry. Father and son are multi millionaires and they're dumping fish to save a fes bucks on running the facility.

[@ryanhood1955]

The look of guilt 😅

[@alasdair8545]

Go to the countries with ships the size of a small town, and report on that

[@mistertrouble8059]

I do 🙌!

[@ssergorp7105]

That's some defence, OMG.

[@mistertrouble8059]

@@ssergorp7105 Me?. I left a comment!

[@HelenaMikas]

Disgusting and clear as day they know .The film. footage will have a date . Their silence is anything but golden.

[@cabbage681]

I wouldn't eat farmed fish if it was free.

[@culturecurator]

Even the building is against the environment

[@dmystify1381]

Disgusting...!

[@alexpeters1080]

An age old practice?! Salmon farming is modern intensive farming. Misinformation.

[@lrl2394]

What I really want to know is how so many fish are getting ill or dying in ways that they can’t be processed. Seems like somethings going wrong if so much product is going to waste

[@leafy803]

'Avian influenza, also known as avian flu or bird flu, is a disease caused by the influenza A virus, which primarily affects birds but can sometimes affect mammals including humans. Wild aquatic birds are the primary host of the influenza A virus, which is enzootic (continually present) in many bird populations.' [W encyclopedia]

[@beautybev]

Well, don’t they look smug 😮

[@JamesDeanMichael80]

The reason we bury things so deep is to prevent the risk of contamination of ground water or attracting pests. In nature it is the odd thing dying here and there so bacteria or scavenger risk is minimal but to dump lots of dead decomposing animals in one spot without proper disposal practices can lead to an accumulation of toxic gases or bacteria which can impact humans in one way or another plus you create a all you can eat buffet for birds. Highly irresponsible behaviour

[@culturecurator]

Shame on you

[@karenmbbaxter]

@@culturecurator Shame on who because this commenter made a lot of sense?

[@markhepworth]

This,as can be seen from the footage is NOT burying something deep,and its is buried in sand NOT soil. Sand is the worst medium you could pick to try stop contamination into the surrounding environment. 🤦‍♂️

[@JamesDeanMichael80]

@@markhepworth I did not know that about the sand but that is exactly what I mean, practices have been established for a reason but some think it does not apply to them. No doubt it will be a slap on the wrist or the odd bung here and there

[@markhepworth]

@@JamesDeanMichael80 They were using “out of sight,out of mind” thinking,living on Uist I doubt they thought anyone would be filming them..

[@Richard-v7m3r]

People should be ashamed themselves everyone's responsible for that tragedy

[@grayknight836]

Where is the *accountability???* from the fish 🐟 processor owners all the way to the local municipalities, and the Scottish 󠁧󠁢󠁳government󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿?

[@jtr549]

I assume you're never going to eat any Scottish salmon then in future? because what they're doing ensures you don't end up with a diseases salmon on your plate. It also funds a substantial part of the Scottish economy which pays for education, roads, etc... Before you start to criticise it you should consider the alternative. From what I can see the only side effect here is the smell and a barrel of crude oil in a million years, There's nothing wrong with this and the footage is illegally filmed anyway so it can't be used.

[@rosies14]

Why? and what a waste.

[@karenmbbaxter]

Try watching the video first.....The fish were contaminated.

[@Kaa864]

@@karenmbbaxter6mins of salmon news no thanks.

[@EleventhMonkey]

Salmon are people too 😢or something.

[@jimcy1319]

@@EleventhMonkey maybe they don't use the pronoun ' Fish ', so you could be right.

[@mistertrouble8059]

I get you. They’re living beings 🙌.

[@trs4u]

"Whiteshore Cockles specialise in the processing of fish farm mortalities" (found on the web) It wasn't clear to me from the video what the purpose of the plant was. If the plant breaks down and you've arranged to accept corpses, that must be a difficult position to be in. Their process really ought to accommodate that eventuality?

[@melgrant7404]

The stink just imagine.

[@dmystify1381]

🤢🤮

[@d.wright.7156]

Our ancestors would fish and hunt and any one of those fish would've fed the house!!.. Its such a shame that this is happening!!.

[@treeman101]

what about the people who created the waste fish?

[@ColinBrown-u6o]

About time the scotish gov get a grip of this sad practice or is it the revenue they get from this that's more important than the Atlantic salmon that are dwindling in numbers ps how many fish farms does the country have that give you your revenue for this pollution on our seabeds ?

[@ssergorp7105]

Profits at the expense of the environment. Top tier government should be accountable for this, it's simply criminal.

[@tonysherwood9619]

Where has the market gone???

[@Beesa10]

If they can't process small quantities or the plant is temporarily inoperable then burying the dead fish with other organic matter like seaweed, woodchips etc to compost seems like the common sense thing to do.

[@andrewmalone3073]

You should be asking how can the salmon farming industry justify this environmental vandalism a huge waste of resources. Remember wild caught fish are the basis of the industry, burying it in the ground is ridiculous.

[@Beesa10]

@@andrewmalone3073 I'm not an advocate for intensive farming practices which result in this type of situation. I prefer to buy wild caught or catch the fish for myself.

[@juliemaddern]

The stench will be unreal

[@JamesTaylor2-cc9zh]

And what do all your knobs expect to do with dead animals people get buried so what is the problem

[@alexrobinson2281]

Lots of armchair experts on here , Mowi who are dumping the fish to them should be held to account

[@chardz2007]

Thou shall have a fishy on a little dishy

[@sharkinadark]

No comment = guilty

[@NicolasValentinScotland]

Massive export , no one in Scotland eat the stuff . Bring job to the place

[@edkeen405]

This is such boring journalism

[@mistertrouble8059]

The point got across to us readers though. I wasn’t there for the journalism, maybe it’s your way of telling us you’re doing Journalism. Take note the real issues aren’t the ones we see on TV it’s the ones being kept hidden from the public & we need these stories to reach us!. Thanks though

[@ianhawdon3680]

Boycott this company

[@johnkeenlyside993]

In Pettigo, waste fish is composted with other ingredients to make rocket fuel for plants

[@Evemeister12]

It's the third time in a row that it's happened.

[@ianhawdon3680]

Corruption everywhere you look

[@Catmum3]

Obviously not do they not think the videos time & date stamped

[@jillipepper5353]

I was advised by a good friend who is a Federal observer of deep sea fishing, to eat canned or sometimes frozen Salmon . He said they fish wild ocean salmon and process on site in the ocean on factory ships. He said it’s the freshest and cleanest salmon they see.

[@davidhughes9398]

That's pacific salmon from the US. These are Atlantic salmon reared in sea cages.

[@jillipepper5353]

@@davidhughes9398 I would never eat caged raised Salmon , I was talking about a Canadian Fisheries observer who told me what type to eat, safest possible at the time. These would be mostly Russian , Chinese , Japanese big trawlers with the ability to process onboard , cold caught North Atlantic mostly. When the Russian trawlers would come to provision and sell some fish they would buy up small cars that they could repair on the long trip home and sell for spare money. Apparently there was a machine shop onboard so they could make some parts. I had a Lada that was getting ready for a trade in and my buddy told me to bring it to the ship, they were all so excited to see a Lada here and that they knew how to fix all of it. They all came running and we made a decent deal part of which was a huge piece of flash frozen Arctic Char that was soooooo tasty and fresh. It was so big we had to cut it with a saw before it thawed and get it back in the freezer, we had many great meals from that. 🙋🏼‍♀️

[@kenparsons1396]

Why so many dead salmon????

[@pinballwizard6906]

Could it not of been made into fertiliser like emulsion or fish blood and bone or sent to compost facilities

[@Conquistador75]

That’s a travesty, think of all the homeless cats that could have fed

[@HelenaMikas]

Not really Farmed fish is a danger to us and wildlife .Full of chemicals and antibiotics .When gulls steer clear that is a message..

[@ALPHAANDOMEGA1998]

Thats a waste of food 😒

[@GDJ_R1]

Something fishy going on

[@katejackson7432]

thats alot of mortality's i wudnt trust what somehow makes it to plate

[@jaywalker3087]

Would you carry on eating poisoned fish... If so many are dieing, how do you know your fish is safe to eat......😮

[@robertfelton1521]

John west turning in his grave!

[@daviddale6056]

Both of them have such dishonest eyes haha

[@tarikmustafa5740]

Shut them down

[@jtr549]

I'm pretty sure that footage can't be used in court, drones filming someones business without knowledge of someone filming their business is illegal and ITV using and sharing that footage is also very likely illegal without the permission of the business owner. From what I can see this isn't a case of someone flying their drone on the beach and this business's operations being in shot which is fine, they're purposely focused in on what the business is doing which regardless of whether you're being a Karen about the smell is not the right way to dispute what they're doing, if you have a suspicion tell the council not the news.

[@tonytajine]

Wrong, they own the business ground, not the sky.

[@ryancaunce612]

No, the law states that you can film a private business from a public space and you can send most footage to the news.

[@jtr549]

@@ryancaunce612 it actually doesn't.

[@jtr549]

@@tonytajine that's not how it works.

[@tonytajine]

@@jtr549 Are you still here 😂

[@nicholasroach3394]

They can’t afford to run with small tonnage l agree , but what’s happening ! trials don’t mean dumping the product , cash flow problems on a very large investment !

[@dalekelly1037]

Leave them alone,leeeeeeeeast of the problems in Britain 😂

[@peregrinepete]

Complete tosh

[@promeuscharles3464]

The look on your face when you selling jombie fish to high paying /middle class costumers 😂😂😂

[@LyttonDominic-s5l]

Walker David Thompson Daniel Smith Matthew

[@stuartbousfield2611]

Buried fish ? Come on who cares ? 😂

[@kkit8629]

So spoiling the beach, environment, etc......can't bother huh. Never coming out of house & dwindling in loner life is what Stuartbousfield doing huh. Surely basement life bros never care for anything, stereotype is correct I guess 🤣

[@vladimirs6914]

😢😅

[@Sam_Green____4114]

This is national news is it !? Must be a slow news day for sure !

[@karenmbbaxter]

Agree......netanyahu is bombing every country around it and the news is concerned about contaminated fish being buried in the ground because it can't be sold for food......It makes sense to me.

[@TwoJews669]

The amount of food waste in the west is beyond horrific.

[@tangerinebabe1]

Right so, let me firstly ask why burying dead fish is that wrong it makes headline news? Secondly why doesn't the owner give it to agricultural farms, dead fish makes absolutely amazing fertiliser for growing vegetables. Natural foods will decompose. Let's discuss plastic in the sea and on beaches instead shall we? Stupid report. 😮

[@dmystify1381]

because it leaches back into the water that you drink....just for starters..🙄

[@quinncreel6091]

Also, you gotta wonder why so many of their fish die...