http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2012/09/23/seals-shot-in-salmon-sanction/ Your local source for news in Edinburgh, Fife and Lothian Thu, 23 May 2013 08:33:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2012/09/23/seals-shot-in-salmon-sanction/#comment-272773 Duncan Steedman Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:09:19 +0000 http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/?p=55541#comment-272773 SSSP..”Farmers are legally required to protect the welfare of their salmon”. In fact these multinational companies care only about protecting the welfare of their profits and shareholders. These caged salmon are confined in huge numbers ( thousands to a pen ). They are stressed and often harbour sores through such unaturally close contact. Diseases such as Amoebic Gill Disease ( a virus of the gill which causes sickness and morbidity ) are all too frequent. Sea lice are a constant problem resulting in painful, open sores. The fish are often treated with toxic chemicals which also have an adverse affect on the the marine environment. Intensive farming has continually proved to be deleterious to human health, other creatures and the environment.

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