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Following Viva!’s shocking exposé of Scottish salmon and trout farms (Viva!life 76), another investigation has confirmed our findings – this one by our patron dale Vince He released a film in the run-up to Christmas that highlights salmon farming’s shocking mortality rates, crosscontamination between wild and farmed fish and widespread pollution it shows distressing scenes of salmon being eaten alive by parasitic sea lice and, of course, reveals the ‘heinous’ nets in which up to 100,000 fish are forced to live dale, who founded the green energy company Ecotricity, says: “The fact that it takes over seven tonnes of wild-caught fish to produce just one tonne of farmed salmon is ludicrous ” Experts estimate that 460,000 tonnes of wild fish are killed every year to make fish meal for farmed salmon

But it’s all okay because Tavish Scott, CEO of the £1 8 billon Salmon Scotland, says: “The highest standards of animal welfare are continually achieved.”