Chris Jefford

[nathan jubb @gillieUB]

Still discharging into the Wye at Redbrook water is low and the water temperature is still at 20+degrees 💩💩💩💩💩💩

[Ailsa McLellan @AilsaMcL]

What a crock. They are a migratory fish, no matter how much you bang on about how much room they have, they are used to roaming the North Atlantic, not circling a tiny cage stuck above an anoxic sheet of their own crap. #OffTheTable #ScottishSalmon

[Don Staniford @TheGAAIA]

I encourage you all to be Consumer Vigilantes - please read supermarket labels carefully and join the global boycott against farmed salmon whether it comes from Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Chile, the Faroes, Iceland, Maine, Canada, Tasmania or New Zealand.

[Salmon Scotland @SalmonScotland]

Almost 70% of the Icelandic population oppose open cage salmon farms. But as in Scotland & Norway, politicians allow themselves to be blinded by the corporate lies:

@AST_Salmon @WildFishCons @ScottishEPA @ScotGovMarine @StuartBlack_HIE @HIEScotland @SP_RuralAffairs @JohnSwinney

[Jim Murray MBE @TheJimMurray]

🚨 WHITEADDER/TWEED POLLUTION.
…for the second time this month.

“Our government in Scotland and Scottish Water are failing the natural world, failing it.
What legacy are we leaving our children? What inheritance are they gonna have?
Dead rivers, dead landscapes, a dead world”

[Sky News @SkyNews]

According to new research, toxic compounds that can take centuries to break down are being found across the marine food chain, even in the seafood we eat. Science correspondent @SkyNewsThomas looks at how this could be happening.

https://t.co/0cbRaTNTp8

[Ben Hooper @TheBenHooper]

Time is up... Are you sure you want to swim in the River Wye? Unbelievable...

Full documentary to follow... @Feargal_Sharkey @alextomo
@Channel4News
@envagency @herefordtimes @bbchw #pollution #environmentalpollution #rivers #herefordshire #hereford #environment #followme

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry.

Do your thing internet.

https://t.co/kZz1cXBtz3

[Salmon Scotland @SalmonScotland]

Proximar operates a land-based salmon farm near Mount Fuji, Japan.

Their advertising photo shows a blind fish with a disfigured head, shortened gill covers and fin rot.

There’s no good way to do the wrong thing.

[Salmon Scotland @SalmonScotland]

Pollution incident on Carron Burn at Carron on River Spey 16/04/26.

For more, see Facebook post:

https://t.co/SBTxCEALjZ

@ScottishEPA @scottish_water

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

Just passed 10K signatures so Gov will respond and we will find out what that means - don't hold your breath..

Next target 100K.. petition will be considered for debate.

Can you please help us all to get there?

https://t.co/p7dZoNJONr

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

Sign here https://t.co/SqpHhOcy2L

[Matt Hayes @MattHayesfish]

At yesterday’s meeting, the Scottish government wheeled out a bunch of corporates to explain to people who understand the countryside and how it works why they, the corporates and politicians always follow the money and ignore people who know what they are talking about.
In the vastness of time, the successes of salmon farming will be forgotten largely because they are so few but its legacy and the damage it is doing will remain for generations.
At all levels it’s a disaster. For Scotland’s image as the home of salmon fishing it’s damaging. The environment is being destroyed, the food that it produced is reckoned to be among the most toxic in the world. Their Frankenstein fish are killing the wild fish population.
For some people, as long as there are enough farmed salmon swimming in the river to pretend that things have not changed, anything goes. There will be hotels advertising expensive salmon fishing for “wild salmon.’ You would not believe how many restaurants I have been to that serve farmed trout and claim it’s “locally caught’ or “sourced from sustainable blah, blah, blah.
I would trust every one of those Scottish ghillies to understand the needs of wild salmon better than people who are prepared to sell out their country and its culture for a few more quid.
For the corporates, the politicians and the civil servants, this is but a passing thought.
For the people who live and work by the river, for those connected through generations to the river, it’s everything.
To the people that really matter - this is their life.
In such circumstances, the least they could do is listen but they can’t even do that.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Oh look, it rained.

Areas of the country where water companies are currently dumped sh*t into rivers and on to beaches.

Brown, currently dumping sewage.
Red, has been dumping sewage within the last 24 hours.

[Chris Jefford @chrisjefford78]

@OBR_UK Oops!

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

The continuing efforts of local river guardians to investigate the Cherwell waste dump are really highlighting the utter incompetence of @EnvAgency & their failure to uphold the law.

It now appears that complaints about the rubbish were made by local people as far back as May & the EA actually attended site in July. Having seen the devastation themselves, did they move to shut it down, as they could have done by blocking the site entrance & seeking a simple court order? Nope, they sent the owner of the land a sodding “stern letter” & let the dumping continue until late October! Failing in the same way as they did at Hoad’s Wood shows this is a systemic failure by the EA & needs government intervention.

The investigation didn’t properly start until local river guardians contacted the media this week. Even now, their investigations are bearing more fruit than the EA’s. They guardians have found waste with names & addresses & traced it to the owner, who confirmed they put it in their municipal waste collection. If confirmed this shows the waste is the result of large scale fraud or corruption in the local authority waste management.

Perhaps worst of all, the EA are now denying any duty to clean up the rubbish and plan to just leave it there & “monitor” it. Local river guardians have made a petition demanding a clean up. Please do sign it & support their campaign.

https://t.co/UmVBEaYCIU

[Missing Salmon Alliance @SalmonAlliance]

🚨 Help Make Space for Water

Our rivers are in crisis – polluted, overheated, and stripped of their natural features.

Sign @theriverstrust petition and help restore our rivers https://t.co/ZTATffqfbf

#SpaceForWater #ActForNature #ClimateResilience #RestoreOurRivers

[watershed_investigations @WATERSHED_i]

Sources for the drinking water of 6 million people in England so contaminated with PFAS forever chemicals, the Drinking Water Inspectorate has ordered water companies to act.

Our story featured on @BBCr4today this morning + here on BBC Online:

https://t.co/NzuLqLClOc

[Free Salmon @salmon_free]

Eating farmed salmon is helping to wipe out wild Atlantic salmon. Parasites, disease and escapes from farms are deadly

[Brian McHugh 🌏🏳️‍🌈 @BrianMcHugh2011]

I'm sure this is fine.
No need to investigate