Our campaigns Campaign publications and guides Campaign reports The welfare status of salmon farms and companies in Scotland - 2017 Animal welfare is a major concern on Scotland’s salmon farms. There are serious fish welfare concerns on Scotland’s salmon farms. We believe that these issues need to be urgently addressed so that fish involved in salmon farming live good lives that are free from suffering. To deliver this, a new approach needs to be taken by the industry, which puts high standards of welfare at the front and centre of everything, meeting demands by consumers and the Scottish public. This report aims to encourage this transition by assessing the welfare performance of every salmon farm and every salmon farming company in Scotland relative to each other. The analysis is based entirely on publicly available data, most of which is published via the multi-government agency initiative Scotland’s Aquaculture. Short of visiting and assessing every salmon farm in the country, this is the only objective means by which stakeholders can assess relative welfare performance. We hope that the results of this analysis will act as a reminder to the industry, government, stakeholders, and the public of the importance of fish welfare, and that, alongside other initiatives in this field, it will encourage improvement of fish welfare on salmon farms in Scotland. Download report Manage Cookie Preferences