Suited performers from Ocean Rebellion, wearing blindfolds and gagged with dead fish, protest at Holyrood Pond, outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, calling on Scottish Government to wind down the environmental tragedy of salmon farming with a just transition for workers
THREE blindfolded climate activists with dead fish hanging from their mouths stood outside Holyrood yesterday to highlight the “environmental tragedy” of salmon farming in Scotland.
Ocean Rebellion members staged the demonstration in the pools outside the Scottish Parliament in protest at the expansion of open-cage salmon farming in Scottish lochs.
The group has accused Holyrood of ignoring demands by a committee of MPs for the expansion to be halted until problems including pollution and diseases, which have been passed on by the farmed fish to Scotland’s wild salmon population, have been addressed.
Protester Caitlin MacLeod said: “The Scottish government’s approach to our precious coastline and sea life is an ecological disaster.
“It has ignored the Scottish Parliament, which formally called for a halt to expansion until the problems are addressed, and at the demand of its cronies in offshore companies, is planning to double the size of the disgusting salmon industry within eight years.”
