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.