Salmon giant under fire as covert video 'shows it twice misled Scottish Government'

Screens from a video showing dead fish being removed from the pen on Loch Torridon (left) and a living fish being beaten to death (right) (Image: Animal Equality UK)

A SALMON farming giant “twice misled” the Scottish Government about its operations, campaigners have alleged after the release of Freedom of Information files and covertly recorded video.

The concerns centre on claims from Bakkafrost, a Faroese company and the world’s third-largest salmon producer, after it told regulators that one of its sites was “fallow” – meaning it had been emptied of fish to break disease and parasite cycles – only for activists to discover that animals remained in the enclosures.