The Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2022 found production of Atlantic salmon decreased by 18 per cent - while latest monthly death stats also paint a grim picture.
Scottish salmon production plunged by a fifth last year amid record deaths on fish farms and the blight of parasites and disease.
It comes after all-time high mortalities of more than 16million on farms last year - which experts fear will be surpassed this year. But industry chiefs insisted preliminary data for September so far indicates the outlook has improved. Scottish salmon is the UK’s top food export and supports thousands of jobs.
Veteran campaign Don Staniford said: “A deadly cocktail of warming water temperatures, swarms of jellyfish, gill problems, infectious diseases, plagues of parasites and toxic algal blooms has already killed off millions of salmon this summer. Jellyfish, parasites and diseases along with climate change were the chief reasons given for mortalities. It comes after a “marine heatwave” was declared in waters around Scotland this summer.
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