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How to Make a Difference: What You Can Do

1) Boycott Scottish 'quality' salmon - see our 'Problems with Salmon Farms'

2) Join our 'Supermarket Watch' campaign and become a Supermarket Salmon Monitor. Visit our special 'Supermarket Salmon Watch' campaign for all the details.

3) Write to the First Minister of Scotland, Jack McConnell, and ask him what measures the Government are taking to tackle the problem of farmed salmon escapees, sea lice infestation, the decline of wild salmon and sea trout, the spread of diseases from farmed to wild fish and the untreated waste discharges from salmon farms. For more background information please see 'The Key Questions' and 'The Five Fundamental Flaws'. As a guide, take a look at the letter below sent by SFPG Chairman Bruce Sandison:

The First Minister
The Rt.Hon. Jack McConnell
Scottish Executive
St. Andrews House
Regents Road
EDINBURGH EH1 DG

Dear Mr McConnell

Salmon Farm Damage

I am writing to you to express my anger about the impact salmon farming has had, and is having on wild salmonid stocks in the West Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

Fish farm sea lice are driving wild salmon and sea trout to extinction. Disease and pollution from these farms is degrading the marine and freshwater environment and causing severe job losses in sport angling, the tourist industry and in shellfish fishing.

Do you agree with me that this industry must be brought ashore, immediately, where salmon farming can be continued using closed containment systems?

Do you further agree with me that by bringing the industry ashore there would be an immediate end to the disease and contamination this industry currently spreads throughout our coastal and freshwater environment?

Yours sincerely

Bruce Sandison

4) Go wild for Salmon! As a special treat try wild Alaska salmon instead of farmed salmon. The Salmon Farm Protest Group do not advocate eating wild Scottish, English, Welsh or Irish salmon as these stocks are perilously close to extinction.  However, there are sustainable supplies of wild Alaskan salmon.  This is much tastier and healthier than farmed salmon, is affordable and is already sold fresh in supermarkets such as Sainsbury and M&S. Ask your supermarket for fresh wild salmon or try canned wild salmon. This contains less fat and less contaminants than farmed salmon.  Suppliers of wild Alaska salmon can be found at: alaskaseafood.org