SEPA sends salmon burial case to Scottish prosecutors
Two years after undercover footage revealed that a salmon processing facility was burying dead farmed salmon in the ground on North Uist, Scotland’s environment watchdog has only now sent a file to prosecutors. The footage from the Green Britain Foundation caught the burial on camera at Whiteshore Cockles in Paible in May 2024. The firm, which processes salmon mortalities rather than salmon destined for food, had told the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) it stopped burying dead fish on January 31, 2024. The footage was filmed four months later. But it is only this month that SEPA has confirmed that the case has gone to the Procurator Fiscal. The Crown Office says it has received the report. Dale Vince, founder of the Green Britain Foundation, said: "SEPA says this took 'longer than would have been preferred'. We feel the same. Two years just to send a report to prosecutors.…