Princess Anne has been urged to cancel her visit to salmon farming giant Bakkafrost’s Applecross farm.
With the trip set to take place today, the Green Britain Foundation said the royal family should not be used to “give respectability to the worst mortality site in British farming”.
The organisation alleged more than 10 million salmon have died at Applecross in the past five years and more than a quarter of all reported salmon deaths at Scottish salmon farms in the past two years occurred at the site.
Bakkafrost was subject to significant criticism earlier this year after Green Britain Foundation allegedly found diseased fish being dumped into the sea and salmon left to suffocate at the multinational’s Portree site on the Isle of Skye.
“Bakkafrost wants the photo opp, the handshake [and] it wants to use Princess Anne to ‘royal wash’ their cruel, dirty business,” said Green Britain Foundation founder Dale Vince.
“The King was right to drop the royal warrant from Mowi, another factory farm operation abusing both captive and wild fish in Scotland,” he continued. “Princess Anne should cancel this visit.”
Vince added: “No royal handshake, no staged photographs [and] no palace gloss for this hideously cruel and dirty factory farm for salmon.”
Bakkafrost declined to comment.
Princess Anne was approached for comment.
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