Kayak vigilante goes undercover to expose salmon farming ‘horror’

As Don Staniford brews his coffee in a car park on Scotland’s west coast, he whispers: “I’ve got to make sure no one sees me.” He pulls his cap deeper into his face, stuffs his hair underneath, and puts up the hood of his jumper. Looking at his sandals and Hawaiian shorts, he explains: “I’ve dressed up as a German tourist.”

Staniford has been fighting the salmon farming industry for 20 years. He has held demonstrations in front of fish food factories, flown drones over the nets and placed ads of fish that resemble monsters. Here on the shore of Loch Linnhe, a three-hour drive northwest of Glasgow, he is about to resume his campaign.

“I want to take down the industry,” he says, adding