Don Staniford is an award-winning campaigner and author and has campaigned against salmon farms for 25 years.     

In 2002, he was awarded the Andrew Lees Memorial Award at the British Environment & Media Awards.   In 2005, he won the Roderick Haig-Brown BC Book Prize for “A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming” (co-authored with Alexandra Morton, Stephen Hume, Otto Langer, Betty Keller and Rosella Leslie).  

In 2021, Don was awarded the 'Captain Paul Watson Medal for Courage in Defense of the Ocean'.  You can see Don climbing up a skip full of dead Scottish salmon in the Netflix documentary 'Seaspiracy'; on French TV's 'The Truth About Salmon'  and in the Kate Winslet-narrated documentary 'Eating Our Way to Extinction'.  

Don is currently Director of Scamon Scotland (formerly Scottish Salmon Watch) - read more details online here; visit his Vimeo page and follow his blog for regular news updates!