Feeding global aquaculture
“The salmon farming industry is not a food production system, it is a food reduction system.” This new study suggests that the global fish farming industry uses as much as 307 percent more wild fish than previously reported.
Icelandic salmon farmer suffers fry escape incident
An Icelandic salmon farming company recently experienced a significant fry escape incident due to an open tap in the drain while pumping the fish.
RSPCA Assured suspends three Scottish salmon farms
Sites operated by Mowi, Bakkafrost and Scottish Sea Farms were filmed covertly and footage was released by an animal welfare body.
Shareholders to vote on Woolworths’ salmon farming operations
Shareholders from Woolworths Group are pushing to end the supermarkets salmon farming operations in Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania.
Is there such a thing as sustainable salmon?
In this article, the sustainable restaurant association “examines” the sustainability issues surrounding farmed salmon, including advice and insights from experts and businesses in our network, to explore wheter salmon has a place on a sustainable menu
Chile | Protected areas without salmon farms
On October 17th a powerful video lit up Times Square in New York exposing that 420 salmon farms operate within protected parks and reserves in Chilean Patagonia.
Iceland | We draw the line to protect the Fjords
On Saturday, October 12th, Icelandic organisation VÁ Felag held a protest meeting in Seyðisfjörður against the proposed sea pen farming in the fjord.
Pink Bombs
French NGO Seastemik released a report and a platform debunking the myth that the salmon farming industry contributes to global food security and human health by providing Omega-3s.
Going to Court for Wild Salmon
Kwakwaka’wakw hereditary chiefs share their motivation for challenging the Feds’ five-year fish farm license extension, including lack of consultation, their inherited obligation to the environment, and precautionary stories from those now in the spirit world.
Feds delay B.C.’s open-net salmon farms closure until 2029, offer five-year renewals
Despite a promise to phae out ocean farms, Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier will allow license renewals for a “responible, realistic, and achievable transition” away from ocean farming.