Summary:
This report uses cases studies from three of the most widely recognised farmed salmon certification schemes in
Scotland – Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC), RSPCA Assured and Soil Association’s Organic standards – to
demonstrate the systemic failures of these schemes to improve the environmental, animal welfare and sustainability performance of the Scottish open-net salmon farms they certify.
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Efforts to scale up aquaculture are increasingly framed as essential to global food security and ocean sustainability, yet such narratives often obscure the complex and interdependent relationships between aquaculture and wild-capture fisheries. This paper critically interrogates the dominant “feed the world” framing of aquaculture expansion, arguing that treating aquaculture and fisheries as isolated systems undermines social equity, ecological sustainability, and effective food policy.
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