Over 70 scientists and conservationists from around the world sent an open letter to world leaders, warning about the threat of industrial salmon farming in open-net pens in Chile’s protected waters.
8.11.2024
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Salmon-farming industry has to take protecting biodiversity seriously to guarantee stable future
Steven Adolf is a consultant on sustainable fisheries and ocean policy, a researcher, and a writer.
He was trained as an economist and specialized as a researcher on governance and management policies of sustainable fisheries and oceans. Currently, he works as a senior policy advisor for the NGO Accountability.Fish, an initiative to reform regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs).
His latest book, “Tuna Wars. Powers around the fish we love to conserve’,’ describes the world history of industrial tuna fisheries from antiquity to the modern economic battles around sustainability in the value chain. He is a consultant on sustainable fishery management, governance in RFMOs, on matters of eco-labeling, on international fishery and environmental ocean policies of the High Seas Treaty (BBNJ), and on global value chains…
