Summary:
Drone images of cages shot by activists reveal open sores affecting ‘up to 1m fish’. Fish producers are now culling them for animal feed. The incident comes at a difficult time for the open-net salmon-farming industry in Iceland: in August the escape of 3,500 salmon from a farm owned by Arctic Fish, caused outrage among environmentalists.
A new report from the Changing Markets Foundation reveals that the FAO’s target to grow aquaculture by 75% by 2040 risks pulling tens of millions of tonnes of nutritious wild fish out of oceans and into industrial fish feed every year – and reveals that key safeguards disappeared from FAO guidance meant to prevent this outcome.
Despite trading on a cute, pastoral image, Mama Bear salmon is sourced from a company operating at the bleeding edge of destructive industrial salmon farming, according to a federal lawsuit filed today. A Mama Bear purchaser is bringing a putative class action claiming that its marketing violates consumer protection laws. The plaintiff is represented by fair food system advocacy organization FarmSTAND and the law firms Pearson Warshaw, LLP and Jennings & Earley PLLC.
The 3,500 population is divided over the venture, which would bring investment and jobs, but critics claim the environmental cost would be too high.