Responding to the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee’s conclusions on salmon farming regulation, WildFish said the Committee has delivered a clear and sobering assessment of a system that is failing both wild fish and the marine environment.

Half of all global fish catch could be ground into fish feed under FAO growth plans – new report warns
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.

