New photos of diseased farmed salmon spark outrage in Iceland
Despite countless assurances by the open net pen aquaculture industry that salmon farming in Iceland would avoid the many harmful impacts seen in Norway, Scotland, and Canada, recent evidence indicates that history is repeating itself. Footage of deformed and diseased …Read More »Dead Loss: the high cost of poor salmon farming practices
Economic analysis of salmon farming by UK think tank Just Economics reveals that the industry has produced negative externalities worth in the region of USD$47 billion since 2013. Report finds that “a combination of growing environmental impacts, consumer demand for …Read More »New report, The FoodPrint of Farmed Seafood, takes a deep dive into examining the history of aquaculture and its evolution into modern day underwater CAFOs.
Its authors write, “aquaculture has been practiced sustainably for thousands of years, from the traditional fishponds of Hawai’i, to the fish and rice rotations still practiced in Asia. Unfortunately, high-input/high-impact forms of modern aquaculture, such as shrimp farming and salmon farming, have …Read More »