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Investigative Journalism
Sept 09 - 2017
EN Global
Antibiotic resistance in fish farms is passed on from fish food
Economist
The discovery of fish food as a source of resistance genes migrating into oceanic bacteria is worrying, and the researchers sauy more work is needed to determine if these resistance traits can find their way into the human food chain.
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Investigative Journalism
Mar 20 - 2024
EN Asia
India Shrimp Rife with Bondage, Hazards, and Stolen Wages
The Outlaw Ocean Project
Recent research by the U.N., industry groups, unions, and labor lawyers indicates wider concerns tied to the treatment of workers across India’s aquaculture industry, which currently supplies almost 40 percent of the shrimp consumed in the U.S.
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Investigative Journalism
Oct 21 - 2024
EN South America
Chilean salmon industry blasts critical NY Times report as ‘flawed,’ ‘unethical’
Undercurrent News
The Chilean Salmon Council (CSC), the group that represents eight of the Chilean salmon industry's 12 biggest players, has at last responded to a highly critical New York Times (NY Times) article published two months ago, calling the reporting 'flawed' and 'unethical.'
By Jason Huffman
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Investigative Journalism
Jun 26 - 2014
EN South America
As Fish Farms Proliferate, Diseases Do Too
Harvard University, School of Public Health
Aquaculture has become a booming industry in Chile, with salmon and other fish farmed in floating enclosures along the South Pacific coast. But as farmers densely pack these pens to meet demand, diseases can easily pass between fish.
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News
Nov 01 - 2024
EN North America, Asia
Global Seafood Alliance faces formal complaint over BAP certification of Indian shrimp
The Fish Site
The Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) faces a formal complaint, filed with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), requesting action against false or deceptive advertising- or marketing-related activities by the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification scheme.
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Investigative Journalism
Nov 12 - 2024
EN Global
Is Aquaculture Really Saving Fish?
American Council on Science and Health
Aquaculture, the golden child of industrial food production, promises to feed the masses while saving wild fish. While farmed fish production has skyrocketed, its efficiency can’t hide the fact that wild stocks are still overfished, and ecosystems are paying the price. Does aquaculture rescue wild fish populations – or put them at greater risk?
By Chuck Dinerstein
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Research
Oct 16 - 2024
EN North America
Pathogens from salmon aquaculture in relation to conservation of wild Pacific salmon in Canada
Science Advances
The spread of pathogens from farmed salmon is a conservation concern for wild Pacific salmon in British Columbia (BC), Canada. Three pathogens are prevalent in farmed Atlantic salmon in BC, spill over to wild Pacific salmon, and are linked to negative impacts on wild salmon: Piscine orthoreovirus, Tenacibaculum spp., and sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis). Molecular screening of infectious agents in farmed and wild salmon and environmental DNA highlights a further 4 agents that are likely elevated near salmon farms and 37 that co-occur in wild and farmed salmon. Pathogens likely affect wild salmon indirectly by mediating migration, competition, and predation. Current net-pen aquaculture practices pose these risks to numerous populations of all species of wild salmon in BC, most of which are not covered in Government of Canada science and advisory reports. Climate change, pathogen evolution, and changes to disease management and aquaculture regulations will influence future risks. By Martin Krkosek, Andrew W. Bateman, Arthur L. Bass, William S. Bugg, Brendan M. Connors, Christoph M. Deeg, Emiliano Di Cicco, Sean Godwin, Jaime Grimm, Leila Krichel, Gideon Mordecai,Alexandra Morton, Stephanie Peacock, Dylan Shea, Brian Riddell, Kristina M. Miller
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Investigative Journalism
Aug 13 - 2024
EN South America
Salmon Farms in Patagonia Face Growing Opposition
New York Times
The Chilean industry’s expansion has drawn repeated challenges from environmentalists and Indigenous people of the region, and prompted calls for a moratorium. By Lucy Meyer and Casey Ann Smith
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Investigative Journalism
Mar 28 - 2022
EN North America
The Narwhal
Open-net fish pens are the perfect breeding grounds for the parasites, which feast on the mucus, skin and flesh of wild salmon, causing infection and even death. But the tools industry has to deal with the legions of sea lice are becoming less effective. By Judith Lavoie
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Investigative Journalism
Oct 21 - 2024
EN Global
Aquaculture Kills More Wild Fishes Than Previously Thought, Study Finds
Plant Based News
A new study says that the impact of aquaculture on wild fishes* is 'greater than commonly cited,' further undermining the widely held belief that it can be part of a sustainable food system.
By Liam Pritchett
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Interactive / Website
Oct 01 - 2024
EN, FR Global
Seastemik & Data For Good
PinkBombs is the result of a collaboration between two non-profit organizations, Seastemik and DataforGood.
PinkBombs is here to:
-Alert about one of the biggest threats to the Ocean today: salmon farming.
-Deconstruct the distorted popular perception around salmon consumption.
-Guide companies, States and consumers towards positive solutions.
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Investigative Journalism
Jun 26 - 2023
EN Europe
Katheti
Paradoxically, it is precisely the pristine nature of Poros that is marking its future: the absence of large production or tourist activities was considered by the Greek authorities a criterion for including the island in a list of allocated zones for the expansion of industrial fish farming.
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Documentary Films
Mar 25 - 2017
EN Europe, Asia
Farmed Norwegian Salmon World’s Most Toxic Food
Marcus Guiliano
A look into farmed Salmon and Asian Panga.
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News
Jun 07 - 2024
EN Global
Global farmed fish production overtakes wild catch for first time
Financial Times
UN agency says aquaculture boom will boost food security but critics say it harms fragile marine ecosystems.
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Investigative Journalism
Jul 21 - 2022
EN Global
3 Reasons to Avoid Farmed Salmon
Time
Today, wild salmon are an endangered species, gone from most rivers in the U.S. There are many culprits, from polluted waterways and habitat destruction to overfishing and climate change. In the last 20 years, however, a new threat has emerged: floating feedlots on the ocean known as open-net salmon farms. The $20-billion-a-year farmed salmon industry is the world’s fastest growing food producer, and it has made farmed Atlantic salmon the most popular fish on dinner tables North America. But at what cost?
By Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins
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Research
Oct 16 - 2024
EN Global
Why aquaculture may not conserve wild fish
Science Advances
We review literature on the displacement paradox and the Jevons paradox, with consideration of their implications for the potential effects of aquaculture on wild fisheries. The Jevons paradox refers to circumstances where improvements in the efficiency of resource use lead to growth in consumption and therefore undermine conservation. The displacement paradox refers to circumstances where increasing use of a potential substitute for a resource (e.g., farmed fish) does not lead to proportionate reduction in consumption of the other resource (e.g., wild fish). The literature on the displacement paradox and the Jevons paradox suggests that there may be unanticipated consequences from the rise of aquaculture that may be detrimental for fisheries conservation. Here, we present theoretical explanations, drawing on the tragedy of the commodity, for understanding the tendencies for these technological paradoxes to occur and emphasize their relevance for concerns associated with fisheries and aquaculture systems.
By Spencer Roberts, Jennifer Jacquet, Patricia Majluf, Matthew N. Hayek
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Research
Oct 16 - 2024
EN Global
Yale Law School
A new study by Laurie Sellars, postgraduate fellow of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School, and Becca Franks, an assistant professor of environmental studies at New York University, investigates how marine aquaculture or ‘mariculture’ — the cultivation of aquatic organisms in the ocean — generates a suite of risks: environmental degradation, harms to wildlife communities and individuals, welfare harms for captive animals, and shifts in how humans perceive the nonhuman world. The article describes these risks collectively as 'dewilding,' defined as the process of privileging anthropocentric interests, perspectives, sovereignty, and agency at the expense of other interests and considerations The study, 'How Mariculture Expansion is Dewilding the Ocean and its Inhabitants,' was published in the journal Science Advances on Oct. 16, 2024. Sellars and Franks discuss their research.
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Investigative Journalism
Oct 28 - 2024
EN Europe
Love salmon for dinner? You might not after you read this
iNews
It’s delicious, nutritious and versatile – but increasingly one of the most controversial foods you can put on your plate, finds Clare Finney
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Investigative Journalism
Oct 03 - 2024
EN Global
Is There Such a Thing As Sustainable Salmon?
The Sustainable Restaurant Association
Examines the sustainability issues surrounding farmed salmon, including advice and insights from experts and businesses in our network, to explore whether salmon has a place on a sustainable menu.
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Research
Mar 01 - 2024
EN Asia
Corporate Accountability Lab
Human Rights and Environmental Abuses in India’s Shrimp Industry
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Interactive / Website
Nov 30 - 2024
EN Europe
Exposing the Reality of Salmon Farming
Salmon Media Hub
A definitive source for unfiltered documentation of the environmental and welfare impacts of industrial salmon farming, providing free, high-quality visual evidence to journalists, researchers, and advocacy groups working to expose the true cost of farmed salmon.