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Documentary Films
Jun 05 - 2022
EN Europe

Journey to Ithaca

HealthySeas

In just over a week, a team of 45 undertook an unprecedented cleanup removing 76 tons of debris from the sea, coastline, and 4 beaches on the Southwest of Ithaca, an island in Greece famous for being the home of King Odysseus and a universal symbol of home yearning.
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics)
Documentary Films
Jan 27 - 2022
EN Europe, Asia

Fish Farms in Turkey Causing Water Pollution

DW

The growing number of Turkish fish farms is affecting the water quality of the Black Sea. One activist is trying to tackle this and other environmental issues, but she is not getting much local support.
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces)
Research
Jun 04 - 2020
EN Europe

TRACKing of PLASTtic emissions from aquaculture industry (TrackPlast)

NORCE

A NORCE-led research team has carried out the first investigations of microplastic emissions from a number of possible sources in fish farming. They found microplastics in both the gills of farmed fish and wild fish, seawater and fish feed.
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Salmon
News
Oct 31 - 2024
EN Asia

Innovative project launched to tackle aquaculture plastic waste in southern Vietnam

Viet Nam News

A groundbreaking initiative to address the growing environmental challenge of plastic waste from aquaculture was officially launched in Soc Trang Province. On 29 October 2024, key stakeholders gathered for the event titled 'Establishing a Sustainable, Efficient, and Scalable System for Collecting and Converting Used Pond Liners in Soc Trang Province'.
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Shrimp
Research
Dec 10 - 2024
EN Global

A critical review of microplastics in the shrimp farming environment: Incidence, characteristics, effects, and a first mass balance model

Science of the Total Environment

This review provides a critical overview of the sources, incidence, accumulation, effects, and interactions of microplastics (MPs) with other contaminants in the shrimp aquaculture environment, emphasizing this sector's challenges and future implications. By Federico Páez-Osuna, Gladys Valencia-Castañeda, Daniela Bernot-Simon, Uriel Arreguin-Rebolledo
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Shrimp
Research
Feb 22 - 2023
GR Europe

Flaws and Insufficiencies in Environmental Impact Assessment for Industrial Aquaculture Development on Island of Poros

OZON

OZON's investigation of solid waste resulting from leakage, dumping, and abandonment in the Saronic Gulf by fish farming businesses.
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Sea Bream / Sea Bass
Opinion
Apr 03 - 2023
EN Europe

Poseidon’s grass

Katheti

The underwater posidonia meadows are among the most productive marine ecosystems of the Mediterranean. They host more than 1300 species of fauna and flora, among them many fish of fishery importance. It releases valuable oxygen, and therefore limits the effects of climate change. Poseidon’s grass is precious, but under constant threat.
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Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine fauna / Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Tourism / Poros / Regulatory / Sea Bass / Sea Bream
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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Harmful Algal Blooms / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Marine fauna / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Biodiversity loss / Antibiotics / Salmon
Research
Dec 01 - 2023
EN Europe

Monachus monachus, Mediterranean Monk Seal

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

The Mediterranean Monk Seal has rebounded from critically endangered status, but unpredictable threats exist, including disease, toxic algal blooms, cave collapses, pollution, and climate change. Greece supports a growing range of habitat for the monk seal, but the government must prioritize conservation efforts to protect them. Fisheries contribute to the pollution that threatens this species.
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Harmful Algal Blooms / Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine fauna / Marine Protected Areas / Climate change / Biodiversity loss / Legislation
Investigative Journalism
Aug 22 - 2023
EN Europe

Greek island's fierce opposition to the uncontrolled growth of fish farming

Le Monde

Designated by the Greek government as a strategic area for aquaculture, Poros could soon see a quarter of its coastline invaded by fish breeding ponds. Local residents are up in arms against the project, which they believe will negatively impact tourism.
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine Protected Areas / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Tourism / Sea Bream / Sea Bass
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Sept 06 - 2023
EN South America

Chile's salmon industry backs effort to reform aquaculture laws

Seafood Source

Chile’s more than 6,000 kilometers of coastline provides an environment ideal for highly productive fishing and aquaculture activities that directly contribute to national and global food security. The two activities, however, vary radically in their operational needs and have different regulations, leading the Chilean government to plan an update to its existing national fisheries law that currently lumps the two sectors together. The government expects to converse with different stakeholders throughout September, with the ultimate goal of presenting a bill during the fourth quarter of 2023.
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Biodiversity loss / Labor / Legislation / Salmon
Interactive / Website
Oct 01 - 2024
EN, FR Global

PinkBombs!

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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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Climate change / Animal Ethics / Omega-3s / Antibiotics / Hunger / Nutrition / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Salmon
Documentary Films
Nov 04 - 2022
EN (GR subtitles)

The Toxic Tsunami

LOWCO Au

As more and more countries reject industrial salmon farming, the fish farm multinationals are looking for new locations. As the global net tightens a filthy wave of pens and coastal pollution is heading our way. The international fish farm pariahs are coming.
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Harmful Algal Blooms / Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Marine fauna / Animal Ethics / Biodiversity loss / Tourism / Legislation / Salmon
Research
Jul 06 - 2020
EN Europe, Asia, Africa

MBA Seafood Watch Gilthead Seabream, European Seabass and Meagre Report

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Following a defined set of guiding principles, Seafood Watch defines sustainable seafood as originating from sources, whether fished or farmed, that can maintain or increase production in the long-term without jeopardizing the structure or function of affected ecosystems.
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Marine fauna / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Biodiversity loss / Legislation / UN: FAO Committee on Fisheries / Sea Bream / Sea Bass
Research
Oct 16 - 2024
EN Global

How Marine Farming is Dewilding the Ocean and its Inhabitants: A Q&A with Laurie Sellars and Becca Franks

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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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Marine fauna / Animal Ethics / Deforestation / Hunger / Nutrition / Antibiotics / Labor / Salmon / Octopus
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.

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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Harmful Algal Blooms / Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Marine fauna / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Antibiotics / Salmon
Investigative Journalism
Jul 02 - 2023
EN South America

The Perils of Farming Salmon in a Warming World

Mother Jones

The salmon farming industry presents itself as a sustainable solution to feeding humanity in a warming world. But as learned on a recent trip to Chilean Patagonia, intensive aquaculture practices can produce large negative environmental effects. By Jessica McKenzie
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Harmful Algal Blooms / Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Climate change / Marine fauna / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Antibiotics / Pesticides / Hunger / Nutrition / Investment and subsidies / Small-scale fishers / IUUs (illegal unreported and unregulated) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Legislation / Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) / Salmon
Investigative Journalism
Mar 23 - 2021
EN Africa, Asia

The Factories Turning West Africa’s Fish Into Powder

BBC

Chinese-run factories are turning huge amounts of The Gambia’s fish stocks into fishmeal for aquaculture. But are they taking too much, too quickly. By Ian Urbina
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Harmful Algal Blooms / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Marine fauna / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Biodiversity loss / Hunger / Nutrition / Investment and subsidies / Labor / Small-scale fishers / Tourism / IUUs (illegal unreported and unregulated) / Value chain / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / UN: FAO Committee on Fisheries / Salmon
Research
Jan 01 - 2018
EN Global

The Dangers of Industrial Ocean Fish Farming

Friends of the Earth

Many people opt for seafood over terrestrially-raised meat because they want better nutrition, a more humane option, and a smaller environmental impact. However, not all seafood is created equal. Much of our available seafood has been mass-raised and harvested in indus- trial ocean farms, pumped with agricultural drugs and pesticides, and provided feed comprised of overfished species, GMOs, and filler ingredients such as corn. In other words, the salmon on your plate could very well be unhealthy, inhumane, and unsustainable. Thankfully not all seafood production methods are bad, and you can continue to feel good about the fish you eat. There are many sustainable ways to produce seafood, including land-based recirculating farms, ocean-based farms utilizing entire water columns, and even some wild-caught fisheries.
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Biodiversity loss / Marine fauna / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Animal Ethics / Pesticides / Antibiotics / Investment and subsidies / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Labor / Small-scale fishers / Tourism / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / US: Nat'l Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) / Plant-based (e.g. seaweed or kelp) / Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) / Salmon / Bivalves / Krill / Sea Bass
Research
Jan 01 - 2010
EN Global

The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture highlights the major role and challenges facing fisheries and aquaculture worldwide.
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Harmful Algal Blooms / Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Climate change / Marine Protected Areas / Marine fauna / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Biodiversity loss / Animal Ethics / Hunger / Nutrition / Investment and subsidies / Labor / Small-scale fishers / Tourism / IUUs (illegal unreported and unregulated) / Value chain / Certification schemes / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / UN: FAO Committee on Fisheries / Plant-based (e.g. seaweed or kelp) / Salmon / Sea Bass / Sea Bream / Shrimp / Krill / Bivalves / Tilapia

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