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Topic: Biodiversity Loss
Stop Salmon Farming, For Good (Ullapool Community Event, March 2024)
Documentary Films
June 13 - 2025
EN Europe

Stop Salmon Farming, For Good (Ullapool Community Event, March 2024)

Stop Salmon Farming for Good

What is wrong with open cage salmon farming in Scotland and what do we do about it? “Stop salmon farming, for good".  We want:

• Local communities having the final say on all salmon farm developments and the right to review and amend the planning permissions for all existing salmon farms • An end to the dumping of salmon farm sewage, chemicals, plastic, and parasites in our sea lochs • All government grant funding and subsidies being given to overseas salmon farming corporations to be diverted into our local community action and development groups • Vibrant and diverse local economies that don’t require us to destroy the places we live and in which we have more of a say and share in more of the benefits

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Animal Ethics / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Salmon
The Sea We Breathe
Interactive / Website
May 01 - 2025
EN Global

The Sea We Breathe

Blue Marine Foundation

Blue Marine Foundation is a charity dedicated to restoring the ocean to health by addressing overfishing, one of the world’s biggest environmental problems. Dive into Blue Marine's new virtual reality experience to learn why ocean action is climate action. Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter.

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Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine Protected Areas / Marine fauna / Climate change
Wild Atlantic salmon at risk of extinction amid ‘devastating’ decline
News
April 14 - 2025
EN Europe

Wild Atlantic salmon at risk of extinction amid ‘devastating’ decline

The Times

Climate change, pollution and parasites caused by farming are among the reasons for decline in wild salmon in Scotland. Figures show an alarming deterioration in Scottish rivers, leading to measures banning anglers from keeping their catches.
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Salmon / Climate change
The reality gap: An examination of Scottish farmed salmon
Research
February 10 - 2025
EN Europe

The reality gap: An examination of Scottish farmed salmon

WildFish

This report first gives an overview of the various marketing tools used by the Scottish salmon farming industry to represent farmed salmon as a sustainable, healthy and eco-friendly protein choice. It then examines the environmental and welfare performance of Scotland’s seven salmon farming companies, all widely used in the hospitality and retail sectors. 

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Certification schemes / Salmon / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde)
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland
Research
January 18 - 2025
EN Europe

Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland

Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

In 2023, the RAI Committee agreed to undertake a follow-up inquiry into salmon farming at the earliest opportunity and this inquiry commenced in April 2024. The RAI Committee's inquiry focused on the implementation of the main recommendations made by the REC Committee, spread across four key themes:

  • fish health and welfare;
  • environmental impacts;
  • interactions between wild and farmed salmon; and
  • salmon farm consents and planning.
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Animal Ethics / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Legislation / Salmon / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Pesticides / Antibiotics
Norway’s Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda
Paywall on this site
News
November 13 - 2024
EN Europe

Norway’s Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda

The Economist

Climate change and fish farming are endangering its future
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Climate change / Salmon
Government throws money at fish endangered by salmon farming that drew attention of Woolworths shareholders
News
November 12 - 2024
EN Australasia

Government throws money at fish endangered by salmon farming that drew attention of Woolworths shareholders

Proactive

The Australian Government has committed an additional $28 million to improve water quality in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour, aiming to safeguard the endangered Maugean skate, whose only known habitat lies within this unique ecosystem. The fate of the skate was brought to public attention by Woolworths shareholder activists who questioned the supermarket giant’s support of Tasmanian salmon products from farms in the harbour that have eroded the skate’s key habitat. By Susanna Nelson
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Marine fauna / Legislation / Salmon / Skate / Dewilding
Retailer rules out Tasmanian salmon ban – for now
News
November 04 - 2024
EN

Retailer rules out Tasmanian salmon ban – for now

Fish Farmer

By Robert Outram
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Legislation / Salmon / Skate
Fish Farms Kill Billions More Wild Fish Than Previous Estimates, Study Finds
Investigative Journalism
November 01 - 2024
EN Global

Fish Farms Kill Billions More Wild Fish Than Previous Estimates, Study Finds

Sentient

Touted as a more environmentally friendly solution, the reality of fish farms is more harmful. By Sophie Kevany
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Animal Ethics / Value chain / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing
Love salmon for dinner? You might not after you read this
Investigative Journalism
October 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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Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Biodiversity loss / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Pesticides / Antibiotics / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Salmon
Should we all stop eating salmon? Why it’s suddenly become endangered
Investigative Journalism
October 19 - 2024
EN Europe, Global

Should we all stop eating salmon? Why it’s suddenly become endangered

Al Jazeera

Why have Atlantic salmon populations dropped so dramatically in British rivers, and is fish farming a help or hindrance? By Dwayne Oxford
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Biodiversity loss / Climate change / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Salmon
Aquaculture Could Harm Animal Welfare or Protect It, Depending on What Species the Farms Raise
Research
October 16 - 2024
EN Global

Aquaculture Could Harm Animal Welfare or Protect It, Depending on What Species the Farms Raise

The Conversation

The rapid growth in aquaculture means that billions of individual aquatic animals are now being farmed without basic information that could help ensure even minimal welfare standards. Our newly published study shows that these welfare risks are not uniform: Aquaculture is likely to have severe effects on welfare for some species, but negligible impacts on others. By Becca Franks, Chiawen Chiang
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Animal Ethics / Bivalves / Low trophic-level fish / Plant-based (e.g. seaweed or kelp) / Salmon / Octopus
Fish farming and beyond: Moral reckoning required
Research
October 16 - 2024
EN Global

Fish farming and beyond: Moral reckoning required

Science Advances

Problems in animal aquaculture stem from failures of care and conscience. Solutions require not 'balanced' goals but moral reckonings overhauling economic valuations and policies. By Carl Safina
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Biodiversity loss / Labor / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Legislation / Animal Ethics
Pathogens from salmon aquaculture in relation to conservation of wild Pacific salmon in Canada
Research
October 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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Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Biodiversity loss / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Pesticides / Antibiotics / Salmon
Phasing out open net-pen salmon farming in British Columbia
Research
October 16 - 2024
EN North America

Phasing out open net-pen salmon farming in British Columbia

Science Advances

Canada has committed to banning salmon open net-pen aquaculture in British Columbia by 2029 and is transitioning the industry to closed containment technologies for salmon farming. By Charles Mather
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Legislation / Climate change
How mariculture expansion is dewilding the ocean and its inhabitants
Research
October 16 - 2024
EN Global

How mariculture expansion is dewilding the ocean and its inhabitants

Science Advances

The world’s oceans are largely free from intensive farming, but momentum to intensify and expand mariculture—the cultivation of aquatic organisms in the ocean—is growing. Despite optimism that mariculture will create economic and nutritional benefits for humans, it can also generate a host of risks, including environmental degradation, harms to wildlife integrity and welfare, captivity effects, and shifts in how humans view the nonhuman world. Collectively, we refer to these four types of risks as 'dewilding.' In this systematic review, we searched Scopus and Web of Science for recent literature documenting mariculture’s dewilding impacts to organize and collate this evidence under one unified framework. We find that mariculture’s dewilding impacts are consistently documented, though often in isolation, and that captivity and conceptual dewilding impacts are recognized as potential harms far less than impacts on the environment and wildlife. Future work examining mariculture’s dewilding impacts will be paramount to guiding human decision-making and activity going forward. By Becca Franks, Chiawen Chiang
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Marine fauna / Biodiversity loss / Animal Ethics / Dewilding
What to Know About the Salmon on Your Plate
Podcast
October 15 - 2024
EN Europe

What to Know About the Salmon on Your Plate

NPR

Norway is the largest exporter of salmon in the world. And while some of those fish are wild-caught, many are raised in 'fish farms'- large cylindrical pens made of nylon in the open water. Sometimes these farmed fish escape, mixing with the local population and causing ecological issues. We see farmed fish in a Norwegian fjord and hear about potential solutions to the problem. By Rob Schmitz, Greg Dixon
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Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Biodiversity loss / Salmon / Closed-pen farming / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Pesticides
Deep inside a Norwegian fjord, a dream of farming salmon sustainably
Investigative Journalism
October 14 - 2024
EN Europe

Deep inside a Norwegian fjord, a dream of farming salmon sustainably

NPR

Eide’s closed loop farming system raises the question: Why isn’t the entire industry farming salmon this way? By Rob Schmitz.

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Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces)
What does the future of salmon farming look like in B.C.?
Investigative Journalism
October 03 - 2024
EN North America

What does the future of salmon farming look like in B.C.?

The Narwhal

The last open-net pen salmon farms in B.C. have until July 2029 to figure out a different way of doing business. Environmental advocates say the shift is long overdue but the industry warns the timeline is impossible. By Shannon Waters. This story is a collaboration with the newspaper The Guardian.
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Marine fauna / Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) / Salmon / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants)
PinkBombs!
Interactive / Website
October 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
Stories of the Sea: Fishing in the Twilight Zone
Opinion
August 23 - 2024
EN Global

Stories of the Sea: Fishing in the Twilight Zone

Safina Center

By one estimate, it is 'the world’s largest unexploited natural resource with a global biomass of 1 gigaton.' But can the inhabitants of the deep be fished to meet humanity’s food needs? Should they be? Such questions are being asked with greater frequency, as research initiatives in multiple countries have started to explore the feasibility of mesopelagic fishing.
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Climate change / Biodiversity loss / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / UN: FAO Committee on Fisheries
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