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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
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.
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.
Is Aquaculture the New Factory Farming?
The Bittman Project
Industrialization has turned an ancient, sustainable practice into an ecological and social disaster. Can this be changed?
Norway’s Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda
The Economist
Love salmon for dinner? You might not after you read this
iNews
Should we all stop eating salmon? Why it’s suddenly become endangered
Al Jazeera
What to Know About the Salmon on Your Plate
NPR
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.
Salmon Farms in Patagonia Face Growing Opposition
New York Times
2023 ASC REPORT - AVRAMAR IBERICA S.L.U. - SPAIN
Avramar
In the framework of the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification that holds AVRAMAR Group, we are reporting about the known escapes occurred 01/01/2023-31/12/2023, as required by the point 3.3.5 of the ASC Sea Bass/Sea Bream/Meagre Standard in our ASC certified farms.
Thousands of salmon escaped an Icelandic fish farm. The impact could be deadly.
The Guardian
The Perils of Farming Salmon in a Warming World
Mother Jones
Ensnared: 21st-Century Aquaculture Law and the Coming Battle for the Ocean
The Environmental Law Reporter
As overfishing has depleted wild fisheries, U.S. policymakers have pushed aquaculture as an ideal paradigm for ocean fisheries. However, the public perception and myths of finfish commercial aquaculture are far from its reality. This Article examines the industrial aquaculture debate through the lens of Gulf Fishermens Ass’n v. National Marine Fisheries Service, where conservationists and fishermen challenged the first-ever rulemaking to set up a new aquaculture industry in U.S. federal waters. It gives an overview of industrial net pen aquaculture and its adverse environmental and socioeconomic impacts; offers an “aquaculture law 101” overview, providing the legal and regulatory basis; and recounts Gulf Fishermens and its ramifications for open ocean aquaculture. It then details the post-Gulf Fishermens efforts to continue to promote aquaculture development in U.S. waters and the current regulatory and litigation landscape, and concludes with “lessons learned” for the broader debate over the future of our oceans.
Rethinking EU Aquaculture: For People, Animals and the Planet
Compassion in World Farming
2022 ASC REPORT - AVRAMAR IBERICA S.L.U. - SPAIN
Avramar
In the framework of the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification that holds AVRAMAR Group, we are reporting about the known escapes occurred 01/01/2022-31/12/2022, as required by the point 3.3.5 of the ASC Sea Bass/Sea Bream/Meagre Standard in our ASC certified farms.
Washington Bans Fish-Farming Net Pens, Citing Salmon Threat
U.S. News & World Report
Fish Farms in Turkey Causing Water Pollution
DW
2021 ASC REPORT - AVRAMAR IBERICA S.L.U.
Avramar
In the framework of our Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification, we are reporting about the known escapes occurred 01/01/2021-31/12/221, as required by the point 3.3.5 of the ASC Sea Bass / Sea Bream / Meagre Standard.
Changing Matters
Global assessment of ecological risks associated with farmed fish escapes
Global Ecology and Conservation