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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
India Shrimp Rife with Bondage, Hazards, and Stolen Wages
Investigative Journalism
March 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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Labor / Antibiotics / Shrimp / India
Six out of ten aquaculture workers are worried that their job is affecting their health, finds survey
News
December 14 - 2023
EN Global

Six out of ten aquaculture workers are worried that their job is affecting their health, finds survey

Phys.org

The 1,283 workers in the aquaculture sector who have responded to a recent HSE survey are not anxious without good reason. In all, 62% have experienced "near misses" in the last two years. However, there is another threat that is making them even more worried.

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Labor
3 Reasons to Avoid Farmed Salmon
Investigative Journalism
July 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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Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Biodiversity loss / Pesticides / Antibiotics / Hunger / Nutrition / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / U.S Dept. of Agriculture / Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) / Salmon
Sea lice are becoming more resistant to pesticides — that’s a problem for B.C.’s beleaguered salmon farms
Investigative Journalism
March 28 - 2022
EN North America

Sea lice are becoming more resistant to pesticides — that’s a problem for B.C.’s beleaguered salmon farms

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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Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Biodiversity loss / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Pesticides / Antibiotics / Salmon
Ocean Desolation: How Fish Farm Pollution Is Killing Marine Life in Greece
Investigative Journalism
August 16 - 2021
EN Europe

Ocean Desolation: How Fish Farm Pollution Is Killing Marine Life in Greece

The Ferret

Researchers reported about a “desolation scenario” around sea bream and sea bass farms in Western Greece.
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Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Biodiversity loss / Marine Protected Areas / Sea Bass / Sea Bream
Fish Farms in Mediterranean ‘Paradise’ Blamed for Pollution
Investigative Journalism
March 18 - 2021
EN Europe

Fish Farms in Mediterranean ‘Paradise’ Blamed for Pollution

The Ferret

The environmental impact of fish farming in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Investment and subsidies / Tourism / FAO Committee on Fisheries / Poros / Salmon / Sea Bass / Sea Bream / Italy
Farmed Norwegian Salmon World’s Most Toxic Food
Documentary Films
March 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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Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Pesticides / Antibiotics / Value chain / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Salmon
Fishy Formula - Why the European Strategy Does Not Add Up to Sustainable Aquaculture
Research
June 01 - 2010
EN Europe

Fishy Formula - Why the European Strategy Does Not Add Up to Sustainable Aquaculture

Food & Water Europe

The proposed benefits of increased food production via open water aquaculture (increased food production and job creation) are challenged by the darker side of the practice, including environmental damage, endangerment of wild populations, rampant use of antibiotics and harmful chemicals, job instability, and reliance on fish meal from wild populations. Investment in more sustainable forms of aquaculture, such as land-based recirculating aquaculture, small-scale shellfish aquaculture, and artisanal fishing and tourism would better serve communities.
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Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Antibiotics / Omega-3s / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Investment and subsidies / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Small-scale fishers / Labor / UN: FAO Committee on Fisheries / Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) / Bivalves / Salmon / Sea Bream / Sea Bass / Hunger / Nutrition
Aquaculture practices and potential human health risks: Current knowledge and future priorities
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Research
November 01 - 2008
EN Global

Aquaculture practices and potential human health risks: Current knowledge and future priorities

Environment International

Aquaculture facilities increasingly rely on the heavy input of formulated feeds, antibiotics, antifungals, and agrochemicals. This review summarizes our current knowledge concerning major chemical, biological and emerging agents that are employed in modern aquaculture facilities and their potential impacts on public health.

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Antibiotics / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Pesticides
Challenging the Aquaculture Industry on Sustainability
Research
December 01 - 2007
EN Global

Challenging the Aquaculture Industry on Sustainability

Greenpeace

Against a continuing background of diminishing and over–exploited marine resources, aquaculture has been widely held up as a panacea to the problem of providing a growing world population with ever-increasing amounts of fish for consumption. With the expansion of the industry, however, the tendency has been for methods of production to intensify, particularly in the production of carnivorous species. This has resulted in many serious impacts on the environment and human rights abuses. This report examines some of the serious environmental and social impacts that have resulted from the development and practice of aquaculture and which are reflected across the global industry.
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Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Marine fauna / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Antibiotics / Hunger / Nutrition / IUUs (illegal unreported and unregulated) / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Plant-based (e.g. seaweed or kelp) / Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) / Salmon / Shrimp / Tilapia

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