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Topic: Marine Mammal Impacts
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
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
Monachus monachus, Mediterranean Monk Seal
Research
December 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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Marine fauna / Marine Protected Areas / Climate change / Legislation
The Perils of Farming Salmon in a Warming World
Investigative Journalism
July 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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Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Climate change / Marine fauna / 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
Contracorriente
Documentary Films
May 26 - 2023
ES, EN, GR South America

Contracorriente

Guido De Paula

Without a law to prohibit the salmon industry in Tierra del Fuego, Antártida and Islas del Atlantico Sur (TFAIAS), Argentina, one of the world’s most untouched places was in danger: the Beagle Channel. 'Contracorriente' illustrates the effects of salmon farming and the crucial need to safeguard these pristine waters. The documentary was screened for the local community to inform them about the impending threat – their government had just signed a deal with a salmon company. Thanks to this film and other efforts, Tierra del Fuego achieved a remarkable feat: becoming the first location to ban open-net salmon farming, making Argentina the pioneer country to do so, even before it could take root. (From Global Salmon Farming Resistance, thegsfr.com )

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Salmon / Legislation
The Mediterranean Monk Seal is Threatened by Poros Fish Farms
Investigative Journalism
April 27 - 2023
EN Europe

The Mediterranean Monk Seal is Threatened by Poros Fish Farms

Katheti

The existence of top predators in the marine environment is very important for the protection and stability of ecosystems. Consequently, the Mediterranean monk seal is considered an indicator of the marine environment health. Its disappearance also means the beginning of the marine ecosystems degradation.
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Poros / Marine fauna / Sea Bass / Sea Bream
Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords
Documentary Films
January 26 - 2023
EN South America

Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords

Mongabay

In recent years, Kawésqar communities have learned new forms of resistance to counter the proliferation of the salmon industry, which is harming the fragile ecosystem of their ancestral territory.
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Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Marine fauna / Marine Protected Areas / Small-scale fishers / Legislation / Salmon
Rethinking EU Aquaculture: For People, Animals and the Planet
Research
January 01 - 2023
EN Europe

Rethinking EU Aquaculture: For People, Animals and the Planet

Compassion in World Farming

Why the EU aquaculture industry should move away from intensive fish farming, towards extensive systems that are more sustainable and better for the environment.
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Climate change / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Biodiversity loss / Animal Ethics / Antibiotics / IUUs (illegal unreported and unregulated) / Value chain / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / UN: FAO Committee on Fisheries / UN: Environment Programme EU Commission on Fisheries / Legislation / Salmon / Sea Bass / Sea Bream / Shrimp / Bivalves / Low trophic-level fish / Plant-based (e.g. seaweed or kelp) / Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS)
Save Papay
Documentary Films
December 31 - 2022
EN Europe

Save Papay

Chris Rutterford

Papa Westray is at risk from a new a massive new industrial fish farm in the bay of East Moclett. Changes are already seeing in the environment from current nets. The new fishfarm is planned for the as yet untouched East side of the island, it is a direct threat to the island’s pristine lagoon. The heart of what makes this Orkney island so special, a true jewel in the North.
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Marine fauna / Legislation / Salmon
The Toxic Tsunami
Documentary Films
November 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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Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Animal Ethics / Tourism / Legislation / Salmon
Journey to Ithaca
Documentary Films
June 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)
Citizen science indicates significant range recovery and defines new conservation priorities for Earth's most endangered pinniped in Greece
Research
June 02 - 2022
EN Europe

Citizen science indicates significant range recovery and defines new conservation priorities for Earth's most endangered pinniped in Greece

Animal Conservation

Using the example of the efforts to protect the Mediterranean Monk Seal, this study demonstrates how citizen science and appropriate statistical modelling (here, occupancy modelling) can inform the conservation management of endangered marine mammals as they recolonize historical habitat.
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Marine fauna
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
Artifishal
Documentary Films
October 30 - 2019
EN (GR subtitles) North America

Artifishal

Patagonia

Artifishal is a film about people, rivers, and the fight for the future of wild fish and the environment that supports them. It explores wild salmon’s slide toward extinction, threats posed by fish hatcheries and fish farms, and our continued loss of faith in nature.
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Marine fauna / Biodiversity loss / Animal Ethics / Small-scale fishers / Salmon / Hatcheries & Fisheries / Dam / Dewilding
The Dangers of Industrial Ocean Fish Farming
Research
January 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 / Insects

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