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Topic: Pollution
Rock, Plastic, Salmon
Documentary Films
July 02 - 2025
EN North America

Rock, Plastic, Salmon

Land and Sea For All

Newfoundland's coast is at stake. A film by Land and Sea For All exposing the aquaculture industry’s neglect for the environment and local heroes standing up for a cleaner future.

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A critical review of microplastics in the shrimp farming environment: Incidence, characteristics, effects, and a first mass balance model
Research
December 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
Innovative project launched to tackle aquaculture plastic waste in southern Vietnam
News
October 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 / Vietnam
Healthy Seas: Cleaning Up 'Dead' Fish Farms
News
June 06 - 2024
GR Europe

Healthy Seas: Cleaning Up 'Dead' Fish Farms

Kathimerini

The action of the Healthy Seas organization. In the last mission, the team recovered 35,820 kg of waste in Nafpaktia and 6,870 in Ithaca. By Ioanna Photiadi.

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Fish Farms: The Immediate Threat Of Their Expansion and the Ignorance Of Risk
Investigative Journalism
June 06 - 2024
GR Europe

Fish Farms: The Immediate Threat Of Their Expansion and the Ignorance Of Risk

To BHMA

Overabundance of fish farms is a risk to both the marine environment and the economy. By Christos Logaras

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Tourism / Poros / Sea Bass / Sea Bream / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde)
Fish farms in Poros: Why the residents don't want them
Investigative Journalism
October 24 - 2023
GR Europe

Fish farms in Poros: Why the residents don't want them

Solomon

A quarter of the island in the Saronic Gulf is set to be dedicated to fish farming, increasing its activity by 670%. The municipal authorities and residents — who disagree with the plan — fear that the character of the island will change forever. 

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Marine Protected Areas / Investment and subsidies / Tourism / Legislation / Poros / Sea Bream / Sea Bass / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde)
Greek island's fierce opposition to the uncontrolled growth of fish farming
Paywall on this site
Investigative Journalism
August 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
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
Corazón Salado: A Journey to Protect the Kawésqar’s Ancestral Waters
Documentary Films
June 08 - 2023
ES (EN subtitles) South America

Corazón Salado: A Journey to Protect the Kawésqar’s Ancestral Waters

Patagonia

Ramón Navarro joins with the Kawésqar—a traditionally nomadic Indigenous community who had their practices stripped from them during the colonization of Chilean Patagonia—in a fight for their homeland and ancestral waters. The salmon industry is creeping deeper and deeper into the region, polluting and destroying its wild and delicate ecosystem. For the locals, the fish no longer bite here, forcing the Kawésqar to stray farther from home to feed and support their families.
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Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Marine fauna / Climate change / Pesticides / Antibiotics / Small-scale fishers / Tourism / IUUs (illegal unreported and unregulated) / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Legislation / Salmon
"Fish Farming Without Garbage" Initiative
Research
February 22 - 2023
GR Europe

"Fish Farming Without Garbage" Initiative

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) / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Sea Bream / Sea Bass / Ghost farms
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
Our Waters (trailer)
Documentary Films
July 14 - 2022
EN North America

Our Waters (trailer)

Parley for the Oceans

In 2020 a group of Norwegian investors announced plans to develop American Aquafarms off the coast of Maine's Acadia National Park. It would be one of the world's largest ocean-based salmon farms.
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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)
Fish Farming Is Feeding the Globe. What's the Cost for Locals?
Investigative Journalism
March 01 - 2021
EN Africa

Fish Farming Is Feeding the Globe. What's the Cost for Locals?

The New Yorker

In the small coastal country, an exploding industry has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price. By Ian Urbina
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Hunger / Nutrition / IUUs (illegal unreported and unregulated) / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Tilapia / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde)
TRACKing of PLASTtic emissions from aquaculture industry (TrackPlast)
Research
June 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
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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