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Oct 17 - 2024
EN Global

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

Food Manufacturing

Billions of individual animals are being farmed without basic information to ensure minimal welfare standards. By Becca Franks and Chiawen Chiang, New York University.
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Animal Ethics
Investigative Journalism
Nov 19 - 2024
EN North America

Blood in the Water

Watershed Sentinel

The majority of Atlantic salmon sold in BC tested positive for PRV. This means millions of Atlantic salmon along the BC Coast were shedding a foreign, pathogenic, highly contagious waterborne virus into the Pacific Ocean. I wanted to know which companies’ farms were infected. By Dr. Alexandra Morton
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Animal Ethics
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Investigative Journalism
Feb 08 - 2025
EN Europe

Scottish inquiry criticizes salmon farming mortality levels, industry pushes back

Seafood Source

A government inquiry into Scotland’s salmon-farming industry has criticized its mortality levels, but salmon-farming groups have pushed back against what they say is unfair treatment compared to other forms of animal farming.

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Animal Ethics / Salmon
News
Sept 30 - 2024
EN North America

Why did Newsom sign an octopus farming ban in California? Here's why

NBC Los Angeles

Although octopuses may not be part of an average Californian’s meal plans, supporters of the new law said octopus farming is inhumane. By Helen Jeong
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Animal Ethics / Octopus
Research
Feb 02 - 2025
EN Europe

The economics of fish farming and fish welfare in Europe

Animal Ask

Animal Ask conducted a systematic review on the economics of fish production in European aquaculture, searching over 23,000 scientific publications and industry, government, and NGO reports from countries across Europe to extract economic data and other insights. This report contains the detailed results from this review. By Ren Ryba, PhD

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Value chain / Animal Ethics
Documentary Films
May 11 - 2021
EN Europe

Terrible suffering and high mortalities: dramatic conditions on fish farms in Greece

Eurogroup for Animals

Painful slaughter practices, overcrowded cages and high mortality rates: a new investigation by Eurogroup for Animals’ member Essere Animali shows serious animal welfare issues on fish farms in Greece, the EU’s main producer of sea bass and sea bream.
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Animal Ethics / Sea Bass / Sea Bream
News
Sept 25 - 2024
EN Europe

Scottish salmon farm cleared tonnes of dead fish before inspection, charity says

The Guardian

Footage taken by Animal Equality UK before MSPs’ visit was a daily procedure, says Scottish Sea Farms.
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Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Animal Ethics / Salmon
News
Sept 29 - 2024
EN North America

Newsom signs bill to ban octopus farming in California

Los Angeles Times

The new law makes it illegal to raise and breed octopuses in state waters or in aquaculture tanks based on land within the state. It also prevents business owners and operators from knowingly participating in the sale of an octopus — regardless of its provenance — that has been raised to be eaten by people. By Susanne Rust
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Animal Ethics / Legislation / Octopus
Documentary Films
Jun 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
News
Oct 22 - 2024
EN Europe

More than 1m farmed salmon die at supplier to leading UK retailers

The Guardian

Mowi Scotland, which supplies Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s, blames a rise in sea temperatures for the deaths, while campaigners say expanding farms will make things worse. By Sophie Kevany
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Climate change / Animal Ethics / Salmon
News
Sept 15 - 2024
EN Europe

First large-scale UK onshore salmon project at risk over ‘factory farm’ claims

The Guardian

Animal rights campaigners win a judicial review over pioneering £120m scheme at Grimsby port.
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Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Animal Ethics / Investment and subsidies / Lawsuits / Salmon
Research
Oct 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
Research
Apr 15 - 2024
EN Global

Balancing protection and production in ocean conservation

Nature Portfolio

With the acceleration of the global biodiversity and climate crises, the need to protect and sustainably manage ocean resources has never been greater. However, the science needed to integrate ocean protection (through marine protected areas and OECMs) and sustainable production in the blue economy (particularly pelagic fisheries) remains underdeveloped and contested. The scientific divide and the knowledge gaps still remaining have created serious real-world challenges for practitioners seeking to reconcile protection and production approaches, and is hindering progress in achieving global conservation targets. Here, we identify the vital science necessary to bring together the 'twin pillars' of protection and production, integrating mutually reinforcing meaningful protections at scale, while also driving management of production systems to internationally accepted sustainability standards. The research community must rapidly develop this new horizon of ocean science – particularly in pelagic ecosystems - to aid countries and practitioners in achieving global conservation and sustainable development targets. By John N. Kittinger, Randi D. Rotjan, Quentin Hanich, Brendon Pasisi, Constance Rambourg
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Marine Protected Areas / Marine fauna / Biodiversity loss / Animal Ethics / Investment and subsidies
Investigative Journalism
Nov 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
News
Nov 14 - 2024
EN Europe

Scottish Parliament nearing conclusion on salmon-farming sustainability inquiry

Seafood Source

Scotland’s salmon-farming industry has overcome a lot of challenges over the past few years, but more work is needed to ensure it remains sustainable and prioritizes animal health and welfare into the future, according to Scotland Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform, and Islands Mairi Gougeon. By Jason Holland
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Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Animal Ethics / Biodiversity loss / Salmon
Documentary Films
Oct 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
Investigative Journalism
Mar 16 - 2024
EN Global

Why Massive Numbers of Farmed Salmon Are Dying

Time

Salmon farming has expanded rapidly in the past 25 years into a $20 billion-a-year industry. Farmed salmon are advertised as an environmentally friendly and sustainable solution to the need for animal protein for the world’s growing population. But mass die-offs and other controversies have challenged these claims. By Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins
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Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Climate change / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Biodiversity loss / Animal Ethics / Legislation / Salmon
Investigative Journalism
Oct 24 - 2024
EN Global

Fish farming was supposed to be sustainable. But there’s a giant catch.

Vox

A groundbreaking study suggests your farmed shrimp and salmon might have a much bigger environmental toll than previously thought. By Kenny Torrella
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Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Animal Ethics / Biodiversity loss / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Labor / Salmon / Shrimp
Research
Oct 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 / Value chain / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Bivalves / Low trophic-level fish / Plant-based (e.g. seaweed or kelp) / Salmon / Octopus
Interactive / Website
Oct 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
Investigative Journalism
Nov 08 - 2023
EN Global

What Fish Farming Really Means for the Environment, Animals and People

Sentient

Despite the seafood industry’s claims, eating fish may not be as healthy or sustainable as consumers have been led to believe.
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Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Animal Ethics / Legislation / Salmon / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Pesticides
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