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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

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.

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

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.

A definitive source for unfiltered documentation of the environmental and welfare impacts of industrial salmon farming, providing free, high-quality visual evidence to journalists, researchers, and advocacy groups working to expose the true cost of farmed salmon.