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Social Impacts of Fish Farming
Research
June 02 - 2025
EN Global

Social Impacts of Fish Farming

University of Piraeus

  This is an excerpt from a report by the University of Piraeus entitled, ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF G...
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Hunger / Nutrition / Labor / Small-scale fishers
The Pushback Against Aquaculture
Investigative Journalism
December 10 - 2024
EN Global

The Pushback Against Aquaculture

GRAIN

Fishing communities are leading a global fight to stop the industrial farming of shrimp and fish. They say these farms are toxic for their territories and that the world's food needs can be better met by revitalising wild fisheries and small scale, sustainable aquaculture systems. But they are up against powerful opponents. Industrial aquaculture is a US$300 billion business controlled by large multinational corporations and powerful local businessmen. With the support of governments, they are moving aggressively to not only keep their farms afloat, but to expand production to new territories.

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Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Small-scale fishers / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Hunger / Nutrition / Labor
NGOs, wild shrimpers ask US government to investigate Global Seafood Alliance marketing practices
News
November 01 - 2024
EN North America, Asia

NGOs, wild shrimpers ask US government to investigate Global Seafood Alliance marketing practices

IntraFish

A report authored by the Corporate Accountability Lab earlier this year was critical of the Global Seafood Alliance's Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) scheme. By Rachel Sapin
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Lawsuits / Labor / Shrimp
Fish farming was supposed to be sustainable. But there’s a giant catch.
Paywall on this site
Investigative Journalism
October 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
Fish farming and beyond: Moral reckoning required
Research
October 16 - 2024
EN Global

Fish farming and beyond: Moral reckoning required

Science Advances

Problems in animal aquaculture stem from failures of care and conscience. Solutions require not 'balanced' goals but moral reckonings overhauling economic valuations and policies. By Carl Safina
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Biodiversity loss / Labor / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Legislation / Animal Ethics
How Marine Farming is Dewilding the Ocean and its Inhabitants: A Q&A with Laurie Sellars and Becca Franks
Research
October 16 - 2024
EN Global

How Marine Farming is Dewilding the Ocean and its Inhabitants: A Q&A with Laurie Sellars and Becca Franks

Yale Law School

A new study by Laurie Sellars, postgraduate fellow of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School, and Becca Franks, an assistant professor of environmental studies at New York University, investigates how marine aquaculture or ‘mariculture’ — the cultivation of aquatic organisms in the ocean — generates a suite of risks: environmental degradation, harms to wildlife communities and individuals, welfare harms for captive animals, and shifts in how humans perceive the nonhuman world. The article describes these risks collectively as 'dewilding,' defined as the process of privileging anthropocentric interests, perspectives, sovereignty, and agency at the expense of other interests and considerations The study, 'How Mariculture Expansion is Dewilding the Ocean and its Inhabitants,' was published in the journal Science Advances on Oct. 16, 2024. Sellars and Franks discuss their research.
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Marine fauna / Animal Ethics / Deforestation / Hunger / Nutrition / Antibiotics / Labor / Salmon / Octopus / Dewilding
Too Much of Our Seafood Has a Dark Secret
Opinion
August 11 - 2024
EN Global

Too Much of Our Seafood Has a Dark Secret

New York Times

Explores the factors a consumer should consider when purchasing seafood. By Paul Greenberg and Carl Safina.

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Marine Protected Areas / Biodiversity loss / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Hunger / Nutrition / Investment and subsidies / Labor / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Value chain / IUUs (illegal unreported and unregulated) / Legislation / Bivalves / Low trophic-level fish / Plant-based (e.g. seaweed or kelp) / Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) / Salmon / Shrimp
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
Blue Empire: How the Norwegian salmon industry extracts nutrition and undermines livelihoods in West Africa
Research
February 01 - 2024
EN Europe, Africa

Blue Empire: How the Norwegian salmon industry extracts nutrition and undermines livelihoods in West Africa

Foodrise

This report exposes how the expansion of the Norwegian salmon farming industry has come at the expense of communities and fish populations in the Global South. While salmon producers tout their sustainability credentials, the industry’s inefficient and wasteful use of finite natural resources is driving the loss of livelihoods and exacerbating malnutrition in nations including The Gambia, Senegal and Mauritania. We argue that the Norwegian salmon industry is not so much leading a ‘blue revolution’ as establishing a ‘blue empire’.
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Biodiversity loss / Omega-3s / Hunger / Nutrition / Investment and subsidies / Labor / Small-scale fishers / Value chain / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Certification schemes / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Legislation / Salmon / Krill
The Hidden Costs of Your Supermarket Salmon
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Investigative Journalism
January 31 - 2024
EN Global

The Hidden Costs of Your Supermarket Salmon

Financial Times

Fish sold by major retailers in Europe is harming food security in west Africa
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Biodiversity loss / Investment and subsidies / IUUs (illegal unreported and unregulated) / Small-scale fishers / Labor / Omega-3s / Hunger / Nutrition / Value chain / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Legislation / Salmon
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
87% of Poros Opposes Expansion of Fish Farming
Research
September 14 - 2023
EN Europe

87% of Poros Opposes Expansion of Fish Farming

Katheti

The survey, conducted in July 2023 by Kapa Research, measured how aware residents were of the plans for the national government to expand fish farms across Greece as well as how much they knew about plans to expand fish farming specifically on the popular tourist island, Poros.
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Tourism / Labor / Legislation / Poros / Sea Bass / Sea Bream
Investigative Journalism
June 26 - 2023
EN Europe

Saving Poros

Katheti

Paradoxically, it is precisely the pristine nature of Poros that is marking its future: the absence of large production or tourist activities was considered by the Greek authorities a criterion for including the island in a list of allocated zones for the expansion of industrial fish farming.
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Tourism / Poros / Marine fauna / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Antibiotics / Sea Bass / Sea Bream / Labor
European Union Fact Sheet: European Fisheries in Figures
Research
April 01 - 2023
EN Europe

European Union Fact Sheet: European Fisheries in Figures

European Parliament

The tables below show basic statistical data in several areas relating to the common fisheries policy (CFP), namely: the fishing fleet of the Member States in 2024 (Table I), the situation of employment in the fisheries (2021), aquaculture (2020) and fish processing (2021) sectors (Table II), the production, import and export of fisheries and aquaculture products in 2021 (Table III), the apparent and per capita consumption of fisheries and aquaculture products in 2021 (Table IV), and the prospective resource allocations of the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) from 2021 to 2027 (Table V).
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Labor
Washington ban makes entire US West Coast off-limits for net-pen finfish aquaculture
News
November 22 - 2022
EN North America

Washington ban makes entire US West Coast off-limits for net-pen finfish aquaculture

Seafood Source

An executive order issued by the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on 18 November, 2022, will prohibit any net-pen aquaculture on state-owned aquatic lands. The move came in response to the 2017 collapse of a net-pen farm operated by Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada-based Cooke Aquaculture that led to the escape of hundreds of thousands of Atlantic salmon. It does not apply to hatcheries that have an environmental restoration mission or that boost native stocks.
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Legislation / Marine fauna / Hunger / Nutrition / Labor / Small-scale fishers / Salmon / Cooke
Fishmeal and fish oil production in West Africa destroys the region’s resources to the benefit of foreign countries
Investigative Journalism
January 26 - 2022
EN Africa

Fishmeal and fish oil production in West Africa destroys the region’s resources to the benefit of foreign countries

Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements (CFFA)

In West Africa, there is an increased pressure on small pelagic stocks, including the over-exploited sardinella, due to the expansion of the fishmeal and fishoil industry across the region. To get one kilo of fishmeal, more than 5 kgs of small pelagics are needed. The FAO report explains that recently the catches for human consumption have drastically decreased, 'the industry has been competing with women processors' for access to fish and 'fish has become extremely rare and expensive in local markets.'
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Labor / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / UN: FAO Committee on Fisheries / Small-scale fishers
Socio-Economic and Biological Impacts of the Fish-Based Feed Industry for Sub-Saharan Africa
Research
January 01 - 2022
EN Africa

Socio-Economic and Biological Impacts of the Fish-Based Feed Industry for Sub-Saharan Africa

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

The feed industry serving farmed fish creates a strain on sub-Saharan Africa wild fish stock and the people of the region, refuting the argument that carnivorous fish farming will be the answer to feeding a growing world population.The study identifies a range of actions the fish feed industry can take to minimize the economic, environmental, and health impacts created by this industry.
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Hunger / Nutrition / Value chain / Labor / Small-scale fishers / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Plant-based (e.g. seaweed or kelp) / Shrimp / Krill
Feeding a Monster
Research
June 01 - 2021
EN Africa, Europe

Feeding a Monster

Greenpeace

How European aquaculture and animalfeed industries are stealing food from West African communities.
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Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Hunger / Nutrition / Investment and subsidies / Value chain / Labor / Tourism / Regulatory / Salmon / Small-scale fishers
The Factories Turning West Africa’s Fish Into Powder
Investigative Journalism
March 23 - 2021
EN Africa, Asia

The Factories Turning West Africa’s Fish Into Powder

BBC

Chinese-run factories are turning huge amounts of The Gambia’s fish stocks into fishmeal for aquaculture. But are they taking too much, too quickly. By Ian Urbina
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Hunger / Nutrition / Investment and subsidies / Labor / Small-scale fishers / Tourism / IUUs (illegal unreported and unregulated) / Value chain / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / UN: FAO Committee on Fisheries / Salmon
Making mountains out of minnows: Salmon in the Tasmanian economy
Research
July 01 - 2019
EN Australasia

Making mountains out of minnows: Salmon in the Tasmanian economy

The Australia Institute

The economic benefit of the salmon industry to Tasmania is weighted strongly against its environmental and social impacts. Yet it accounts for just 1% of jobs in the state. Over 5 years $3.8 billion worth of fish were sold, but just $64 million tax paid, while $9.3 million in subsidies were received in 2 years. Changing generous leasing arrangements to the Norwegian model could raise $2 billion for community development.
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Labor / Legislation / Salmon
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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