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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
Exposing the Reality of Salmon Farming
Interactive / Website
November 30 - 2024
EN Europe

Exposing the Reality of Salmon Farming

Salmon Media Hub

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.

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Salmon / Animal Ethics / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Marine fauna / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Pesticides
Government throws money at fish endangered by salmon farming that drew attention of Woolworths shareholders
News
November 12 - 2024
EN Australasia

Government throws money at fish endangered by salmon farming that drew attention of Woolworths shareholders

Proactive

The Australian Government has committed an additional $28 million to improve water quality in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour, aiming to safeguard the endangered Maugean skate, whose only known habitat lies within this unique ecosystem. The fate of the skate was brought to public attention by Woolworths shareholder activists who questioned the supermarket giant’s support of Tasmanian salmon products from farms in the harbour that have eroded the skate’s key habitat. By Susanna Nelson
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Marine fauna / Legislation / Salmon / Skate / Dewilding
Industrial Fishing Undermines World’s Greatest Carbon Sink, Experts Warn
Investigative Journalism
October 24 - 2024
EN Global

Industrial Fishing Undermines World’s Greatest Carbon Sink, Experts Warn

DeSmog

Damage to oceans is releasing vast amounts of CO2, despite efforts to market fish as a sustainable food. By Sophie Kevany
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Marine Protected Areas / Climate change / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Legislation / Marine fauna
Aquaculture Kills More Wild Fishes Than Previously Thought, Study Finds
Investigative Journalism
October 21 - 2024
EN Global

Aquaculture Kills More Wild Fishes Than Previously Thought, Study Finds

Plant Based News

A new study says that the impact of aquaculture on wild fishes* is 'greater than commonly cited,' further undermining the widely held belief that it can be part of a sustainable food system. By Liam Pritchett
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Biodiversity loss / Marine fauna / Climate change / Antibiotics / Pesticides / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing
Study reveals higher use of wild fish in aquaculture than estimated
Investigative Journalism
October 17 - 2024
EN Global

Study reveals higher use of wild fish in aquaculture than estimated

Undercurrent News

The global aquaculture industry may be depending on significantly larger amounts of wild-caught ocean fish than earlier estimates suggested, according to a new study published in Science Advances on Wednesday (Oct. 16). By Liza Mayer
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Marine fauna / Biodiversity loss / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Salmon
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
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
What does the future of salmon farming look like in B.C.?
Investigative Journalism
October 03 - 2024
EN North America

What does the future of salmon farming look like in B.C.?

The Narwhal

The last open-net pen salmon farms in B.C. have until July 2029 to figure out a different way of doing business. Environmental advocates say the shift is long overdue but the industry warns the timeline is impossible. By Shannon Waters. This story is a collaboration with the newspaper The Guardian.
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Marine fauna / Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) / Salmon / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants)
Salmon Farms in Patagonia Face Growing Opposition
Investigative Journalism
August 13 - 2024
EN South America

Salmon Farms in Patagonia Face Growing Opposition

New York Times

The Chilean industry’s expansion has drawn repeated challenges from environmentalists and Indigenous people of the region, and prompted calls for a moratorium. By Lucy Meyer and Casey Ann Smith
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Marine fauna / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Biodiversity loss / Antibiotics / Salmon
There’s a New Reason to Save Life in the Deep Ocean
Opinion
July 29 - 2024
EN Global

There’s a New Reason to Save Life in the Deep Ocean

New York Times

Just as we are learning to appreciate the extraordinary service of creatures in the twilight zone, companies that manufacture feed for industrial fish farms, fertilizer and omega-3 supplements are preparing to exploit it. Right now nations are considering authorizing commercial fishing fleets to grind life in the twilight zone into fish meal, fertilizer and plant food. Before they move forward with these plans, it would be wise to hit pause so we can understand how that decision will affect our planet.
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Marine fauna / Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Climate change / mesopelagic / Animal Ethics / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing
Balancing protection and production in ocean conservation
Research
April 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 / Animal Ethics / Investment and subsidies
The sustainability of aquaculture in Greece
Opinion
December 01 - 2023
EN Europe

Article on TVXS on the sustainability of aquaculture in Greece

Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation

Exploring the dilemma between development in Greece of fish farming for economic gain versus environmental and health concerns.
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Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Salmon / Sea Bass / Sea Bream / Marine fauna
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
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
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
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
No industrial-scale fish farms at Poros!
Opinion
April 04 - 2023
EN Europe

No industrial-scale fish farms at Poros!

Katheti

The establishment of industrial-scale fish farms at Poros is a decisive action for the future of the island, with significant effects on its character and the quality of its natural environment.
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Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine fauna / Tourism / Legislation / Poros / Sea Bass / Sea Bream
Poseidon’s grass
Opinion
April 03 - 2023
EN Europe

Poseidon’s grass

Katheti

The underwater posidonia meadows are among the most productive marine ecosystems of the Mediterranean. They host more than 1300 species of fauna and flora, among them many fish of fishery importance. It releases valuable oxygen, and therefore limits the effects of climate change. Poseidon’s grass is precious, but under constant threat.
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Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine fauna / Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Tourism / Poros / Regulatory / Sea Bass / Sea Bream
David vs Goliath: Worldwide Coastal Communities vs Industrial Fish Farms
Documentary Films
January 28 - 2023
EN, GR Europe

David vs Goliath: Worldwide Coastal Communities vs Industrial Fish Farms

Katheti

Independent journalist Francesco De Augustinis explores the impact of the Area of Industrial Development of Aquaculture planned for Aetolia-Akarnania in Western Greece, where fish cages will occupy 100 hectares and another 100 hectares will be used for other activities. Inhabitants of the islands and villages protest against the fish farms and any further expansion project. In the past ten years they have watched their sea become contaminated and poor in natural resources. The industrial fisheries at Western Greece have also had an impact on Posidonia meadows, which is now absent or very deteriorated.

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Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine fauna / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Legislation / Poros / Sea Bass / Sea Bream
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