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Investigative Journalism
Sept 30 - 2023
EN Europe

Thousands of salmon escaped an Icelandic fish farm. The impact could be deadly.

The Guardian

Aquaculture is bringing jobs and money to rural regions, but a huge escape of farmed fish in August could devastate local salmon populations.
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Biodiversity loss / Salmon
News
Nov 18 - 2022
EN North America

Washington Bans Fish-Farming Net Pens, Citing Salmon Threat

U.S. News & World Report

Washington has banned fish-farming with net pens in state waters, owned by Cooke Aquaculture, citing danger to struggling native salmon.
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Biodiversity loss / Legislation / Lawsuits / Salmon
Opinion
Aug 16 - 2024
EN Global

Fishing the Ocean’s Twilight Zone Comes at a High Cost

Sentient

Though there is no moratorium, fishing the mesopelagic layer remains out of bounds.
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Biodiversity loss / Climate change / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing
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
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 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
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
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
Aug 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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Harmful Algal Blooms / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Marine fauna / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Biodiversity loss / Antibiotics / Salmon
Podcast
Oct 15 - 2024
EN Europe

What to Know About the Salmon on Your Plate

NPR

Norway is the largest exporter of salmon in the world. And while some of those fish are wild-caught, many are raised in 'fish farms'- large cylindrical pens made of nylon in the open water. Sometimes these farmed fish escape, mixing with the local population and causing ecological issues. We see farmed fish in a Norwegian fjord and hear about potential solutions to the problem. By Rob Schmitz, Greg Dixon
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Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Biodiversity loss / Salmon / Closed-pen farming
Investigative Journalism
Oct 14 - 2024
EN Europe

Deep inside a Norwegian fjord, a dream of farming salmon sustainably

NPR

Eide’s closed loop farming system raises the question: Why isn’t the entire industry farming salmon this way? By Rob Schmitz.

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Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces)
Documentary Films
May 08 - 2017
EN Global

The Fish on My Plate (excerpt)

Frontline PBS

An excerpt from 'The Fish on My Plate' about Norway's salmon crisis. Author and fisherman Paul Greenberg spent a year traveling the world and eating seafood for breakfast, lunch and dinner in an attempt to find out what sort of fish is both good for him -- and good for the planet.
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Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Biodiversity loss / Salmon
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
Research
Feb 10 - 2025
EN Europe

The reality gap: An examination of Scottish farmed salmon

WildFish

This report first gives an overview of the various marketing tools used by the Scottish salmon farming industry to represent farmed salmon as a sustainable, healthy and eco-friendly protein choice. It then examines the environmental and welfare performance of Scotland’s seven salmon farming companies, all widely used in the hospitality and retail sectors. 

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Certification schemes / Salmon
Research
Jan 18 - 2025
EN Europe

Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland

Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

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.
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Animal Ethics / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Legislation / Salmon / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces)
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

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