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Nov 14 - 2024
EN Asia

China land-based salmon farm halts commercial harvesting until year-end

IntraFish

Nordic Aqua Partners said it will make no further commercial harvest from its land-based salmon farm in China this year as it recovers from production issues that resulted in off-flavor fish, sending its shares down 8 percent on Thursday morning. By Rachel Mutter
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Investigative Journalism
Jul 04 - 2024
EN Africa

Revealed: Industry-led West Africa Fishery Protection Measures Marred By ‘Massive Conflicts of Interest’

DeSmog

Campaigners criticise 'highly flawed' voluntary schemes as DeSmog analysis finds lack of representation from civil society, or impacted communities.
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Opinion
Feb 22 - 2022
EN Africa

When people are starving, footage of fresh fish used for fishmeal is disturbing

Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements

Since 2015, the Mauritanian authorities, through successive rulings and circular letters, have been promoting the use of small pelagic fish for human consumption, and trying to reduce the quantities that are being processed into meal and oil. By Beatrice Gorez

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Research
May 14 - 2025
EN Europe, Asia

National Aquaculture Legislation Overview - Turkey

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

The National Aquaculture Legislation Overview (NALO) consist of a series of comparative national overviews of aquaculture laws and regulations from the top 40 aquaculture producing countries, and have been prepared in collaboration with the FAO Development Law Service. The preparation of the overviews is primary based on FAOLEX, a legislative database containing the world's largest electronic collection of national laws and regulations on food and agriculture, following a standard template. FAO endeavours to ensure, through consultation and verification process, the accuracy of the information contained in the NALO fact sheets. However, certain NALO fact sheets have been published on the basis that the information contained therein will be corrected if need be at the request of the competent national authorities. NALO fact sheets are updated on a regular basis, every 2/3 years.
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May 25 - 2023
EN Europe

Political agreement lowers Norway's proposed salmon tax to 25 percent

Seafood Source

Multiple political parties in Norway have reportedly reached an agreement on a new resource rent tax on aquaculture with a reduced tax rate of 25 percent, down from the originally proposed 40 percent.
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Research
Dec 14 - 2022
EN Global

Private equity sharks take a bite out of the 'blue economy'

GRAIN

Private equity funds investing in fisheries and aquaculture claim to be promoting sustainable investments. This is likely part of their appeal to the many pension funds, foundations and public development banks that are participating in them.
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Investigative Journalism
Sept 27 - 2022
EN Africa

How Senegalese Fish End Up in Factory Farms-a comparison of methods for detection and quantification

Sentient

Exploiting wild fisheries for animal feed disturbs marine ecosystems, drives food insecurity and supplies an industry responsible for massive environmental pollution. By Aïda Grovestins, Richa Syal, and Sophie Kevany
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Research
Dec 31 - 2022
EN, GR Europe

2022 ASC REPORT - AVRAMAR IBERICA S.L.U. - SPAIN

Avramar

In the framework of the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification that holds AVRAMAR Group, we are reporting about the known escapes occurred 01/01/2022-31/12/2022, as required by the point 3.3.5 of the ASC Sea Bass/Sea Bream/Meagre Standard in our ASC certified farms.

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Research
Dec 31 - 2023
EN, GR Europe

2023 ASC REPORT - AVRAMAR IBERICA S.L.U. - SPAIN

Avramar

In the framework of the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification that holds AVRAMAR Group, we are reporting about the known escapes occurred 01/01/2023-31/12/2023, as required by the point 3.3.5 of the ASC Sea Bass/Sea Bream/Meagre Standard in our ASC certified farms.

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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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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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Research
Apr 12 - 2025
EN North America

Privatisation from a coastal community perspective

Maritime Studies

This article explores processes and impacts of privatisation from the perspective of coastal communities, drawing on ideas of governance, rights and the Commons, as well as previous studies of privatisation and the associated phenomenon of ‘grabbing’. The analysis shows how diverse mechanisms of privatisation are reflected in five key dimensions, relating to (a) jurisdictions; (b) the range of rights; (c) magnitude of privatisation; (d) distributional implications; and (e) community perceptions. The practical aspects of these privatisation dimensions are illustrated through three coastal community examples, drawing on several years of participatory research, with various qualitative methods producing a set of insights from community participants. A key result relates to how the community perceives privatisation, which depends less on the generic attributes of privatisation and more on how well the outcomes fit with the community’s underlying values and strategic goals. Accordingly, among the many complexities of privatisation, attention to community perceptions may be especially important, particularly in terms of community reactions to privatisation of different forms. This fits with governance results from elsewhere, and reinforces the need to understand community aspects of the Commons, with implications for the ‘blue economy’ and the future of a possibly privatized ocean.

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Oct 31 - 2001
EN North America

Landlords, leaseholders & sweat equity: changing property regimes in aquaculture

Marine Policy

This paper explores the tensions, issues and problems being experienced by one small fishing community off Canada's east coast, as it confronts the challenges of a rapidly growing aquaculture industry. It examines the significance for the community of changing property regimes, directly related to a government policy, proclaimed in October 2000, that is transforming ownership patterns in the industry, and creating new property regimes through the allocation of aquaculture sites. It argues that this policy reflects a fundamentally different ideology that is taking away community control over resources and threatening livelihoods dependent upon the wild fishery.
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Investigative Journalism
Mar 01 - 2021
EN Africa

Fish Farming Is Feeding the Globe. What's the Cost for Locals?

The New Yorker

In the small coastal country, an exploding industry has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price. By Ian Urbina
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Documentary Films
Nov 04 - 2022
EN (GR subtitles)

The Toxic Tsunami

LOWCO Au

As more and more countries reject industrial salmon farming, the fish farm multinationals are looking for new locations. As the global net tightens a filthy wave of pens and coastal pollution is heading our way. The international fish farm pariahs are coming.
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News
Jul 08 - 2021
EN South America

Argentina becomes first country to ban open-net salmon farming due to impact on environment

Independent

Similar fish farming techniques have caused plagues of sea lice and ecological crises in Scotland, Norway and Chile.
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News
Jun 30 - 2021
EN South America

Argentina Becomes First Country to Reject Salmon Farming

Patagonia

The Provincial Legislature of Tierra del Fuego in Argentina unanimously approved a bill today that bans salmon farming in marine cages.
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Research
May 22 - 2025
EN Africa

Revealed: UK Supermarket Seabass Linked to Devastating Overfishing in Senegal

DeSmog

Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch. This piece from DeSmog, co-published with The Guardian, comes after a two-year investigation spanning three countries, exposing the connection between these factories and food insecurity and unemployment in west Africa.
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Investigative Journalism
May 23 - 2025
EN Europe, Africa

The hidden cost of your supermarket sea bass

The Guardian

Revealed: an investigation shows how consumers buying fish in the UK are playing a role in food insecurity and unemployment in Senegal

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Documentary Films
Jan 27 - 2023
EN South America

Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords

One Earth

Sixty-seven salmon farms exist within Kawésqar National Reserve in southern Chile, an area that formed part of the Kawésqar Indigenous people’s ancestral lands, and another 66 concessions are under consideration there.
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News
Mar 10 - 2016
EN South America

Chile's Salmon Farms Lose $800m as Algal Bloom Kills Millions of Fish

The Guardian

High ocean temperatures helped cause toxic bloom that has wiped out up to 20% of Chile’s total production for the year.
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