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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
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
Documentary Films
May 26 - 2023
ES, EN, GR South America

Contracorriente

Guido De Paula

Without a law to prohibit the salmon industry in Tierra del Fuego, Antártida and Islas del Atlantico Sur (TFAIAS), Argentina, one of the world’s most untouched places was in danger: the Beagle Channel. 'Contracorriente' illustrates the effects of salmon farming and the crucial need to safeguard these pristine waters. The documentary was screened for the local community to inform them about the impending threat – their government had just signed a deal with a salmon company. Thanks to this film and other efforts, Tierra del Fuego achieved a remarkable feat: becoming the first location to ban open-net salmon farming, making Argentina the pioneer country to do so, even before it could take root. (From Global Salmon Farming Resistance, thegsfr.com )

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Salmon / Legislation
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
News
Jun 06 - 2024
GR Europe

Healthy Seas: Cleaning Up 'Dead' Fish Farms

Kathimerini

The action of the Healthy Seas organization. In the last mission, the team recovered 35,820 kg of waste in Nafpaktia and 6,870 in Ithaca. By Ioanna Photiadi.

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Investigative Journalism
Jun 06 - 2024
GR Europe

Fish Farms: The Immediate Threat Of Their Expansion and the Ignorance Of Risk

To BHMA

Overabundance of fish farms is a risk to both the marine environment and the economy. By Christos Logaras

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Tourism / Poros / Sea Bass / Sea Bream
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
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
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
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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Salmon
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
Sept 04 - 2012
EN Europe

Record Algae Blooms Linked to Fish Farms

The Fish Site

IRELAND - Record toxic algae blooms continue to close shellfish harvesting in the south west of Ireland are caused in part by the waste from fish farms. The local action group set up to oppose the expansion of fish farming, Save Bantry Bay, has drawn attention to the fact that fish farms are responsible for far more nitrogen and phosphorous in our coastal waters than sewage from major towns.
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Salmon / Bivalves
Research
Sept 11 - 2020
EN Asia

Developing an Atlas of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Red Sea: Linkages to Local Aquaculture

Remote Sensing

A study of harmful algae blooms in the Red Sea reveals a potential correlation with activity from the National Aquaculture Group (NAQUA), pointing to a need for a national wastewater management plan that will prevent excessive nutrient overload.
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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
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
Interactive / Website
Nov 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
Investigative Journalism
Nov 20 - 2024
EN Europe

Scottish salmon farms seek growth despite mounting fish deaths and environmental concerns

Mongabay

Scotland is the world’s third-largest producer of farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), after Norway and Chile. The industry is seeking to significantly increase production in Scotland, driven by growing export demand.However, it faces ethical concerns over mounting fish mortality, as well as environmental concerns about pollution, the proliferation of sea lice affecting wild salmon, and opposition from several local communities.Industry members acknowledge the challenge of growing salmon amid rising sea temperatures, but say Scottish salmon farms have made progress in managing sea lice and other health challenges. By Francesco De Augustinis
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Salmon / Small-scale fishers
Research
Aug 22 - 2021
EN Europe

Review of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Coastal Mediterranean Sea, with a Focus on Greek Waters

Diversity

Anthropogenic marine eutrophication has been recognized as one of the major threats to aquatic ecosystem health. In recent years, eutrophication phenomena, prompted by global warming and population increase, have stimulated the proliferation of potentially harmful algal taxa resulting in the prevalence of frequent and intense harmful algal blooms (HABs) in coastal areas. Numerous coastal areas of the Mediterranean Sea (MS) are under environmental pressures arising from human activities that are driving ecosystem degradation and resulting in the increase of the supply of nutrient inputs. In this review, we aim to present the recent situation regarding the appearance of HABs in Mediterranean coastal areas linked to anthropogenic eutrophication, to highlight the features and particularities of the MS, and to summarize the harmful phytoplankton outbreaks along the length of coastal areas of many localities. Furthermore, we focus on HABs documented in Greek coastal areas according to the causative algal species, the period of occurrence, and the induced damage in human and ecosystem health. The occurrence of eutrophication-induced HAB incidents during the past two decades is emphasized.
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