The seafood farming – or aquaculture – industry markets many of its products as low-carbon, healthy and sustainable. But there’s a hitch. Intensively reared carnivorous fish like salmon are fed on wild-caught fish. These small, nutritious species are harvested by the tonne in fragile, unregulated zones like West Africa, putting local access to food, fish stocks and jobs at risk.
In our Industrial Aquaculture database, DeSmog scrunitizes the sustainability claims of major salmon producers and lobby groups, exploring ecological and social harms that range from damaging fish-feed supply chains, environmental pollution and increased pressure on over-exploited fish stocks.
