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Salmon Farming
Dive Deeper into the Issues

Dive Deeper into the Issues

Predator interactions: What may look like a free lunch could end up being the last meal
Escapes: Net-pens are poor containment structures and escaped farmed salmon can compete with wild salmon for food and spawning habitat
Land-based Aquaculture in Recirculating Aquaculture Systems
Bycatch of wild fish on salmon farms
Sea lice and pesticides: Chemical warfare in open net-cage fish farms
The Fallacy of “Organic” open net-pen farmed salmon
Human health: Fish is good for you but there are differences between farmed and wild salmon
Genetically modified salmon
Pathogens and Disease: Open net-pens allow a free exchange of pathogens between farmed and wild species
Industrial fish meal and fish oil fisheries
Environmental impacts: Open net-pen salmon farms benefit from the ocean but the ocean doesn’t benefit from salmon farms

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