What We're Into June 2025

Infectious agent release and Pacific salmon exposure at Atlantic salmon farms revealed by environmental DNA 
In this study, environmental DNA (eDNA) was used to characterize the release of dozens of IAs from, and exposure of Pacific salmon to, Atlantic salmon aquaculture. These factors were combined with the consequence of infection, as determined by the literature, to identify IAs that may pose a risk to wild salmon exposed to aquaculture in British Columbia, Canada. 

What banks are financing salmon 
This report identifies industrial salmon farming’s biggest financial backers and exposes the deeply troubling role global financiers are playing in creating a food production system – salmon farming – that is harming people’s food security, health and livelihoods, as well as extracting a huge toll on the environment. 

Deep Sea Mining is Not Needed, Not Wanted, Not Consented! 
Pacific governments keen to pursue DSM have to ask themselves, to what extent are they willing to destroy the ocean’s life support system during a time of climate, and planetary emergency and in what is commonly known as the age of extinction. Read the full Pacific Blue Line Statement. 

High Seas Treaty Ratification Tracker
So far 21 ocean champions have ratified the High Seas Treaty as shown on the Speed Dial. At least 60 ratifications are required to put the Treaty into action on the water. 

The Outlaw Ocean Podcast
The sea has always been a metaphor for freedom – an escape from governments, laws and other people. This episode takes us off the coast of England to Sealand, a rogue “micronation” meant to embody this very freedom, which was founded on an abandoned British anti-aircraft platform in 1967.