Norway's salmon boom created a global delicacy — now its fjords are paying the price
Norway Salmon
Norway's salmon farming industry, once a solution to a surplus of fish, has become a global behemoth, supplying over half the world's Atlantic salmon. But the industry's rapid growth has led to environmental degradation in Norway's fjords, including oxygen depletion, harmful algal blooms, and a rise in lower-quality 'production fish'. As the government pushes for expansion, critics argue the industry is exceeding ecological limits, while companies invest in innovations like closed-containment systems to mitigate damage.
It's like a livestock building put into the sea without walls, without a floor, without a roof.
- bronlund
I live in Norway and me and my family do not eat farmed fish - for multiple reasons; political, ecological, animal cruelty etc.
A hamburger probably has a better nutritional value that farmed salmon. Children and pregnant women should also limit the intake because it can disrupt development. And the color is fake, if they do not add coloring to the food, farmed salmon would be gray.
I could go on the whole day about this stuff. The whole thing is just sad.
- Epa095
It's interesting to see the power of wealth up close. For one the massive lobbying against any tax on the usage of the fjords(or on the wealth). But there is also cases where they will hire retired professors in tangentially related fields (like sea urchins) to write "scientific reports" "showing" whatever they want, which they then send to individual local MPs to convince them to allow more farming.
- syoc
Strange to have an article about salmon farming drawbacks without mentioning escaped salmons polluting the wild salmon population. There has been a strong decrease in wild salmon as they lose the ability to migrate back up the river to lay their eggs due to breeding with escaped farming salmon.