A recent study by the European Food Safety Authority has determined that the prevalence of vibrio bacteria in seafood will increase globally due to climate change and antimicrobial resistance. It will be more common in areas where rivers meet the sea. The bacteria has forced retailers in the E.U. to issue recalls and can cause deaths if eaten via...
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More than 65% of Iceland's population opposes open-net fish farming, according to a new Gallup survey which revealed broad opposition across various demographics, with consistent disapproval noted nationwide.
Biological issues challenge salmon sector
Leading food and agribusiness bank Rabobank reports that biological issues for the last year have plagued aquaculture, particularly in Norway, with high mortality levels and significant drops in the proportion of superior grade fish. Increase in the use of mechanical sea lice treatments in the warmer months damage the mucosal layers of the salmon...
BBC presenter Chris Packham may quit as UK RSPCA president over horror footage of injured salmon
UK RSPCA President Chris Packham has sensationally threatened to quit in an animal welfare row, after salmon were filmed swimming around without tails and with chunks missing from their bodies. Stomach-churning footage - filmed covertly at a farm run by a major seafood company supplying UK supermarkets - shows animals with bare bones and pink flesh...
UK RSPCA head joins Off the Table campaign
Respected broadcaster and UK RSPCA president Chris Packham has taken to Instagram to call on UK Japanese restaurant chain Wagamama to take farmed salmon Off the Table. He wrote that:
There are many indications that plastic pipes transporting salmon feed pellets under pressure can be a significant source of pollution. The Norwegian Society for Nature Conservation believes that more than three hundred tonnes of microplastics each year go straight to the sea through wear and tear on feed pipes at Norwegian fish farms, and have...
A Liberal senator and Salmon Tasmania are calling for the federal government to cut funding to an environmental advocacy legal centre that lobbies for better regulation of salmon farming activities in Macquarie Harbour, the home of an endangered species of skate. They have accused the Environmental Defenders Office of using taxpayer dollars...
As Wimbledon 2024 gets underway, WildFish reported that none of the tournament's menus include salmon. In 2022 WildFish highlighted the fact that Wimbledon was contravening its own food guidelines by sourcing salmon from Loch Duart Ltd, a salmon farming company with a poor record of control over sea lice parasites and high levels of fish...