The New Fish: The Truth about Farmed Salmon and the Consequences We Can No Longer Ignore Saetre Simen
What happens when you introduce a new fish into the sea?In the early 1970s, a group of scientists researched how to make more food for the growing population of the world. They looked to the sea. They…
Specifikacia The New Fish: The Truth about Farmed Salmon and the Consequences We Can No Longer Ignore Saetre Simen
What happens when you introduce a new fish into the sea?In the early 1970s, a group of scientists researched how to make more food for the growing population of the world. They looked to the sea. They sampled genes from salmon in 41 Norwegian and Swedish rivers and designed a new salmon that was fatter and faster growing. This was considered an amazing innovation and was the beginning of a new industry: salmon farming.The industry spread from coastal Norway to Scotland, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Chile, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the United States. Business boomed, jobs were created, and a new type of food, the farmed salmon, spread around the globe. Salmon farmers became extremely rich.But there were unintended consequences: some of these new fish escaped, wild salmon stocks dwindled, diseases spread, salmon louse swarmed. In a prizewinning