The New Fish: The Truth about Farmed Salmon and the Consequences We Can No Longer Ignore Saetre Simen
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…
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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 sampled genes from salmon in 41 Norwegian and Swedish rivers and designed a new salmon that was fatter and faster growing. They looked to the sea.
Business boomed, jobs were created, and a new type of food, the farmed salmon, spread around the globe. 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. 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.
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