#1 – Chile: ‘We can be proud of what this industry has built,’ says the CEO of the Chilean Salmon Council, pointing to a growth of 4,000 per cent since the early 1990s. However, he admits that ‘the initial growth was often unruly and unregulated, leading to environmental damage and culminating in an ISA virus crisis from 2007 to 2010’, after which ‘the public system worked together with the industry to be able to regulate it, and today, it has become an overregulation’. Hard to believe, though, because why else criticism environmental organisations still continues?
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#2 – Iceland: Trouble at the election of a new board member of Kaldvik, one of the leading salmon farming companies in Iceland. The designated candidate, the former CEO of the Norwegian Seafood Council, was opposed by an Icelandic property, investment and fisheries expert, who lost the election however.
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#3 – Norway: Salmon farming is blamed for the rapid decline of wild Atlantic salmon stocks. Now, the Norwegian Environment Agency appears to have found a reason in addition: illegal fishing with nets along the country’s coast, especially in the north. ‘If you fish in the sea on these weak populations, the consequences can be serious,’ said the agency’s spokesperson [3], thus indirectly admitting that there is a pre-existing cause. However, the root cause is the ever-increasing salmon frenzy in Western markets, more of the same, more of the same…
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#4 – Scotland: The salmon frenzy continues, and so does Don Staniford, unyielding. The anti-salmon farming campaigner has been judicially banned from approaching the farms of large companies such as Mowi and Scottish Sea Farms. Now he is protesting in front of the farms.
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