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NGOs and scientists ask FAO to stop promoting salmon and other carnivorous fish farming

Jun 12, 2024 | Factory farming, FeedVSFood, Fish farms, Fishery, Human rights

On World Ocean Day over 160 groups and experts wrote to FAO, criticizing the support to “destructive” aquaculture industries. On World Oceans Day, a group of more than 160 non-governmental organizations, communities and individual researchers submitted an...

Norwegian salmon farms gobble up fish that could feed millions in Africa: Report

Feb 28, 2024 | Factory farming, FeedVSFood, Fish farms, Fishery, Human rights

Norwegian salmon farms are taking huge amounts of wild fish from West Africa, mining the food security of the region, according to a report from the U.K.-based NGO Feedback. Norwegian salmon farms are taking huge amounts of wild fish from West Africa, mining the food...

Amid record melting, countries fail again to protect Antarctic waters

Nov 17, 2023 | FeedVSFood, Fish farms

For the seventh year in a row, the CCAMLR declined to establish new marine protected areas (MPAs) around Antarctica, despite concern that the melting ice in Antarctica has reached alarming levels, jeopardizing some key populations of penguins, krill, whales, seals and...

Can aquaculture solve the Mediterranean’s overfishing problem?

Nov 17, 2023 | FeedVSFood, Fish farms

Researchers reported about a “desolation scenario” around sea bream and sea bass farms in Western Greece JULIAN’S, VALLETTA and MOSTA, Malta — Mediterranean countries, under the guidance of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), are investing in...

Split on Africa Big-Agri sees boycott at UN food summit

Aug 2, 2023 | FeedVSFood, Human rights

Where is the global food system headed? The different responses inside and outside the UN Food Systems Summit in Rome The global food system is on the verge of failure: it is contributing in a decisive way to the environmental crisis and is failing in its main goal,...

Greek island of Poros threatened by industrial fish farming, say locals

Jun 21, 2023 | FeedVSFood, Fish farms

Residents of the Greek island of Poros have expressed fears over a plan to expand industrial fish farming, which threatens to occupy a quarter of the island and cause environmental damage. The Ferret recently visited Poros to produce a video documenting local people’s...