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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...

Scientists: Fishing boats compete with whales and penguins for Antarctic krill

Jul 27, 2023 | Fish farms, Fishery

As Antarctic waters warm due to climate change, krill numbers are declining, stressing wildlife that rely on the small crustaceans at the bottom of the food chain. Two huge fishing vessels make their way through the icy waters of the Southern Ocean, passing among a...

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...