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...
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...
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...
Nov 8, 2022 | FeedVSFood, Fish farms, Fishery
The global growth of fish farming is driving the demand for Antarctic krill as an alternative to wild fish in fish feeds, amid the depletion of many wild fish stocks. Independent scientists say the krill fishery could have a detrimental effect on Antarctica’s predator...