Dive Deeper into Salmon Farming

The Issues


		Bycatch of wild fish on salmon farms
		Pathogens and Disease: Open net-cages allow a free exchange of pathogens between farmed and wild species
		Environmental impacts: Open net-pen salmon farms benefit from the ocean but the ocean doesn’t benefit from salmon farms
		Sea lice and pesticides: Chemical warfare in open net-cage fish farms
		Predator interactions: What may look like a free lunch could end up being the last meal.
		Escapes: Net-pens are poor containment structures and escaped farmed salmon can compete with wild salmon for food and spawning habitat
		Net loss of protein: farming salmon uses more food that it creates
		Human health: fish is good for you but there are differences between farmed and wild salmon

Related Issues


		Genetically modified salmon: A better salmon or a frankenfish?
		Industrial fish meal and fish oil fisheries: Fishing to feed farmed salmon is taking food away from people and the oceanic food web.
		"Organic" farmed salmon: Efforts to certify net-cage farmed salmon could undermine the credibility of organic certifications