‘Battery-hen farming of the sea’: sustainable alternatives to eating salmon
by Ann Ding from World news | The Guardian on (#5SYBN)
There's good news for salmon lovers hoping to reduce the environmental impact of their food
Salmon is consistently one of the most popular kinds of seafood in Australia, but the Tasmanian farmed salmon industry has attracted significant criticism for its continued expansion and alleged environmental impact.
In the past, environmental experts on review panels that oversaw industry expansion have quit in protest, telling a Tasmanian parliamentary inquiry that the panels were not truly independent and were obligated to approve expansions. One of those experts also said the planned doubling of salmon production in the coming decade had no basis in sound science.
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