salmon: 1/15 of 15
How our growing appetite for salmon is devastating coastal communities in Peru
Andrew Wasley and Jim Wickens
1st December 2008
The coast of Peru is being blighted by a fishmeal industry that's sprung up to satisfy the West’s voracious appetite for salmon – now marine life, human health and whole ecosystems are paying the price. Andrew Wasley and Jim Wickens report more...
Warning as infectious salmon disease spreads from Europe's fish farms to Canada
Anna Taylor
15th December, 2011
Discovery of the deadly salmon virus Infectious Salmon Anaemia in Canada is just latest likely example of disease spreading to wild fish stocks from the world's mega fish farms more...
Salmon farm threatens Scottish island of Eigg's green credentials
Kathrine Anker
26th September, 2011
The Isle of Eigg has won prizes for its use of renewable energy resources. But a proposed fish farm could ruin the eco-friendly reputation that the small island community has worked so hard to obtain, and the tourist appeal that comes with it more...
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tackles farmed salmon feed controversy
Tom Levitt
11th January, 2011
Channel 4 series will look at ecological cost of producing millions of tonnes of fishmeal for Scottish salmon farms - first revealed by the Ecologist back in 2008 more...
UK and USA retailers join boycott against Alaska's 'dirty gold'
Tom Levitt
3rd November, 2010
Leading jewellery outlets including Fraser Hart, Tiffany & Co and Beaverbrooks say they won't use gold from London-based Anglo America's proposed mine in the Alaskan wilderness more...
Fishing and the environment: why the two are inextricably linked
Robert MacDougall-Davis
15th October, 2010
Anglers may set out to hunt fish - for fun or food - but they are also some of greatest protectors of aquatic environments, argues Robert MacDougall-Davis more...
Fish farmers in Scotland killing estimated 2,000 seals a year
Emily Shelton
28th September, 2010
Campaigners warn legislation to protect seals is ‘no where near tight enough’ as industry initiative attempts to find alternatives to shootingmore...
US delays approval for fast-growing GM salmon
The Ecologist
22nd September, 2010
Campaigners say approval for the genetically modified salmon would carry 'great risk' and pave the way for more GM animals to enter the market more...
Protecting wild salmon from pollution
Laura Sevier
16th July, 2009
Alaska's long-standing wild salmon-fishing industry could be under threat from large-scale mining development more...
Can salmon farming be sustainable?
Emma Bocking
20th October, 2009
Salmon farming is renowned for its local environmental pollution, but now some fish farmers are starting to look at fish waste as an untapped resource more...
Half of all fish eaten is now farm-reared
Ecologist
8th September, 2009
Rising consumer demand for fish with large quantities of omega-3 fatty acid is putting a strain on marine ecosystem more...
To farm or to fish - does aquaculture have the answer?
Matilda Lee
3rd March, 2009
Our oceans are suffering from chronic overfishing - but are fish farms any better for the environment? Matilda Lee weighs up the piscine pros and cons in the battle to save world stocks from collapse. more...
salmon: 1/15 of 15
After the Gold Rush
Charles Clover
1st December, 2004
The biggest and most indiscriminate killers of wildlife on the planet, commercial fishing fleets have brought us to the edge of a maritime ecological disaster, with fish stocks facing extinction all around the world.more...
Who needs a traditional fishmonger?
Joanna Blythman
1st September, 2004
Lying on tilted beds of glistening ice, fish from around the world gaze unblinkingly at bored supermarket shoppers. Red snappers, ‘air freighted for freshness’ from the Indian Ocean; Chilean seabass ‘previously frozen’ from the Southern Atlantic; Farmed salmon from the Isles of Scotland; exotic, seemingly abundant fresh fish. more...
Bush ruling threatens US salmon’s survival
Chris Floyd
8th July, 2004
In May the Bush administration struck another blow against the US’s crumbling environmental protections with a ruling that allows hatchery fish to be counted along with wild fish in determining the protection status of salmon in accordance with the US’s Endangered Species Act (ESA). more...Members
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