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
… Can salmon farming be sustainable? Emma Bocking | … Pollution Fish Fish Farming Fish Special Salmon imtaweb.jpg Salmon farming is renowned for its local …
‘“Visionary” is a terrible word to use,’ Jimmie Hepburn grimaces. ‘I’m not doing this for my own ego. I’m happy for contributions and new ideas; I’m starting from scratch here, but I want people to build upon this.’
… started out in life working on an industrial salmon-farming operation in northwest … degree in ecology, the scale of Scottish salmon farming didn’t sit easily. ‘I wasn’t … the pelleted feed to produce one tonne of salmon.’ But Hepburn was at the same time a …
Inside vast, 360-sided, 7000 cubic metre underwater cages off the coast of Panama, marine biologist Brian O'Hanlon is trying to solve some of the problems with large-scale aquaculture
… has watched the collapse of stocks of salmon, snapper, cod, grouper, halibut, skate … transport, seems an ideal choice. Compared to salmon, which take three years to reach market … preference for pelagic, predatory fish like salmon and cod. In the Far East, where …
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.
… Farmed Fish Bycatch Seafood Aquaculture Salmon Stocks Tuna Driftnets Fishing Crisis … (see ‘Fishy business’, page 24). Scotland’s salmon aquaculture industry, which has grown … seafood supply. Predatory species such as salmon, striped bass, tuna and shrimp feed on …
One of Ireland's best-known chefs, Darina Allen takes the fear out of buying fresh, whole fish with her simple preparation guide
… method below to gut any round fish, such as salmon, mackerel, pollock and grey sea mullet. … using your fingertip. In larger fish like salmon, a teaspoon with a pointed end is a … fish Use this method for round fish such as salmon, haddock, cod, pollock, grey sea mullet …
Rising consumer demand for fish with large quantities of omega-3 fatty acid is putting a strain on marine ecosystem
… Ecologist | 8th September 2009 News Fish Tuna Salmon Food And Farming Farmed Fish Fish-feed … 5 pounds of wild fish to produce 1 pound of salmon, and we eat a lot of salmon," said study author Professor Rosamond …
Cuba's no democratic paradise, but the country could certainly teach the west a thing or two about sustainable, secure food production, as this new film demonstrates
… ingenious, ecological way NEWS ANALYSIS Can salmon farming be sustainable? Salmon farming is renowned for its local …
Although sea walls are a strong form of coastal defence they effectively wipe out rock pools which are important oases for marine life. Scientists in Sydney have found a solution involving flower pots...
… of Sydney READ MORE... NEWS ANALYSIS Can salmon farming be sustainable? Salmon farming is renowned for its local …
The Severn Estuary, earmarked as a potentially huge source of energy, has been met with increasing concerns over serious environmental damage. A report from 2008 by Frontier Economics found that justification for the Severn Barrage is slim - both economically speaking and on environmental grounds. Peter Bunyard takes a look at an innovative solution that has similarities with a tidal reef.
… as well as fishery interests, such as the Wye Salmon Fishery Owners’ Group, concluded that … on estuarine life, including fisheries and salmon runs. Cornish hydraulics engineer …
Environmentalists have long been suspicious of the free market, but a new generation of campaigners are using capitalism to change the world.
… was an angler who had seen fewer and fewer salmon returning to his native Iceland each … With the deployment of the drift-nets, salmon numbers crashed. In the decade until … when Vigfússon founded the North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NAS F), catches fell from an …
At Slow Food’s international fair in Turin last year, organic delicacies included Irish wild salmon and moon-like rounds of Somerset cheddar made to a 13th century recipe. But the star of the show was a cheese brought over illegally by shepherds from Poland’s Tatra Mountains. Hilary Davies reports
… year, organic delicacies included Irish wild salmon and moon-like rounds of Somerset …
Already on sale in some British supermarkets, is farmed cod really the long-term solution to the problem of declining wild populations.
By Tom Hargreaves
… in Shetland, and large numbers of salmon farmers are considering diversifying …
Free trade. So benign sounding a phrase. A concept whose principles no reasonable person would challenge. Trouble is, free trade as we know it – free trade as it is pushed by those who will mass at Cancun, Mexico, in September – is far from free. Think about it. If it truly was free, would they put sanctions on those who don’t want to participate and use police to violently put down protests by those who oppose it? Free trade is really just a euphemism, like ‘peacekeeping’ or ‘forest management’, that hides a far uglier, more brutal reality. Free trade is a brand – Free Trade™, which sells a repackaged product no one in their right minds would buy if they knew what it really was.
… materials that the earth gives freely: the salmon, bison, huckleberries and willows, for … would I go to Safeway if I could catch wild salmon in the stream outside my door? The same …
The aviation industry has its climate change plans, car manufacturers are working on 'eco' alternatives, and rail is considered top of the class, but what has the transport mode that delivers 90 per cent of goods to the UK done to improve upon its environmental credentials?
… large-scale aquaculture NEWS ANALYSIS Can salmon farming be sustainable? Salmon farming is renowned for its local …
Navy vs the Whales. They have the most mysterious and beautiful songs in the natural world. But now they are dying, drowned out by the deafening roar of Western navies’ new sonar devices.
In the first of a three-part series, a repentant travel writer trades in his longhaul flights and luxury holidays for three months living on a narrowboat
… ahead. Moored on the Severn one night, a salmon leapt through the water and a mink …
Costing over $1 billion, the Karahnjukar hydroelectric dam in Iceland is a hugely controversial project. Mark Lynas journeyed to the blasting face, hoping to work out for himself whether this industrial elephant is green or brilliant-white.
… Dal, might even find itself supporting a new salmon population in clearer water from lower …