One of my fisherman friends brought me some wild #salmon & free #corn 🙂
Cooked up for family. I'm having just a wee bit as my friend is taking me out in 2 hours.
The toxic #salmon industry muddies the waters again, in their hope to bamboozle consumers.
There being no legal way for retailers or the hospitality industry to provide wild caught salmon from Scotland, the producers are keen that we see their battery-farmed product as a "fresh and healthy" food. It is not.
“Work began Wednesday on removing the third of four dams that nearly destroyed salmon populations on the Klamath River in Oregon and California and caused some of the nation's largest-ever fish kills.”
… while writing how whole-life models for salmon need to consider the survival of currently rare types, as salmon encounter climate chaos, I wrote
“our descent into the Anthropocene”
and bummed myself right out. :blobsad:
@glynmoody I don't know where the 2,300 direct employees came from; the last Scottish Government figures (2022-23) gave >1,300 as the number.
As for the 12-13,000 indirectly supported jobs: that includes people who work in shops, pubs, cafés, etc. who would be there regardless of the presence of the toxic #salmon industry.
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. The analysis comes as the industry faces a wave of public opposition after revelations of high mortality rates and the sale of fish deemed unfit for human...
The floodplain of the Sacramento River, seen here from I-5 near the Sac airport, serves as wildlife habitat, flood-protection infrastructure, and rice farmland.
The California Ricelands Salmon Project is developing programs for helping young fish use these rice checks as winter nurseries.
This was yesterday, Feb. 16. Tonight a lot of precip is pouring into this watershed, and much more is coming.
"It’s only a matter of time before banks pull the plug on the welfare nightmare that is Scottish salmon. A lethal industry riddled with 50% mortalities--from hatch to 'catch'--is ethically bankrupt"
Norwegian salmon farms gobble up fish (from coastal West Africa) that could feed millions in Africa: Blue Empire Report (news.mongabay.com)
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. The analysis comes as the industry faces a wave of public opposition after revelations of high mortality rates and the sale of fish deemed unfit for human...