It's not a "salmon industry" it is a "wild salmon eradication industry". The worst thing #Norway has released upon the world: fish farms.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-07/salmon-tasmania-apologises-for-mortality-event/105024028
"In the northernmost prefecture of #Hokkaido, poor fishing conditions triggered by global warming are endangering #Japan's prized salmon -- widely considered one of the country's favorite seafood.
A researcher has warned that climate change is forcing Hokkaido's chum salmon, which make up the bulk of Japan's #salmon catch, into a losing battle with a relative for food, hindering their return in large numbers to spawn in the rivers where they were released."
@futurebird and here's a fun little article :))) and by fun, I mean it makes me want to go eco tewowist :3
What's going to happen is that these #salmon are bad at breeding in the wild, they'll have eggs with wild salmon, and the eggs will not make it, meaning the #fishfarm has maybe destroyed an entire generations worth of salmon, if they can even recover.
#Bjork actually protested this, and you can see it's with good reason.
#Norway #Norwegian #Capitalism #Eco
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/seafood-firm-bounty-escaped-salmon-norway
Salmon farms under fire on U.S. East Coast after being shuttered on west coast
The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon
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AquaBounty GMO salmon was going to be the future of fish — and the future for one Ohio village that offered incentives to make a new facility happen. But years after breaking ground, there are no fancy fish tanks. No designer fish. No new jobs.
Seafood firm offers bounty to catch 27,000 escaped #salmon off #Norway - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/seafood-firm-bounty-escaped-salmon-norway “Science has proved that interbreeding between wild stocks and farmed salmon produce offspring that in the long term has low survival rate in nature.”