Salmon farming is bad for world’s fisheries

I watched this program on Finnish TV about the overfishing for fish food for the farmed salmon in Norway. This partly illegal fishing threatens the world’s fisheries. This is true because the huge industry in Norway and Chile need large quantities of fish food. More fish are needed for fish food and oil than what is produced in fish farming. This simply does not make sense!

Roughly one-third of total annual fish catches ends up for fish feed, according to WWF. Aquaculture is the reason to the declining fish stocks of cod, haddock, anchovy, herring, and other commercial species. They’re the foundation of the food web. And this food is taken right from the dolphins, seals, whales, sea birds , as well as from the people. Families in coastal fishing villages are suffering from rampant overfishing and the destruction of their natural legacy of ocean fisheries and the ecosystems.

And again, greedy people are to blame. When is this robbery going to stop.

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