Salmon farming

Giant tanks full of Atlantic salmon could help meet rising demand while lowering environmental impact

Learn about what salmon farming is, where it started, and where it's going to meet the increased demand of nutritious and planet friendly foods.

This is shaping up to be the worst Fraser sockeye salmon run in recorded history. We need urgent action to protect wild salmon. Deadly diseases and viruses from fish farms are spreading to wild salmon, putting at risk thousands of jobs, entire First Nations cultures that rely on the wild salmon, the economy of BC and over 100 species that depend on wild salmon to survive. Safer alternatives are available. It’s possible to farm fish on land, using closed-containment farming techniques...

The long read: The salmon has always been a barometer for the health of the planet. Now industrial-scale farming is bringing pollution, plagues of sea lice and threatening the future of wild salmon

This make and take activity represents the life cycle, species and migration of the Pacific salmon in a fun way. This activity takes a lot of precision folding, but the end product is a great learning tool that each student can play with.

For years, salmon farming has gotten a bad rap from marine biologists, who say the fish grown in open-ocean net pens generate pollution, disease and parasites. But now, a few salmon farms have moved on land. From an environmental standpoint, some scientists say, that's "a huge step forward."

Commercial salmon farming operations in Tasmanian waters are creating inhumane conditions for the fish raised there and killing protected wildlife.

The science is increasingly clear: open net pen farming is harmful to wild salmon and presents unacceptable risk to a keystone species and everyone and everything that rely on it.

The long read: The salmon has always been a barometer for the health of the planet. Now industrial-scale farming is bringing pollution, plagues of sea lice and threatening the future of wild salmon