You idiots!
From Newsweek, December 11, 2023:
Wild populations of salmon in the Atlantic Ocean continue to face trouble from an unusual source: farmed salmon.
On Monday, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released its first red-list assessment for the freshwater fish category, finding that roughly 20 percent, or one-fifth, of all such species now face the threat of extinction. For many of these fish, long-standing factors such as global heating from climate change, overfishing and pollution continue to contribute to their declining populations.
According to the IUCN's report, the Atlantic salmon, a species known to live in freshwater and saltwater habitats, once classified as "least concern," has now been moved to "threatened." As noted in a report from The Guardian, these wild salmon populations in the Atlantic are facing a unique predicament due to the trend of farmed salmon escaping captivity and intermingling with them, with the outlet noting that breeding between wild and farmed salmon produces offspring that are less able to adapt to the effects of climate change.
In August, roughly 3,500 captive salmon escaped from a fish farm in Patreksfjörður, a village in northeast Iceland, an influx that one expert characterized as "an environmental catastrophe" while speaking to The Guardian. By this month, experts estimated, "many" of the escaped fish had reached sexual maturity, allowing them to potentially breed with wild populations.
Newsweek reached out to the IUCN via email for comment Monday.
Farmed salmon are known to reach maturity faster than wild ones, a trait they can pass on to their offspring, making it more difficult for subsequent generations to breed. This accelerated maturation also has the effect of increasing their "boldness and aggression," a report from The Cooldown explained, which increases the chance that the fish will be killed while still in their juvenile stage. Farmed fish can also carry diseases that pose danger to wild populations....
....MUCH MORE
Previously on this point:December 2021
"Farmed fish breeding with wild fish is changing the life cycle of wild fish"
This is exactly what you don't want and the reason this blog gets borderline hysterical when discussing farming genetically altered fish....
And it is accelerated maturation—also known as the egg-to-cash-in-the-bank-cycle—where the loudest proponent of genetically engineered salmon is focusing.
You Know Big Oil and Big Pharma But Are You Familiar With Big Salmon?
AquaBounty’s first commercial harvest of its GE salmon will be this month"
I'm
not sure that this is the best way for me to get my omega-3 fatty
acids. The genetic engineering was not focused on nutrition but rather
on getting our finny friends to grow faster....
Genetically Modified Salmon Producer, AquaBounty to Sell Shares as Losses Deepen
AquaBounty’s Genetically Engineered Salmon is Coming
AquaBounty Is Now Selling Their Indiana-Raised Atlantic Salmon (but not the genetically modified fish, yet)
FrankenFish: "AquaBounty unveils 50,000 tonne target"
Here Come the Frankenfish: GMO Salmon Coming to a Store Near You
They absolutely must not allow these things to get anywhere near ocean salmon (or Great Lakes salmon for that matter)."The Rise of the Land Salmon"
And though the writer takes a blithely upbeat look at this development, we are posting it for information purposes only....
No, not some evolutionary quirk like the walking sharks of Australia but rather an update on the Norwegian fish farming company, Atlantic Sapphire, which looks to own half the U.S. market.
Half the market.
"Scottish Fish Farm Rejected after Campaigners Warn Fishermen Could be Lured to their Deaths by Fairies"
"Salmon surge helps Norway shatter seafood record"
There are still a couple types of Norwegian farmed salmon on the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch - Avoid - list but the industry has made great strides in the last ten years on the different areas of concern, diseases spread by overcrowding, impact on other species used as fishmeal food for the salmon, escapes and interbreeding with wild salmon, pesticide residue, antibiotics etc, etc.
Additionally one Norwegian brand grown onshore rather than in marine net pens garners MBSAW's highest rating:
"Atlantic salmon farmed worldwide in indoor recirculating tanks and the Nordic Blu brand produced by the Salten Aqua Group in Norway is a 'Best Choice.'"While another is a very highly rated "Good Alternate":
Norway - Nordland, Northeast Atlantic Ocean (Blue Circle Foods® brand)For what it's worth I was speaking to a Russian lady on Friday who said she would only feed her cat Norwegian salmon, the one the cat preferred was smoked in Germany.
I asked if she would adopt me.
September 2019 (we're no cassandras-come-lately)
Almost 9,000 Tuna Escaped From Spanish Fish Farm During the Storm
This is exactly why you don't want our finny farmed friends anywhere near their wild cousins.
Yes, it was a big storm but that is no excuse. You have a population with exposure to one set of pathogens, and a developed resistance to same, mixing with a population that has no resistance and you end up killing the free-range critters.
That's not even looking at the GMO varieties we were ranting about a couple weeks ago....
