Earth911 Podcast: Simen Saetre on Making Salmon a New, Domesticated Fish

Earth911 Podcast: Simen Saetre on Making Salmon a New, Domesticated Fish

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Farmed salmon has been touted as an answer to meals shortage because the world turns to consuming extra seafood. The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that seafood manufacturing should enhance 29.3% by 2030 to maintain up with demand. Our visitor in the present day is Simen Sætre, who coauthored The New Fish: The Truth about Farmed Salmon and the Consequences We Can No Longer Ignore with journalist Kjetil Ostli. The ebook examines the salmon farming business, which began in Norway within the within the Sixties. It is a historical past of the enterprise and chronicle of the various unanticipated penalties of fish farming, together with the usage of chemical substances in fish feed that harms aquatic and human well being, a pandemic of sea lice infections in farmed and wild fish, and the competitors between salmon farms and human meals provides, notably in Africa.

Simen Saetre, co-author of The New Fish, is our visitor on Sustainability In Your Ear.

The intense air pollution and inhumanity related to large-scale cattle, pork, and poultry operations, that are often called CAFOs are being translated to extend the manufacturing in  salmon farming. Simen discusses how people have began down the trail to creating CAFOs within the sea, however he stays hopeful that wild salmon might be restored. You can discover The New Fish: The Truth about Farmed Salmon and the Consequences We Can No Longer Ignore at Amazon, Powell’s Books, and native booksellers.