Scotland's $2 Billion Salmon Industry Is Thriving — But At What Cost?

Source https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/17/657539821/scotlands-2-billion-salmon-industry-is-thriving-but-at-what-cost?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=thesalt

A worker heads out to hand-feed fish at a Scottish salmon farm, a method that is unusual among fish farms.

The growth of the country’s farmed salmon sector has reached such a critical point that, if not addressed, may cause “irrecoverable damage to the environment,” a government report says.

(Image credit: Eileen Guo for NPR)

Source https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/17/657539821/scotlands-2-billion-salmon-industry-is-thriving-but-at-what-cost?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=thesalt

A worker heads out to hand-feed fish at a Scottish salmon farm, a method that is unusual among fish farms.

The growth of the country’s farmed salmon sector has reached such a critical point that, if not addressed, may cause “irrecoverable damage to the environment,” a government report says.

(Image credit: Eileen Guo for NPR)

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