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Consumers have been told that salmon is a healthy and environmentally friendly food. Doctors recommend eating salmon for protein, nutrients, and heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids. The U.S. Department of Agriculture [...]

At Norway-based Skretting, another large aquaculture feed producer, researchers developed salmon feed that contains no fish meal or fish oil. Two decades ago, as much as 90 percent of salmon feed comprised marine ingredients; today, the percentage hovers between 25 and 30 percent, depending on the manufacturer, and efforts are underway to develop feed that is free of marine ingredients. FEATURES Consumers have been told that salmon is a healthy and environmentally friendly food. An underwater view of the crowded conditions of open-net cages at a salmon farm on the west coast of Ireland Aquaculture farmer holding pellets of fish feed made from wild-caught fish and other ingredients. [Extracted from the article]

Hundreds of thousands of farmed fish escape each year, competing with wild salmon for habitat and food and interbreeding to produce hybrid fish too weak to survive. Another risk that farmed Atlantic salmon pose to wild Pacific salmon is the spread of parasites, viruses, and diseases not found in the native salmon or in the waters in which they swim. And in the past 40 years, a new threat emerged in the form of industrial-scale salmon farms in fragile coastal regions along salmon migration routes. The tribe's director of natural resources, Merle Jefferson, says, "The Lummi are salmon people; salmon is culture, and culture is salmon.". [Extracted from the article]

How Clark Clifford's need to stay at the top of Washington's influence culture led to his downfall. At precisely 10 o'clock on the morning of November 17, 1959, the purple [...]

Mass die-offs of farmed salmon show the deep problems with aquaculture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]