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After 800,000 salmon died at a Homestead fish farm, animal activists are asking that government officials investigate the farm for animal cruelty and file criminal charges against the company s CEO.
Atlantic Sapphire is a Norwegian industrial fish-farming company with operations in Denmark and Homestead that bills itself as the largest global onshore aquaculture company in the world. At its 160-acre facility in Homestead, the company raises about 10,000 tons of salmon per year, with plans to expand over the next ten years to 220,000 tons a figure that represents more than 40 percent of current U.S. salmon consumption.
As U.S. demand rises for salmon, a so-called superfood that s rich in protein, aquaculture is emerging as the seafood industry s answer to overfishing. Land-based salmon farms like the one in Homestead say they can meet that demand while draining fewer environmental resources than other methods of salmon production, such as the net pen method, in which salmon
Karl Oystein Oyehaug, chief finance officer of Atlantic Sapphire, tells
New Times the salmon are raised in optimal conditions, where they re safe from wild fish diseases and maintained with water temperatures and currents similar to their natural habitats, keeping them healthy. But a series of mass mortality events at the Bluehouse over the past year has led a nonprofit group to question how safely the fish are actually kept. In an April 21 letter addressed to two state agencies that oversee farming and animal-cruelty complaints, animal-rights advocates from the nonprofit organization Animal Outlook outlined a series of incidents at Atlantic Sapphire s Homestead facility wherein a total of 800,000 salmon died prematurely and, according to the advocates, were subjected to unnecessary cruelty by the company.
South Dade farmworker on bike killed by Maserati, family says
Victim worked 7 days a week to support family in Guatemala
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – In the fields of South Dade, family members of Baltazar Lux Terraza say the 38-year-old toiled daily as a farmworker.
His cousin Magdalena Mendez described him as a hard worker whose strenuous labor helped provide for his family in Guatemala a life partner and their four children, the youngest just 4 years old.
VICTIM S FAMILY: From left, Juan Lux-Ramirez, 15; Margarita Ramirez; Domingo Lux-Ramirez, 11; Maria Lux-Ramirez, 8; and Catarina Lux-Ramirez, 4, are grieving in Guatemala. (Courtesy of the Lux-Ramirez family)