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Critics argue that aquaculture still uses too much of the world's wild fish The aquaculture industry’s failure to take sustainability and welfare issues seriously could adversely impact investors’ profits. That’s the warning in a report from a consortium headed by the Changing Markets Foundation. Investing in troubled waters: the material risks of fish mortality and the use of wild-caught fish in feed for the aquaculture sector is published by the Changing Markets Foundation, Feedback, Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements and Western Sahara Resource Watch. It sets out the potential...

Growing Tension Over Illegal Fishing and Pollution in The Gambia ByLouise Hunt Residents of the Gambian coastal town of Sanyang say life has gotten harder since a fishmeal plant set up production in 2017. Growing tensions over unresolved disputes with the factory reached a flashpoint on March 15, when hundreds of people took to the streets in protest. Some of the protesters set trucks and tires ablaze and destroyed a score of fishing boats and thousands of fishing nets. The destruction escalated into the torching of Sanyang’s police station, along with the fishmeal factory, run by Chinese-o...

A fatal stabbing sends a Gambian fishing village into turmoil over fishmeal by Louise Hunt on 29 April 2021 Three Chinese-owned fishmeal factories have opened in the Gambia since 2016, sparking tensions over allegations of competition with local fishers, overfishing, illegal fishing, and pollution. In the town of Sanyang, unresolved disputes with the Nessim Trading fishmeal factory reached a flashpoint on March 15, triggered by the stabbing death of a Sanyang resident, allegedly by a Senegalese worker at the factory. Hundreds of people took to the streets in protest, some of them torching th...

£3.3bn: the ‘hidden’ cost of salmon farming in Scotland Your Email (required) Or The Scottish salmon farming industry has incurred “hidden” costs of £3.3 billion since 2013 because of mass deaths, pollution, parasites and poor animal welfare, according to a new report. Unplanned mortalities at fish farms are estimated to have cost £666 million, fish welfare £651m and sea lice £334m. The weight of caged salmon dying prematurely in Scotland has more than doubled since 2013 to 25,772 tonnes in 2019, the report said. The industry, however, insisted it has “a great environmental st...