Farm-raised Norwegian salmon on the market in Oregon.
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Farm-raised Norwegian salmon on the market in Oregon.
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In the event you eat salmon, there is a good likelihood that it comes from a salmon farm in Norway. The nation has been farming salmon for over 50 years.
The business is touted as a key producer of sustainable, low carbon footprint protein. However there are nonetheless detrimental environmental impacts. Every year, a mean of 200,000 farmed salmon escape from their open internet pens and breed with wild salmon.
Interbreeding with these escaped salmon passes on vital genetic modifications to wild salmon, modifications that make them much less prone to survive within the wild.
NPR’s Rob Schmitz traveled the nation’s west coast, visiting fishing villages and fish farms to see how the expansion of salmon farming is affecting the wild inhabitants.
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