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The High Cost of Salmon Farming
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- Farm-raised fish production has skyrocketed 527% in the last three decades
- An estimated 50% of fish eaten worldwide comes from fish farms
- More than one-third of “wild-caught” salmon from the Faroe Islands (tucked between Iceland and Norway in the North Atlantic Ocean) are actually farmed fish that escaped
- Mowi USA, the world’s largest producer of Atlantic salmon products, was sued for misleading consumers with false marketing claims
- Your “all natural” Atlantic salmon came from a factory fish farm
