Salmon Aquaculture and the question of Food Security - Here are 5 reasons why salmon aquaculture actually reduces food security. - And it’s mostly grown for export, anyway!

Salmon Aquaculture and the question of Food Security Care must be taken in understanding the role of aquaculture in food security. [...] Recently published science indicates that, in addition to the net loss of protein represented by salmon farming, the nutrients in the forage fish are not efficiently passed along into the farmed salmon. [...] Six of 9 nutrients measured were actually at lower levels in the farmed salmon than in the forage fish.1 In other words, the world would eat more, and eat better, by eating the forage fish.iii 5. [...] It blamed the fictitious ‘shortage’ on the closure of BC salmon farms and urged the federal government to re-open the farms so that Canadian families could be fed. [...] For example, since salmon farm closures began in 2019 as a result of the Broughton Agreement, Fraser River sockeye have shown the potential for rebuilding even in the face of the Big Bar landslide that prevented access to spawning habitat for so many fish.