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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2585" data-attributes="member: 1"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/15/net-loss-the-high-price-of-salmon-farming" target="_blank">Net loss: the high price of salmon farming - The Guardian</a>The salmon has always been a barometer for the health of the planet. Now industrial-scale farming is bringing pollution, plagues of sea lice and threatening the future of wild salmon hen a fish is in crisis, the public wants to blame the fishermen. It is preferable to blaming ourselves. But a fish whose only problem was overfishing, a fish stock that could be saved simply by a ban on all commercial fishing, would be very rare. It would be an enviably easy problem to fix.The salmon is as magnificent an animal as anything on the Serengeti – beautiful in its many phases; thrilling in its athleticism; moving in its strength, determination and courage – and it would be a tragedy if it were to disappear. All that is true, but a more important point is that if the salmon does not survive, there is little hope for the survival of the planet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2585, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/15/net-loss-the-high-price-of-salmon-farming'][B]Net loss: the high price of salmon farming - The Guardian[/B][/URL] [B]The salmon has always been a barometer for the health of the planet. Now industrial-scale farming is bringing pollution, plagues of sea lice and threatening the future of wild salmon [/B] hen a fish is in crisis, the public wants to blame the fishermen. It is preferable to blaming ourselves. But a fish whose only problem was overfishing, a fish stock that could be saved simply by a ban on all commercial fishing, would be very rare. It would be an enviably easy problem to fix. The salmon is as magnificent an animal as anything on the Serengeti – beautiful in its many phases; thrilling in its athleticism; moving in its strength, determination and courage – and it would be a tragedy if it were to disappear. All that is true, but a more important point is that if the salmon does not survive, there is little hope for the survival of the planet. [/QUOTE]

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