A Christmas favourite it may be; but there is nothing festive nor joyous about farmed salmon…
Salmon is considered by many to be a Christmas staple, its murky journey from net-pen to plate concealed behind tinsel-clad wrapping and slick marketing. Two parliamentary inquiries have this year confirmed the need for rapid change in salmon farming, which is causing wide spread environmental destruction and the devastation of wild fish. Salmon & Trout Conservation has campaigned for these changes for years; but what can be done until this happens…?
And for the uninitiated, what are the issues with farmed salmon? Salmon & Trout Conservation UK CEO, Paul Knight, explains why farmed salmon is best avoided – at Christmas, and until the industry changes…