A recent British
Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC) investigation
evaluating Scottish
Environmental Protection
Agency records revealed
a dramatic increase
in potentially
harmful pesticide use
in salmon farming.
Although the salmon
farming industry
grew 11.3% since 2005,
the range of toxic
chemicals used to control
sea lice increased
163% during
the same time period,
raising concern among
environmental groups
over the threat to both
human and marine life.
The use of pesticides also
indicates the industry's
struggle to control
infestation levels,
foreshadowing the spread
of sea lice to wild fish.
This in turn would lead
to further declines
in salmon and sea trout
populations, with
scientists having already
expressed concern for the
threat of their extinction.
Association of Salmon
Boards' spokesperson
Andrew Wallace stated,
“... If you have a million
farmed fish in a cage
on the migratory route
of those fish,
then suddenly
you're encountering
an entirely different scale
of problem.
And the numbers of lice
coming off of these farms
is horrendous at times.”
Moreover,
these findings come just
as the Global Alliance
Against Industrial
Aquaculture (GAAIA)
launched the worldwide
campaign
“Salmon Farming Kills,”
hoping to raise awareness
of the dangers of the
industry and its adverse
health effects on humans,
oceans, and wild fish.
As stated by
Don Staniford, global
coordinator for GAAIA
in British Columbia,
Canada,
“Salmon farming
kills around the world
and should carry
a global health warning.”
Our thanks, British
Broadcasting Corporation and
Scottish Environmental
Protection Agency and
Global Alliance Against
Industrial Aquaculture,
for raising awareness
of the increasing harms
posed by salmon
and other fish farming
to all life.
May our expanded
understanding speed
the elimination of fish
consumption altogether,
for the health
and sustainability of the
Earth's waterways and
all interrelated beings.
Speaking with concern
during a May 2009
videoconference in Togo,
Supreme Master Ching Hai
addressed
the detrimental impacts
and the need to halt
the practice of fish farming
for the protection
of our co-inhabitants
as well as humans
and the planet as a whole.
The farmed fish are
contained in big netted
areas off the ocean shores
with uneaten food,
fish waste, antibiotics, or
other drugs and chemicals
that pass into
the surrounding waters
where they harm our
ecosystems and polluted
our drinking sources.
Depleting
wild fish stocks also.
Studies have found that
for every kilo of salmon
that is sold
in a supermarket,
four kilos of wild fish
have to be caught
to feed the salmon.
These are just a few of
the problems associated
with fish farming, which
have become bigger as
the fishing has increased.
This is an equally urgent
situation as the one
presented by livestock
industry, and it has
the exact same solution.
Stop eating the flesh;
stop killing for food;
stop eating the fish.
This will help restore
the balance of both
the ocean and land,
immediately.
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