In Norway, one man's solution to the threat posed by farmed salmon and the impact on the fjords they swim in.
In Norway, one man's solution to the threat posed by farmed salmon and the impact on the fjords they swim in.“The Salmon Eye,” run by Eide Fjordbruck, is an education center located at the mouth of Norway’s Hardangersfjord. It is the world’s largest floating art installation and a vision of the company’s CEO Sondre Eide.
Norway is the world’s largest exporter of farmed salmon; more than a fifth of salmon consumed by Americans comes from the Nordic country. And as Norway exports more salmon across the world, the industry has come under criticism from environmental groups who say salmon farms are irreversibly impacting the pristine environment of Norway’s fjords.
“We don't want them to mix with the wild salmon,” continues Wengaard. “So even though these salmon come from wild salmon originally, we don't want them to mix their genes and destroy the spawning places for the wild salmon.”Jørgen Wengaard, a tour guide at the Lingalaks salmon farm in Hardangersfjord, Norway, uses a mouse to steer the camera inside one of the farm’s open-net fish pens which holds 15,000 Atlantic Salmon.
“These farmed salmon then go and swim up to random rivers and then mate with wild salmon, and they weaken the wild salmon stock because these farmed salmon, they are made to be fat and slow and be effective for the industry,” says Saetre. “But when they mate with the wild salmon, the wild salmon offspring become slow and fat and easy to catch for predators.
Sondre Eide, the third-generation CEO of Eide Fjordbruck, has spent tens of millions of dollars building a massive closed pen to try and innovate the salmon farming industry in Norway.“So it is all about giving the optimal life for the fish inside,” explains Eide. “And then, of course, when you take away the salmon lice, you have no salmon treatment, so you don't have the handling, and that's responsible for 60 to 70% of all the mortality in the industry.
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