Been a fisherman for 20 years. I’ve seen the tragic decline firsthand.
Its not a matter of them recovering.
Its a matter of saving the species at all.
There is ZERO chance of them miraculously recovering by themselves.
Its going to take drastic, costly measures.
And norwegians just don’t care enough.
In 20 years, stories of salmon will become legends.
They fed us for literally thousands of years.
They gave us value as a country, something to sell before our oil and greed.
We simply would not be here if it wasn’t for those amazing creatures.
There were long periods during the viking age where salmon was the most sustainable and viable source of food.
Rip you beauties! We clearly didn’t deserve you.
Where I go to every summer the river is infested with invasive pukkellaks. There has been put a fence in the river to catch and kill those laks. I haven’t seen a non invasive laks in over 5 years. Those pukkellaks start decaying once they swim up the river, they’re are edible only if you catch them before they swim up. The whole river stinks because of the rotting dead laks if they’re not being killed.
Boycott farmed Salmon! It’s a catastrophy for ecosystems everywhere. In Norway there has been no regulations and farmed salmon have decimated wild salmon numbers. Same in Canada. Fat cat billionaire salmon farmers are entrenching themselves in politics, lobbying governments to max out profits while taking no responsibility for the disaster they have caused. Choose sustainable fish (if that exists) when you can.
It is crazy that the farmed salmon industry is understanding right now that the popularity of farmed salmon is going down and they are building special buildings for salmon farming excibitions. These excibitions are hidden under “ocean experience” names and gradually build up to the good sides of farming without mentioning the devastating sides even once. They are funded and built by the salmon industry. They get built in tourist destination, so tourists would spread the word all around the world. One like this was just built bang in the center on Honningsvåg. I have seen one also in Tromsø and there are plenty more. It is sickening.
I’m an immigrant guest here in Norway working as a technician in salmon processing for 6 years now. Lice problem is huge, but what it does to wild salmon I cannot imagine. Then again, you cannot keep artificially farming at this scale and not be affecting the nature around you. The bet was made towards filling our pockets, so salmon is yet another species that will go extincts. This was to be expected.
Off the top of my head, for once – the people need to participate if they care so much, then why not issue a complete bad on fishing in Norwegian rivers during salmon’s spawn season? Can people chill from October to January and control themselves? Better yet, bad salmon fishing all together completely. In this country of plenty. Or is everyone starving?
I’ve invested in a company farming salmon in land based facilities for this very reason. I think the only future in which we see wild salmon survive is one where we start eliminating the spread of lice and sickness from farmed salmon. Closed and controlled environments in land based facilities should hopefully help.
We already have very strict controls on fishing for wild salmon. Some places we’re looking at complete bans.
But I think as long as we put profits before the environment the wild salmon population is doomed.
Don’t worry it will be full if salmon again…pukkelaks though…
I’ll add one thing here, that should make people think. I do not mean this as whataboutism, a strawman argument or hand waving, etc. But please add this to the pile:
The salmon farming industry is very visible. It is all out in the open, and anyone with a boat can just have a look close up and that means it is all in the open. Warts and all.
Now, imagine how much we do not get to see/know/protest when it comes to Nortura, Prior and other industrial farming of animals on land. Those industries are very closed, as you can keep it all indoors in controlled environments.
The fact is, to produce all the food needed for today’s society there are some things that are done that isn’t all fun to look at. If you want to rebalance this then you need to look at how can we make all the needed food at the cost people can afford it, and that means a much bigger picture needs to be rebalanced.
If you want to downvote this then go ahead, I have no issues with that, but the solution to this isn’t just pinpointing one thing and going for it, even if that feels good.
8 comments
Been a fisherman for 20 years. I’ve seen the tragic decline firsthand.
Its not a matter of them recovering.
Its a matter of saving the species at all.
There is ZERO chance of them miraculously recovering by themselves.
Its going to take drastic, costly measures.
And norwegians just don’t care enough.
In 20 years, stories of salmon will become legends.
They fed us for literally thousands of years.
They gave us value as a country, something to sell before our oil and greed.
We simply would not be here if it wasn’t for those amazing creatures.
There were long periods during the viking age where salmon was the most sustainable and viable source of food.
Rip you beauties! We clearly didn’t deserve you.
Where I go to every summer the river is infested with invasive pukkellaks. There has been put a fence in the river to catch and kill those laks. I haven’t seen a non invasive laks in over 5 years. Those pukkellaks start decaying once they swim up the river, they’re are edible only if you catch them before they swim up. The whole river stinks because of the rotting dead laks if they’re not being killed.
Boycott farmed Salmon! It’s a catastrophy for ecosystems everywhere. In Norway there has been no regulations and farmed salmon have decimated wild salmon numbers. Same in Canada. Fat cat billionaire salmon farmers are entrenching themselves in politics, lobbying governments to max out profits while taking no responsibility for the disaster they have caused. Choose sustainable fish (if that exists) when you can.
It is crazy that the farmed salmon industry is understanding right now that the popularity of farmed salmon is going down and they are building special buildings for salmon farming excibitions. These excibitions are hidden under “ocean experience” names and gradually build up to the good sides of farming without mentioning the devastating sides even once. They are funded and built by the salmon industry. They get built in tourist destination, so tourists would spread the word all around the world. One like this was just built bang in the center on Honningsvåg. I have seen one also in Tromsø and there are plenty more. It is sickening.
I’m an immigrant guest here in Norway working as a technician in salmon processing for 6 years now. Lice problem is huge, but what it does to wild salmon I cannot imagine. Then again, you cannot keep artificially farming at this scale and not be affecting the nature around you. The bet was made towards filling our pockets, so salmon is yet another species that will go extincts. This was to be expected.
Off the top of my head, for once – the people need to participate if they care so much, then why not issue a complete bad on fishing in Norwegian rivers during salmon’s spawn season? Can people chill from October to January and control themselves? Better yet, bad salmon fishing all together completely. In this country of plenty. Or is everyone starving?
I’ve invested in a company farming salmon in land based facilities for this very reason. I think the only future in which we see wild salmon survive is one where we start eliminating the spread of lice and sickness from farmed salmon. Closed and controlled environments in land based facilities should hopefully help.
We already have very strict controls on fishing for wild salmon. Some places we’re looking at complete bans.
But I think as long as we put profits before the environment the wild salmon population is doomed.
Don’t worry it will be full if salmon again…pukkelaks though…
I’ll add one thing here, that should make people think. I do not mean this as whataboutism, a strawman argument or hand waving, etc. But please add this to the pile:
The salmon farming industry is very visible. It is all out in the open, and anyone with a boat can just have a look close up and that means it is all in the open. Warts and all.
Now, imagine how much we do not get to see/know/protest when it comes to Nortura, Prior and other industrial farming of animals on land. Those industries are very closed, as you can keep it all indoors in controlled environments.
The fact is, to produce all the food needed for today’s society there are some things that are done that isn’t all fun to look at. If you want to rebalance this then you need to look at how can we make all the needed food at the cost people can afford it, and that means a much bigger picture needs to be rebalanced.
If you want to downvote this then go ahead, I have no issues with that, but the solution to this isn’t just pinpointing one thing and going for it, even if that feels good.
Comments are closed.