The wonders of Google Maps. And adipophilia.

[Botty Cough]

6 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

Salmon farms are the marine equivalent of high intensity beef farming.

 

All the effluent is released untreated into the ocean.

What do they do with the fertiliser that's created producing excess seaweeds?

[PeteB]

Spread it on the land to make veggies grow?

[GarethM]

Most salmon farms are tidal lochs, so straight out to sea. Trout farming is probably even worse, effluent straight into the river.

[sime42]

14 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

Salmon farms are the marine equivalent of high intensity beef farming.

 

All the effluent is released untreated into the ocean.

Yep, salmon farms are the work of the devil.

At the other end of the fish: they feed them on a chemical cocktail and wild caught small fish that we'd be better off eating.

 

https://newatlas.com/environment/salmon-feed-wild-fish-human-consumption/

[sime42]

I came across this last year channel surfing one evening. It was a sobering watch.

 

 

Riverwoods: The Film | Riverwoods

WWW.RIVERWOODS.ORG.UK

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The Blueprint project, under the Riverwoods initiative, aims to create a practical blueprint for river woodland restoration...

 

 

[GarethM]

Having been to a trout farm, it certainly made me more aware to never eat the stuff. It make 3rd world factory farming look gentile 

Edited March 3 by GarethM

[Botty Cough]

1 hour ago, PeteB said:

Spread it on the land to make veggies grow?

Good idea however it's full of plastic now so it's not allowed

[Mike Hill]

1 hour ago, Botty Cough said:

What do they do with the fertiliser that's created producing excess seaweeds?

No idea they farmed seaweed.

[GarethM]

2 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

No idea they farmed seaweed.

They do farm kelp for posh restaurants.

 

The fertiliser was mostly collected off the shores and is a bit cottage industry for farms close to the sea, probably due to high salt content.

 

They were doing something like that on polluted lakes in Africa with some non native weed, locals collecting it and composting.

[Steven P]

Fish farms - as an example Salmon. They are fed pellet foods which if uneaten will sink to the sea bed, algae will use that creating blooms, starving the plankton in the area and then the oxygen levels drop. The waste from the fish do the same - so all you eventually get in the area is dead water and farmed salmon. The salmon attract parasites - lots of salmon in the area, lots of parasites which pass to the wild fish - attracted by the waste food - and spreads through the wild population... which can be controlled by releasing parasite killing stuff into the water... which then kills off other stuff. With meat farming the medicines are given out in a more controlled way. Farmed salmon are very fatty, no room to exercise, so they have the good fatty acids... but also the bad ones too (you can see the difference in the supermarket - farmed salmon has a layer of brown gunge / fat on it, wild salmon doesn't).

 

 

Seaweed - been farmed for centuries - the Romans did it! (some see weeds are used. For example and I can't remember the names for the ingredient but ice cream has seaweed derived stuff to thicken it and make it creamier (and cheaper to make). However 'seaweed' you might buy at a Chinese is more likely to be salted dried cabbage or kale (and  Wasabi is often horse radish). 

 

If you looked into everything the food industry did to all types of food you' probably get an allotment and lead 'The Good Life'.