Organic certification for salmon too fishy, say opponents
Posted in Food - Diet Health Advice, General, Health Controversies on Apr 4th, 2007
Kavanagh listed a number of specific issues with certification for open-ocean net-pen aquaculture, including pollution caused by salmon waste, transmission of disease from farmed to wild fish, farmed fish escapes that would dilute the genetics of wild stock, and the use of wild fish for feed. “Wild Alaskan salmon, a very well-managed fishery, was denied organic certification because with wild fish you can’t control the inputs—you don’t know what it’s been eating or where it’s been,” Kavanagh said, ’so I don’t understand why it would be OK to take wild fish and feed them to farmed fish.
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