Britain | Salmon farming

Sewage with your salmon, sir?

Pressure is mounting to do something about salmon farms

Jun 21st 2001|

THANKS to intensive farming techniques, salmon is now one of the cheapest foods on the market. But cheapness comes at a price. Scottish National Heritage (SNH), a state-funded conservation body, says it is worried about the farms' impact on Scottish sea lochs; and in a report published this week, Friends of the Earth Scotland claims that the amount of waste discharged from Scottish fish farms last year was equivalent to almost twice the total amount of sewage discharged by Scotland's population.

This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Sewage with your salmon, sir?”