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Article: Pure Salmon Campaign Calls on Marine Harvest to Reform Environmental Performance.
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- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- June 12, 2009
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Members of the Pure Salmon Campaign coalition, a diverse group of stakeholders from key farmed salmon production and consumption nations including Canada, Chile, Scotland, Ireland and the United States, urge Marine Harvest to eliminate its destructive environmental impacts by separating farmed fish from wild fish populations and finding new sources for fish feed.
Marine Harvest is the largest farmed salmon producer in the world and controls more than 20 percent of the market. But, environmental mismanagement and insufficient priority given to biosecurity by Marine Harvest and other aquaculture operators in Chile have had catastrophic effects on salmon industry ...