Trade, technology, marketing and the arguments shaping the industry's future.
Fact Check
Nearly 36 million dead salmon. Tonnes of chemicals. Parasites, pollution and foreign owners. Project Slingshot's campaign against Scottish salmon farming leans on some alarming figures. We checked eleven of its claims against the public record and found real problems, missing context and an industry largely absent from the picture.
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Behind the Label
Birds Eye invented him in 1967, killed him off in 1971, brought him back in 1974 and has recast him ever since. Captain Birds Eye's long career shows what a mascot can do for frozen fish, and what it can't.
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Explainer
Cameras, sonar and machine learning are getting good at reading a salmon cage. The best results so far come from systems that know their limits, and from farmers who still check their work.
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Explainer
A pollock caught off Russia's Pacific coast can be filleted in China and breaded in Europe. It sounds absurd until you look at how the business of fish actually works.
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Analysis
Thousands of Tube adverts against Scottish salmon and a five-year investigation into the global fishmeal trade have put aquaculture's own account of itself on trial. Some of the criticism oversimplifies. Some of it is right. The industry's credibility depends on telling the difference in public, and on fixing what is broken.
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Analysis
Peru has written off most of its first anchoveta season, fishmeal output is heading for a ten-year low and US forecasters now give better-than-even odds of a record-breaking El Niño. The shock has already reached the feed mill. Shrimp ponds and Pacific fisheries could be next.
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Analysis
Tuna swim through the waters of dozens of countries, so no single government can manage them. The commissions that do have turned one of fishing's worst stories into one of its best, and the job is not finished.
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Feature
Heads, skins, frames and shells can make up most of a fish or shellfish by weight. Farmed and wild processors alike are learning that the leftovers are a second harvest.
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Explainer
Microalgae oils, insect proteins and processing leftovers are changing what goes into fish feed. The aim isn't to stop fishing for feed. It's to make every tonne of marine ingredient count for more.
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