Fish Out of Water – Pulling the Plug on Land-Based Salmon Factory Farms

Foodrise and Seastemik have published a stark new policy briefing Fish out of water: Pulling the plug on land-based salmon factory farms – calling for governments to ban land-based salmon production.

This is a call now backed by 21 organisations including Communities Against Factory Farming, Greenpeace France, Greenpeace Africa and the Green Britain Foundation.

Key Findings:  

• Foodrise and Seastemik’s research reveals that land-based salmon production is an environmental and ethical disaster representing a new, catastrophic form of factory farming.  

• The expansion of land-based facilities will only deepen salmon production’s existing impacts: driving demand for wild-caught fish for feed and triggering a cascade of other harms on the environment, wildlife, animal welfare and communities. 

• UK and European Union decision-makers must act now to stop the spread of this destructive technology before the industry takes hold and causes irreversible damage.