Norway's environment minister has ruled out banning open-net fish farming despite acknowledging the existential threat to the wild North Atlantic salmon. With exports reaching 1.2 million tonnes yearly, Norway is the world's largest farmed salmon producer, but wild salmon populations have plummeted from over a million in the 1980s to about 500,000 today. While climate change plays a role, factors such as farmed fish escapes and rising sea lice have worsened the situation. The minister emphasizes incentivizing sustainable production while managing environmental impacts, indicating a need for more significant action to protect wild salmon populations.
This is basically an existential threat against the wild Atlantic salmon and if we overlook that I don't think we will be able to do the measures that we need to do.
If you look at wild salmon, 2024 was an exceptionally bad year but it did not stand alone because the two other worst years that we had were in 2023 and 2021.
What it symbolises is that the impact from everything that we do is becoming more than nature, our stocks, can actually handle.
The goal is to be able to produce that food sustainably in the future.
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