TOXIC chemicals used by salmon farms could be killing off tiny animals that are vital to the marine food chain, scientists warn in a confidential report for the British government leaked to Â鶹´«Ã½.
Salmon farming is one of the world’s fastest growing food production industries. For the first time, the total amount of Atlantic salmon reared in cages in Norway, Chile, Scotland, Canada and elsewhere is expected to top one million tonnes this year.
But as the industry has grown, so have concerns about the pollution, disease and genetic contamination it may spread. Now, evidence from one of the…
