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Salmon Farming

Is it really safe?. Salmon Farming. Anna Jobb Mrs. Aliphat GGS-12 January 24/06. Salmon Farming. The production of salmon in a small environment to meet the demands of consumers and to cover the decreasing amounts of fish in our seas. Economic Development.

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Salmon Farming

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  1. Is it really safe? Salmon Farming Anna Jobb Mrs. Aliphat GGS-12 January 24/06

  2. Salmon Farming The production of salmon in a small environment to meet the demands of consumers and to cover the decreasing amounts of fish in our seas.

  3. EconomicDevelopment Salmon farming has become popular in areas of the world where salmon is rare and the population is still in high demand of the fish. Salmon farming is when they breed up to 40,000 fish in small caged tanks with enough water to fill half a bathtub. The World Bank has predicted that every type of fish farming will take over fishing in the next 10 years. Scotland and Australia have seen farming as a blessing and have been doing it for a while. Salmon Farming

  4. Environmental Concerns In Scotland an average of 15, 000 salmon escape from the cages every year. This causes the farmed salmon to breed with the wild salmon, making the wild salmon more endangered than they already are. Salmon that are fish farmed are very dangerous to eat as well, containing PCB’s and dioxins. They also use chemicals to color the fish; they are not a natural pink color.Diseases and parasites are common in a farming environment. Farmers use powerful drugs to eliminate them, which are harmful to our health.

  5. Consumers Beware Salmon farming creates health problems rather than solves them. Studies have shown that consuming more than one serving of farmed fish is bad for your health. Fish farming meets the needs of consumers but it’s a much larger problem, it makes it look like there are lots of fish in the sea when really they’re decreasing rapidly.

  6. My Observations Salmon farming is not a sustainable development. It is not ecologically sound because it’s hurting the wild salmon population. It is 50/50 economically viable because fish shortage is slowing the fishing industry and leaving people unemployed, but creating jobs in the farming industry. Although it is politically inclusive, some countries have welcomed fish farming to their decreasing fish environment. But it’s a controversial issue. Some countries like the United States have taken measures to save the salmon by protecting them under the Endangered Species Act.

  7. Article: Fishy Business http://www.newint.org Information:http://www.farmedanddangerous.org/salmonfarming/humanhealth.html http://www.wildsalmoncenter.org/about.php http://www.affa.gov.au/content/output.cfm?ObjectID=A7D79808-73C4-49B7-ADD7522D8EAD918E http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0813/is_5_31/ai_n6126794 Pictures: http://www.charlestonseafood.com/images/Amazon/Salmon-8Steaks-375.jpg http://geothermal.marin.org/GEOpresentation/images/img083.jpg http://www.bim.ie/img/students/school_of_fish/aquaculture/salmon_life_cycle.gif http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/dec2004/20041214_salmon.jpg http://www.shifting-gears.com/dollar-sign.jpg Work Cited

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