World: FAO proposes removing sustainable produce labels from farmed predatory fish

게시됨 2024년 6월 26일

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A group of organizations has written a letter to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) expressing concerns about the sustainability of the global aquaculture industry, with a focus on the rearing of carnivorous fish like salmon, sea bream, and sea bass. The letter highlights the negative impacts of these farms, including the depletion of wild fish stocks, damage to marine ecosystems, pollution, antibiotic and chemical use, and the inefficiency of feeding carnivorous fish with wild fish. The FAO's goal to increase global sustainable aquaculture by 75 percent by 2040 is called into question, as the majority of funding is allegedly being allocated to destructive open-net marine carnivorous fish farms in Europe. The signatories are pushing for the FAO to distinguish sustainable aquaculture practices, such as seaweed and bivalve shellfish farming, from the destructive practices of carnivorous fish farming.

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Organizers of the appeal note that “there is an urgent need to distinguish sustainable aquaculture, such as seaweed farming or small-scale bivalve shellfish farming, from that which is destructive. Farming of predatory fish such as salmon, sea bream and sea bass (branzino) is proving to be completely unsustainable. This industry is depleting the world's wild fish stocks and destroying marine ecosystems rather than supporting them." Despite the growing concerns, the letter's signatories note that FAO is committed to a 75 percent increase in global sustainable aquaculture by 2040, compared to 2020. "Most of the funding will go to destructive open-net marine carnivorous fish farms in places like Spain, Italy and Greece." Catalina Sendoya, director of Global Salmon Farming Resistance, based in Argentina, and co-organizer of the letter to FAO, adds: “Industrial fish farms are highly polluting due to the huge amounts of feces and waste produced, which create dead zones around the net. ...

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