Swedish scientists have noted a decrease in the number of wild salmon in the Baltic waters and in Norway

The number of wild salmon in the Baltic Sea has decreased significantly. Swedish scientists attribute this phenomenon to an insufficient population of Baltic herring, which serves as food for salmon and is used to produce fishmeal used as feed on salmon farms in Norway. Norwegian farm products make up the bulk of the salmon sold in Swedish stores. “This is a strange way of using natural resources,” said Johan Dannewits, a researcher at the Agricultural University of Sweden, in an interview with SVT TV. “Last year, the salmon that came to spawn in a number of Baltic rivers was only a fifth of the number that was observed several years ago. This year the situation is about the same." A similar situation ...