Norway is the most important exporter of salmon on the planet. And whereas a few of these fish are wild-caught, many are raised in “fish farms”- giant cylindrical pens product of nylon within the open water. Typically these farmed fish escape, mixing with the native inhabitants and inflicting ecological points. In a narrative we first introduced you in October, we see farmed fish in a Norwegian fjord and listen to about potential options to the issue.
A pilot venture run by the salmon farming firm Eide Fjordbruck is a closed pen tank that holds 200,000 salmon. The closed pen protects the salmon from sea lice and prevents the salmon inside from escaping and interbreeding with wild salmon. The waste of the salmon is transported to a biogas tank, the place its used to make power.
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A pilot venture run by the salmon farming firm Eide Fjordbruck is a closed pen tank that holds 200,000 salmon. The closed pen protects the salmon from sea lice and prevents the salmon inside from escaping and interbreeding with wild salmon. The waste of the salmon is transported to a biogas tank, the place its used to make power.
Rob Schmitz/NPR
