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Guys. All well and find, but a few things. What are the viable alternatives if you prefer to have fish in your diet for dietary reasons?. Affordable fish which is sustainable?. Sardines? Tuna?. Mackeral?. Seems to be the big three canned wise. Salmon here in aussie is probably the most plentiful affordable fresh fish. Barra is mostly farmed and more expensive. Tailor?. leatherjacket?. Mullet? Cod?.

Thank you for raising awareness 💙

"They" "We" need to promote nature. Corruption wins. End of story. Even the green movement is dirty. Corruption wins.

Aqua farming by all means should be ban.

The fundamental truth that no-one wants to accept is simple. There are far, far too many of us. If the world population dropped to around 1.2 billion, then the need for intensive farming, whether fish, cattle, bird, vegetable or fruit, would be eliminated. The tidal wave of pollution would be similarly reduced and resource exhaustion would be pushed out to a thousand years or more. But no, we have to breed and breed and the net result? Well, nature has a variety of solutions for species that over-populate their environment and none are pretty. Since we are completely incapable of facing reality, it is almost certain that nature will catch up with us, sooner or later. So mostly I am sad for the world we are ruining rather than our own fate. We deserve what is coming to us. In the interim, I will continue to eat organic and avoid the products of intensive farming. As things stand, by way of example, your average apple today contains around 10% of the net nutritional value of apples under cultivation when I was born. Within the last 20 years, the average nutritional value of vegetable crops have dropped by 45%. We defy nature at our peril.

Environmentalists influence state governments to impose strict rules regarding concentrations of farm animals and demand pen size requirements, but I haven't heard them complaining about farmed salmon and the conditions the fish are kept in.

To feed millions in this world, it takes several different food sources. Legislate better salmon raising environments, or simple buy from the best source, and the free market will correct the problem. I think I’ll go order 10 more pounds of salmon.

Still a lot of comments here from the vegan crew. Whatever

Mackerel has TWICE the omega 3 as salmon

Thank you for this. Very depressing. I knew some, but not all, of the issues with farmed salmon, but I didn't realize how hatcheries have impacted "wild" salmon.

Two comments: 1) You are gorgeous, and 2) More Salmon for Me, Please.

How do u feel now, that turns out they just mistook her disease for eggs?! I feel like they’ve known for much longer

You have neglected to mention that the US has created a massive dam removal business (with the support of the Army Corp of Engineers) to do exactly what you repeated over and over - that salmon populations need to be put back to their original habitats without human intervention. Do your research and you will find the northwest US just removed its biggest dam ever.

Thanks for this video. Sadly you didn't join me to the cause because I'm already on board. I've stopped eating salmon since 2018 after I did a ski mountaineering trip on the top of a mountain along with a Norwegian lady. The photo of my profile was taken on the summit that day. That's what's written on my youtube profile: "3 mar 2018, Skolpan, Senja, Norway. After the Norwegian lady with whom I shared the ski mountaineering trip took a picture of me, I couldn't help to ask her again: "Yes, you said that you eat salmons, BUT do you eat THOSE salmons raised over there in the ocean in the round nets?" "Nope" she replied, "We eat only the wild ones that we catch with the fishing rod". "

#1-Atlantic salmon is AN ENDANGERED SPECIES, for a biologist, you seem to ignore this fact! #2-Norway owns salmon farms around the world. They probably own 70% of the salmon farms in Chile, Canada, etc #3-Sea lice is found on all salmon, both wild and farmed. However, farmed has more because of high density of fish per km. #4-Hatchery salmon is genetically different from wild salmon? How so? Does hachery salmon have different genes than wild salmon? Are you sure you are a biologist? Think what you mean is wild salmon has a larger genetic diversity, not different genes!

What such clap, the human body coverts less than 5% of AHA ("PLANT omega 3") to DHA/EPA (the human form) :/ So you will need to consume 2 pounds of chia seeds to get the same amount of omega 3 as one piece of salmon :/

I stopped surfing because of nearly being attacked by a shark in Melkbosstrand as a teen. In Jbay now and everyone I know surfs, but I still can't bring myself to go back in.

Man is stupid. Nature is not to be meddled with, yet we do anyways, damn the resultant destruction. Money and desperation rules the day. How happy this must make the god of this world. His days are numbered. Come, Lord Jesus.

Thanks such insightful content, what amazing creatures

Kudos to you! I subscribed for that decision alone!

wow... pretty depressing overview of both farmed and wild salmon. Trying to find a bright side... bird poop is highly toxic in large amounts... but as guano it is extremely valuable, as base for both fertilizers and explosives. So if farmed salmon were kept far enough offshore, couldnt the negative environmental aspects be minimized? I am a believer in "moon shot" technology overcoming problems - it seems that if huge donut shaped pens were built out far enough in the ocean... and if good feed could be manufactured, then farmed salmon could lead healthy lives swimming in huge circles all day. Speaking of "moon shot" technology, look up the HABER PROCESS for "fixing" nitrogen from the air into useful compounds, in particular the creation of fertilizers. The invention of this chemical process has had such a profound effect on Humanity, that it is estimated that half the nitrogen atoms in your body came from artificial Haber process manufacture - or, stated otherwise, half the people in the world today would not be here if not for the Haber process! But the flip side is pretty awful, the Haber process allowed Nations to make high explosives without depending on very scarce guano or other natural nitrogen sources, so millions of people have been killed as a result of bombs and bullets made with the Haber process. Just like fire, every new technology, process or food production is a double-edged sword

Growing up as a youth in BC I would often enough catch a salmon dinner. I was a paleo hero to my mother who was a genius at baking and poaching, even making salmon fish and chips. Heaven. We moved to California in the 60’s and our fave protein was not very good, or fresh, and it was very expensive. Then came farm raised and I bought into the hype, but the texture and the flavor was off. Of course it was. Look at what they eat. Then we find out it’s actually bad for the ecosystem. I’ll stick to flax seed for omega3.

I've shared this in my social media.

"Killer whale isna misnomer since theybare dolphins" You do realize that dolphins are a subspecies of whales, right?

WoW what a life to have the time to be able to worry about eating salmon or not! Some people have such weighty concerns! I don't eat anything from the sea that I have not harvested myself.

Just to avoid misunerstanding: your vid is good. probably, this comment will not arrive at your side. ...As a biologist interested in marine ecology you should have learned meanwhile to be more critical. We can not get O3 fom plants. outr body needs to convert the plant sourced O3 and the conversion rate is 2%..5%. you would need to eat 3kg flax seeds to ge tan adequate amount from plants. Your comparison between farming is pretty naive, and misleading. in Europe they mix in a dangerous herbicide to the food for the salmons, which has only an effect on the stability of the food pellets.... And on our liver and cancerous cells. The compund is not regulated for fish industry yet... ps.: I stopped eating it as well

1. Your bangs are getting in your eyes. 2. Stop buying and eating cheap "atlantic", especially Norvegian industrially farmed, tainted and smoked salmon and trout, full of omega 6, causing inflammation and human infertility. Eat only wild caught Alaskan, or nothing.

Nowadays, the big corporations that make produce raise and sell all the food products to the American people don’t give a shit about what it does to you your children or anybody just look at all the ingredients of chemicals, dyes unhealthy fats, massive sodium, and all the other bullshit they put in there they don’t give a rats 6:57 ass about what it does to you or your children. All they want is to convince you to buy it so they can get rich off killing you in the long run 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

You can get your omega 3 from the same source as the fish. KELP

Thanks for helping me decide not to consume salmon again.

Seems most farmed Salmon is marketed as Wild Salmon. Never trust the fable on the label. . Look at all the junk food marketed as healthy. Even KFC tried to lie about their chicken as a healthy alternative but to what ?

I agree for a fee on my knee when I plea

Thank you for a well balanced, non hysterical analysis. Frankly I think Salmon is the most over rated food fish on the planet(make it expensive and consumers will think it's good). I am a great supporter of of land based fish farming. Long term, it is more reliable, and cost effective. In Australia we constantly hear of the pollution to Macquarie Harbour from these "enterprises". The latest "brain bubble" is to move these farms out of that Harbour to another sheltered location. Not so save the Harbour, but to protect the business (so they can do it again), this move will effect the existing mussel and oyster farms that have been there for years. It rakes about 4 kgs of wild caught "non commercial" fish (what ever that is) to grow 1kg of salmon. Why not just eat these "non" commercial plichards and save the double handling. P.s I no longer support W.W.F.

They should do what they did to increase the wild turkey population - catch them in rocket nets and transplant them to different areas of the country/state and let them increase in number naturally. There’s no reason why every country that’s cold enough can’t encourage natural salmon populations through management efforts. Like I said, it worked for wild turkeys.

Millions of years?🤣 You actually believe you came from the goo to the zoo to you? 😂🤣

I love smoked salmon but I agree with you.

Salmon are carnivorous fish that live in the ocean. The ocean is polluted with toxic mercury and carnivorous fish concentrate the mercury. So I don't eat salmon, or tuna, or any other carnivorous fish.

Natural shrimp a US company has the answer for breeding salmon

I hate to bust the bubble of someone, whose profession is marine biology or any of the science fields, but... people don't care. If people wake up one morning gasping for air, because the worldwide volume of breathable air has decreased by 1/2, then people will care... because the problem effects them personally and immediately. Conservation actually seems annoying to people collectively. I'm pretty sure anyone who drives, has seen atleast one other motorist, throw trash out their vehicle's window, on to the street or highway. True natural wild salmon, wild-caught, or farmed salmon doesn't matter, as long as it tastes good or we are artificially tricked, into thinking it takes good (food coloring and artificial flavoring added to farmed salmon is a whole other subject; farmed salmon is normally not reddish or pink, it's gray.. for those who are unaware).

My financial advisor says "Don't invest and forget" . . . Now, nutritionally, I must also "Don't eat and ignore" . . . Life used to be so simple.

You are forgetting that the salmon are fed with wild fish. Norway's fishing fleet destroy fish populations around them in order to feed their farmed salmon.

Nope

SOLUTION? When I was younger, many decades ago, I saw this Salmon "problem" mentioned ... the real problem; the river ... they knew and proved it possible to biuild a tunnel path, like a big tube some Dam Water would flow through unimpeded and the salmon could swim upstream ... not much extra cost (per simmon, lol) ... concentrated fish farms seem to hide a toxic accumulation on the floor of the pen, hidden beneath the water, out of sight, out of mind ... The problem is not prioritizing primate infrastructure to provide wildlife corridor for other species continued existence, despite the success whenever a demonstration project is built

EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR BIBLICAL MY LADY I DO NOT AGREE AND I ONLY WATCHED U A MINUTE GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR VENTURES

Fish are called fish. Their biology does not change from where they live or what they are fed.

I love and appreciate how you honor the power of salmon's presence in the larger natural ecosystem, and their incredible value, beyond human consumption. :) I also appreciated your reminding listeners that we can get Omega 3's from plant-based sources, such as walnuts, flax, chia seeds, soy, and more. Thank you! Beyond this- salmon farming is clearly evil, on levels re: humanity, health, negative environmental consequences, and incredibly unethical. :(

I reached the same conclusion about 10 years ago. We need to get serious about saving the seas, for when they die, we die.

Hard to see why the gene pool would be damaged.

Great video, very informative and thought provoking. Thank you.

I don’t eat much fish for these reasons. I also don’t like seafood much. When I do I mostly go for sardines cause they’re ecologically cheaper and also have omega 3s, or cod liver oil as a supplement. Occasionally I’ll do salmon or whatever.