IRELAND – Ireland has secured full market access to China for salmon exports, ending four years of negotiations. But at what cost does this come? asks Save Bantry Bay. Farmed salmon is known to be detrimental to wild salmon populations and the environment. For Ireland to fulfil even the smallest increase in demand in China production would have to increase dramatically – as would the associated environmental impacts. Even if each person in China ate just one small portion (100g) of Irish farmed salmon a year, they would be consuming nine times Ireland’s current total output, said the group…
The FishSite.com, 05/08/13. Read the full article ‘China Deal Spells Disaster for Wild Salmon‘.
