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DeSmog Launches Industrial Aquaculture Project

DeSmogBlog

At least the seafood farming (or ‘aquaculture’) industry would have you see it that way. They are harvested by the tonne off the coast of West Africa and pulverized into fishmeal and fish oil that’s exported to Europe and Asia. Right now the market for farmed fish like salmon is booming.

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How Fishmeal Factories Put Food Out of Reach for Communities in The Gambia

DeSmogBlog

In the report – which surveyed village officials, tourism workers, fishmeal factory employees, and local fish workers, among others – researchers documented that since the arrival of the factories in 2016, fish had jumped in price, fish-smokers and dryers had lost work, and widespread pollution was damaging local ecology and tourism.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Her team also last year set context-based water targets that aim to restore 158 billion gallons of water and reduce about 5,500 tons of water pollutants in priority watersheds. The company renewed a longstanding relationship with WWF centered, in part, on responsible sourcing of land commodities and seafood. LinkedIn | Twitter.