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The country is the world’s second-largest producer of the popular fish, and the biggest supplier to the US, but its farms are beset by accus

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Salmon farming is big business in Chile, and the U.S. is one of its largest markets. Yet the fish are not native, and fishermen say salmon are damaging ecosystems and an Indigenous way of life

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The fact that education and whether or not it's sufficiently funded is such a postcode lottery in Australia drives me nuts

My boyfriend did a class in high school (AT A PUBLIC SCHOOL) where he literally flew a plane and I couldn't even get an English class that actually prepared me for university academic writing?? We didn't even learn how to use REFERENCING STYLES in English 3, and my teacher was great and did the best she could but there are people who had access to classes where they learn how to do research-style academic writing in high school before they start having to do it at uni where the expectation is that we already know, and I had to learn on the fly and desperately try to catch up, I feel so ripped off

I hate that it's either live in a populated mainland area or pay through the nose to send your kids to public school if you want them to be adequately prepared for tertiary level study, the government loves to shit on tradies and talk about how 'everyone should finish year 12 and be prepared for uni' but neglects to mention how poorly the school system actually prepares us for uni

It's SO HARD to learn how to write, research, and even READ academically, let alone how to use citation styles like Australian Harvard or APA 7th. How hard would it be to have a class that covers research skills and study design and writing academic reports? We have fragments of these concepts throughout the sciences, English lit, and other specialty classes like health studies, but there is no cohesive 'University preparation English' class. Surely we should be providing that for students instead of solely focusing on analysing fiction? It has its place but when that's all we learn there's a massive knowledge gap.

How is the government (both state and federal have been doing this for YEARS, no matter which party is in government) going to pressure people to finish year 12 and devalue non-university pathways but simultaneously fail to provide the funding and resources for students outside of like, three major cities to actually be adequately prepared for university? Not to mention how incredibly expensive it is to even do tertiary study and the downwards spiral of tertiary education quality that has only intensified post-COVID??

That's not even to mention the way that K-12 schools and the students and staff have been absolutely left for dead in my state. I can't speak for other states but we have some wonderful teachers that work hard to implement best practice that are bearing the brunt of the state government being a bunch of idiots and the federal government fucking FORGETTING WE EXIST until it's politically convenient for them (see: salmon farming) which means our schools have NO funding and NO support for the kids that need it.

I'm not even going to get into the salmon farming thing because I'll just get angry but I will say that I love how the government can rush through changes to environmental protection laws to make themselves look good and allow chunks of dead rotting fish to wash up on our beaches and disrupt our ecosystem but they can't lift any real finger about the housing crisis because 'ooooh its too hard you're asking for too much', they can't do shit about the state of the healthcare system, they twiddle their thumbs about climate change, they won't crack down on big businesses taking advantage of Australians and worsening the cost of living crisis.... shall I fucking go on?? The 120 jobs that they're so vocal about protecting will not continue to exist long-term with the number of farmed fish that are dying and diseased. The farming that's going on is not being done responsibly or sustainably and is being done in the only existing habitat of the Maugean skate (literally ONLY the Macquarie and Bathurst harbours), despite the fact that all these companies have salmon farms in many other areas around the state that are just as suitable, and what's actually being halted is an inquiry to find out if the farming is actually being done properly (if it was we wouldn't be seeing this scale of mass casualty, escapee, and biosecurity issues going on). If they're really doing things so safely and sustainably then why are they so keen to avoid any kind of scrutiny or inquiry into their practices? These aren't small local businesses either, all three salmon producers in Tasmania are large foreign-owned corporations, and I think it's fair enough that we're pissed off about our environment being damaged so that big corporations can come in and make a quick buck.

Anyway, I digress, but the common thread is I'm sick of the federal government acting like my state doesn't exist until they can screw us over to get on the good side of their big business mates. The schools need funding? The healthcare system needs funding? The housing market needs any sort of help or regulation at all? Too bad so sad, neither state nor federal governments seem to give a fuck at all.

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A new book looks at the “dark underbelly of our favorite fish” and urges regulators and businesses to better protect wild salmon, coastal ecosystems and consumers.

Excerpt from this story from The Revelator:

Sometimes all it takes is a single photograph to change someone’s mind or inspire them to take action. For Catherine Collins and her husband Douglas Frantz, that was a photo of a yardstick plunged 32 inches into filth below a salmon farm near Port Mouton, Nova Scotia.

It led the two investigative journalists to take a deep dive into the salmon-farming industry and its dirty business. The result is their newly published book Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish.

Collins and Frantz, who are also the authors of several other nonfiction books, write about how salmon farming exploded into a $20 billion industry and why that threatens wild salmon, coastal ecosystems and unsuspecting consumers.

There are more than a few descriptions in the book that may leave readers with searing mental images. Here’s one: Sea lice on farmed salmon can number in the hundreds on a single fish, “so numerous that at some fish-processing plants workers use Shop-Vacs to remove them from incoming salmon.”

In an interview with The Revelator, Collins and Frantz explain the threats posed to wildlife, what happens to scientists and activists who challenge the industry, and whether land-based salmon rearing is a better alternative.

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Report says pollution, parasites and fish mortality rates cost an estimated $50bn globally from 2013 to 2019

Salmon farming is wreaking ruin on marine ecosystems, through pollution, parasites and high fish mortality rates which are causing billions of pounds a year in damage, a new assessment of the global salmon farming industry has found.

Taken together, these costs amounted to about $50bn globally from 2013 to 2019, according to a report published on Thursday.

Fish mortality has more than quadrupled, from 3% in 2002 to about 13.5% in 2019, in Scottish salmon farms alone. About a fifth of these deaths are recorded as being due to sea lice infestations, but about two thirds are unaccounted for so the real mortality owing to sea lice – which feed on salmon skin and mucus, effectively eating the fish alive – could be much higher.

Scotland is one of the biggest producers of farmed salmon in the world, with the industry worth an estimated £2bn a year to the Scottish economy. But the costs in environmental terms alone were reckoned to be £1.4bn from 2013 to 2019, by Just Economics, which carried out the research for the report, entitled Dead Loss, for the Changing Markets Foundation campaigning organisation.

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A salmon farming company has been reprimanded for feeding a toxic pesticide to fish twice as often as permitted and breaching a safety limit.

A salmon farming company has been reprimanded for feeding a toxic pesticide to fish twice as often as permitted and breaching a safety limit, according to documents released by the Scottish Government.

The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) has been accused by government watchdogs of breaking the rules governing the use of emamectin, a chemical fed to farmed salmon to kill the sea lice that can plague them.

The breach was discovered at a salmon farm in Loch Roag on the island of Lewis in February by Scottish Government inspectors. Subsequent investigations by three Scottish and UK government regulators led to SSC being issued an “advisory letter” in May.

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The amount of salmon killed by diseases and other problems at fish farms has reached record levels, with death rates quadrupling over the last 18 years.

The amount of salmon killed by diseases and other problems at fish farms has reached record levels, with death rates quadrupling over the last 18 years, according to an analysis of official figures.

More than 25,770 tonnes of caged salmon died prematurely in 2019, higher than in any previous year. That equates to over ten million fish.

The analysis also reveals that the mortality rate at fish farms has risen faster than salmon production over the years. In 2019, 13.5 per cent of the annual harvest died prematurely compared to 3.1 per cent in 2002.

Salmon farms are bad for the environment of the sea lochs where they are located. They are bad for the natural salmon stocks, for marine life in general and seals which risk being shot because they deplete the salmon stocks. Perhaps if they cared for the health of their stocks instead of shooting seals they’d have more to send to market.

The problems of disease and parasites are not going to go away because you throw environment-destroying chemicals at them. Like all factory farms the problem is stock density which is far too high. The farms are more or less static which means sickness sticks around. I suspect if the fish cages could be moved every couple of days there would be less stock loss but that would cost money.

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