Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins, authors of Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish, report in Time Magazine on why 865 million farmed salmon world wide have died in mass die-offs in the last decade. They cite a recent scientific study published in Nature Scientific Reports. The scientists blame the deaths on several factors, from ocean warming caused by climate change, to the aquaculture industry’s overuse of antibiotics and pesticides, and its aggressive attempts to increase production.
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