Environmental Associations Call for Ban on Marine Fish Farming
This fall, when aquaculture company Arnarlax went to harvest their Westfjords fish pens, a hole in the pens let some 80,000 salmon escape. Now, some
This fall, when aquaculture company Arnarlax went to harvest their Westfjords fish pens, a hole in the pens let some 80,000 salmon escape. Now, some
When Arnarlax, an Icelandic aquaculture company, harvested their fish pens in Arnafjörður this October, they only found some 18,000 salmon. According to their records of
The Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority, or MAST, has recently been notified of a hole in a fish pen in Tálknafjörður in the West Fjords
Some 570 tonnes of dead salmon have been removed from Arnarlax’s open-net fish farms in the Westfjords, RÚV reports. Nearly 100,000 fish died when cold
Around 500 tonnes of salmon have died recently in Arnarlax’s open-net fish farms in the Westfjords. The company’s board chairman told RÚV that number is
A tear was discovered in a salmon farming pen owned by Arnarlax. The tear in the pen, filled with 173,000 salmon, was discovered by divers and has been open for an unknown time.
Salmon farming companies Arctic Fish and Arnarlax were granted an exemption earlier this week by the Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources, RÚV reports. The exemption
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