Earlier this week, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute presented its report on fish health. It was a saddening read. For what else can you say about a report that establishes that 54 million fish die annually in our fish farms.
As if that were not gloomy enough, the report also states that current fish mortality is higher than ever before.
The answer is increased growth
“It is important for us to raise a clear voice when we see that fish health and mortality numbers are heading in the wrong direction. Our professional advice is that we have to see an improvement before it would be right to allow the industry to grow”, says Torill Moseng, CEO of the Vet Institute to Norwegian broadcaster NRK.
Her conclusion should be easy enough to take in. if one includes smolt and cleaner fish, 237 fish died every single minute of last year. That is not due to algae or other external causes, as it has been before. It is purely about animal welfare from the producers’ side, according to the institute.
The political answer and the answer from the industry itself on this animal tragedy is to plan for an enormous growth in exactly the same industries.
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