Resource library

Find out more through our library of key reports and academic research.

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Revealed: the salmon industry’s ‘outrageous’ lobbying – The Ferret

Wild fish used as aquafeeds could be redirected towards human consumption to support sustainable marine resource use.

Healthy diets from sustainable food systems – EAT-Lancet Commission Summary Report

Estimating global numbers of fishes caught from the wild annually from 2000 to 2019

Responsibly Farmed? Investigating the certification of Scottish farmed salmon

Scottish salmon farming: Harvesting, disease and sea lice – WildFish

Breaching the limits – Sea lice on Scottish salmon farms

Feedback – Fishy Business (Wild caught FMFO)

PLOS Journal – Maximising sustainable nutrient production from coupled fisheries-aquaculture systems

ISSF – Inside Scottish Feedlots

Harvard Health – Why eat lower down the food chain

CIWF – Underwater cages, parasites and dead fish

OneKind – Cleaner Fish Welfare on Scotland’s salmon farms

MSC – Use of Cleaner Fish in Aquaculture: Current use, concerns and recommendations

Viva! – Lice-nsed to Kill

Fidra – Best Fishes- Is salmon farming costing the earth?

EcoHustler – Analysis of disease outbreaks on salmon farms supplying Marks and Spencer

Salmon Wars: The dark underbelly of our favourite fish

Wildfish – Scottish Weekly lice stats

Wildfish – The impacts of open net salmon farming on wild fish

NINA report – Impacts of salmon lice emanating from salmon farms on wild Atlantic salmon and sea trout

ECCLR Report – Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (ECCLR) Committee report on the environmental impacts of salmon farming

SIFT – Save the Scottish Wrasse

Just Economics – Dead Loss

A Waste of Fish – Greenpeace (2019)

Fishing for Catastrophe – Changing Markets

SIFT on seaweed cultivation

Feeding global aquaculture

Scottish salmon farming carbon emissions

I actively boycott farmed salmon, both at home and in restaurants. This factory farming of the sea, with its effluents, diseases, pesticides, parasites, is the greatest environmental catastrophe to hit the West coast of Scotland in my lifetime.
Joanna Blythman
Scottish Press Awards Food and Drink Writer winner 2022

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