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‘An environmental and welfare disaster’: British salmon loses its organic status
This week the Soil Association withdrew certification from organic salmon after 20 years. What went wrong? The first haul of farmed salmon in Britain was a relatively modest 14 tonnes, produced off the west coast of Scotland near Fort William in 1971. For Unilever, the vast multinational that pioneered salmon farming, it was a triumph after years of experimenting with how to cage fish, battle against diseases and…