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Salmon wars : the dark underbelly of our favorite fish

Frantz, Douglas2022
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A decade ago, farmed Atlantic salmon replaced tuna as the most popular fish on North America's dinner table. We are told salmon is healthy and environmentally friendly. The reality is disturbingly different. In 'Salmon Wars', investigative journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins brign readers a massive ocean feedlots where millions of salmon are crammed into parasite-plagued cages and fed a chemical-laced diet. The authors reveal the conditions inside hatcheries, where young salmon are treated like garbage, and at the farms that threaten our fragile costs. They draw colourful portraits of characters, such as the big salmon farmer who poisoned his own backyard, the fly-fishing activist who risked everything to ban salmon farms in Puget Sound, and the American researcher driven out of Norway for raising the alarm about dangerous contaminents in the fish.
Main title:
Salmon wars : the dark underbelly of our favorite fish / Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins.
Author:
Imprint:
New York : Henry Holt, 2022.
Collation:
368 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781250800305 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
338.371375338.371
Language:
English
BRN:
2552298
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