![]() This number has been circulating for almost as long as salmon farming has been an industry, and even though it’s incredibly outdated it just keeps reappearing. According to the Marine Ingredients Organisation IFFO, on average, less than a kilo of wild fish is needed. They have also found that around a third of the fishmeal or fish oil comes from by-products – bits of the fish that would otherwise be thrown away. Overall, the majority of feed comes from other sources, mostly land based. ![]() ![]() But we are also an evidence-based organisation: everything we do needs to be backed up by science. So when we see some criticisms of salmon farming that seem a bit, well, fishy, we feel we should set the record straight. Here are some of the myths we’ve seen about salmon farming recently: Myth: it takes five kilos of wild-caught fish to produce one kilo of salmon At ASC we don’t pretend any kind of fish farming is totally free from impacts – no food production is – and it’s exactly these impacts that form the basis of the many requirements in our strict standards for responsible farming. There are plenty of criticisms out there of salmon farming, claiming it is bad for the environment.
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