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Why I won't be buying sea-farmed salmon ever again

I knew there were problems with salmon reared in captivity at sea, but after witnessing the damage inflicted by life in an ocean pen, I will be voting with my shopping trolley, says Graham Lawton

By Graham Lawton

18 October 2023

Field Notes - Graham Lawton

An open-pen salmon farm run by the company Arnalax in Arnarfjörður, one of the West Fjords in north-west Iceland

Patagonia

WE PICKED the wrong day to take a small boat across a fjord in wild western Iceland. The weather was challenging, to say the least, with a heavy swell and lashing rain. We were trying to get out to a salmon farm to see it for ourselves, but were beaten back.

I was in the country on a press trip organised and funded by the outdoor clothing company Patagonia, which …

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