California has recently enacted a groundbreaking law that bans both the farming and sale of farmed octopus products. Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 27, 2024, this legislation, known as the Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses (OCTO) Act, aims to address ethical and environmental concerns …
I didn’t know the full extent of salmon farming problems and you, too, might be under the misconception that farmed salmon is a good idea to protect wild salmon stocks. It is and it isn’t. In Norway, the number of wild salmon has halved since …
The Times reports, today, that ‘bumping caviar’ as it’s called is becoming increasingly popular and has been ‘democratised’. What they mean is that eating caviar in this way is no longer for the rich but for anybody. And this democratisation of eating caviar is thanks …
Normally, Japan businesses export £33.5 million’s (6.3 billion yen) worth of koi carp to China annually. The exports require a licence from China and Japan’s 15 domestic carp farmers were licensed by the Chinese government for three years but those licences expired at the end …
This costly “delicacy” involves cutting the ovary of a fish to steal her eggs. This is PETA’s video and it is an eyeopener. It is just another example of animal abuse; one that not many people either know about or are interested in. You may …
I am troubled about fish. I eat fish because like millions of others I like it and it is nutritious. But I’m troubled with the way humankind relates to fish in terms of catching them and killing them. We seem to think that they are …
Farm staff were filmed kicking live trout along the floor. Test Valley Trout Farming supplies ChalkStream®, a brand under which fish from the fish farms are marketed. Chalk Stream has received glowing reports including endorsements from Jamie Oliver and Tom Parker Bowles. As I understand …
To be clear, aquaculture is, in simplistic terms, fish farming. It’s a bit more than that because it includes the farming of crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic plants, algae and other products. It is sometimes called aquiculture. Currently, there appears to be two issues or problems with …
