The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish
About the Book
Atlantic salmon is the most popular fish on our dinner tables. We’re told it is good for us and good for the environment. The reality is disturbingly different. Cutting through the industry hype, Salmon Wars shows readers the massive ocean feedlots where millions of farmed salmon are crammed into parasite-infested cages and fed a chemical-laced diet. It exposes how the industrialization of this iconic fish threatens wild salmon, risks our health, and damages our environment. The vivid stories, fact-based research, and previously undisclosed documents at the core of this book mean you’ll never look at salmon the same way again.
About the Authors
Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins are partners in life and work. Applying skills developed over four decades as top-level journalists and professional investigators, they tell the full story of salmon farming’s hidden costs for consumers and the environment for the first time.
Financial Times on sustainable, land-based aquaculture for salmon farming, featuring an interview with authors Catherine Collins and Doug Frantz.
Melissa Clark for the NY Times published this great article on the hidden dangers of farm raised salmon, and the land-based aquaculture pioneers who hope to mitigate them.
In the 2022 book “Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Your Favorite Fish,” Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins compare this kind of aquaculture to factory farming. …
“Most salmon farms are like floating feedlots,” Ms. Collins said.
The system is also susceptible to large-scale escapes, she said, which can wreak havoc on the fragile population of wild fish.
