#265 - Frantz & Collins on SALMON WARS
Books on Pod with Trey Elling
English - July 14, 2022 11:44 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBooks Arts health fitness business lifestyle entrepreneur marketing entrepreneurship interview wellness nutrition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Investigative journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins chats with Trey Elling about SALMON WARS: THE DARK UNDERBELLY OF OUR FAVORITE FISH. Topics include:
The genesis of this book (0:49)
How the farmed salmon industry is like Big Tobacco and Big Ag rolled into one (3:04)
How embedded farmed salmon is in our food supply (5:27)
Properly labelling seafood (7:16)
The evolution of commercial salmon farming (8:21)
The Canadian government's role in the rise in that country's open-net farms in the 1980s (9:51)
Norway's Hydro Seafood and its role in expanding salmon farming (13:39)
Sea lice and their damage on farmed salmon (16:19)
The dangers of farmed salmon escaping back into the wild (18:15)
The concern around Cypermethrin for fish and humans (19:30)
Alexandra Morton as a hero in this terrifying story (23:30)
How the farmed salmon industry responds to scientific findings critical of their business (25:36)
The right way to farm salmon (27:15)
The reliability of a store claiming its fish is wild caught (30:54)
Comparing Omega 3 levels in farmed- vs wild salmon (32:32)
Why salmon farmers add dye to the chemical pellets they feed their fish (36:43)
What Canada's Cohen Commission uncovered about dwindling wild salmon populations (37:50)
Whether Norway does a good job of protecting its salmon (41:10)
The added issue of salmon farm litter (43:19)
An ecological disaster perpetuated by Cook Aquaculture in 2017 (44:40)
The Miramichi River as a reason for optimism in the fight for wild salmon (57:56)
Whether Doug and Catherine are concerned about industry pushback (49:41)