France’s seafood problem starts elsewhere
Summary
France wants to produce more farmed fish to meet rising seafood demand and protect wild fish populations. However, much of the farmed seafood depends on fishmeal and fish oil made from wild fish caught in poorer countries, creating environmental and social problems there.Key Facts
- France aims to farm 20,000 tonnes of salmon by 2030 to increase seafood supply.
- More than half of the seafood eaten worldwide now comes from fish farms (aquaculture).
- Farmed fish like salmon and shrimp are often fed with fishmeal and fish oil made from catching wild fish.
- Some farmed salmon eat more than six times their weight in wild-caught fish before harvest.
- This approach can worsen overfishing instead of reducing it, especially in poorer countries.
- The production of fishmeal and fish oil causes problems like job losses for small-scale fishers, chemical pollution, worker deaths, community protests, and geopolitical conflicts.
- These problems mostly affect poorer countries where fishmeal factories are located.
- Aquaculture is a $313-billion industry and the fastest growing food sector worldwide.
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