I’m not quite sure where to place this; as a news item on its own it would probably have less impact than if you scroll through Andrew’s (@ash2020) thread above. Fish farming on an industrial scale seems to be a worldwide problem …
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That’s so true. Scotland, in particular, is having a hard time with warming seas, jellyfish, algal blooms, sea lice etc. Mowi are having millions of mortalities. The cleaner fish that they thought were the answer are themselves covered in sea lice. Here’s one.
It’s quite literally a dying industry, and still the Scottish Government gives them huge handouts. I wish I was back there droning though.
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Pretty tragic really. I refuse to speak to family or friends that eat farmed salmon after I’ve shown them the problems it is causing. Most people just aren’t aware what the consequences are, our lovely government does but don’t give a jot because of the revenue it creates 
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That’s the SNP for you though ( got to be careful I don’t get political here and get my wrists slapped) 
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Summat fishy going on there 
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This is why I will never purchase farmed salmon. The supermarkets (you know who they are) claim their salmon as being “responsibly sourced”, it’s all one big white wash. 
The sooner we all boycott farmed salmon the better.
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It’s not rocket science to know that overcrowded fish are stressed and stressed fish are more susceptible to disease, parasites spread more easily, and water quality deteriorates; any aquarist knows this! Problem from the shopping pov is that it is next to impossible to find wild salmon for sale; certainly to my knowledge the local river fisheries, the Usk and Wye, sell to the big hotels and restaurants, and you don’t see them in normal supermarkets.
Same goes for rainbow trout. Nearly everything for sale is farmed in Southeast Asia and tastes bland. I would rather a couple of browns as eating any day, but locally caught and fresh rainbows used to be readily available in the shops and was much tastier than the farmed imports.
Of course, everybody wants their fish to cost less, but not at the cost of it’s taste, which is the whole point of buying it in the first place! I no longer buy trout, it’s just to bland, and salmon, at least the stuff I have access to, is going the same way. Healthy happy fish taste better; greed in the industry will eventually kill it off.
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Keep your eyes open for “Line caught wild salmon” in your local super market, it’s around 50% more but as the fish has fed on natural food it tastes so much better than the bland, pellet fed farmed crap, that’s also been subjected to treatment with god knows what chemicals in the vain effort to control parasitic infestation.
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So its welfare counts for nothing?