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Sustainable Farm Raised Salmon Help Deplete Jack Mackerel Populations

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A school of Jack Mackerel (Trachurus declivis, 2004). photo: Wikimedia Commons

Behind the story: Why I care about a bony fish with oddly shaped fins Looting the Seas III project manager, Mort Rosenblum, talks about his experience reporting the story for ICIJ and BBC World News with a multi-country [...]

Fish Stocks Shaping Family: Population Growth Impacting Phillipine Fisheries

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Turning the population tide in the Philippines By Sam Eaton for CIR This story also appeared on PBS NEWSHOUR and American Public Media’s Marketplace. The Philippines’ swelling population is causing fishing villages to embrace birth control for the [...]

Deconstructing Dinner: Organic (?) Salmon & Food Co-ops

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July 16, 2009 “NORWAY, BRITISH COLUMBIA V (“ORGANIC” SALMON?) / CO-OPERATIVES: ALTERNATIVES TO INDUSTRIAL FOOD VI” download/open | stream Norway, British Columbia V (“Organic” Salmon?) The presence of open net-cage salmon farms are an ongoing and contentious debate [...]