Salmon Wars: award-winning investigative journalists join global battle against filthy feedlots!

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Last year bookstores spoiled us with 'Not On My Watch' by Alexandra Morton and 'Toxic' by Richard Flanagan – mainstream books which turned the tide of public opinion against salmon pharming – and 'Den Nye Fisken' (The New Fish: the Global History of Salmon Farming) by investigative reporters Kjetil S. Østli and Simen Sætre which is sadly only available in Norwegian but is making big waves worldwide.   Now in their impressive wake comes 'Salmon Wars: the Dark Underbelly of Our Favourite Fish' by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins – a book which may turn out to be the defining watershed moment in the global battle against farmed salmon.   

 

 

 

 

"This expertly reported investigation tackles the salmon farming industry, documenting how its industrialization endangers the keystone species, puts consumer health at risk and threatens the environment," gushed The New York Times. 

 

 

 

"In Salmon Wars, investigative journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins bring readers to massive ocean feedlots where millions of salmon are crammed into parasite-plagued cages and fed a chemical-laced diet," reads the publisher's blurb for a book riding high in the 'International Bestsellers'.  "The authors reveal the conditions inside hatcheries, where young salmon are treated like garbage, and at the farms that threaten our fragile coasts. They draw colorful portraits of characters, such as the big salmon farmer who poisoned his own backyard, the fly-fishing activist who risked everything to ban salmon farms in Puget Sound, and the American researcher driven out of Norway for raising the alarm about dangerous contaminants in the fish. Frantz and Collins document how the industrialization of Atlantic salmon threatens this keystone species, endangers our health and environment, and lines the pockets of our generation's version of Big Tobacco. And they show how it doesn't need to be this way.  Just as Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation forced a reckoning with the Big Mac, the vivid stories, scientific research, and high-stakes finance at the heart of Salmon Wars will inspire readers to make choices that protect our health and our planet."

 

 

 

 

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It's not surprising that 'Salmon Wars' is both hard-hitting and rivetting.  Frantz is a former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times and shared a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent at The New York Times and Collins was a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and a contributor to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.   Intrafish reported (12 July 2022):

 

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Ecowatch reported (20 July 2022):

 

 

 

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The Globe & Mail reported (9 July 2022):

 

 

 

 

Twin Bays posted on Facebook (20 July):

 

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Catch the authors of 'Salmon Wars' next week (25 July) at a virtual event organized by the Elliot Bay Book Company and Wild Fish Conservancy:

 

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If you can't make it, please put 'Salmon Wars' on your summer reading list!

 

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Finally, I must declare a personal interest: in Chapter 4 (titled 'The Resistance') my campaigning work gets a mention.  Staniford "has an uncanny knack of getting under the sking of his opponents and drawing a constant stream of vitriol from them" write Frantz and Collins.  "Norway's state broadcaster NRK, described him as a 'hair in the soup of the global salmon farming industry'; Intrafish, an industry newsletter, labelled him salmon farming's 'No. 1 enemy".  

 

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Read more via:

Alexandra Morton’s Book Should Galvanize Action on Salmon – ‘Not on My Watch’ advances a devastating case against fish farms!

"Toxic: the Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry" – New Book out from Booker Prize-Winning Author Richard Flanagan!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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