Links & resources

Fishy Farms: The Government's Push for Factory Farming Our Oceans; Food & Water Watch, October 2011.

Can farmed fish be organic?; Sound Consumer, March 2011.

With Global Food Production, We’re Swimming Against The Tide; A report from Ecotrust about why choosing frozen fish often is the more sustainable than choosing fresh, November 2009.

Suspicious Shrimp: The Health Risks of Industrialized Shrimp Production" (PDF); Food & Water Watch, 2009.

Turning the Tide: The State of Seafood; Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program, October 2009.

More Floating Feedlots off Washington's Coast?; Sound Consumer, October 2009.

How Farm-raised Salmon are Turning our Oceans into Dangerous and Polluted Feedlots; Alternet, September 2009.

Half of Fish Consumed Globally is Now Raised on Farms, Study Finds; Impactlab, September 2009.

Choosing Healthy and Sustainable Seafood; Sound Consumer, June 2009.

Mercury-tainted Fish on FDA Menu: Agency Trying to Downplay Current Warnings; Chicago Tribune, December 14, 2008.

Forage Fish: From Ecosystems to Markets; A report showing that 30 percent of global fish catch is wasted on livestock. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, November 2008.

The Sunken Billions: Economic Justification for Fisheries Reform; A U.N. report showing the world's fishing fleets are wasting nearly $50 billion a year through poor management and overfishing. World Bank and Food and Agriculture Organization, October 2008.

Expansion of Aquaculture Feedlots in Puget Sound Puts our Native Species at Risk (PDF); Coalition to Protect Puget Sound, 2008.

Not All Shrimp are Equal: Wild Shrimp vs Farmed Shrimp; Sound Consumer, August 2008.

Fish Story: Why Offshore Fish Farming Will Not Break U.S. Dependence on Imported Seafood; Food & Water Watch, 2008.

Import Alert: Government Fails Consumers, Falls Short on Seafood Inspections; Food & Water Watch, 2007.

Fishy Farms: The Problems with Open Ocean Aquaculture; Food & Water Watch, 2007.

Offshore Fish Farming — The Selling of Common Waters; Sound Consumer, April 2005.

Farm Sea Lice Plague Wild salmon; BBC News, March 29, 2005.

Fish farms kill Wild Salmon, Study Finds; CBS News, October 2, 2006.

Seafood Safety; Information about mercury health alerts in fish; Sound Consumer, December 2002.