The seafood industry is firing back against recently published articles and books that are taking shots at the farmed salmon industry.
A recently published book, Salmon Wars, the Dark Underbelly of our Favorite Fish, has been gaining attention from some media outlets, including Bloomberg, which listed it among the 10 best summer books shedding light on “today’s most-pressing issues.” Written by Pulitzer Price-winning journalist Douglas Frantz and his wife – accomplished investigative journalist Catherine Collins – the book purports to expose the “dark underbelly of our favorite fish.”
A recently published counterpoint in Saving Seafood, however, rebutted a number of claims in the book – including that net-pen salmon farms have a “toxic stew” underneath them…