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Labor’s whopping majority doesn’t mean environmental reform will be any easier. When economy and environment clash, the economy usually wins.
After shelving plans to reform Australia’s nature laws, the prime minister wants to walk back existing protections with new legislation introduced this week.
Antioxidants in salmon’s diet give the fish their distinctive colour, but internet rumours proliferate about how farmed salmon achieve the same colour.
Farming shellfish instead of large, predatory fish, is also better for the planet.
The industry says the deterrent is necessary, but evidence suggests the devices pose a significant threat to some marine life, including maiming and killing seals.
A study of viral variants finds Piscine orthoreovirus continuously spills over from farmed salmon to wild salmon.
The harvesters of the historic wild salmon run out of Bristol Bay, Alaska, were already facing tough competition from relatively cheap and plentiful farmed salmon. Then came the pandemic.
Salmon prices are soaring because of sea lice infestations – but new medicine and technology could help.
The US food authority may have approved GM salmon for our consumption, but it may take time before any appear in our stores.
New research is looking at obtaining precious omega-3 from GM crops – just as the Scottish government announced a ban.
Top contributors
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Director of Marine Sciences and Professor of Aquaculture, Flinders University
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Professor of Molecular Nutrition, University of Stirling
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Canada Research Chair in Aquaculture Nutrition, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Environmental Law, University of Tasmania
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Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Applied and Natural Resource Economics, University of Alaska Anchorage
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PhD Student in Microbial Genomics, University of Bath
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Henslow Research Fellow, Sustainable Seafood, University of Cambridge
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Alaska Anchorage
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Future Making Fellow, Environment Institute, Adelaide University
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Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra