"Farmed Salmon Exposed" - Intro/Excerpt

http://www.puresalmon.org/
http://www.farmedsalmonexposed.org/

This is an excerpt from a new film by Canadian documentarian Damien Gillis that visually portrays the damage caused by open-net salmon farms to marine ecosystems worldwide. The film features firsthand accounts of the environmental, socioeconomic and cultural problems linked to global salmon farms.

Official Festival Selections:
2010 Delray Beach Film Festival (http://www.dbff.us/)
2010 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital (http://www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org/)

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Farmed Salmon Exposed
• Salmon

[alpsnowman]

This is an example of the kind of truth we need to be hearing. Please pass this information on to your friends and family.

[toxsickdog]

after reading an article 3 yrs ago about

the salmon farms, I stopped ordering salmon in restaurants because 95% of

them will serve you the cheaper, inferior,

unhealthy farmed variety. when You

purchase fresh salmon in a market it is

easy to distinguish between wild (vibrant

dark reddish orange) & the farmed (pale orange). the farmed salmon actually receive cartenoid supplements to turn their flesh orange. If they did not do this

the flesh would be almost a greyish color.

[4naturban]

I'm a Norwegian citizen and want to apologize for my governments lack of responsibility in this matter, and for a greedy billion-dollar industry that just thinking raw profit and take no measures to develop methods according to preserve a healthy environmental balance.

[OceanFuturesSociety]

Open-net ocean farmed salmon harms wild salmon and wildlife such as orca that depend upon wild salmon for food. It also reduces surrounding ocean water quality. And, farmed salmon has been found to contain high levels of contaminants such as PCBs and PBDEs that are harmful to humans. We support harvesting sustainable seafood and farmed salmon is not sustainable.

[TheDPassmore1]

Damien Gillis strikes again. Another fabulous piece of film advocacy.

[ISamuelII]

The problem is the same as always, the power the short term profit has over the future.

[TheSlacktide]

Nice work Damion... look forward to the full story... and friends, tell all about this tragedy that is unfolding each and every day...

[looperdude2009]

I want to hear the other side of the argument.

[Aliceinwonderland49]

I say the same as Arild below here - pressure the Norwegian government on this matter, as it is a disgrace. Our minister of fishery is an owner (her family as far as I know) of a large fish farm in Norway.

[stinkinape]

Good video, heard about it through the facebook group. Hopefully it'll spread the word. Thanks for including us in the Atlantic as well!