{"id":32860,"date":"2023-02-07T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/when-will-salmon-be-allowed-to-be-salmon-speech\/"},"modified":"2023-02-07T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T10:00:49","slug":"when-will-salmon-be-allowed-to-be-salmon-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/when-will-salmon-be-allowed-to-be-salmon-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"When will salmon be allowed to be salmon? – Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The farming industry spends over 5 billion a year on combating salmon lice in order to spare the wild salmon. At the same time, the wild salmon becomes a victim of green energy and is ground up in power turbines, or it ends up on dry riverbeds. Where does it go wrong? In December, you could read an article on news about how Norwegian green power production causes wild fish, including the much-loved wild salmon, to dry to death on dry riverbeds. Earlier in the same year, you could read about, among other things, trout and eel being decapitated by power turbines in Norwegian rivers. At the same time that the wild salmon is fighting a hopeless battle against Norwegian green power, the farmed salmon is exposed to a multitude of man-made stresses. The farming industry and the salmon are struggling with salmon lice. This parasite is a major burden on animal welfare for both farmed and wild salmon, as well as a huge economic cost to the industry. To keep the lice population under control, entire cages must be de-liced \u200b\u200bevery now and then. For this, as a rule, large boats with pumps and a pipe system are used, where the salmon rushes around like pipe posts and are either rinsed, brushed, heat or chemically treated, or a combination of these. Not all the methods used are equally good, and very few of them do the salmon themselves any good apart from reducing the lice population. The point of the lice treatment is well explained in the first paragraph of the regulation on salmon lice control: “… to reduce the occurrence of salmon lice so that the harmful effects on fish in aquaculture facilities and in wild populations of salmon fish are minimized…” In the summer, when the migration of wild salmon is at its highest, the maximum limit for lice on each farmed salmon is further reduced, so that measures must be taken more frequently. One can start to wonder if these measures are mostly for the sake of the wild salmon and not for the sake of the farmed salmon. It is not so surprising, because Norwegian waterways are home to up to a third of the world’s wild salmon population. This has got me thinking a bit and I can’t quite make sense of it all. On the one hand, every year millions of farmed salmon are subjected to a painful and stressful treatment to reduce the lice population on both farmed salmon and wild salmon. In this way, the wild salmon can swim up the rivers unaffected by salmon lice, to be ground up in the power plant or end their days in a dry corner of the watercourse. It is fascinating and sad how inconsistent we are in our view of animals and how we treat them. Are the political decisions to save the wild salmon genuine and sincere, or has it ended up being a game to defend a rapidly growing farming industry? It is time that we start looking at animals as animals, and not just as “raw materials”, “fauna” or “Norwegian nature”. They are ultimately individuals too. Norway needs wild salmon, we need farmed salmon and we need power generation. But then it is high time to take animal welfare and nature conservation a little more seriously. Not only where everyone’s eyes are directed, but also where no one is looking. Fortunately, there are a multitude of people who, on a voluntary basis, do what they can to save the salmon. We can only cross our fingers that the government contributes some coffee money to them next year.
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The farming industry spends over 5 billion a year on combating salmon lice in order to spare the wild salmon. At the same time, the wild salmon becomes a victim of green energy and is ground up in power turbines, or it ends up on dry riverbeds. Where does it go wrong? In December, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1253,710,271],"class_list":["post-32860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-allowed","tag-salmon","tag-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}