What's the problem?
Fish farming is the fastest-growing food system on the planet, with farmed fish now outnumbering wild-caught fish on supermarket shelves.
But behind this growth is a dark reality: an industry built on ocean plunder and corporate greed that is exploiting fish populations, fuelling injustice, and taking food away from millions of people.
Every year, around one-fifth of the world’s marine catch — wild fish like anchovies, herring, and sardines — is ground into fishmeal and fish oil, primarily to feed farmed fish.
The intensive farming of carnivorous species like salmon and seabass is not only harming our ocean – it is unsustainable and unjust.
It takes up to 6 kilograms of wild fish to produce just 1 kilogram of farmed salmon. That’s fish that could feed people being siphoned off and fed to fish to fuel corporate profits instead.
Much of the wild fish used to feed farmed fish is extracted from fishing grounds off West Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia — robbing people that rely on these fish for survival.