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Norway's New Oil: How Norway sold the world on salmon | Foreign Correspondent

Norway is the biggest salmon producer in the world.  It invented the farmed salmon industry, creating an 18-billion-dollar business to meet the growing global appetite for the pink fish. Norway was ev

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The best solution is the use nano-bubble generators.
Japanese used it and had significant impact on cleaning up the Tokyo bay.
nano-bobbles significantly increase the oxygen content of water and that supercharges brake-down of the wastes.

Also I have a personal (as a biologist) idea that is the cultivation of filter feeders such as mussels to clean up the waste from the water. This is solving the solution problem and producing value on the way.
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I gather the quality of life must be high? Do the peoples lives benefit. If so, how? The first thing that comes to mind is affordabiliy is therefore very comfortable.
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The fjords in New Zealand are untouched.
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The bonus with so many dead and rotting salmon 'morts' pumped out of pens are fish oil tablets
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❤ wow I love Norway 🇳🇴 ❤
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It's really simple . The nutritional content of what you eat is dependant on
the generic health of the source . The health of that environment affects
the integrity of their own . These healthy sources created the demand , for the greedy to supply adulterated contaminates that they market to us as healthy . Anyway , they've just discovered a huge new source of hydrocarbons to make money from . Won't need that avenue of poison .
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From the comments regarding Aqua farming from viewers , one should look to Mainland China where the Aqua farming industry generated 63 Million Tons of of fish in 2025 bringing in $492 Billion in Economic Value and across the pond in New Zealand they produce over half the worlds King (Chinook) Salmon in marine sea cages and inland freshwater hydroelectric canals
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Norwegian here, living right in the middle of salmon country.
The industry pollutes our fjords, employs hardly anyone, and its owners have decamped to Switzerland to dodge their taxes.
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"Norway's New Oil" is kind of a wrong title. This industry only benefits ultra-rich owners who are currently moving to Switzerland to get tax benefits. So does it benefit the people of Norway? Just the company tax and employee tax income. Owners won't share their insane income and move abroad to a tax haven.
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It is an important industry here in Norway, but we need stricter environmental regulations in many fjords because the amount of waste produced by fish farming is too high in several areas. Moving more of the industry onto land, farther offshore, and possibly farther north, where the water is colder and there are fewer parasites and diseases, would benefit everyone, although it would increase production costs slightly.

Introducing stricter environmental requirements while reducing taxes for companies that comply would be a simple way to help the industry transition.
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Tasmanian coastal botton dwelling fish species have already been impacted..
The greedy Tasmanian government obtain too much revenue from the salmon industry for anything to be done.
Cover up after cover up.
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@MauroWard From YouTube ↗ 28 Jul 2026 14
5.4 tonnes of the antibiotic florfenicol in one summer to treat bacterial disease in Tasmanian farmed salmon
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I don't eat farmed Salmon. It's pretty toxic.
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@MauroWard From YouTube ↗ 28 Jul 2026 10
Tasmanian production can't keep up with pumping rotting mortalities out of pens
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I came up with a solution, 'stop eating salmon'
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@MauroWard From YouTube ↗ 28 Jul 2026 11
Tasmanian diseased salmon is worse
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Don't eat anything from aquafarming. Period.
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Vile and criminal industry.
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@sirgregoir From YouTube ↗ 28 Jul 2026 19
Tassie has suffered the same problems
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DW is great.