"Big salmon farmers disparage scientists who point out health & environmental risks from farmed salmon & try to discredit critics. We tell the stories of several people who challenged salmon farming giants & wound up losing their jobs or facing lawsuits" https://t.co/z7AbaAlFNM pic.twitter.com/cGJAjx5Qae
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2022
Last year bookstores spoiled us with 'Not On My Watch' by Alexandra Morton and 'Toxic' by Richard Flanagan - mainstream books which turned the tide of public opinion against salmon pharming - and 'Den Nye Fisken' (The New Fish: the Global History of Salmon Farming) by investigative reporters Kjetil S. Østli and Simen Sætre which is sadly only available in Norwegian but is making big waves worldwide. Now in their impressive wake comes 'Salmon Wars: the Dark Underbelly of Our Favourite Fish' by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins - a book which may turn out to be the defining watershed moment in the global battle against farmed salmon.
"Resistance movements are generated by people who refuse to accept the world as they find it & who are willing to take personal risks to make it better...Morton & her cohorts are the heart of the resistance...She is spearheading a salmon revolution"
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 23, 2022
(Excerpt from Salmon Wars) pic.twitter.com/9RZeDJtxPI
"This expertly reported investigation tackles the salmon farming industry, documenting how its industrialization endangers the keystone species, puts consumer health at risk and threatens the environment," gushed The New York Times.
"The criminal corporations & their complicit politicians are actively harming the marine environment & pushing their toxic product to unaware consumers. After reading Salmon Wars I doubt you will choose to eat net pen farmed salmon again" (Yvon Choinard @patagonia) #SalmonWars pic.twitter.com/K5clcU6l06
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 22, 2022
"In Salmon Wars, investigative journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins bring readers to massive ocean feedlots where millions of salmon are crammed into parasite-plagued cages and fed a chemical-laced diet," reads the publisher's blurb for a book riding high in the 'International Bestsellers'. "The authors reveal the conditions inside hatcheries, where young salmon are treated like garbage, and at the farms that threaten our fragile coasts. They draw colorful portraits of characters, such as the big salmon farmer who poisoned his own backyard, the fly-fishing activist who risked everything to ban salmon farms in Puget Sound, and the American researcher driven out of Norway for raising the alarm about dangerous contaminants in the fish. Frantz and Collins document how the industrialization of Atlantic salmon threatens this keystone species, endangers our health and environment, and lines the pockets of our generation's version of Big Tobacco. And they show how it doesn't need to be this way. Just as Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation forced a reckoning with the Big Mac, the vivid stories, scientific research, and high-stakes finance at the heart of Salmon Wars will inspire readers to make choices that protect our health and our planet."
"Salmon Wars is a deep dive into damage caused by current fish-farming methods to ocean environments, wild fish & their habitats, & the farmed fish themselves. Salmon farming needs reform. Until it gets it, read this book, & you will never eat farmed salmon again" (Marion Nestle) pic.twitter.com/YDT2gsCf03
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 22, 2022
Time magazine reported (21 July 2022):
"Farmed Atlantic salmon is the most popular fish on dinner tables in North America. But at what cost?"
— TIME (@TIME) July 22, 2022
📝 Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins https://t.co/fUbJRSxPhS
"This new fish is an industrialized imposter that risks our health and damages our planet. Farmed salmon are bred to grow fast in cages so crammed that they are rife with parasites and disease" @TIME https://t.co/ZL4Uhn0dYu#BoycottFarmedSalmon
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 21, 2022
It's not surprising that 'Salmon Wars' is both hard-hitting and rivetting. Frantz is a former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times and shared a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent at The New York Times and Collins was a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and a contributor to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Intrafish reported (12 July 2022):
Investigative journalists attack salmon farming in new book, equate it to 'Big Tobacco' https://t.co/3cTHogKw7s
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 12, 2022
Read 'Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish' https://t.co/vIsIQihBG8 #SalmonWars @HenryHolt
Ecowatch reported (20 July 2022):
"Sometimes all it takes is a single photograph to change someone’s mind or inspire them to take action. For Catherine Collins & her husband Douglas Frantz, that was a photo of a yardstick plunged 32 inches into filth below a salmon farm" https://t.co/z7AbaAlFNM @EcoWatch
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 19, 2022
"The excrement, excess feed & chemical residue from a single farm can equal the waste produced by a town of 65,000 people. But a city’s sewage is treated, while a salmon farm simply allows its waste to drift to the seabed creating a toxic stew" @HenryHolt https://t.co/z7AbaAlFNM pic.twitter.com/iaKw2smgbJ
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 20, 2022
"Honestly, smart people have no idea about the environmental harm caused by open-net salmon farms or the potential health risks from eating fish that might contain contaminants. This is one of the factors that compelled us to write Salmon Wars" https://t.co/z7AbaAlFNM #SalmonWars pic.twitter.com/WfVBw8Mp8C
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 19, 2022
The Globe & Mail reported (9 July 2022):
"What often happens beneath the waterline in these fish cages is shocking. A single farm can contain a million fish....The feed is laced with pesticides and antibiotics to fight the twin plagues of parasites and viruses" @globeandmail https://t.co/aBiovXTvYm #SalmonWars
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 10, 2022
Twin Bays posted on Facebook (20 July):
Catch the authors of 'Salmon Wars' next week (25 July) at a virtual event organized by the Elliot Bay Book Company and Wild Fish Conservancy:
If you can't make it, please put 'Salmon Wars' on your summer reading list!
Finally, I must declare a personal interest: in Chapter 4 (titled 'The Resistance') my campaigning work gets a mention. Staniford "has an uncanny knack of getting under the sking of his opponents and drawing a constant stream of vitriol from them" write Frantz and Collins. "Norway's state broadcaster NRK, described him as a 'hair in the soup of the global salmon farming industry'; Intrafish, an industry newsletter, labelled him salmon farming's 'No. 1 enemy".
"Salmon is a migratory species, and caging them is cruel. It is like farming eagles. Cramming the king of fish into a container is like force-feeding lentils to a lion" (excerpt from 'Salmon Wars: the dark underbelly of our favorite fish') @HenryHolt https://t.co/a1o0J1CEQc pic.twitter.com/wZifiI30LU
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 22, 2022
Read more via:
The New York Times on the expertly researched new book: Salmon Wars https://t.co/sseXTlyprM @nytimes @HenryHolt
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 13, 2022
Buy the book & you'll never buy pharmed salmon ever again!
The wait is over! Happy publication day to SALMON WARS by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins! 🎉
— Henry Holt & Company 🏳️🌈 (@HenryHolt) July 12, 2022
Learn about the dark underbelly of our favorite fish with a copy, out now. https://t.co/MtqlX1NFao pic.twitter.com/dWmfldbyKa
"Alexandra Morton is to salmon like Dian Fossey was to gorillas and Jane Goodall is to chimpanzees. She is spearheading a salmon revolution not just in B.C. but around the globe" (excerpt from 'Salmon Wars') https://t.co/5YBtMH9vpu @alex4salmon @HenryHolt #SalmonWars
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) July 23, 2022