Norway relaunching Atlantic cod farms after earlier failures
Authorities say cod farming can be developed sustainably with appropriate regulation and helps provide healthy protein to a growing population
01 September 2020 - 13:04
Oslo — Norway is relaunching cod farms in Europe’s ice-cold northern waters after mass escapes and failure to thrive condemned its earlier attempt to become the first country to try large-scale breeding of a species declining in the wild.
The handful of companies raising Atlantic cod in pens in Norwegian fjords say they have learnt lessons from a wave of bankruptcies of cod farms earlier in the millennium, as well as the success of Norway’s multi-billion-dollar salmon business...
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