What Doesn't Kill You

Episode 106: Fish Farming

Episode Summary

Fish farms are a growing industry - and there are plenty of issues to explore around the idea of growing fish. What are the environmental and sustainability concerns? Why does fish farming have such a bad reputation? Find out on a fish-themed episode of What Doesnt Kill You, as Katy Keiffer is joined by Scott Nichols, Director of Verlasso®, a salmon fish farm, and Environmental Defense Funds Sustainable Seafood Program manager Tim Fitzgerald. This program was sponsored by Rolling Press. The large scale farming of fish is a new business. Through time, the salmon industry has learned its way through a lot of challenges and has been able to develop rapidly. [05:00] --Scott Nichols on What Doesnt Kill You

Episode Notes

Fish farms are a growing industry – and there are plenty of issues to explore around the idea of “growing” fish. What are the environmental and sustainability concerns? Why does fish farming have such a bad reputation? Find out on a fish-themed episode of What Doesn’t Kill You, as Katy Keiffer is joined by Scott Nichols, Director of Verlasso®, a salmon fish farm, and Environmental Defense Fund’s Sustainable Seafood Program manager Tim Fitzgerald. This program was sponsored by Rolling Press.

“The large scale farming of fish is a new business. Through time, the salmon industry has learned its way through a lot of challenges and has been able to develop rapidly.” [05:00]

–Scott Nichols on What Doesn’t Kill You