Is Salmon the Problem?
Option 1: Is salmon as sustainable as we might think? The short answer is no, however, there are solutions that can reduce the number of negative impacts that salmon has on the environment. For starters, the salmon you buy matters. There are two types of salmon, wild salmon, and farmed salmon. Wild salmon is salmon "caught in their natural environment" (Byran, 2022), and farmed salmon is salmon kept in "netted pens" (Byran, 2022) and controlled by farmers. While eating farmed salmon might seem sustainable because it takes away the possibility of overfishing, farmed salmon poses several threats to the environment. Farmed salmon kept in nets that are tightly packed causes bacterial disease to be easily transmitted. In order to help the salmon those farmers give the salmon antibiotics and pesticides which can have a negative impact on the surrounding water. Farmed salmon also can escape their nets and get into the wild and spread disease. While this might seem o
