articleScienceJan 9, 2004Closed access

Global Assessment of Organic Contaminants in Farmed Salmon

Communities for a Better Environment · Cornell University · +4 more institutions

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Abstract

The annual global production of farmed salmon has increased by a factor of 40 during the past two decades. Salmon from farms in northern Europe, North America, and Chile are now available widely year-round at relatively low prices. Salmon farms have been criticized for their ecological effects, but the potential human health risks of farmed salmon consumption have not been examined rigorously. Having analyzed over 2 metric tons of farmed and wild salmon from around the world for organochlorine contaminants, we show that concentrations of these contaminants are significantly higher in farmed salmon than in wild. European-raised salmon have significantly greater contaminant loads than those raised in North and…

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Keywords
  • Fishery
  • Fish farming
  • Contamination
  • Aquaculture
  • Human health
  • Fish <Actinopterygii>
  • Consumption (sociology)
  • Environmental science
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