The salmon industry is beset with major problems - which they do everything to hide. Journalist and author Simen Saetre knows all about it. He has reviewed and written about the salmon industry for several years, including in the book "The New Fish".
Øyvind Øverli, is a professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He tells us the story how the expansion of hydroelectric power plants in Norway led to an ecological disaster that has taken over 40 years to try to rectify and has cost taxpayers billions. He wonders if it is truly possible and advisable to attempt to fix nature.
Ida Beitnes is a Associate Professor at the NMBU. Ida has earlier studied stress as an important contributor to the development of cardiac disease in salmonids.
The release of farmed salmon has affected the wild salmon stocks, according to a new study from (SLU)
