The Soil Association has stripped British salmon of its organic certification following a twenty-year period, with critics describing the situation as an environmental and welfare crisis.
Commercial salmon farming in Britain began off the west coast of Scotland near Fort William in 1971, yielding an initial harvest of 14 tonnes after multinational corporation Unilever spent years developing cage techniques, disease management, and weather resistance.
Unilever initiated the enterprise in the 1960s to transition salmon from an expensive wild-caught luxury into a mass-market product, growing output across three Scottish locations to 116 tonnes annually by 1976.
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