CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What’s the story behind foreign media exposing the “evil of farming” of Norwegian salmon?

It is reported that salmon has tender meat and is loved by countless foodies. However, the media recently exposed several "several crimes" in the Norwegian salmon farming chain, which surprised consumers who love salmon.

An investigative report by the German-French public television station (ARTE) on the 14th said that in order to find out why the number of farmed salmon deaths worldwide reached 50 million in 2018, the station's reporters conducted a field investigation in Norway, the hometown of salmon.

Investigative reporter Flordin sneaked into the farm with a camera. "I knew I would see fish choking due to overcrowding, but the scene in front of me was even more terrifying: a large number of fish were crowded in dirty seawater filled with their excrement. Many sick salmon were covered with ulcers as big as palms, and some had become S-shaped deformed fish." Statistics show that the mortality rate of farmed salmon is as high as 20%. In addition, high-density farming has also caused fish lice to become rampant.

In addition to poor farming conditions, farmed salmon also threaten the survival of wild salmon. Skara, a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research, said that there are currently about 530,000 wild salmon in Norway and 400 million farmed salmon. Every year, about 183,000 farmed salmon escape from farms and enter the ocean. Not only do they compete with the latter for food, they also infect the latter with fish lice.

According to a report by Reuters on the 15th, several Norwegian farms have confirmed that the export of salmon to China has been temporarily suspended because the new coronavirus was detected on the cutting board used to cut imported salmon in Beijing's Xinfadi Market.

Additional information

There is currently no evidence to suggest that salmon is a host or intermediate host of the new coronavirus:

On the evening of June 16, Beijing held the 120th regular press conference on epidemic prevention and control to report on Beijing's epidemic prevention and control and other related situations and answer questions from reporters.

At the meeting, Shi Guoqing, deputy director of the Emergency Center of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and an expert of the National Health Commission's expert group, reported that the most important way to determine whether a person has been infected with the new coronavirus is to conduct a nucleic acid test for the new coronavirus. The difference between asymptomatic infections and confirmed cases is whether there are clinical manifestations. Both patients and close contacts must be isolated in terms of management.

There is no evidence to show that salmon is a host or intermediate host of the new coronavirus. In the local contaminated places related to the Xinfadi cluster outbreak, salmon were indeed found to be contaminated through testing, but the new coronavirus was not detected in the salmon before entering the contaminated places. He emphasized that whether eating salmon or other foods, they should be cleaned and processed as necessary before eating.

Reference source: Phoenix.com - Foreign media exposed the "evil" of Norwegian salmon farming: many sick fish are covered with ulcers

Reference source: Anhui.com-Beijing Epidemic Press Conference: There is currently no evidence to show that salmon is a host or intermediate host of the new coronavirus

Poor breeding environment

However, all imported semi-finished food materials must be inspected, especially at this stage, the customs cannot just let them in. If they do not meet the national standards, the customs will not let them in.

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