Farming Salmon –A Critical Multispecies Perspective

Presented Nov 12, 2025

The webinar program began with Eve Kasprzycka’s address of Atlantic salmon farming. An interdisciplinary and interventionist dialogue joined by professors Ina Linge, Paul Young and Jodey Castricano.

Farming for fish-based protein is lauded for improving global food security, being a “greener” alternative to terrestrial animal-based protein and helping to sustain wild marine life that has been devastatingly exploited by overfishing. This webinar investigates sustainability narratives teeming within aquaculture by examining wider contexts of farming carnivorous fishes and misinformation pertinent to aquaculture’s greenwashing. In an exposé of innovations used in industrial salmon farming, Eve Kasprzycka (UBCO) reveals how issues pertinent to the intensive farming of land animals are being replicated and amplified under water. By looking at the hormonal, genetic, chromosomal and financial manipulation of farmed Atlantic salmon, they question the requisite of animal welfare or what welfare means in the context of factory farming. Ina Linge (U Exeter), Paul Young (U Exeter) and Jodey Castricano (UBCO) join in for a forward-looking dialogue on meat reduction, dietary change and the relationship between narrative and consumption habits. To conclude, we open the floor for questions and discussion.

We are grateful to the Exeter – UBCO Sustainability & Resilience Partnership for supporting this event.