Keep Iceland Wild

Keep Iceland Wild

Open net salmon farming is driving wild salmon to extinction, polluting Iceland’s pristine coasts and mistreating the farmed animals.

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Beneath the surface of Iceland’s fjords, industrial fish farming threatens to destroy one of Europe’s last remaining wildernesses. Open net salmon farming is driving wild salmon to extinction, polluting Iceland’s pristine coasts and mistreating the farmed animals. We call on the Icelandic government to show leadership in Europe and ban this harmful practice now. Add your voice to the movement. Open net salmon farms have no place in our wild waters.

Our relationship with nature not only defines our history, it shapes our future, too. Yet beneath the surface of Iceland’s fjords, an industrial fish farming method threatens to destroy one of Europe’s last remaining wildernesses. Open net salmon farms wreak havoc on the fragile environments they’re placed in, polluting pristine ecosystems while mistreating the farmed fish and driving local salmon populations to extinction. It’s an industry at odds with Iceland’s untouched landscape, and as a growing local movement has shown, nothing replaces nature. Laxaþjóð | A Salmon Nation tells the story of a country united by its lands and waters, and the power of a community to protect the wild places and animals that helped forge its identity.


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