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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Karen McVeigh

‘Can we save the wild salmon of Iceland?’: Björk releases ‘lost’ song to fight fish farming

Composite: Rosalía and Björk
Rosalía and Björk have teamed up on a song whose proceeds will benefit activists opposing industrial salmon farming in Iceland. Composite: PR/Vidar Logi

Iceland’s fish farming industry is “a couple of wild guys who want to make money quick and sacrifice nature”, the Icelandic singer Björk has said before the release of a “lost” song to help fight the increasingly controversial practice.

In an interview with Guardian Seascape, she added that artists were often the “canaries in the coalmine” of environmental emergencies because it was their job to be sensitive.

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