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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Oliver Milman

Salmon farm faces new cruelty claims as Trump seeks to supersize fish farming

Split screen: aerial view of Cooke Aquaculture's circular tanks; person in winter clothing holding a fish.
Left: An aerial shot of Cooke Aquaculture in Bingham, Maine. Right: A live fish is allegedly clubbed with a metal rod. Photograph: Courtesy Animal Outlook

The Trump administration is keen to do to fish what has been done to chickens – mass-produce them on an industrial scale to accelerate the US’s output of seafood.

But this “chickenification” of fish may come at a hefty cost to the environment and to the fish themselves, as a new undercover video at one of the country’s leading fish farms has highlighted.

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