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Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’

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Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’
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Exclusive: ‘Fish sludge’ in coastal waters now has nutrient levels equivalent to those in untreated effluent of country the size of Australia, report findsNorwegian fish farms are filling fjords and other coastal waters with nutrient pollution equivalent to the raw sewage of tens of millions of people each year, a report has found.Norway is the largest farmed salmon producer in the world, and nutrients in fish feed are excreted directly into coastal waters. Analysis from the Sunstone Institute f

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