Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to 'raw sewage of millions of people'
Source: The Guardian
Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’
Exclusive: ‘Fish sludge’ in coastal waters now has nutrient levels equivalent to those in untreated effluent of country the size of Australia, report finds
Ajit Niranjan
Mon 4 May 2026 23.01 BST
Last modified on Mon 4 May 2026 23.02 BST
Norwegian 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 found that Norwegian aquaculture released 75,000 tonnes of nitrogen, 13,000 tonnes of phosphorus and 360,000 tonnes of organic carbon in 2025.
The nutrients are equivalent to those contained in the untreated sewage of 17.2 million people for nitrogen, 20 million people for phosphorus, and 30 million people for organic carbon, the report found, raising fears of destructive algal blooms.
“Norway is a small country of just 5.5 million people, and the output of aquaculture pollution in terms of these three nutrients is three to five times larger than the population,” said Alexandra Pires Duro, a data scientist at Sunstone and author of the report. “The faeces, the uneaten feed, the urine – everything goes into the water.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/04/norwegian-fish-farms-polluting-fjords-with-waste-likened-to-raw-sewage-of-millions-of-people
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Can't we just dump the tanks of 30 to 40 super tankers full of chlorine bleach in that part of the coastal shores ?
Wait,.. wait,.. how about we detonate 10 to 15 nuclear weapons in that section of the ocean to clean up the germs of the concentrated fish shit contaminating the ocean bottom and surrounding waters ?
Pete Hegseth has a bunch of nuclear bombs burning a hole in his pocket, and he is just dying to use them. If Whiskey Pete could nuke bomb Norwegian fjords it would just thrill him to death.
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