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Social Costs: The high price of salmon farming

Geoff Riley

15th September 2020

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A long read here from the Guardian about salmon farming.

It looks at how a way of offering sustainable fish stocks has a hidden environmental cost.

→ Net loss: the high price of salmon farming

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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