Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

Dean Blanchard Seafood, headquartered on the barrier island of Grand Isle in the Mississippi River Delta, is one of the largest shrimp suppliers in the United States. Dean Blanchard Seafood took a hit, and Blanchard later told a reporter that he estimated his business was worth 15 percent of what it was before the spill.

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Seafood Agriculture Pollution Soil 142

Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2020

The Veganuary campaign has taken the country by storm since it was launched in 2014 by husband and wife Jane Land and Matthew Glover. But some campaigners believe the public debate on greener diets has been too focused on meat and dairy, allowing the seafood industry to swim on in the shadows.

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Seafood Plastics Sustainability Government 92

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

The letter also takes issue with pollution from fish farms. Their operations pollute the surrounding marine environment with microplastics, antibiotics, and chemicals such as formaldehyde, as contaminated water flows through nets into the open sea. The EU, for one, has invested 1.4

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Sustainability Pollution Seafood Microplastics 115

Grist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It isn’t easy to undo a century of industrial pollution — or even agree on how to do it. In 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, released a comprehensive cleanup plan for the waterway. Efforts to clean up the Lower Duwamish Waterway have been decades in the making. A Native fisher pulls a salmon out of the Duwamish River.

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Health Pollution Seafood Demand 138

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

In the report – which surveyed village officials, tourism workers, fishmeal factory employees, and local fish workers, among others – researchers documented that since the arrival of the factories in 2016, fish had jumped in price, fish-smokers and dryers had lost work, and widespread pollution was damaging local ecology and tourism.

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Africa Demand Seafood Agriculture 95

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Eco friendly bags cause less water and land pollution Plastic bags are lightweight, meaning they travel long distances through the wind and water. Showcasing the extent of this pollution, the first oceanographic study conducted in 2014 examined the amount of near-surface plastic debris.

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Retail Plastics Sustainability Biodegradable 78

Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Moreover, more than half of respondents to the Savanta ComRes survey claimed to be aware that the current food system had negative impacts on climate change, air, water and soil pollution, and that it can drive destructive land-use changes such as deforestation.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Government Health 41