The licensing of salmon farms by the Soil Association has led to some within the UK’s organic movement to voice concerns that standards are slipping. A confidential study for the UK’s top organic body highlighted gaps between its principles and the standards it accepted, BBC Newsnight reported.
The study said farmed fish could escape and carry sea lice, and waste from fish farms was not captured or recycled.
The Soil Association said backing fish farms did not undermine its standards.