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Sea Shepherd’s Paul Watson on salmon farms: ‘Our objective is to shut them down’

Paul Watson, founder, CEO and celebrity face of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, one of the world’s most high-profile and controversial environmental groups, told IntraFish his group is committed to ending salmon farming around the world.

“We can and will stop it,” Watson wrote to IntraFish in an email response to an article published Tuesday.

Watson expounded on his views in a Facebook response to the IntraFish story, calling salmon farming “an unsustainable invasive industry that is poisoning consumers and destroying marine eco-systems.”

Watson said IntraFish’s piece was evidence the salmon farming sector is concerned about the recent spate of issues impacting them.

“In this article … we can see that the industry is worried, and they should be worried for our objective is to shut them down,” Watson wrote…

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