Is land-based aquaculture a future for salmon? I have written about it before and I will no doubt be writing about it many times more, but the proposition gets more and more interesting, and is stirring up increasingly opposing views in the industry.

Just last month alone Danish salmon farm Langsand Laks put its first land-farmed salmon on the market.

Almost simultaneously UK land-based mega farm FishFrom started looking for investors after getting the go-ahead for its site at the end of last year; and a big Canadian project, run by the ‘Namgis First Nation kicked off production in an effort to prove the economic feasibility of the concept (see the latest issue of Fish Farming International).

However,