Laxaþjóð | A Salmon Nation | Patagonia Films

Patagonia Films – This film from GreenMoney’s Nov. 2024 issue tells the story of a country united by its lands and waters, and the power of a community to protect the wild places and animals that helped forge its identity. Our relationship with nature not only defines our history, it shapes our future, too. Yet beneath the surface of Iceland’s fjords, an industrial fish farming method threatens to destroy one of the last remaining wildernesses. Open net salmon farms wreak havoc on the fragile environments they’re placed in, polluting pristine ecosystems while mistreating the farmed fish and driving local salmon populations to extinction. It’s an industry at odds with Iceland’s untouched landscape, and as a growing local movement has shown, nothing replaces nature.