This picture is a conversation between four creatures. in the middle is spirit salmon, carrier of the Divine DNA of all salmon, iconic fish, sacred to many cultures and central part of ecological food chains in bringing nutrients from the sea to the higher reaches of the rivers.

Industrial farming of salmon has seen every aspect of these farmed salmons lives controlled and modified by humans, in the pursuit of fast-growing fish that will give maximum profit. Under industrial mass production they are no longer considered sacred sentient creatures full of spirit but rather they are products. Here the farmed fish ask the spirit salmon, essence of all salmon how we got to this place of captivity control and wounding. The sea lice are also important creatures in this dialogue, one of the biggest challenges for the salmon farming industry, because they exist in unnatural numbers, because of the unnatural concentrations of fish in such a small area. Sea lice and salmon have always coexisted in the wild, but when the ecological balance is shifted, their population has exploded, not only damaging the farmed fish who cannot escape them but also damaging and even decimating the wild fish that swim past the cages. Attempts to eradicate sea lice cost the salmon farming industry millions upon millions, and the eradication attempts themselves have caused wider ecological problems in terms of use of chemicals that also kill other creatures near the cages. The micro jelly fish (muggiaea Atlantic – I think) are also an important part of this meeting, because again in some areas there has been population explosions in areas of cages, which have caused damage to the gills of the caged salmon, essentially suffocating them en masse. I don’t fully understand the reasons for the jelly fish explosion, possibly linked to warming seas, but whenever there are unusually large concentrations of captive living beings, other creatures can move in.