Listen to Björk and Rosalia’s defiant song to “help fight fish farming in Iceland”
nme.comBjörk and Rosalia have today released a song to “help fight fish farming in Iceland” – listen to the song below.The song came with a statement from Björk who said that all the profits from the song will “help the fight against fish farming in Iceland.”Björk wrote: “People at the Fjord Seyðisfjörður have stood up and protested against fish farming starting there.
We would like to donate sales of the song to help with their legal fees and hopefully it can be an exemplary case for others.”She continued: “Iceland has the biggest untouched nature in Europe and still today it has its sheep roaming free in the mountains in the summers.
Its fish has swum free in our lakes , rivers and fjords. So when Icelandic and Norwegian business men started buying fish farms in the majority of our fjords.
it was a big shock and rose up as the main topic this summer. We don’t understand how they had been able to do this for a decade with almost no regulations stopping them.“This has already had devastating effect on wildlife and the farmed fish are suffering in horrid health conditions and since a lot of them have escaped, they have started changing the DNA in the Icelandic salmon to the worse and could eventually lead to its extinction.”There is still a chance to [save] the last wild salmon of the north.
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