Calling out secrecy in university research

Calling out secrecy in university research

In 2024, an academic paper was published in the Journal of Environmental Management [1] which reported on long-term ‘changes’ to the ecology of certain freshwater lochs in Scotland, all of which contain fish farms. The authors of the paper reported that seven lochs were studied “to better understand the impacts of in-lake fish farms on the quality of freshwater ecosystems…spanning the period before and after installation of the fish cages at the…