Fishing expert:
Posted on 11/27/2025 7:14:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
"All of you that supported our cause, it went beyond our wildest dreams"
Björk has celebrated her 60th birthday by detailing how proceeds from a previous single have helped bring lawsuits against the Icelandic State.
Two years ago, Björk teamed up with Rosalía and Sega Bodega on the track ‘Oral’, with all proceeds from the song being donated to support the legal fight against foreign-owned salmon farming in Iceland, brought by residents of Seyðisfjörður.
When the song was released, Björk detailed legal action towards the Icelandic government to help combat fish farming.
“We have a team of people from the biggest environmental groups in Iceland with lawyers that will take on other open net pen fish farming cases, I would like to thank them all for all their hard voluntary work,” Björk wrote at the time. “Industrial salmon farming in open net pens is horrid for the environment. The farmed salmon goes through immense suffering, and it causes severe harm for our planet. This is an extraordinarily cruel way to make food. The fight against the open net pen industry is a part of the fight for the future of the planet.”
Now, in a new Instagram post celebrating the song’s two year anniversary, Björk outlined specific details of four cases where proceeds from the song went to help others in their continuing legal fight.
“Today we are celebrating the 2 year anniversary of releasing “oral” with @rosalia.vt. I would like to thank her personally for this overgenerous gesture…you are everything…thank you!!! And all of you that supported our cause, it went beyond our wildest dreams how many took part…thank you!!!”
Björk continued: “the income all went into supporting Iceland to not be all submerged in the fish-farming industries…to invent a new legal environment to protect nature.”
Björk then went on to detail “four cases” they had been working on. “The first one is the original one I talked about, in Seyðisfjörður, to help locals stop the licensing process of a fish-farm to happen in their fjord against their will. Second: a more precise legal-case about the marine spatial planning in Seyðisfjörður. Third: Westfjord fish-farm-escapee cases in Tálknafjörður and Patreksfjörður. 4th: Sandeyri: to stop fish-farm that was built against a farmers will.”
Later on her post, the musician said on “21/11/25” – which is also her 60th birthday – they were filing a new case “today” and “summoning the Icelandic state.” “Stay tuned for this one because this landowner is nowhere near giving up and neither are we,” she said.
The musician added: “because of your generosity we are able to continue with more cases that will hopefully help with marine and water protection on a larger scale that we meet the 30 by 30 goal (to protect at least 30% of land and sea by 2030). I wish these can become exemplary cases in some way for all of you.”
Speaking to NME previously, Björk opened up about her continuing support of protecting the environment and how she found hope in young people challenging climate change. She said: “Gen Z-ers are really radical, and I’m relieved that the environment is a priority for them – I’m up for it! When I read the news, most of it won’t matter in 20 years. The only thing that really matters is how we deal with the environment.”
Recently, Björk also teamed up with Rosalía again – as well as Yves Tumor – for new single ‘Berghain’.
The lead single from Rosalía’s album ‘LUX’, the orchestral track takes its name from the iconic techno club in Berlin and has lyrics in German, Spanish and English alongside heavy classical influences.
Björk described herself as being “extremely honoured” to be on the song, writing on social media: “It is so thrilling to watch this woman grow. Congratulations to her with this incredible album … This concept is fierce!”
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Is this that tennis play guy?
I never eat farmed salmon, always get wild caught salmon.
“I never eat farmed salmon, always get wild caught salmon.”
yeah, we kept getting ill eating farmed shrimp and farmed salmon ... we thought it was just us until a friend said the same thing ...
shrimp are farmed in mud puddles doused with massive amounts of chemicals and antibiotics until the puddles become too toxic to reuse again, in which case they are abandoned and new, fresh mud puddles are dug ...
farmed seafood contains zero omega 3 fatty acids unless fed wild caught fish meal ... but almost all farmed fish are just fed corn meal ... farmed salmon have to be fed a chemical to turn them pink, because the food they’re fed doesn’t contain the natural colorant compounds ...
most farmed seafood is unhealthy ... there are some exceptions, mostly farms in natural ocean estuaries, such as oyster farming and yellowtail farming ...
That Celebrity Jeopardy series of skits from SNL is classic, back when that show was actually still funny… and that portrayal of Bjork is accurate.
and who can forget “Burt Reynolds” as “Turd Ferguson”…
“Sean Connery”’s insults were hilarious.
Fishing expert:
Yeah I’d say most people would choose wild caught salmon over farmed salmon.
Bjork is worried about the environmental impact of farmed salmon, and also the cruelty. Those strike me as leftwingy objections but I do find it interesting that she cites the foreign ownership. Makes me wonder if these are unethically run Chinese operations.
AI says Norway
Arctic Fish owned by Norwegian seafood giant MOWI .
Icelandic Salmon (parent company of Arnarlax and its subsidiaries): This entity is owned by the Norwegian aquaculture company SalMar.
Kaldvík (formerly Ice Fish Farm): This company is majority-owned by the Norwegian Måsøval family.
One of my favorite moments from SNL’s Jeopardy was right after one of the Sean Connery jibes — Trebek says, “I hate my job.”
https://www.myinstants.com/en/instant/i-hate-my-job-trebek-25661/
Eating farmed fish is a terrible idea. Inferior in nutrients. And who knows what the fish farmers feed them?
Same here.
But massive Asian based commercial trawler armadas that net everything in their path is a better environmental solution?
She made a truly unique music video with “All Is Full of Love”, which blew a lot of teenage brains. Lesbian robots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JE6rUwfckI
You have the wrong Björk.
Some of THE funniest skits ever.
That’s actually a rip-off of SCTV’s Half-Wits, with Eugene Levy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTDsJd1l7Aw
That...article...is very repetitive but fails to describe what exactly is harmful in these fish farms. I’ve read elsewhere that they feed anti biotics and other medications to the fish, so that could be one point. But I expected to have it all spelled out here.
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