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It has been claimed that fish farming is a sustainable source of food that will help us feed the growing global human population while protecting wild fish populations – but this isn’t true.
“Fish farming is not a substitute for catching wild fish out of the ocean,” says Matthew Hayek at New York University. “In fact, it relies on catching wild fish out of the ocean.”
Hayek and his colleagues have shown that the amount of wild fish killed in order to feed farmed fish is between 27 and 307 per cent higher than previous estimates.
Farmed carnivorous fish eat multiple times more weight in wild fish caught from the ocean than is obtained by farming them, says Hayek. For instance, producing a kilogram of salmon may require 4 or 5 kilograms of wild fish.
(Score: 4, Touché) by JoeMerchant on Monday October 21 2024, @02:45PM
By out compete I guess you mean: kill, because more white mouths isn't a solution. At the scales we are talking about, that's genocide 10x larger than anything ever attempted before.
Hugo Drax tried to implement a similar solution in Moonraker - on movie theater screens in 1979. I agree with M and Q and James Bond: we don't want to handle it that way.
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