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Why Farming Fish Is More Unsustainable Than Catching Them In The Wild

posted by mrpg on Monday October 21 2024, @11:42AM   Printer-friendly
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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.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday October 21 2024, @10:04PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 21 2024, @10:04PM (#1378019) Journal

    The Georgia Guidestones suggested a limit of 0.5 billion

    We don't have a reason to care what number the creator of that monument pulled out of their ass(es).

    and that got them blown up by Anonymous Cowards in the night.

    Credibility doesn't come from having crazy enemies.

    The problem with inventing numbers about what the population of Earth should be, is that they ignore reality. There are over 8 billion people on Earth, and they aren't going away in the short term. My take remains that the best we can do for them is to create a global developed world civilization. That's probably the only way we will see 3.2 billion people again on Earth absent a die-off.