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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: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday October 22 2024, @04:18AM
Exactly. BS and FUD.
As if the fish-we-plan-to-eat wouldn't eat the same number of other fish in the wild?? Actually, as you say, a whole lot more of them.
Besides, farmed-fish food (at least in the US) isn't wild-caught fish as such. It's the pelleted byproducts from human food production, mostly slaughter waste from other critters (including wildcaught fish that are processed for human consumption, so it actually uses what humans would otherwise waste).
https://www.purinamills.com/products/fish-and-aquatics-feed [purinamills.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_fish_feed#Sustainability [wikipedia.org]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.