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posted by mrpg on Monday October 21 2024, @11:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the so-long... dept.

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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday October 23 2024, @12:19AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday October 23 2024, @12:19AM (#1378185)

    >and will ultimately win out.

    Yea team me! I am on the winning side!!!

    I agree, as long as freedom of communication and reasonably accurate reporting of facts continue to increase the way they have for the past 50 years, Atheism is the logical end-game for society.

    Now, as Florida and other states are succeeding in fragmenting public education into a lot of religious, charter and home schools, the students so raised learn intolerance for "others" stop speaking a common language of reason and logic... all it takes is a little clipping of the broadband connections and we're back to the 1700s in terms of social direction in the US...

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