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Farmed seafood exceeded global beef production for the first time in 2011 and now provides about half of all fish consumed by humans.
Yet aquaculture comes with a host of problems, from pollution of coastal areas and ecosystems, to sanitary issues and diseases, to the major challenge facing aquaculture: the issue of fish feed. The industry relies heavily on wild-caught species at the bottom of the food chain for the fish meal and fish oil needed to feed the farm-raised stocks. This has led to a decline in sardines, anchovies, and other natural forage fish.
Experts warn much more work is needed to ensure fish farming can be expanded without despoiling the environment or depleting the oceans of other species.
The challenge will be to do it as efficiently and sustainably as possible…
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Aquaculture in Northeast China; NASA / Earth Observatory (09-28-2015)
Farmed Fish Consumption At Record High, UN Report Reveals, Guardian UK (05-19-2014)
Humans have never eaten so much fish and other seafood, but nearly half of it is no longer caught wild but is grown in farms, says the United Nations. The rapid growth in the number of people living near coasts and fish farming’s ability to keep up with population growth has seen per capita fish consumption soar from 10kg per person in the 1960s to more than 19kg in 2012…
Fish Farms at Sea: The Ground Truth from Google Earth, PLos One (02-10-2012)
Impacts Of Intensive Salmon Farming On Coastal Ecosystems, Guardian Uk (02-22-2011)
A new salmon-farming trade deal with China has terrifying implications on Scotland’s coastal ecosystem…
Impacts of Salmon Farms on Coastal Ecosystem Discovered Accidentally
The Horrors Of Salmon Farming, Explained
Fish Farms Cause Rapid Sea-Level Rise, Nature (08-16-2013)
Groundwater extraction for fish farms can cause land to sink at rates of a quarter-metre a year, according to a study of China’s Yellow River delta. The subsidence is causing local sea levels to rise nearly 100 times faster than the global average…
Chinese Foreign Fisheries Catch 12 Times More Than Reported, Study Shows, Science Daily (04-03-2013)
