There Be Dragons: Examining the alternatives to unsustainable aquaculture fish feed
This is part 2 of a series on aquaculture, inspired by a recent article published by an international team of researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (See PNAS 106 (36), 15103–15110, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0905235106 . Summaries available from Stanford University and Environmental Research Web .) My first Ethicurean post, ” New research on aquaculture industry reveals murky waters surrounding fish-feed issue ,” looked at the current state of the industry: aquaculture supplies almost 50 percent of the world’s seafood, but to do so it uses almost one-third of the wild fish captured at sea. This one will explore the pros and cons of the alternative feeds. With almost all of the ocean’s either fully exploited or overexploited, the future of our oceans and the aquaculture industry both depend on finding alternatives…
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Fish Developed With 'Six-Pack Abs'
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In Search of New Waters, Fish Farming Moves Offshore
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UNCW aquaculture facility explores salt-water fish farming
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In Search of New Waters, Fish Farming Moves Offshore
[Environment]As wild fish stocks continue to dwindle, aquaculture is becoming an increasingly important source of protein worldwide. Now, a growing number of entrepreneurs are raising fish in large pens in the open ocean, hoping to avoid the many environmental problems of coastal fish farms.
