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Topic: Can we feed the world with farmed fish without destroying it?  (Read 826 times)

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halibutboy

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Aquaculture can take some of the pressure off the wild fish and shellfish stocks. The biggest problem will be resolving the ever increasing need for fish protein/oil in the commercial diets used to raise these animals. As the population grows so does the need for protein from the sea.  We have been at the maximum sustainable yield of 100 million metric tons annually for years now. Fish stocksare crashing around the world and we move on to target another species, cod, salmon, orange roughy, to name a few.
  The article shuold ave include a line indicating the increasing human population over the same time frame. You will see that as the population increases the amount of available protein from the aquatic environment becomes less and less per capita. Aquaculture is in the business to make money.  They aren't in the business based on some  alturistic need to feed the world.
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Squidder K

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My answer is no, and nor should we.  Until we start to rethink the whole idea of conception, and realize we are over populating areas of the world that cannot support itself who are we to decide that every living creature needs to be for us, and us alone.  UNICEF should start giving out free birth control instead of food.  Every drought in the Sudan or elsewhere results in death, not just of humans but animals as well.  I get tired of people thinking throwing money at some charity is going to fix the problem.  If all you know is to have 8-10 kids full knowing half won't live to see 18, you have 8-10 kids, because some one needs to support you when you get old.  But if all 8-10 kids live , and they have 8-10 kids then what happens?  Exponentially the problem gets worse with each generation we save.  The planet is slowly running out of drinking water, it won't surprise me if in 20  years Canada is a word power as they have all the water.
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Agree with Squidder.
Too many damn people on this rock.
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