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Many fish farms are just converters from one kind of fish (that is caught in the wild but isn't popular in the supermarket) into another kind of fish (one of th

• mirimir 9y ago
  Indeed. From https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X16305516 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X1... > Finally, comments are presented on the proposition that aquaculture will overtake wild capture fisheries in terms of food production, notably because current aquaculture requires huge quantities of wild-caught fish as feed. Indeed, this emphasis on aquaculture-as-substitute for fisheries raises issues of food security and malnutrition in developing countries, from which much of the fish used as feed originates.
• bjelkeman-again 9y ago
  True, but there are fish, like tilapia that feed on plants instead and are easy to farm.