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Aquaculture is huge in Asia. China produces 61% of all of the farmed fish in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture#/media/File:Global_aquacultur
by scythe 6y ago
Aquaculture is huge in Asia. China produces 61% of all of the farmed fish in the world:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture#/media/File:Global_aquaculture_production_by_country_2010.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture#/media/File:Global...
What we need is to reduce the popularity of consuming "predator" fish species -- there is an abundant supply of forage fish, but these are often caught and fed to farmed fish! Sardines and herring aren't popular today, but they'd be a lot more appetizing and sustainable if we just froze them on the boat instead of grinding them into fishmeal to be fed to tilapia or salmon. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forage_fish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forage_fish
- rdtwo 6y agoBut they are also overfished and under pressure
- scythe 6y agoThey are overfished largely in order to be fed to other animals. Similarly we clear too much land to farm corn but we do it because it gets fed to animals. But nobody would refer to this to argue against eating corn. I don't know how to quantify the potential sustainable yield of forage fish vs. the human diet, but I know that eating small fish is more sustainable than feeding them to larger fish and eating those.