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Plenty of seafood is farmed. The majority of shrimp for instance comes from farms.
by missedthecue 6y ago
Plenty of seafood is farmed. The majority of shrimp for instance comes from farms.
- usrusr 6y agoOcean fish farming is more a conversion process than a production process. Most of the feed is wild catch fish.
- all_usernames 6y agoSomething like 3lbs of wild caught fish as feed to produce 1lb of farmed salmon.
- riffraff 6y agobut does this apply blanket-like to all farmed seafood, or is it mostly about fish? E.g. I would expect shrimp, mussels, clams to not be fed processed wild catch, unlike salmon.
- ajmadesc 6y ago100 Grams of shrimp has a carbon footprint of 198kg(436lb) https://phys.org/news/2012-02-tiny-shrimp-giant-carbon-footprint.html https://phys.org/news/2012-02-tiny-shrimp-giant-carbon-footp...
- philipkglass 6y agoThe numbers cited in there don't make sense. Something has to have been garbled from the original research report. The article says: The farms are inefficient, producing just one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of shrimp for 13.4 square kilometers (five square miles) of mangrove But Asian shrimp farms produce over a million tons of shrimp per year: http://www.shrimpnews.com/FreeReportsFolder/NewsReportsFolder/WorldShrimpFarmingProductionStats.html http://www.shrimpnews.com/FreeReportsFolder/NewsReportsFolde... If it takes 13.4 square kilometers of mangrove per kilogram of shrimp, Asian shrimp farms would occupy more than 13.4 * 1000 * 1000000 = 13,400,000,000 (13.4 billion) square kilometers of mangrove. That's about 26 times the surface area of Earth.
- benibela 6y agoMost shrimp farming uses a lot of antibiotics and destroys mangroves