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More than half of seafood is now produced from farmed fish so my guess is that it is possible. The fish farming industry has a wide range of serious problems bu
by imnotlost 5y ago
More than half of seafood is now produced from farmed fish so my guess is that it is possible. The fish farming industry has a wide range of serious problems but maybe it could save ocean wildlife?
https://ourworldindata.org/rise-of-aquaculture https://ourworldindata.org/rise-of-aquaculture
- pvaldes 5y agoThey are comparing apples with oranges in that chart. Cultured algae, molluscs, crustaceans, echinoderms, and cultured fish versus... wild fish. So they are removing wild molluscs, crustaceans, echinoderms and wild algae from one side of the equation in an article that focus in the message that that part has decreased. Lying with statistics. If we compare wild fish against farmed fish only, the result would be really different. And there is pirate fishing also. Some companies under-report a percentage of their captures routinely, to hide that they fish more than are allowed to. Not so easy to do in sea farms when you can't produce more than the space assigned to you.
- kuhewa 5y agoI'm pretty sure the wild capture fisheries data includes shellfish etc. FAOs numbers for total fisheries production matches aquaculture + capture fisheries that says 'wild fish'. Often fish is used in a very loose sense in fisheries.