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According to clearsprings >Farmed seafood, in general, is a sustainable option, requiring far less feed per pound compared to other farmed sources of protein l
by yamazakiwi 4y ago
According to clearsprings
>Farmed seafood, in general, is a sustainable option, requiring far less feed per pound compared to other farmed sources of protein like beef, pork, and chicken.
That is one advantage if true but that just means more sustainable than beef, pork, and chicken.
Is there a condition that would prevent their farming? Like the accessibility of the feed?
- bombcar 4y ago> Conventional operations use large amounts of fishmeal and fish oil (and hence more wild fish) in their feed. All rainbow trout on the U.S. market is farmed-raised in the U.S., where farming operations are held to strict environmental standards. Improvements to feed have enabled less wild fish to be used. https://seafood.edf.org/trout https://seafood.edf.org/trout So I guess they harvest wild fish to feed the farmed fish?
- mickdeek86 4y agoFishmeal and oil are byproducts of processing the filets
- bombcar 4y agoThey can’t feed the fish only parts of previous fish or they’d run out of material pretty fast - like a recycling center with no external inputs.
- mickdeek86 4y ago...byproducts of processing the wild filets. I'm saying I doubt they're catching wild fish for the purpose of selling them to fish farms. Of course, it improves profit and hence incentive