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To be honest, this has very little to do with fishing practices. It's more about the temperature of the ocean. There are some folks who think by catch (a very

To be honest, this has very little to do with fishing practices. It's more about the temperature of the ocean. There are some folks who think by catch (a very destructive externality from ocean floor trawling) has an impact on this fishery but unfortunately that's more of a guess. The science certainly shows that the temperature anomaly literally preempts reproduction. So heat waves eviscerated an entire generation, perhaps multiple generations. So can you affect the temperature of the ocean? Not anymore than you can stop global warming. Even if you did everything to become carbon negative, it's gonna be getting warmer before it gets back to normal temperatures. But stopping eating seafood would be a good start. Lowering demand for them means that they have a chance of surviving through to a time when climate change could be reigned in, maybe in several decades.

standardUser 4y ago
Or eat more farmed seafood, or seafood that we have high confidence can be safely harvested, per the link I posted above.
- dathos 4y ago
  Or just dont eat seafood, even farmed Salmon is having a massive impact on nature around it
  - saiya-jin 4y ago
    Not only that, its meat is much lower quality / health benefits compared to wild salmon, much closer to pork. Eating BIO variant won't help that much with that
  - standardUser 4y ago
    What an oddly narrow comment. Many types of seafood are farmed and very few have the environmental concerns that Salmon has when it is farmed adjacent to natural waters. It's almost like you lead with cynicism and then leave no room for facts.
- liotier 4y ago
  Farmed seafood requires protein input, which currently is mostly wild fish. Expanding insect production for animal feed would be significant progress.
  - codeisawesome 4y ago
    That's interesting; when searched there seems to be very little mainstream media coverage of the concept. What are some of the disadvantages of the insect feed approach for aquaculture?
    - liotier 4y ago
      Large scale insect production for animal feed has only been going for about a decade, so not much hindsight - but so far it is looking great: https://www.science.org/content/article/feature-why-insects-could-be-ideal-animal-feed https://www.science.org/content/article/feature-why-insects-...

standardUser 4y ago

Or eat more farmed seafood, or seafood that we have high confidence can be safely harvested, per the link I posted above.

dathos 4y ago
Or just dont eat seafood, even farmed Salmon is having a massive impact on nature around it
- saiya-jin 4y ago
  Not only that, its meat is much lower quality / health benefits compared to wild salmon, much closer to pork. Eating BIO variant won't help that much with that
- standardUser 4y ago
  What an oddly narrow comment. Many types of seafood are farmed and very few have the environmental concerns that Salmon has when it is farmed adjacent to natural waters. It's almost like you lead with cynicism and then leave no room for facts.
liotier 4y ago
Farmed seafood requires protein input, which currently is mostly wild fish. Expanding insect production for animal feed would be significant progress.
- codeisawesome 4y ago
  That's interesting; when searched there seems to be very little mainstream media coverage of the concept. What are some of the disadvantages of the insect feed approach for aquaculture?
  - liotier 4y ago
    Large scale insect production for animal feed has only been going for about a decade, so not much hindsight - but so far it is looking great: https://www.science.org/content/article/feature-why-insects-could-be-ideal-animal-feed https://www.science.org/content/article/feature-why-insects-...