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Why Farmed Fish Are Taking Over Our Dinner Plates

14 points by mcenedella 12y ago

ChuckMcM 12y ago
Not easy to get to the original article but worth a read. Basically it describes Japan's progress in farming bluefin tuna which is a particularly difficult species to farm.
- maxerickson 12y ago
  The article link from yesterday works straightaway for me: http://online.wsj.com/articles/why-farmed-fish-are-taking-over-our-dinner-plates-1415984616 http://online.wsj.com/articles/why-farmed-fish-are-taking-ov... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610456
benjaminjackman 12y ago
I feel like whoever did the web-ui for that article needs to (re)read this: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/scroll/ http://bost.ocks.org/mike/scroll/ rather than mimicing it poorly (previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8551724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8551724) For example here is another article that has much better scroll behaviour and provides a much better smoother user experience (at least on my machine): http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-sea/ http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-s... Particularly when the images appear, on the nytimes article text keeps scrolling providing continuous feedback, in the wsj article opacity slowly changes, which is a lot harder to notice, and made me think for a second that the page got stuck, plus forced me to scroll a lot to move the page forward. I guess the general rule of thumb is that text scrolls up the page as normally as any other website (albeit with perhaps more spacing between paragraphs on image / video dense pages), and images/videos will fade in and out in the background using a fixed position. Then when it's a dense text-only section the image will lock into the top/bottom of the text block and scroll with it. Still a really good article! Good to see market solutions are developing in response to over-fishing problems.
dang 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610456
Animats 12y ago
Great progress on fish farming. Catching wild fish doesn't scale; it leads to overfishing and population collapse. This scales. Many fish have been farmed for decades, but they're usually the ones at the bottom of the food chain. Tuna are further up. I wonder if this reduces the mercury content in tuna. Predator fish concentrate mercury, enough so that pregnant women shouldn't eat them. Giant step backwards on web page display. You will watch all the embedded graphics, or else.

14 points by mcenedella 12y ago

Not easy to get to the original article but worth a read. Basically it describes Japan's progress in farming bluefin tuna which is a particularly difficult species to farm.

maxerickson 12y ago
The article link from yesterday works straightaway for me: http://online.wsj.com/articles/why-farmed-fish-are-taking-over-our-dinner-plates-1415984616 http://online.wsj.com/articles/why-farmed-fish-are-taking-ov... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610456

benjaminjackman 12y ago

I feel like whoever did the web-ui for that article needs to (re)read this: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/scroll/ http://bost.ocks.org/mike/scroll/ rather than mimicing it poorly (previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8551724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8551724) For example here is another article that has much better scroll behaviour and provides a much better smoother user experience (at least on my machine): http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-sea/ http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-s... Particularly when the images appear, on the nytimes article text keeps scrolling providing continuous feedback, in the wsj article opacity slowly changes, which is a lot harder to notice, and made me think for a second that the page got stuck, plus forced me to scroll a lot to move the page forward. I guess the general rule of thumb is that text scrolls up the page as normally as any other website (albeit with perhaps more spacing between paragraphs on image / video dense pages), and images/videos will fade in and out in the background using a fixed position. Then when it's a dense text-only section the image will lock into the top/bottom of the text block and scroll with it. Still a really good article! Good to see market solutions are developing in response to over-fishing problems.

dang 12y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610456

Animats 12y ago

Great progress on fish farming. Catching wild fish doesn't scale; it leads to overfishing and population collapse. This scales. Many fish have been farmed for decades, but they're usually the ones at the bottom of the food chain. Tuna are further up. I wonder if this reduces the mercury content in tuna. Predator fish concentrate mercury, enough so that pregnant women shouldn't eat them. Giant step backwards on web page display. You will watch all the embedded graphics, or else.