Blogfish: Wild fish vs. Farmed fish

We have been following a blog called “Blogfish” for a while now. Good stuff to check out. In a past blog, they’ve written about Alaska’s “half-farmed salmon”. Today, they have a great post about the efficiency of farming fish – in relation to the amount of protein used. This information is relevant to our blog as we have continued to point to the fact that “farming” fish is much more efficient than “ranching” them.

As posted on Blogfish:

Time for a battle royal, a smackdown over who’s the real sustainable source of fish, fishing or fish farms.

Right now, fishing has the moral high ground with stories on contamination in farmed fish and ocean harm from fish farms. But aquaculture is making a strong push with economic clout and improving technology, and the acccurate pitch that the world needs farmed fish.

Now a fish farming business is making a run at the moral high ground of sustainability, with a striking new argument that actually rings true to me.

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