Bad rap and other parasites ping.
Although, I don’t know that I disagree with this.
Now, if we could arrange to feed the fish locusts...
Thanks decimon. This could be a good business for Michiganders.
More sauce, less rice.
Aquaculture works a lot better at sea than in coastal areas. It’s not particularly hard. Nets descending from anchored pontoons, with hatchery fish raised inside the nets, the water kept clean and aerated by the ocean current.
This avoids coastal pollution, and a lot of the parasite and disease problems.
Importantly, while enormous fish farms could provide huge amounts of food, the technique can also be used to restore populations depleted through overfishing. After they are a certain size, then nets are moved so that they will meet up with the natural fish of their species, then opened, hopefully to cause a “breeding frenzy”.
I say we should UNILATERALLY fertilize (lightly to prevent overgrowth of algae) the areas of the Southern Ocean that currently produce little biomass. Huge amounts of CO2 would be removed from the atmosphere while providing billions of pounds of seafood for the world’s poorest nations. In most of that ocean, the only nutrient missing is iron, so we’re talking trace amounts. Oh yeah, then we sell carbon credits to anyone dumb enough to buy them.
But feeding the fish corn (and usually the most chemically-laden corn at that) completely eliminates the omega 3 fats that make fish so healthy for us to eat. I avoid farmed fish for that reason.
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Gracious! You all should review the [71] comments from the CBCnews.ca readers. Some very informed commentary. Most especially about the parasite problem.
Unfortunately, I ain’t equipped to say, but there are quite a few weighing in saying the regional farmed-salmon-poop problem is being unfairly blamed for the fact that Victoria, BC is still discharging untreated waste into the Straits of Juan de Fuca.
(you have to work your way through the local political lip-splittin’).
When I was a kid in the late 50s they had fish farms north of Tawas. I think they were raising carp but I am not sure. But I saw the ponds.