Overfishing and Fish Farming

The cluster centers on the depletion of wild fish stocks due to overfishing and debates fish farming/aquaculture as a sustainable alternative, while highlighting its environmental drawbacks like reliance on wild feed, disease spread, and ecosystem damage.

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Iv β€’ Oct 13, 2017 β€’ View on HN

Fish farms are a thing too (and an ecological problem)

danmaz74 β€’ Aug 25, 2017 β€’ View on HN

It's still much better than depleting wild fish stocks AFAIK.

oblio β€’ Aug 17, 2020 β€’ View on HN

We badly need some sort of industrial fish farming at a large scale. Oceanic fishing at this point is basically like hunting gathering at an industrial scale: we just catch whatever we can and who cares if it grows back, not our problem, "nature" will take care of it. The same way we seed, till, etc., we should be doing the same thing with oceans and "hunting" aka fishing should only be allowed as a hobby.In a somewhat "positive" side effect of what they're

mrsquid β€’ May 26, 2016 β€’ View on HN

It's simple. Natural habitants such as salmon have been fished to near extinction, and the squids are simply replacing their place in the eco system.

TedDoesntTalk β€’ Nov 21, 2021 β€’ View on HN

Aren’t these endangered now due to overfishing?

badcarbine β€’ Aug 26, 2023 β€’ View on HN

Goodbye seafood. Hello fish farming?

candiddevmike β€’ May 9, 2023 β€’ View on HN

Not sure why you are being downvoted. Salmon (mentioned in other siblings) is a perfect example of over fishing, and the farmed stuff tends to be of terrible quality and fed absolute garbage/treated terribly.

blacksmith_tb β€’ May 12, 2017 β€’ View on HN

That's not too inconsistent, we've depleted stocks of fisheries all over the world, and the solution is - fish-farming, on land!

Retric β€’ Feb 26, 2018 β€’ View on HN

You can also farm fish, so it's more fisherman exploitation than simple demand for fish.

imnotlost β€’ Feb 21, 2022 β€’ View on HN

More than half of seafood is now produced from farmed fish so my guess is that it is possible. The fish farming industry has a wide range of serious problems but maybe it could save ocean wildlife?https://ourworldindata.org/rise-of-aquaculture