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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Fish farms are a thing too (and an ecological problem)
It's still much better than depleting wild fish stocks AFAIK.
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
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.
Arenβt these endangered now due to overfishing?
Goodbye seafood. Hello fish farming?
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.
That's not too inconsistent, we've depleted stocks of fisheries all over the world, and the solution is - fish-farming, on land!
You can also farm fish, so it's more fisherman exploitation than simple demand for fish.
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