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By 2030, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, fish farming will dominate fish supplies. Given how wrong the FAO has been in the past--saying catches were going up when, in fact, they were going down--this statement is worth examining carefully. When you do, you find it to be an observation of previous trends, not a reflection of what could happen or what people might want--in the same way as Red Delicious was once far and away the most popular apple in the United States because it was
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― The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
― The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
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The scariest thing is that nobody seems to be considering the impact on those wild fish of fish farming on the scale that is now being proposed on the coast of Norway or in the open ocean off the United States. Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.
Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not
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― The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
― The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
