Bittman on farmed and wild fish

[maarten]

It's worth reading Mark Bittman's column on the state of fish production. Industrially farmed fish is often fed fish meal, needing several pounds of feed to raise one pound of people-food, something that's awefully reminiscent of the many pounds of corn/soy/etc needed to raise one pound of beef in a feed lot. The fish meal feed is made from less

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[eldan]

I didn't realise the ratio was that bad for farmed tuna....

Some farmed fish are also fed corn, which runs into directly the same problems as concentrated animal feeding operations.