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by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Fish farms are the water-based equivalents of land-based concentrated animal feeding operations, and as such they create the same, if not worse, environmental concerns Since the salmon pens are placed along wild salmon runs, they pose a severe threat to wild salmon that pass by, exposing wild fish to […]
by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE Aquaculture promotes itself as a sustainable solution to overfishing, but it actually takes 1.5 to 8 kilograms (3.3 to 17.6 pounds) of wild fish to produce a single kilogram (2.2 pounds) of farmed salmon Fish farms pollute the aquatic environment and spread disease to wild fish. Farmed fish are also […]
Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE Farm-raised fish production has skyrocketed 527% in the last three decades An estimated 50% of fish eaten worldwide comes from fish farms More than one-third of “wild-caught” salmon from the Faroe Islands (tucked between Iceland and Norway in the North Atlantic Ocean) are actually farmed fish that escaped Mowi USA, the […]