Seafever
Well-Known Member
Watched this doc on t.v. last night. It's a couple years old but the info appears pertinent. Deals with overfishing worldwide. At one point they talked about fishfarms and how these are counterproductive. I thought they were going to launch into a discussion about viruses etc.. But they didn't. They said the reason fishfarms are not good is because:- they use up way more fish to feed the salmon they produce than the actual amount of salmon produced. When they showed how many ground-up anchovy it takes to feed a salmon farm for one year I almost fell out of my chair. They stated that overall a fishfarm uses up more fish than it produces, so therefor a fishfarm does not increase the amount of fish available...it instead reduces it. They said that if we all ate anchovy instead of farmed fish we would actually eat less anchovy than they use to feed the fish...and...we'd be healthier. So...viruses or not, it's a no-go for farms according to the scientists and fish number-crunchers. (Sorry if this subject has already been covered in the farm threads..)