Question on Fish Farming

[zacs]

Originally Posted by Bass Babe

With all the food out there, do we really need to eat certain fish badly enough to farm them? Farming fish for food is unneccessary, and as already well-explained, dangerous, as is supplementing populations unnaturally. I'd eat some tofu instead of a farm-raised fish if I thought it would make a difference -- and I like my steak rare and still mooing.

Don't pee in the gene pool, kids!

That is down right crazy-talk. If I wasn't rushing out the door i would draft a long rebuttal. hopefully i will remember to come back to this thread.

Farming fish takes pressure off wild species. I have a lot more to say than that but I gotta run.

Zac

[goosefish]

Ever seen a street scene of Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, Bombay, and Rio De Janeiro. Me think we need fish farms, and shellfish farms, and more of them. But we need them to be as "green"as they can be. And I think that is where all this becomes very difficult. Welcome world to free enterprise!