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Farmed seafood: combatting lies with facts

Year of publication 2000

Pages 16-17

Author Anon.; ;Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) It is environmentally responsible to buy and sell farmed seafood? This is increasingly being asked of consumers and retailers. Unfortunately, only one side of the story is being told. We need to respond clearly with facts, such as: aquaculture is the only sustainable mechanism to increase seafood production. The world’s population exceeds six billion and is still growing. To feed us all for the next 40 years, we need to produce more than all the food produced since the beginning of time. How c an we do that? Ocean eatches seems to have reached their limit. The solution is farming – the same as ages go when wild game became scarce.

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