How exactly do farmed seafood not result in land use change? Okay, it’s not “land” but an open pen fish/clam/shrimp/whatever farm absolutely has detrimental impacts on the local aquatic ecosystem. They’re breeding grounds for disease that get into the native populations, as well as leakage excess nutrients causing algal and phytoplankton blooms.
Maybe more importantly for the land use change category, whatever aquatic ecosystem within, close to, and under your seafood pen is absolutely getting annihilated. Combined with the fact that the vast majority of aquatic biodiversity is along the shore, which is also where aquaculture places the pens, it could be even worse than bulldozing the same area on dry land.
Ya it seems they left that out, or maybe it doesn’t contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, but obvi does put out a lot of contaminants into oceans and rivers.
How exactly do farmed seafood not result in land use change? Okay, it’s not “land” but an open pen fish/clam/shrimp/whatever farm absolutely has detrimental impacts on the local aquatic ecosystem. They’re breeding grounds for disease that get into the native populations, as well as leakage excess nutrients causing algal and phytoplankton blooms.
Maybe more importantly for the land use change category, whatever aquatic ecosystem within, close to, and under your seafood pen is absolutely getting annihilated. Combined with the fact that the vast majority of aquatic biodiversity is along the shore, which is also where aquaculture places the pens, it could be even worse than bulldozing the same area on dry land.
Ya it seems they left that out, or maybe it doesn’t contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, but obvi does put out a lot of contaminants into oceans and rivers.