• DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    I regularly watch Masaru take apart all kinds of wild caught fish and they’re almost all litered with parasites. I wonder if that’s normal or the result of some stressor.

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      1 year ago

      Fish farming is especially bad for diseases and parasites. The densities of fish farms are truly insane leading to high rates of disease, waste accumulation, very high fish mortality rates, etc.

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          I’m not aware of an industry where more subsidies have brought more sustainability. Certainly not the meat industry. Subsidies have brought mega-farms, more profits, and maybe lower prices. But not sustainability.

          And for as long as we’re talking about raising carnivorous fish like salmon, I don’t see how it could ever be sustainable, given that carnivorous fish needs to eat food caught by very unsustainable fishing.

          The only really sustainable aquaculture products are bivalves and seaweed: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03889-2