Stanford Magazine Explores Aquaculture
The March/April issue of Stanford Magazine examines the aquaculture industry in a feature entitled “Economy of Scales.” Author Paul Rogers focuses on the work of Stanford professor Rosamond Naylor, who has received a grant to help develop a “green label” for fish farms.
The article explains the environmental problems associated with fish farming and suggests guidelines for making the practice sustainable, while recognizing some consumers’ unconditional opposition to aquaculture.
The debate continues… aquaculture and the fundamentals of growing fish are not based on salmon as the sole species… however Salmon Farming is the portion of the industry that does receive considerable attention in the media… this article appears to be more balanced however than numerous others I have read…
Salmon in the amount of pounds produced pales in size compared to historic and present quantities of farmed fish of other species produced… Species that have been farmed for thousands of years in Asia… Farmed as subsistent food, or for trade and for sale…
It becomes very hard for the average person to filter out the pro’s and con’s when the attention often is one sided… bad news verses good news factor..
Raping the oceans of the wild fish is far less sustainable than farming and enhancing stocks… most wild stocks today were enhanced by aquaculture… spawned, hatched and cared for in hatcheries before release to the wild… The Alaskan wild salmon industry today owes a great deal of its health to hatchery aquaculture techniques…
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