Cushty Corporation » farm http://www.cushty.com trying to figure it all out.... Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:44:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Fish Farm? http://www.cushty.com/2010/03/fish-farm/ http://www.cushty.com/2010/03/fish-farm/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:01:27 +0000 cushty http://www.cushty.com/?p=307 This is nuts: It takes around 6 tonnes of wild fish to reduce to 1 tonne of fishmeal, and then anything from 1.5 to 3 tonnes of meal to produce 1 tonne of farmed salmon. Comprende? we catch and kill 6 tonnes of wild fish to turn it in to 1 tonne of fishmeal…to then feed to other fish…to then kill and eat.

“Farmed fish are fed oils and meal made from other fish: close to a third of the catch from the world’s fisheries is used for non-food products, with the majority being converted into fishmeal and fish oil.” (read more)

Now, I like a salmon steak as much as anyone, but if this is the main way we have of producing ‘farmed’ fish, then something is sadly wrong don’t you think?

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