New Study Maps the Fishmeal Factories That Supply the World’s Fish Farms
Fish farms boomed globally in recent decades — more than half the world’s seafood now comes from aquaculture — but it’s not a boom all environmentalists support. One argument that critics of industrial aquaculture make is that the fishmeal and fish oil used to make the feed for popular carnivorous species like salmon is not sustainably or ethically sourced. Yet it’s been hard to have a comprehensive understanding of where the fishmeal and fish oil comes from — until now.
In April, scientists published the first-ever open-source map of...
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