Food and Water Watch investigate factory fish farming

Food and Water Watch investigated factory fish farming and look into weather it is environmentally sound or stable. The debris that leaks directly from the cages into the ocean contains untreated fish waste, excess feed and dead fish. The waste has been shown to alter fragile marine habitats, and with an already polluted ocean from agriculture, industrial and the recent oil spills we don't know what the ecological impact will be of yet another source of pollution. “Little is known about the assimilative capacity of the marine environment for these pollutants,” concludes a 2007 report commissioned by the Woods Hole Oceano-graphic Institution. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.