Aquaculture, which has been relieving pressure off of the wild fish stock has suddenly started doing too much by “giving one and taking ten in return”. Farmed fish are farmed using fish oil and meal made from millions of tonnes of wild-caught fish, most of which is food-grade and could be eaten directly to provide vital nutrition. Hence, nutritious fish stocks are being squandered daily. Scientists studying the Scottish salmon farming industry say that using only fish by-products, such as trimmings for salmon feed, rather than whole wild-caught fish, would allow 3.7 million tonnes of fish to be left in the sea, and enable global annual seafood production to increase by 6.1 million tonnes.
As it has been well known that Aquaculture has an important role in meeting global food demand, nevertheless, their cultivation should not be at the expense of nutritious wild fish which can also serve local consumption rather than farmed fish feed.
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Retrieved on: 02/05/2022
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By: Oladayo Awokunle