QUOTE (johnmaloney @ Nov 17 2009, 04:18 AM) 
nastiness...you eat what you want nr nate, but you will never see me eat a farm raised tilapia. i have seen the farms, no thanks. 
QUOTE (johnmaloney @ Nov 17 2009, 11:27 AM)
the purpose of the food aquaculture industry is to reduce the cost of importing popular food fish, like tilapia for example, and to take pressure off wild stocks that are popular (like striped bass, sturgeon or cobia). It isn't to save fish scraps that are otherwise lost in the filleting practice, or to take pressure off bait fish that are abundant. what do you think those fish eat in the wild? fish love killing other fish and eating them, it is their thing.
As per the packard foundation, who is funding an effort at the moment to ban fishing in most of California and coincidentally are invested heavily in aquaculture, fish farms are the environmentally friendly alternative to ocean caught fish, when in reality they're putting huge strains on Peruvian anchovies and U.S. menhaden. Those baitfish are nowhere near abundant anymore, and their removal wrecks the reef's ecosystems
But that's an argument for a non-derailed thread
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