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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (65180)	10/31/2002 7:44:27 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

Fish farming has its problems, of course. First, you have to feed them something. So you either have to grow grain to feed them, or harvest plankton, or whatever it is that you're going to feed them. Second, it takes a lot of antibiotics to keep a large number of fish growing in close proximity healthy. We have had fish farms up here for a few years, and you need an adequate water flow to flush the wastes of so many fish in such a small space, plus where does the waste wind up? And the antibiotics get into the water and affect wild stocks, and also are causing drug resistant strains to develop. All the same problems as farming on land. It has some benefit for smallish stocks, but for large scale production at the level to feed billions of people, it's going to be a problem.