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Unless it's some guy with a fishing rod or anchovies -- no industrial fishing is not sustainable. Even salmon farms are fed with 20x the mass of smaller wild fish from the ocean.

I love eating fish but this is a fact we all have to face.



It is indeed a fact we have to face, and the best way to do it is to stop eating fish, if you have the luxury to be able to do that and other foods are available.


It’s not a luxury in terms of money, for the developed world. Fish is much more expensive than vegetables, soy, and other proteins.

Availability is an issue in poorer locales, but unless you’re a fisherman yourself fish is also quite expensive.


>Even salmon farms are fed with 20x the mass of smaller wild fish from the ocean.

The feed ratio for farmed salmon isn't 20, it's 1.2.

12 pounds of feed for 10 pounds of salmon.

The ratio is about 6 for beef, 4 for pork, 1.6 for poultry.

People who don't know things or make up statistics to support their environmental doom narrative do harm to the causes they are trying to help. Anyone skeptical of you can easily find your numbers are false, and very very false at that. Why would anybody believe any of the rest of what you have to say when clearly it's demonstrable that you don't know what you're talking about on an easily countered point.




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