Tuesday 15 August 2017

Farming fish in a tiny percentage of the oceans could feed the world

Ocean-farmed fish and seafood could meet global demand using only a tiny fraction of the world's ...

With a growing population, the world is looking more and more to the ocean as a source of food. But wild stocks of fish and other seafoods are being overexploited in many areas. Now, a study from UCLA suggests that if fish farming can be moved offshore, then an area of sea the size of Lake Michigan (0.025 percent of the ocean's surface), could meet the global demand for fish and allow wild stock to recover.

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