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More Fish Horror Stories

  • April 28, 2004

If you read this site regularly you will know that I am no fan of farmed fish as industrial fish farming raises many of the same concerns about chemicals and pollutants that are associated with feedlot cattle and factory chicken farms. Today, farms typically put 50,000 to 90,000 fish in a pen 100 feet by 100 feet. A single farm can grow 400,000 fish. Others raise a million or more. Unfortunately, a farm of 400,000 salmon flushes nitrogen and phosphorus into the water at levels equivalent to...