There is a lot of bad talk surrounding the idea of farmed salmon, and for good reason. Most farms are located in pens along the coast where the food and feces of the enclosed salmon pollutes the open ocean that surrounds them. Salmon farming is also environmentally harmful in that it takes three pounds of wild fishmeal to produce only one pound of farmed salmon. The pesticides and antibiotics used by farmers to prevent disease also get out into the open ocean and are ingested by wild fish. Though many flaws exist, sustainable salmon farming is a possibility.
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What a bunch of rubbish. Before mouthing off on something you obviously don’t know anything about, you should do the minimal amount of homework. Farmed salmon are typically given a diet consisting of 25-35% fish meal. Conversion rates (amount of feed to produce a certain amount of fish) are normally between 1.1 and 1.4 for farmed salmon (a lot higher for wild salmon), which means it takes somewhere between 0.28 and 0.49 pounds of fish meal to produce a pound of farmed salmon.
Admittedly this blurb from the article does give that appearance. However, in the full article it is addressed less aggressively’. If you had done that, you would have noted that the author was not saying ‘all’ and that the movement is on to change that.
It’s not my area, but I do know that new ‘fish meal reduced’ food for farmed salmon is producing very good results (about a 169% growth ration).