I hope you haven’t eaten yet. Or if you have, that it wasn’t sushi. Approximately 50% of seafood imported into the US (and remember, 80% of the seafood we eat here is imported) is factory farmed. These “farms” pack fish in fin-to-fin, causing conditions that foster bacterial infections, which are subsequently treated with antibiotics. Eating [...]
Archive for the ‘Aquaculture’ Category
16 Mar
NOAA Releases First National Aquaculture Policy Draft
Though it originally slipped past me, I was recently made aware (by way of a blog post on the Atlantic) of the release of NOAA’s Draft National Aquaculture Policy, which is intended to guide NOAA’s “actions and decisions on aquaculture and to provide a national approach for supporting sustainable commercial production, expanding restoration aquaculture, and [...]
