Aquaculture is the fastest growing food producing sector in the world according to those promoting a fish farmer's conference in Adelaide this week.
Farm Online have reported that there are 1,000 delegates at the conference and aquaculture is being talked-up with conference organising committee chair, Bruce Zippel, saying, "Many Australian primary producers are looking to supplement their incomes or moving into a more rewarding vocation .. and fish farming is seen as very attractive".
Aquaculture apparenty provides about 27 percent of total world seafood supply and some experts predict that within 25 years half of the fish we eat will be farmed.
quick question, i don't understand why this is even being discussed if we actually pay the full price for the wild fish we eat then we would not need farms as there would be only a very few people that could afford to eat fish and therefore the demand and need for farmed fish would vanish. i see most of these "enviromental" issues steming from the fact that none of us either in the first or third world, pay the true cost of almost anything that we consume. the sooner we get to paying the true cost the sooner the planet and humanity can start to heal.
ps does anyone really see a difference between drowning a tuna or harpooning a whale?
Luke - it's time lag & certainty. Joe Bloggs can be certain that if he turns on the air-con, he'll be cool very soon. I like to sweat (glow) instead.
Davey - it's permaculture farming of fish (poo = N) in yr rice paddies that yr after, you ole hippy you.
I was once impressed by a report of Asian fish farmers suspending lamps over the ponds at night, so harvesting lots of insects as fish food. If these included winged termites (likely in the tropics) this would decrease methane emissions, so pleasing GWTB (Global Warming True Believers). Stink bugs might not be such a good idea. Some Asian carp grow well on grass clippings. How about community fish pond shrines in Australian suburbs, fed by Victa lawn mower worshippers? Just trying to help...
I think Ann should fret. Her avaiability of hydro and nuclear forces Australia into a very bad position re greenhouse per capita.
If only she could get those hydro and nuclear generating plants shut down Australia would be a good world citizen.
wjnd farms disrupt the flying pathways of birds and insects,set up electromagnet fields in the near sky reduce the energy of winds and are not in your backyard.
My own favourite is wave generated electricity because they would drive all those surfers to get decent god fearing jobs.
Ann - fret not - just pointing out the ethical dilemmas for us all.