Fish farms
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Fish farming, also known as aquaculture, is a growing industry providing much of the fish we eat. Unfortunately, like all intensive farming methods aquaculture has severe and unpublicised impacts on the environment.
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Understanding the fish farming
Use of antibtiotics
usual antibiotics resistance problems and they then pollute surrounding water ways
Use of fungicides
smiliar to antibiotics problems and they then pollute surrounding water ways
Steve McQueen's (escaped fish)
You can imagine the type. They jump over the edge of their crates and escape into the waterways. This doesn't sound like much of a problem, and it isn't if the fish gets predated quickly or at least dies before it has time to mate. ot respecting distribution of natural fish populations - problems with farm escapees breeding with the wild population and producing unfit off-spring - particularly in the case of salmon when they won't know where to go
Genetically modified fish
Problems with them escaping and interbreeding with wild population. Health time-bomb associated with eating them -yuk.
Contribution to overfishing
By feeding them farm fish sand eels and bi-catch that should have been left to be eaten by wild populations of fish and sea birds.
