• Do fish farms really add to the world's supply of fish? -- While ocean fisheries are in decline, commercial fish farming ­ or aquaculture ­ is booming. Farmers now produce more than one-fourth of all the finfish and shellfish worldwide. This rapid rise in aquaculture production "is a mixed blessing, however, for the sustainability of ocean fisheries." Popular (Added: 20-May-2003 Hits: 4303 Rating: 7.00 Votes: 7) Rate It

• Down Side of Fish Farms -- Commercial fish farming, which is viewed as the best alternative to depleting the large finfish and shellfish populations in ocean waters, may become a major threat to other fish populations, a new study warns. Popular (Added: 20-May-2003 Hits: 3274 Rating: 5.50 Votes: 2) Rate It

• Ecology Body Warns of Dangers from Fish Farms -- The explosion in fish farming in coastal waters around the world is a mounting danger to the environment and to the survival of wild species, the conservation organization WWF-International said yesterday. (Added: 22-Aug-2003 Hits: 1800 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 4) Rate It

• Escaping farmed salmon pose risks -- When farmed salmon escape, they pose several problem to wild species: (1)Escaped salmon can be carriers of disease and parasites, which pose a threat to wild salmon populations; (2) When the species farmed is native to an area there may still be an impact from escaped farmed salmon breeding with populations of wild salmon that are genetically adapted to specific streams... (Added: 23-May-2003 Hits: 1354 Rating: 8.50 Votes: 2) Rate It

• Facts about Shrimp Farming -- This Factsheet comes from Greenpeace's website and is meant to point out the disadvantages of shrimp aquaculture. (Added: 5-Jun-2003 Hits: 1252 Rating: 5.77 Votes: 9) Rate It

• Farmed Salmon Heavy in Chemicals, Group Says -- Farmed salmon, which Americans are scarfing down because it is supposed to be healthy, may actually be carrying high levels of cancer-causing chemicals called PCBs, an environmental group says. (Added: 22-Aug-2003 Hits: 1181 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Farmed salmon sinks prices, threatens wild fishery -- In just the past year, global farmed-salmon production increased 18 percent to reach 2.5 billion pounds, far outweighing the 1.65 billion-pound wild-salmon haul. (Added: 20-May-2003 Hits: 994 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Fish farm feed depletes ocean stocks -- Each year, some 80 million tonnes of wild fish are caught from the world’s oceans. Nearly one-third is used to make feed for farmed fish. The irony is that fish farming is widely viewed — and marketed — as a way to take pressure off wild fish. (Added: 15-May-2003 Hits: 1956 Rating: 9.72 Votes: 7) Rate It

• Fish farming lessens quality -- "Fish farming has been practiced worldwide for thousands of years. However, in recent years, corporate interests have responded to the increasing public demand for fish in industrialized countries. Large corporate interests have emphasized profits over sound farming practices and, in the protein deprived developing countries, raising fish for export instead of feeding poor people." (Added: 23-May-2003 Hits: 1223 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Frankenfish spawn controversy -- Already, the prospect of mutant fish escaping and disrupting already threatened wild populations has prompted lawmakers in several states to take pre-emptive steps. California could become the first state to ban transgenic fish outright. (Added: 20-May-2003 Hits: 1000 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Hatcheries not working for salmon -- Salmon raised at a Canadian fish farm rapidly evolved to produce smaller eggs, according to a study that heightens doubts about whether hatchery-bred fish can be successfully released into the wild to rebuild endangered species. (Added: 15-May-2003 Hits: 857 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Hatcheries spread diseases -- New research shows that hatchery-reared fish can spread a fungus implicated in the mass deaths of amphibian embryos in the Pacific Northwest. This is the first evidence that fish- stocking can spread amphibian diseases. (Added: 15-May-2003 Hits: 1198 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Hatchery-produced fish are too expensive -- Economists have figured out the cost of Columbia Basin salmon returning from the sea, and it is higher than expected. The cost per fish: $64.35 for a fall chinook, $179.39 for a steelhead, $4,646.17 for a chinook from the Nez Perce Tribal Hatchery, and $7,437.50 for a protected sockeye salmon from the Eagle Hatchery in Idaho. (Added: 15-May-2003 Hits: 927 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Maine Salmon Farms Closed to Benefit Wild Salmon -- On the heels of a report that says seven countries, including the United States, have failed to even minimally protect them, a federal judge ordered Maine's largest salmon aquaculture company to empty its salmon rearing pens to give its polluted bays and the wild salmon time to recover. (Added: 22-Aug-2003 Hits: 792 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• More Harm Than Good? -- "While fish farming on balance still adds to the world's fish supply, some trends are headed in the wrong direction. Many types of aquaculture are hastening a worldwide fisheries collapse through practices that rely too much on feeding wild caught fish to farmed fish. Some aquaculture systems also reduce wild fish supplies by destroying fish habitats and collecting wild fish to stock fish farms. So concludes a recent paper in the journal Nature." (Added: 20-May-2003 Hits: 1390 Rating: 9.33 Votes: 3) Rate It

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