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The world gets more seafood from aquaculture than wild catch (ourworldindata.org)
9 points by therabbithole 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



> The distinction between farmed fish and wild catch is similar to the difference between raising livestock rather than hunting wild animals.

Silly thought: does this mean aquaculture could eventually lead to new "breeds" of (a given species of) fish by artificial selection, significantly different from their wild counterparts?


The way some countries are farming the wild, there won’t be much left in the wild anyway.




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