There Be Dragons: Examining the alternatives to unsustainable
aquaculture fish feed February 23, 2010 update: I discovered
that the credit for the grasshopper photo was incorrect. The
photo is actually from tazintosh's Flickr collection and the
photo's Flickr page is here. My apologies to the photographer,
who has a great collection of photos in his Flickr collection,
including many other shots of plants and animals. This is part 2
of a series on aquaculture, inspired by a recent article
published by an international team of researchers in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (See PNAS 106
(36), 15103–15110, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0905235106. Summaries
available from Stanford University and Environmental Research
Web.) My first Ethicurean post, "New research on aquaculture
industry reveals murky waters surrounding fish-feed issue,"
looked at the current state of the industry: aquaculture
supplies almost 50 percent of the world's seafood, but to do so
it uses almost one-third of the wild fish captur