Fish farming overall may be supplementing the wild stocks, but for certain species, the farms cause a net loss of wild fish, warns a broad new review.
Some aquaculturists use up to 5 kilograms of wild fish as feed to grow 1 kg of carnivorous species like seabass and salmon, notes economist Rosamond L. Naylor of Stanford University.
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