#fish farms

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Fish Farms in Mexico

These small fish farms in Baja California promote their sustainable way of fishing in these coasts. Their small, circular shapes also look cute from the satellite view. Name: Fish Farms in Mexico Lat, Long: 31.794158,-116.786346 Location: Ensenada, Mexico

Fish Farms in Mexico

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Mass mortality:  A fish scientist follows a tip about die-offs at B.C. salmon farms

The province's Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the farm operator attribute mass die-off to low oxygen, but one scientist who visited one far-flung site in a kayak worries the real cause could be more complicated

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Gord Hill, 2018 (via Broken Pencil)

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In the ponds of an experimental fish farm in Muchocin in eastern Poland, hundreds of sturgeon are being given a special larvae and insect protein diet. The goal is to replace their regular fish feed with more sustainable sources of protein.

The company behind this innovative research is HiProMine. It's home to the European project that is developing innovative technological solutions to produce the alternative protein-larvae fish food.

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Makes sense. Insect and larvae would have naturally made up a large part of the diet of both fish and poultry had humans not intervened.

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Fish farms: £10m handouts, £900m profits and 300,000 tonnes of pollution

Six fish farming companies in Scotland given government handouts of over £10 million have made profits of £926 million since 2010.

Six fish farming companies in Scotland given government handouts of over £10 million have made profits of £926 million since 2010, The Ferret can reveal.

A total of 20 aquaculture industry bodies received 104 grants amounting to nearly £20 million over the last ten years from the Scottish Government, its enterprise agencies and the European Union.

Critics argue that “taxpayer bailouts” should not boost profits for an industry which they claim has dumped 300,000 tonnes of pollution in lochs and harmed marine wildlife. Campaigners question whether fish farming in its current form is environmentally sustainable.

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Toxic fish farm pesticide polluted ten lochs across Scotland

Ten lochs across Scotland have been polluted by a toxic pesticide used by fish farms to control fungus, parasites and disease.

Ten lochs across Scotland have been polluted by a toxic pesticide used by fish farms to control fungus, parasites and disease.

Figures released under freedom of information law reveal that more than 22 tonnes of formaldehyde, which causes cancer and is used as an embalming fluid, have been poured into cages to disinfect salmon over nine months in 2019.

The lochs affected include Loch Ness southwest of Inverness, Loch Sheil at Glenfinnan, Loch Lochy near Spean Bridge, and others in Sutherland, Wester Ross, Argyll and the Isle of Mull.

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Fish farms like these are environmentally unsustainable. Nearly everything that happens on fish farms damages the marine environment from the tons of pesticides to the rotting uneaten food and the rotting fish excrement that deplete the oxygen and kill bottom dwell marine animals. Matters have been made worse during the covid-19 outbreak because some restrictions on pesticide use have been lifted or weakened.

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Israeli Fish Farmers Give Peckish Pelicans Free Lunch

Israel (AFP): Migratory pelicans have long raided Israeli fish farms, which try to deter them with loudspeakers, laser beams and by firing blank rounds from rifles. In their desperation, they have come up with another way: offering the birds a free lunch. An estimated 50,000 pelicans stop off...