New Aquaculture Study Says Shift From Wild Fish to Plant Feed is Less Environmentally Sustainable
In a stunning new study from the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling in Scotland, scientists have found that over Europe’s twenty-year reduction of using wild fishmeal and fish oil as an ingredient in farmed fish food, while good for the sustainability of forage fish, has had unintended consequences on the overall environmental footprint of European aquaculture.
From 2000 to 2020, the European aquaculture industry reduced its overall use of wild‑caught fish as feed by 13%...
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