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Shrimp and salmon aquaculture depletes worldwide fishing resources, new study finds [1]

It takes almost three pounds of wild fish to grow one pound of the commercially farmed delicacy, salmon. Similarly, shrimp farmings uses up more fish protein than it produces, and both degrade

Publication Date: 
30/10/1998
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Fisheries [2]

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