Originally Posted by GuyM
"75% of all fish consumed in the world is farm raised."

I didn't know that! 90% of the fish consumed in this house is caught by me or one of my sons. Usually salmon or steelhead.


I've never tried to figure out percentages, but I'd say at least half of the seafood I eat and feed to family is caught/trapped by me. Tautog, seabass, bluefish, cod, haddock, pollock, hake, striped bass, flounder, fluke, bluefin tuna, scup, lobster, crabs, steamers, sea clams, quahogs, mussels...I could never be landlocked. wink

And to the OP, I do have concerns about fish farming, but my concerns relate more to genetics, and captive/farmed fish getting loose and breeding with wild specimens. I don't know enough about it to make an informed judgment, but the thought of 'bad' genetics getting into a species is troubling to me.