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		usrusr on Aug 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Popular seafood species in sharp decline around th... Ocean fish farming is more a conversion process than a production process. Most of the feed is wild catch fish.

riffraff on Aug 18, 2020 | [–]

but does this apply blanket-like to all farmed seafood, or is it mostly about fish?

E.g. I would expect shrimp, mussels, clams to not be fed processed wild catch, unlike salmon.

all_usernames on Aug 18, 2020 | [–]

Something like 3lbs of wild caught fish as feed to produce 1lb of farmed salmon.

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