Ocean Fish Farming Harms Wild Fish, Study Says
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 00:42
in Biology & Nature
Farming of fish in ocean cages is fundamentally harmful to wild fish, according to an essay in this week's Conservation Biology. Using basic physics, the author explains how farm fish cause nearby wild fish to decline. The foundation of his paper is that higher density of fish promotes infection, and infection lowers the fitness of the fish.