Comments on: Is Farm-Raised Seafood Sustainable or Not? (Part 1)

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By: Braddock Spear

Braddock Spear — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:46:00 +0000

Excellent question. Some aquaculture operations in the ocean or coastal waters have reduced their dependence on antibiotics by decreasing the number of fish per area. Some land-based closed systems have completely eliminated the use of antibiotics by making sanitation a priority and using filters to avoid disease. To answer your question, it’s probably not possible to eliminate antibiotics for many operations. But, if we can subsidize cleaner operations with our purchasing power, you’d probably agree, we should.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:18:59 +0000

Is it possible for aquaculture to eliminate antibiotics? The purpose is to grow as much meat as possible in as small an area as possible. In such conditions I think it is almost impossible to keep the animals disease free without antibiotics. Even with antibiotics unregulated fish farms can have devastating effects on the population of farmed fish (see Chilean salmon farms as example) not to mention the surrounding environment.

By: Braddock Spear

Braddock Spear — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:16:39 +0000

We plan to publish Part 2 and Part 3 over the next couple weeks. If you still have questions after those, let them fly!

By: lil' elle

lil' elle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:38:49 +0000

i know i have to read the second part to probably find this out…but how do i know what farm raised fish is okay or not?