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Re:Maine Is Drowning in Lobsters by dflock on Monday May 22, 2017 @03:59PM (#14396471)
The problem is that mostly we don't farm ocean life - we just hunt it, on an industrial scale.
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Re:Maine Is Drowning in Lobsters by Finnucane on Monday May 22, 2017 @04:04PM (#14396500)
More than half of the seafood consumed globally is farmed:

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/aquaculture/faqs/faq_aq_101.html

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Re:Maine Is Drowning in Lobsters by dflock on Monday May 22, 2017 @04:53PM (#14396860)
Hmm, thanks - that's much higher than I thought. Still, leaves 50% hunted though, which is very high.

If 50% of the animal protein that we eat was hunted instead of farmed, we'd eat the last elephant, tiger, chimp, giraffe, etc... by Friday.

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