How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?

Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by klenwell on Friday July 26, 2019 @04:30PM (#20538109)

I see 3 sushi restaurants on the same street, start to extrapolate in my head, and wonder how we hadn't extinguished most edible fish species decades ago.

From what I've read and heard on the subject, my understanding is: (1) some we have (touched upon at end of Jiro Dreams of Sushi, for example), (2) we are in the process of doing so to most the rest, (3) fish farms are increasingly making up the difference.

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Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by adrianN on Friday July 26, 2019 @06:43PM (#20538999)

Farmed fish is not much better. It's still fed with fish and farms are really bad for the ecosystems around them (too many nutrients cause dead zones)

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Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by tus88 on Friday July 26, 2019 @06:27PM (#20538898)

Fish stocks are being depleted. We are running the earth down.

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Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by asdf9240 on Friday July 26, 2019 @09:31PM (#20539824)

extrapolating a small sample size will probably produce unreliable results.

also its possible that there are 3 sushi restaurants on the same street because of the Hotelling model of spatial location (good vid explaining that: https://youtu.be/jILgxeNBK_8)

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