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Re:Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for th... by jsilence on Sunday January 12, 2020 @10:39AM (#22026726)
Or eat aquacultured fish from your region. For example from an aquaponic system. But there are few viable commercial operations on the market so far.
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Re:Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for th... by millettjon on Sunday January 12, 2020 @11:28AM (#22027114)
The large scale fish farms also pollute heavily.
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Re:Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for th... by atdrummond on Sunday January 12, 2020 @12:12PM (#22027422)
The operations described by your OP aren’t large scale fish farms.
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Re:Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for th... by jsilence on Sunday January 12, 2020 @12:09PM (#22027405)
Absolutely!

Sustainable, low emission recirculating aquaculture comes at a price. It is not yet clear whether customers are willing to pay the premium for products from a good solution.

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Re:Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for th... by the8472 on Sunday January 12, 2020 @12:43PM (#22027670)
Aren't aquacultured fish fed with fishmeal, which means even more fishing nets due to the conversion inefficiencies of carnivorous fish?
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Re:Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for th... by jsilence on Sunday January 12, 2020 @01:53PM (#22028276)
At the time fishmeal and fish oil are neccessary to supply certain nutrients, lysin and methionine for example, but suppliers have been successfully reducing the amount of fishmeal and oil in recent times.

The goal is to reduce it to a minimum.

Not all fishmeal is unsustainable. The slaughtering residue from wild catch and from aquaculture as well as the bycatch are ressources for fish feed that we should not waste.

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