There is a problem with 'aquaculture' fish when they do not have a 'natural' diet available to them. I waiting for prions, actually.

This is a 'controlled' environment to raise fish with aquaculture.  They are tanks.  There is little to no natural diet for the fish raised in these tanks.

This is akin to growing beef cows in stockyards or chickens on growth hormones or in unsanitary conditions where an e-coli.  

...Consumption of aquaculture-bred fish (click title to entry - thank you)  is raising serious human health and food safety concerns as well (almost all the catfish and trout, and close to half the salmon and shrimp sold in the U.S. are raised in aquaculture facilities). Farmed fish often receive large doses of antibiotics to protect them from disease and are exposed to a variety of pesticides used to kill parasites and body fungi--all of which accumulate in the fish's tissues....

 This is more or less an open tank.  The fish live in their natural waters and are exposed to a natural food supply.

The problem with aquaculture, whether it is a marine or fresh water environment,  is the 'artificial' food source that grows the fish.


The unnatural diet 'tank' fish eat has yet to be linked to prions, as the ones that appear in beef that have received a diet with things like bone meal and other 'meat by-products' in their diet.  Same thing here.  The fish receive a diet 'formulated' from other fish.  It is supplemented with artificial minerals and vitamins and possibly food sources, but, there is NO 20-year study to indicate whether 'prions' are an issue with aquaculture.

Genetically engineered foods need to be banned and the United Nations should lead the way.  Why?  Because they become 'INVASIVE SPECIES' in a natural environment.  Literally, with fish, when the 'super fish' get into the wild they will destroy natives species either by eating them or over grazing their feeding grounds.

The sorriest aspect of OVER FISHING in natural environments is that this is the result.  Now, because of the Climate Crisis, people are looking for 'new food sources.'  Why not just make Earth into a Man-Made Environment and eliminate all that is natural and native about the planet.

People that want to make money off anything that is 'genetically altered' will maliciously 'INTRODUCE' genetically engineering individuals in to the wild for the sole purpose of destroying 'natural and native stocks' in order for consumers to be grateful and dependent on their aquaculture PRODUCT.


So much for a good day at the trout stream.

There is all sorts of stuff put into aquaculture food including other dead and processed fish.  So, there really isn't any solid way to knowing 'at this point' if tank fish are safe for consumption.  Open aquaculture 'pens' are dangerous from the standpoint they can release genetically engineered fish into the wild and then we are in real trouble.

It is very different to raise 'open penned' fish in the wild if they are not genetically engineered.  If they escape into the wild they simply add to the genetic pool of wild stock, but, if they aren't a 'native species' when they should not be raised in 'open pens' that connect to natural waterways AT ALL. 

Why not just turn the ASIAN CARP lose in the Great Lakes if that is going to be the practice of aquaculture in the USA?  Same thing. 

People can take action to protect their fisheries.  There is a bill they can ask their legislators to vote into law.

S.3417 -- Research in Aquaculture Opportunity and Responsibility Act of 2010 (Introduced in Senate - IS) (click here) 

To prohibit offshore aquaculture until 3 years after the submission of a report on the impacts of offshore aquaculture, and for other purposes. 

 What it comes down to is a prohibition on RECKLESSNESS and provides scientists a 'window of opportunity' to study and write about the BEST PRACTICES of aquaculture.  Write to your Congressman and Senator today.  I think it is going to take longer then three years to actually 'set standards' for this industry, but, at least it is a beginning.