Helen CzerskiWe generally think that over-fishing is about fish that humans eat. But around a third of all wild-caught fish are turned into fishmeal, because fishmeal is around 65% protein and therefore in demand for for feeding farmed fish and pigs. It's an almost invisible trade with huge consequences. But it's not an efficient way to make more protein. We need to re-think these links and ask whether it's really worth the damage to the ocean & communities.#ocean #fish #fishmeal
dangrierson@helenczerski and an even more fragile and unsustainable resource when you factor in climate change!
Colin@helenczerski That's astounding and definitely not well known.
Ben Sizer@helenczerski In other words, when we aren’t killing animals to eat them, we’re killing animals so that the animals we eat can eat them. Cruelty and inefficiency in one package. We need to do better.
LillyLyle/Count Melancholia@helenczerski Not to mention all the fish that goes to making cat food for pets.
शिवदम् Ⓥ@helenczerski Another reason that humans should stop eating #animals.
#Vegan is the way of the future, for the animals and our planet.
Huntn00@helenczerski There will always be Soylent Green. 🫤 Apologies, but makes a sad point. Destructive fishing in combination with rising ocean temps due to atmospheric warming. Humans are on a role. Are we worthy? Do we deserve to be the custodians of the planet or are we just glorified bacteria eating through resources until we collapse? Maybe we need to turn over our affairs to the mice? *🤔
* Hitchhikers Guide Ref
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Jennifer Moore 😷@helenczerski Didn't know that!
Billy SmithAnd it's un-necessary, as lower-cost protein for animal feed is available.
https://entocycle.com/ is one of the better examples. :D
Phil Thane ✅@BillySmith @helenczerski And it makes cheap chicken taste fishy.
δημοκρατία@helenczerski Thank you for posting this.
geographileoverfishing is also about fish that fish eat
Feral 3D@helenczerski wow. That seems way too high.
sheislaurence@helenczerski I never realised #salmon was carnivorous & #farmedfish needed fishmeal🤦🏽♀️. A few adjustment I’ll make:
- look out for more #veggie fish & #seafood (tilapia, mussels…) https://www.seachoice.org/info-centre/aquaculture/wild-fish-in-feed/
- never trust certification bodies, the sea is the last frontier of #corruption, worse than land https://news.mongabay.com/2019/12/catching-fish-to-feed-fish-report-details-unsustainable-fishmeal-and-oil-industry/
- if we go straight to the source of #omega3 with micro #algae, we’d better accelerate our #climateaction as #plankton is dying in overheated #oceans https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220623164313.htm
- look out for more #veggie fish & #seafood (tilapia, mussels…) https://www.seachoice.org/info-centre/aquaculture/wild-fish-in-feed/
- never trust certification bodies, the sea is the last frontier of #corruption, worse than land https://news.mongabay.com/2019/12/catching-fish-to-feed-fish-report-details-unsustainable-fishmeal-and-oil-industry/
- if we go straight to the source of #omega3 with micro #algae, we’d better accelerate our #climateaction as #plankton is dying in overheated #oceans https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220623164313.htm
The Saanich Daily@helenczerski This is why fish farming and aquaculture are essential. It's totally unsustainable to fish the open ocean just aa it would be unsustainable for our modern society to live off wild animals or foraged produce.
Noah Cook@helenczerski I have a question, as someone whose closest brush with agriculture was college in a small farm town:
fishmeal provides protein for animal feed that is free of vCJD, as well as animal feed that would otherwise require a significant amount of maize or wheat or other feed grains.
Are there other options where the tradeoffs are acceptable?
@helenczerski Forgive me, I phrased that poorly:
Is fishmeal not an appropriate choice as compared to other options, given various competing concerns?
#WikiParty@helenczerski Don't forget chicken farming in the rich world. Even "free range" chickens get fish meal. A good substitute would be maggots raised on abattoir waste. Just the wriggling of their prey raises the chickens' quality of life!
@helenczerski Another wriggly chicken food is tadpoles (which eat algae). If a pond has broad shallow fringes, tadpoles are attracted there & chickens can get them. #polyculture
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@helenczerski We have guys in Austria farming shrimp up in the mountauns & pushing how green this is but I think that's what they're eating, largely
pavi@helenczerski Never knew that fish 🐟 was caught as a protein source to farm pigs and even fish 🤯