Is it true that fish farming is bad for the environment?
According to the David Suzuki Foundation, salmon aquaculture can be bad for the environment: “Every day British Columbia’s aquaculture industry dumps the same amount of raw sewage into the ocean as a city of half a million people. High concentrations of fish waste and drugs, along with drug-resistant microbes, pass through netcages to settle and destroy life on the ocean floor. Much of it drifts throughout the marine environment, contaminating shellfish beds and other habitats and spreads disease up the food chain. To find out more go to Ocean Pollution.” For more information, visit the David Suzuki Foundation’s website at www.davidsuzuki.org.
