Sooner or later, we will drive wild fish to extinction, unless we make the switch to farmed fish.

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China is the world's largest producer of farmed fish, accounting for 70 percent of the total produced, he said.

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Critics also argue that farmed fish is fatty, polluting and stuffed with antibiotics.

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It is the third-largest exporter of farmed fish to the United States.

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Still, he suggests consumers eat more farmed fish such as tilapia and catfish, which don't need as much fish meal in their feed.

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Welcoming the introduction of the bill, Mr Wheelhouse said both wild and farmed fish stocks were vital to rural communities and the wider Scottish economy.

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The Scottish government hopes the bill will ensure that both wild and farmed fish continue to be managed properly without harming fishing on the country's rivers and lochs.

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Yet farmed fish still carries a bad rap, both from environmentalists concerned about the pollution caused by on-shore and near-shore farms, and from food snobs who favor the more robust taste of wild caught fish.

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Founded in 2001 by two graduate students from the Colorado School of Mines, Oberon aims to address the fish-feed problem by serving farmed fish the bacteria used to eat up the excess food in wastewater streams of food-processing plants.

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Similarly, if you look at what happened a couple of years ago, there were all kinds of crossover points that happened around the same time: more cell phones than landlines, more laptops than desktops, more debit cards than credit cards, more farmed fish than wild fish, more girls in college than boys.

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Brian figured that if he could solve the technology and logistics problems required to anchor a fish farm 10 or 20 miles offshore, where swift currents carry away and disperse the waste produced by concentrated fish stocks, it would allow the farmed fish to swim in the same fresh water as their wild cousins-the best of both worlds.

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