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Aquaculture concerns

Scrolling through Facebook the other day, I stumbled across a discussion on the relative merits of wild-caught versus farmed seafood.

It was prompted by someone reporting they’d enjoyed a meal of basa – a farmed freshwater fish imported from Asia. Sold frozen or freshly thawed, basa – a type of river catfish – costs considerably less than wild-caught marine fish.

That anyone would eat basa elicited howls of derision from some members of the group – for a variety of reasons: it was imported from Asia; it was a freshwater fish; it was cheap; it was frozen, but most of all because it was farmed, not wild. “The only fish worth eating is fish you catch yourself,” they cried, with some stating they never

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