I’m studying aquaculture for an assignment, and I studied some articles from quite a recent ‘Time’ magazine, talking about Fish farms and aquaculture. Well, being quite a Green person, and environmentalist that cares for the preservation of wildlife, I was quite, very shocked…
Looks like there’s not one single thing left on the planet that hasn’t been modified by humans for their greedy needs, the Natural course and balance of Life, I’m sorry to say, I believe it has been demolished on planet Earth… Too many things we’re changed, and exploited for decades, all for ‘benefits’ and needs of humanity… It is disgusting… and it will be very hard to ever live on a planet like Pandora is, like Earth was centuries ago.
The fact is, it’s not like we really need all this food, overpopulation led to overconsumption and the new lifestyle in the western world has completely destroyed the balanced assets of Nature which God and mother Nature had made. The numbers and statistics, are all according to the way we live today, eating here and there, more than we actually need, and wasting most of the things we eat. Restaurants, Supermarkets, fast foods, schools meals, all these places produce Waste everyday, if you knew the tons of food that goes in the garbage everyday in just ONE major school, you’d be shcked, so multiply that for the thousands around the world, and you’ll find that at least 1/3 of our food is wasted. The least they could do, is create Compost for making our own Natural fertilizers, but No, it’s too hard for the dirty humans, they don’t want to get their hands dirty, they rather rape the planet instead -_-

So, main people guilty of exploitation of Fish in the world, are Chinese people, that bring 61% of the world aquaculture. To eat all their sushi, this is what they cause:
-Disease and Pollution from fish waste.
-Overfishing.
-Dead Zones that strangle wild sealife and Coast life, and the whole environment.
-Risk of extinction of fish like salmon and tuna.

And it's not over… To produce how they do, on huge mass scale, they have ‘lager-like’ industries, thousands of fish born and raised in the same crazy tight tank all their life, with no wildlife at all 0%, no room to swim, no rights what-so-ever for a decent life, and they’re just fed up constantly like muppets, to reach a certain weight to make the corps happy enough… This stuff makes me so angry, my blood boils…
Worse part now… Chinese, and not only them, use antibiotics and drugs on them… Imagine the crap we eat… Some drugs such as ‘carcirogen’ is actually officially Banned! Yet still in use… Not to mention the fact, sometimes they DYE the fish in the original natural colours they SHOULD be, so they look more ‘wild’ and natural, but they're not…
So, all the people can think of is: cheaper, bigger, more profit. All this, causes, no Rights for the animals, no respect for Nature and wildlife preservation, risk of extinguishing entire species, and ending up with never eating a natural fish ever again in a few decades…
All I can say to end this is, if you can, spend that extra dollar, for a wild fish, it will be nicer, and healthier, and you don’t contribute to sustain the corporate farmed-fish growth, although by what I read, it seems inevitable it will continue :(
And even better, fish your own fish, if I could, I’d be a Taronyu for my own meat, forest and sea hunter, I hope I will one day.