About a fifth of the world’s annual wild fish catch, amounting to about 18m tonnes of wild fish a year, is used to make fishmeal and fish oil, of which about 70% goes to fish farms

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/11/global-salmon-farming-harming-marine-life-and-costing-billions-in-damage

Among other environment impacts too. All kinds of fish farms dumps lage amounts of waste into the environment

For a world annual shrimp production [in fish farms] of around 5 million tons, 5.5 million tons of organic matter, 360,000 tons of nitrogen, and 125,000 tons of phosphorous are annually discharged to the environment

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353277/

    • Armok: God of Blood@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Lay the blame on politicians denying climate change and large corporations with next to no obligation to operate in an environmentally friendly way. Laying the blame on average people living average lives, most of whom are just barely scraping by, is just defending the rich and powerful so that they can pass the buck on to the rest of us like they always do.