date:Feb 12, 2019
New research finds that aquaculture, or fish farming, does not help conserve wild fisheries.
Our fundamental question with this study was: does fish farming conserve wild fish? says Stefano Longo, an associate professor of sociology at North Carolina State University and first author of a paper on the work. The answer is: not really.
To determine the impact of aquaculture efforts on traditional, or capture fisheries, Longo and his collaborators looked at data from the World Bank and the Food a