Essay About Fish Farming

The truth about fish farming

A couple of years ago my parents decide to make a little twist in our diet by adding more fish .We have always eat fish but back then we used to consume fish once a month but now we consume fish at least once a week. They decide to make this little twist because fish is a healthy protein option. When I first heard the word fish farming I wasn’t sure about what this really was, I always thought that the fisher went to the sea and collect fish with their rods and nets in a rudimentary way and then sell them to the market. One of the options my parents start to buy more often was salmon, besides its good taste, it is nutritious too. But a couple of days ago I checked the label of the salmon and for my surprise it isn’t wild fish. What I’ve been consuming the last two or three years is farmed fish instead of wild fish and I wasn’t aware of this. Most of the fish we consume, my father buy it directly from El Mercado del Marisco and I thought that obviously it was wild fish, but anyways who can guarantee me this? We thought that we were choosing the best option to maintain a healthy diet but if what we are consuming is farmed fish, the result will be all the opposite. Based on my research, fish farming is actually risky for both the environment and

Fish farming is a type of aquaculture characterized by the raise of fish in enclosures on the ocean .Fish farming is not a new method; it was first done in countries like China and Egypt many years ago. But in that time fish farming wasn’t as practiced as it is now. As we know, China is one of the countries that consume more fish because it is essential on their diet. Fish farming began because wild fish or other seafood products don’t meet the demand in the market. There is a great amount of people in the world that consumes fish, not only in Asian countries, “In 2006, Americans ate an average of 16.5 pounds of fish per person, surpassed only by Japan and China”