That Salmon on Your Plate Might Have Been a Vegetarian

Somini Sengupta, The New York Times Fisheries & Aquaculture

That Salmon on Your Plate Might Have Been a Vegetarian
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Twenty years ago, as farmed salmon and shrimp started spreading in supermarket freezers, came an influential scientific paper that warned of an environmental mess: Fish farms were gobbling up wild fish stocks, spreading disease and causing marine pollution.

This week, some of the same scientists who published that report issued a new paper concluding that fish farming, in many parts of the world, at least, is a whole lot better. 

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