Alarming New Study: World’s Fish Catches Are Being Wasted As Animal Feed

An alarming new study to be published in November in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources finds that one-third of the world’s marine fish catches are ground up and fed to farm-raised fish, pigs, and poultry, squandering a precious food resource for humans and disregarding the serious overfishing crisis in our oceans. Lead author Dr. Jacqueline Alder, senior author Dr.

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Filed under: Aid / Disasters on October 29th, 2008