[oppositelock]

Lab grown fish are one thing, but simple fish farms already work really well, the issues are that the fish don't eat a natural diet and are sicker and less healthy to eat. Maybe that's an easier problem to solve than growing fish meat in a lab.

[ROTMetro]

Farmed fish are fed pellets made of wild caught fish though.

[nradov]

That depends on the species. Farmed catfish eat mostly soybeans and corn (maize).

[myshpa]

> eat mostly soybeans and corn (maize)

It still means deforestation, biodiversity loss, soil degradation, poisoning the ecosystem with pesti/herbicides and fertilizers on land (with the associated runoff into the waterways) and a lot of organic waste on the water (each salmon farm in scotland produces as much organic waste equivalent to a town of between 10 and 20,000 people each year).

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Likely we could use both methods and see what works best. I’m not sure how well fish farms scale up but imagine lab grown meats will scale up.