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by ROTMetro 1192 days ago
Farmed fish are fed pellets made of wild caught fish though.
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That depends on the species. Farmed catfish eat mostly soybeans and corn (maize).
> 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).