Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Ocean Issues: "Ecological" fish farming


Continuing a long tradition of creative marketing the Pangasius catfish, also called "white ruffy" or "swai", is becoming a popular product of aquaculture in many parts of the world. The Consumerist has more on creative marketing of fish products and "how there's no such thing as white ruffy" here. 


A recent story from Marketplace.org discusses attempts to create a sustainable and environmentally stable aquaculture program for this fish. One of the many beneficial characteristics of pangasius is that, unlike carnivorous fish like salmon, it has a vegetarian diet, which makes for a more efficient energy conversion of the feed into biomass.

Read the full story here.

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