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Interesting.....

This could be a great thing. Planting more trees is good too offset against carbon emissions. Additionally, reducing the need to harvest feed fish from the ocean could be huge.
 
I think feed is one of the 2 major issues with salmon farms today, the 1st major one being the negative environmental consequences (disease transfer, waste/pollution, etc).

Once (hopefully) BC salmon farms are moved to land I think feed will become the next big one tackle. The fact that for decades the industry has been permitted to grind up edible fish for fish meal for farmed salmon at a disgustingly poor conversion ratio (ie. was somewhere near 4 lbs of wild anchovies to make 1 lb of farmed salmon) is shameful.... especially when one of their key arguments for existence was "we need to help feed the world". Stealing food (anchovies) from poor countries who need them to feed farmed Atlantic salmon so us rich countries can serve salmon year-round at restaurants is not a sustainable business model. So whether it's wood or algae or some of the other options researchers are looking into it's nice to see they are making some progress on this front.
 
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