A case for aquaculture.
Should you stop eating fish? is a question that has been around for a few years now.
So, I am a huge fan of Sylvia Earle and her work. But in the article linked above, I cannot agree with her idealism about not eating fish.
This may raise some eyebrows.
After all, Sylvia Earle is known as The Queen of the Deep. She’s one of my ocean heroes. She’s one of the people I would most like to sit down to dinner with. I adore and respect her.
Sylvia Earle has spent a lifetime advocating for and protecting the oceans. She is still working. Her brilliant project, Hope Spots with Mission Blue, conceived during her famous TED talk in 2009, is based on the idea that Hope Spots are areas in the ocean that are critical to the health of the oceans and, ultimately, our planet.
But.
Over 3 billion people, including small and medium fishers and fish farmers, rely on seafood as their main protein.
That is not a disputable number. And one I cannot ignore.
Certainly, I agree with her on many fronts about the pillaging and over-harvesting of many seafood species. Our oceans are in trouble. Especially big fish.
