Farm-Raised Fish

Fish farms must raise large quantities of fish in confined areas in order to be profitable.  The overcrowding leads to disease and injuries to the fish. The fish are therefore given antibiotics and chemicals for the parasites like sea lice, skin and gill infections and other diseases that commonly affect them.

The fish are also given drugs and hormones, and sometimes are genetically modified to accelerate growth and change reproductive behaviors.

Farmed salmon  are also given the chemicals canthaxanthin and astaxanthin to turn their flesh pink. Wild salmon eat a diet of shrimp and krill, which contain natural chemicals that make the salmon pink. Farm-raised salmon do not eat a natural diet, so their flesh would be gray if they were not given these additives.

Farm-raised fish also has higher levels of PCBs, another poisonous industrial byproduct. Residues in farm-raised fish can be as much as 9 million times the amount found in the water.

The vast majority of fish served in restaurants are not wild fish but farm raised.

The use of chicken feces as feed is common in fish farming, which also involves the transfer of pig and duck waste directly to fish farms.

An international group of bird conservationists believes that this practice — which is routine in Asia — may be responsible for the spread of the avian flu.

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