Is there a way to submit one story to several company profiles?

If our oceans’ ecosystem collapses, you will be effected whether you eat fish or not. And it won’t be pretty.

Even when just one variety of fish is lost, the effect on the food chain can start a stressful chain reaction.

I’m pleased to hear that WalMart is choosing to lend a hand with this serious situation, even if it’s for self-serving purposes.

Whatever gets the job done is fine with me.

since over fishing is an issue i think fish farms should be built on a grand scale in order to help replenish stock of the fish caught for food…

the USA does this for freshwater game fish such as bass & trout already funded with the sale of fishing licenses…

Fish farms aren’t the answer, and the agreement that these folks are making doesn’t address some of the very negative problems with aquaculture. Bass as a solution?! No way, bass eat other fish, where do you think the fish would come from to feed the bass? The ocean. We need to be less wasteful with the fish we catch in the wild and only farm fish that can be farmed on land, with fresh water, and don’t need to eat other fish (like catfish).

if those that eat fish would farm their own fish then the demand for catching ocean fish would go down.

i live near several fish farms, one of them hauls fish in tanker trucks all over the USA and is a multi-million dollar industry.

does it make sense to you now?

I agree that it would be great if everyone could grow their own food, but this isn’t a reality. Trust me, the po-dunk bass farm is nothing in comparison to shrimp, salmon and soon-to-come tuna (talk about a lot of fishmeal). Trout farms are widespread, but again, are small potatoes compared to salmon and shrimp. Also, even these freshwater farms can have serious problems, trout use flow-through tanks, which is like running a stream through a feed lot, or worse, are just cages in a lake, which means the lake needs to be able to absorb all those feces. My point of all this is that you can’t just say “Farmed fish are the answer,” we need to choose are farmed AND wild fish carefully and choose the lower impact species in both categories.

skyiscool: At the moment, there isn’t. It is a great idea… although I do have one hesitation in that the article (and rating of the activities’ impacts, given by users) would have to be representative, equally, of all the companies. For now, it is probably a good idea to submit the story individually for each company involved. Thanks for the feedback. :)

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