Publication Name
The New York Times
Author(s)
Cornelia Dean
When people talk about the environmental effects of salmon aquaculture, they usually focus on water pollution and the spread of disease to wild fish stocks. But there is another big problem: It takes more than a pound of fish to produce a pound of salmon.
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Now researchers from around the world are suggesting this pressure must be limited. Their motto is “a third for the birds.”
In other words, they write in Friday’s issue of the journal Science, fisheries managers should make sure that forage fish stocks do not fall below one-third of their historic maximum long-term biomass — the total amount of the fish, by weight.
Read the full article, A Call to Protect Humble Fish, for Seabirds’ Sake, on The New York Times website.
