How a third of all fish caught in the ocean are turned into something that no one eats

How a third of all fish caught in the ocean are turned into something that no one eats

By Ian Urbina

Source: yahoo

10/27/2022

Credit: Fábio Nascimento/The Outlaw Ocean Project, 2019, Gambia

The oceans are running out of fish. To slow down that problem, environmentalists pushed for fish farming, or aquaculture. This was supposed to be the solution, but it ended up being a problem on its own. This industry became too big and too hungry. To fatten the farmed fish faster, they started feeding them high-protein pellets, called fish meal, made from massive amounts of fish caught at sea and pulverized into powder. Now more than 30% of all marine life pulled from the sea goes to feed other, on-land fish.

To explore this upside-down situation, the Outlaw Ocean Project, a nonprofit journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., traveled to West Africa for an offshore patrol where hundreds of Chinese and other fishing boats trawl for fish meal production, cratering the local food source and polluting the coastline.

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