Fish is a good alternative to meat and chicken. Aside from being a healthy dish if cooked in the right way, salmon is certainly among the common food preference of people these days. But while we know that there are plenty of fish in the sea, we should not get complacent as to the availability of this resource. Just like most of our crops, livestock and meat, they too can reach the point of endangerment.

As far as the British is concerned, over a million people eat salmon everyday. But you cannot help but wonder on how long these sea creatures can last. Perhaps the need to look into pushing for aggressive salmon farming can help eliminate this area from getting out of hand.

Salmon Farming

Environmentalists have complained that salmon farming is denuding the sea of the smaller wild fish fed to the carnivorous salmon. By the time it is harvested from a Scottish loch or Norwegian fjord, a salmon will have consumed many times its final weight in sand eels or whiting.

Whatever the concerns, there is little prospect of a large-scale return to wild salmon. Fish farming is likely to be with us for the long-term, prospering from the failure of political leaders to stop over-fishing, which, according to one recent study, is likely to destroy wild populations as soon as 2048.

(Source) The Independent