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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Matthew Pearce

Grinding up fish to feed to fish is ‘absurd’: fears over UN aquaculture plan

A large net of dead fish with a pool of water in the background.
Fish farmers remove dead fish at a fish farm in South Korea amid a high water temperature warning off the country’s west coast. Photograph: Yonhap News Agency/Reuters

Nearly half of the world’s wild fish catch will be ground into animal feed for farmed fish if plans to expand aquaculture go ahead, a report has found.

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is aiming to increase aquaculture – where fish are farmed rather than caught in the wild – production by 75% by 2040.

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