My links are always bright. Like goldfish.
Presumably this is largely "China and East Asia get rich and start eating more animal protein".
"...1kg of fish meal to produce 1.2kg. On average across all fed aquaculture species, 1kg of fishmeal produced 4kg of fish"
It's very optimistic, they've overcome the laws of thermodynamics!
(Yeah yeah water content and other nutritional thingies floating in the water)
Presumably they've figured out how to grow fish using good old corn and soybeans.
I'm also picturing Betty White leading a blindfolded cow to the edge of the water.
Fishmeal is a protein-rich flour made by milling and drying fish or fish partsSo, in this context, fish food made of fish.
increasing demand for fishmeal and fish oil has led to an increase in their prices, with an impact on their utilization. Their inclusion rates in compound feeds for aquaculture have shown a clear downward trend, largely as a result of diversified protein sources and improved feeding efficiency to respond to supply and price variations and increasing demand from the aquafeed industry. Fishmeal and fish oil are increasingly used selectively at specific stages of production, such as for hatchery, broodstock and finishing diets, and their incorporation in grower diets is decreasing. For example, their share in grower diets for farmed Atlantic salmon is now often less than 10 percent
I get chided here for not seeing the nuances,
Wait! There are nuances? Why was I not informed?
There are two underlying assumptions here: one is that per capita consumption will only grow to 21.3 kg per person per year, compared to 20.7 kg currently. Is that right? I don't know.
The other assumption is that current practices are sustainable. The linked report says it ain't so:
SOFIA shows that 62.3% of the stocks we harvest are sustainably exploited, which means that almost 40% are not.
And of course, we are ignoring the other environmental impacts of aquaculture.
But I like farm-raised seafood just fine. My first cognizable experience with it was forty years ago with farm-raised catfish, which I like a lot, and I eat a lot of farm-raised shrimp these days.
The other assumption is that current practices are sustainable. The linked report says it ain't so:
SOFIA shows that 62.3% of the stocks we harvest are sustainably exploited, which means that almost 40% are not.
That refers to capture fisheries, not to aquaculture!
8.last. Right. That's what's unsustainable. (But maybe I'm missing something. I didn't, you know, actually read the link.)
Anyway, Josh Marshall has shamed me into retracting 7 altogether. Talking about polls, he writes:
Demoralization isn't a fun or a pleasant way to live life. It also has big, real-world implications. Demoralized teams lose more often than focused, positive and motivated ones. Demoralized parties waste time in pointless conversations; they fritter away energy on blame games over elections that haven't even been decided yet. It's simply not a good way to live in the world, let alone run a campaign.
So I have to recognize that, like heebie, I need to be attentive to the positive nuances and stop spreading demoralization.
I've been minimizing my shrimp consumption because of the slavery. I didn't know farm raised was available.
The trout fishing people are very efficient. They just catch the fish, lick it, and put it back.
I really only buy the wild shrimp from Argentina, rather than the farmed shrimp from Asia. There's a sticker on the former that says Sustainably Caught or similar words.
Although now I've kind of stopped buying shrimp because of the gout.
If you haven't had gout yet, my advice is don't get it.
Several years ago we stayed at an airbnb in Costa Rica that seemed like some kind of doomsday compound. Surrounded by a tall wall, fields of food inside the wall, and a couple tilapia ponds. The sheer density to which you can raise tilapia was astounding. One of the caretakers gave my then-5 yo a rope with a hook on the end, no bait, and tossed the hook into one of the ponds and within 30 seconds she pulled out a fish. Mush have been thousands of them in a surface area of maybe half a basketball court, several feet deep.
As for fish cannibalism, mad cow was spread by feeding cow byproducts back to other cows but as far as I know there aren't prions in fish.
I'll ask my doctor. But he's usually opposed to me getting stuff.
10: oh definitely. My first job out of school was working on a Chinese shrimp farm.
At the time I thought I was guarding the last frontier of the British Empire, but I had forgotten about Gibraltar and the Cyprus Sovereign Base Areas. Last frontier east of Suez, I guess.
"Overseer" sounds like the head seer. So I'm trying out a new word for "a person who oversees." If you like it, please write in support to crankasshole@webster.org.
20: (1) Were there any Ten Commandments? and (2) Did you find that you could raise a thirst?
22: in my experience there were, at most, two out of ten. And yes.
@SamRo on twitter argues that the presence of shrimp at industry events is a sensitive indicator of economic conditions, and when I saw this in December I was at an AMD event in San Jose and I hadn't noticed any. Having tweeted this I turned around and there they were! So I asked for a raise as soon as I was back in the UK.
I got it. I have since observed shrimp presence for GTC 24 and two different Intel events and am acting accordingly. I strongly recommend letting the conjuncture crustaceans command your career.
Or if you like, take an augury from the auspicious arthropods
The gentleman prefers blonds?
All the lakes around here are stocked with bass and trout and whatnot but I don't suppose that counts as aquaculture.
As Confucius, or Lao Tzu, or possibly even Zig Ziglar, says, "Give a man a fish..." etc etc
Teach a man to bicycle and he'll fish for a day.
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he's lucky just to be alive, and he'll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow.
WELCOME TO MY WORLD.
First you get the cormorant, then you get the fish, then you get the women.
Those who can't fish for a day, teach those to fish for a day.
Eat fish for a day in the streets, eat fish for a lifetime in the sheets.
If I have caught more fish than others, it is because I used dynamite.
If I had six hours to catch a fish, I would spend the first four sharpening my trident. Then I would find someone who, unlike me, knew how to spear fish with a trident and offer to sell him my nice sharp trident in exchange for a fish.
I saw someone get a fish with an arrow. It was a little impressive.
I saw Lon Chaney walking with the Queen, doing the fish of London.
45 an arrow's a better trade than the trident
We could be fishies, just for one day.
an arrow's a better trade than the trident
But a trident is what I have! Maybe I can get some sort of sharecropping deal. Like, he gets exclusive trident privileges in return for two fish a week.
37: I always liked "A woman needs a bicycle like a man needs to fish" because it's literally true and it's a synecdoche for something that is true, i.e. society needs to be structured in such a way that women can travel safely, freely and autonomously, and men can have some spare time for hobbies.
51 but you could break off one of the prongs of the trident and fashion it into an arrow. Then you'd have a fish and a bident.
My dad has this big scar from when used to fish with unexploded grenades as a kid. You can apparently catch a lot of fish, and a few small children, that way.
You need to explode the grenade at some point. Unless you've got a great arm.
My dad was in the navy during the Korean War, but I don't know if he counts as a Korean War veteran. He was stationed in an awful place (Missouri), but not near Korea.
Eat fish for a day in the streets, eat fish for a lifetime in the sheets.
...laydeez.
I dreamed I landed the fish in my Maidenform bra.
Shrimp check: our own event in London served lobster in the mac and cheese today, so that might be even more shrimp than shrimp.
I've seen it on menus, but it does not sound appealing.
Shrimp farming is supposed to be bad because of the mangroves that get destroyed to make room for shrimp farming. That's why I prefer wild caught shrimp, although to be honest, I just buy whatever they sell at my local coop. They are crunchy-granola enough that I feel comfortable relying on their ability to discern which seafood is sustainably harvested enough for them to have in stock.
Mac and cheese sounds like a great way to disguise inferior seafood.
61. It's also not ideal because of the slave labour used in shrimp farming.
61: true but in this case they made up for it by letting migrants eat the shrimp, so it was a terrific stopping off place for all sorts of exotic migrants.
If someone is going to Scotland, maybe check out this place.
That was me. The map has a "right to access for water supply", which suggests that running water isn't a part of the deal.
But there is what used to be a bathroom and a kitchen sink.
130k is a lot for an uninhabitable cottage in the middle of nowhere. You could buy a huge church in the centre of town for a third of that. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147923621#/?channel=COM_BUY
Also you can stay in cottages in the middle of nowhere for free, just google "Mountain Bothies Association"
Turning a church into a residence seems expensive.
The bothy sounds nice, but I want one with a couple of acres and that's not open up everyone who can walk up the hill.
"Turning a church into a residence seems expensive."
It is - we looked into it before we bought the Big House - but turning an uninhabitable bothy in the middle of nowhere into a residence would also be expensive...
You'd just need some plaster and a way to kick out the trainspotting extras still living there.
In the sequel, "T2 Trainspotting", we finally learn why the damn film was called Trainspotting in the first place. (There's a conversation in the book that makes it clear but it didn't make it into the script for the first film.)
Btw, we're playing "how long will the worst doctor keep me in the waiting room?" My appointment was 20 minutes ago, so there's no real cause for alarm yet.
I always assumed it was because effective rail transport was as addictive as smack.
Still in waiting room, 50 minutes in. Mild dismay setting in.
If you've been waiting more than an hour, legally they have to give you a vicodin if you ask.
1:20. Getting taken to 2nd room to wait!
And you haven't even touched the marshmallow.
Heh.
Got seen, got out, had a long drive home.
This is my gynecologist-oncologist who's been monitoring me for 15 years or so. But now he's moving up to DFW. As much as I mildly disliked him, I'm also feeling intimidated by finding someone new.
Why would David Foster Wallace need a gynecologist?