Draining the Ocean to Feed Fish To Other Fish

The only thing more shocking than how fast we are removing fish from the sea is the reason we’re doing so.

The oceans are rapidly running out of fish. More than 90 percent of the world’s stocks are at or beyond the point of collapse. To slow down this problem, environmentalists pushed for fish farming, or aquaculture. The hope was that we might take fewer fish from the sea if we began growing them inland.

But not unlike big agro, the aquaculture industry scal…