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Fish Farming<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Fish farming or pisciculture <\/strong>involves commercial breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worldwide, the most important fish species produced in fish farming are carp<\/strong>, catfish<\/strong>, salmon<\/strong> and tilapia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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While fish farming is practised worldwide, China<\/strong> alone provides 62%<\/strong> of the world’s farmed fish production. As of 2016, more than 50% of seafood was produced by aquaculture<\/strong>. In the last three decades, aquaculture has been the main driver of the increase in fisheries and aquaculture production, with an average growth of 5.3 percent per year in the period 2000\u20132018, reaching a record 82.1 million tonnes in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Farming carnivorous fish such as salmon, however, does not always reduce pressure on wild fisheries, such farmed fish are usually fed fishmeal and fish oil extracted from wild forage fish.<\/p>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Environmental Concerns<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There are a lot of environmental problems associated with fish farming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fish farming is almost as bad as beef production for CO2<\/sub> generation, acid rain, and water pollution. (Source: Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another problem is that densely concentrated fish populations within fish farms can easily spread disease and parasites to the wild fish populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Large numbers of highly populated, open-net salmon farms can create exceptionally large concentrations of sea lice<\/strong>; when exposed in river estuaries containing large numbers of open-net farms, many young wild salmon are infected, and do not survive as a result. Adult salmon may survive otherwise critical numbers of sea lice, but small, thin-skinned juvenile salmon migrating to sea are highly vulnerable. On the Pacific coast of Canada, the louse-induced mortality of pink salmon in some regions is commonly over 80%<\/strong>…..A 2008 meta-analysis of available data shows that salmon farming reduces the survival of associated wild salmon populations.<\/strong> This relationship has been shown to hold for Atlantic, steelhead, pink, chum, and coho salmon. The decrease in survival or abundance often exceeds 50%<\/strong>.<\/p>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Semi-Sequitur: Sea Lice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You know you screwed up when you are reincarnated as a sea louse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sea lice (singular: sea louse) are copepods (small crustaceans) of the family Caligidae within the order Siphonostomatoida. They are marine ectoparasites (external parasites) that feed on the mucus, epidermal tissue, and blood of host fish<\/strong><\/em>. The roughly 559 species in 37 genera include around 162 Lepeophtheirus and 268 Caligus species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caligus rogercresseyi has become a major parasite of concern on salmon farms in countries including Chile and Scotland. Studies are under way to gain a better understanding of the parasite and the host-parasite interactions. Recent evidence is also emerging that L. salmonis in the Atlantic has sufficient genetic differences from L. salmonis from the Pacific to suggest that Atlantic and Pacific L. salmonis may have independently co-evolved with Atlantic and Pacific salmonids respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What could befall <\/em><\/strong>a person to have them reincarnated as a sea louse?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interesting:<\/strong> Elder G and several other Dall-e based image generators refused to create any images with the word “MAGA<\/strong>“. We plan to take this up with the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thor Salmon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Land-based producer breaks ground on smolt facility in Iceland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thor Salmon<\/strong> has commenced construction of its smolt<\/strong> facility in Thorlakshofn<\/strong>, South Iceland, marking a significant milestone for the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe hatchery is a significant addition to the thriving aquaculture sector in Thorlakshofn and in the entire region, which is quickly becoming one of the world\u2019s leading areas for land-based salmon farming,\u201d wrote farm manager J\u00f3natan T\u00f3rdarson in a press release.<\/p>\n11 July 2024 \/ by salmonbusiness.com<\/a> Editorial Staff<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If you’re in Thorlakshofn (\u00deorl\u00e1ksh\u00f6fn<\/strong>) and want to pop in, it may be best to call ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Again, a challenge for College Stations residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Will there be a Buffet?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Heima Bistro<\/strong>
Selvogsbraut 4, Thorlakshofn, Olfuss 815 Iceland
+354 483 4727<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thai sakhon restaurant<\/strong>
Asian \/ Thai \/ Taiwanese
Selvogsbraut 41, 815 Thorlakshofn, Iceland, Thorlakshofn, Olfuss Iceland
+354 483 5950<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the photos on the Thai sakhon restaurant facebook page<\/a>, we are very eager to try the buffet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Smoltology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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If you are in a foreign country and need to use the word “smolt” in casual conversation, here is a handy translation guide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And just for fun…. Here’s what https:\/\/www.powerthesaurus.org\/smolt<\/a> considers the opposite of “smolt”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The smolt phase of a salmon at Research Gate<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who’s Eating all these Fish?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Many species of fish are caught by humans and consumed as food in virtually all regions around the world. Fish has been an important dietary source of protein and other nutrients.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Since 1961, the average annual increase in global apparent food fish consumption (3.2 percent) has outpaced population growth (1.6 percent) and exceeded consumption of meat<\/strong> from all terrestrial animals, combined (2.8 percent) and individually (bovine, ovine, porcine, etc.), except poultry (4.9 percent). In per capita<\/strong> terms, food fish consumption has grown from 9.0 kg (19.8 lb) in 1961 to 20.2 kg (45 lb) in 2015<\/strong>, at an average rate of about 1.5 percent per year.<\/p>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iceland at #2: 84.3 kg (185.8 lb), or 0.51 lb per day, per person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salmon weighs in at about 944 calories per pound, so the average Icelander gets more than 1\/3 of their calories from fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They Icky part of Ichthys<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I had a buddy who worked for the Texas Department of Health. Once I asked him if he liked sushi. His response: “No. I know too much about parasitology.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WLBOTT<\/strong> Word of the Day: Parasitology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Parasite infection from raw fish is rare in the developed world (fewer than 40 cases per year in the United States), and involves mainly three kinds of parasites: Clonorchis sinensis (a trematode\/fluke), Anisakis (a nematode \/ roundworm) and Diphyllobothrium (a cestode \/ tapeworm).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve suffered from vague irritability<\/strong> my entire adult life, but at this point my skin has not become transparent.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fish Stocking<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“You had to go and spoil a perfectly nice blog.” – Everyone<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fish stocking shelves, wearing fish net stockings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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