topwater....I do not think we are talking about hatred of commercial fishing here. The numbers are all documented for all of us to see....commercial fishing has done more to deplete the world's fisheries than anything else. Commerical fishing has taken the most and paid the least for it. The fisheries that commercial fishing has put under were made up of natural resources that belonged to all citizens...not just a handful of industrial harvesters. When one species crashes in population a new one takes its place until there are no more abundant stocks to over harvest...as in today. So maybe fish farming is a mitigation that we must do because of past excess and greed...Like hatcheries we built to subsidize commercial lust for harvest and now we debate the damage they may be doing to wild stocks. The damage has been done and now we are searching for ways to keep putting fish on the tables in Asia...so we can continue to make more money.

It is ironic that most of the crying about fish farming and most of the hot rhetoric is coming from commercial fishing and processing interests who stand to lose money if more fish farming is allowed. So I take their arguments with a huge grain of salt.