Abstract
Farming is a career that has continuously been revolutionized and industrialized. Companies have applied new technologies and factory-like methods to raising livestock. Recently these techniques have been applied to fishing as well. While farming fish is not a new idea, it is newly beginning to resemble the practices of raising beef and poultry. Fish farming involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures, usually for food. There is an increasing demand for fish and fish protein, which has resulted in widespread overfishing of wild seafood. Fish farming offers fish marketers another source. The concerns associated with fish farming include the trouble of high concentrations, potential pollution issues and habitat destruction, diseases in the fish, and the effects of strong antibiotics and chemicals, to name a few. Another debate that has come up in the food industry is genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) and this has recently been applied to fish, specifically salmon, as well. These new ways and innovations of farming fish have become a controversial issue in today’s food industry. A practice that used to be a sustainable, food production method, has transformed into a method that has raised much concern between environmentalists, nutritionists and consumers.