Re: RE: NANFA-L-- Catfish wars

dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:08:02 -0600

The fish farming industry makes exactly the claim you mention in the
case of caviar sources. In NA, paddlefish are being promoted as a
species that can be farmed for caviar, while it is threatened in the
big rivers it inhabits by a combination of habitat loss and fishing
pressure.

David L. McNeely, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
Langston University; P.O. Box 1500
Langston, OK 73050; email: dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
telephone: (405) 466-6025; fax: 405) 466-3307
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Dattilo <bdattilo-in-utahwisp.com>
Date: Monday, February 20, 2006 10:19 pm
Subject: RE: NANFA-L-- Catfish wars
> I generally start with questions about environmental quality (and
> hope that
> this covers the rest!) That is why this question interests me - I
> don't know
> enough about it to form an educated opinion. What is the net
> ecologicalimpact of fish farming?
>
> I have heard some stink about destroying very diverse coastal
> wetlands to
> make shrimp/prawn farms in South America, and about how growing
> the wrong
> kind of Salmon in Pacific Salmon farms poses a risk of ecological
> competition with the native Pacific Salmon. What are the ecological
> consequences of growing North American catfish in Dixie or growing
> Vietnamese catfish in the Mekong (from the description they sound
> like very
> different operations)? Would fish farming be a sound way to
> address fishing
> pressures on species that are or could potentially be overfished
> commercially?
>
>
> Jerry Baker Wrote:
> =============================
> It seems strange that both sides seem only able to focus on the
> economics of the whole thing. Nobody on either side is talking
> about
> what is good for the United States and what is good for the
> Vietnamese
> in terms of other things like quality of life. Perhaps it is the
> cult of
> the dollar so popular right now.
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