Until recently, all of the world's seafood was wild. Indeed, ocean fish are the last wild food on earth we eat with any regularity. That is all about to change. Paul Greenberg for the New York Times Magazine on the rise of aquaculture, or farm fishing. His asks: "Will all wild fish ultimately be either domesticated or extirpated? Will we prosecute the same war upon diversity at sea as we have on land?"
Posted on June 10, 2006
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