Not a troll John, just a passionate fisherman offering a different perspective. I get it if it's not welcome here, I'm really not interested in confrontation. Just like to provoke thought and really do care about the preservation/conservation of things. I have kids man.
Different perspective is a highly sought after commodity in the world of politics. All those extremely successful aquaculture firms from Norway pay millions for it, it's called lobbying. I can appreciate your reasoning, as forming decisions about an issue is based on looking at all angles possible, then weighing it out. You can imagine how much hogwash must be on the internet, especially these days. I trust that we can both conclude that independent scientific journals are about the most objective way of looking at things, and when dealing with something as invisible to the average citizen as sea lice in the ocean permeating from fish farms - it's our best tool. If you look at literature published about the contentious issues regarding aquaculture (disease, parasitism, waste, nitrification, invasive escapements, and so on..) the vast majority has determined that wherever fish farms operate, wild fish take a hit. If you value wild salmon, you should stand up and do something about it. Look at the history of aquaculture, specifically salmon farming. Norways wild stocks were demolished, Scotlands took a major hit, then Chile's wild stocks were nearly completely wiped out from ISA which would not have propagated at the rate and density had it not been for open-pen feed lots where vectors for these diseases and parasites are in close proximity and by the hundreds of thousands. You have a gut, use it - the ocean is not a toilet.
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