A new report has warned demand for seafood will outpace supply by 20% by 2050 - making a slap-up fish dinner increasingly hard to come by in the coming decades if current methods of concentrated seafood farming are allowed to continue. The Planet Tracker think tank predicts that demand for seafood will hit 267 million tonnes by mid-century, more than 50 million tonnes higher than forecast production levels. Aquaculture, or the controlled farming of fish and other aquatic organisations, has been rising exponentially throughout the 21st century, with production increasing by 171% betwee...
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