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There's people opposing a planned land fish farm around me. I don't get it. Floating fish farms are certainly terrible. The water coming from a land based fish farm is at least monitored, unlike say, a cattle farm which just has mountains of shit washing away uncontrolled. We have a a very large sewage lagoon for our little town that discharges into the lake. The movement and treatment of water seems like it'd be a solved problem.
What's with the immediate NIMBY against these operations? We've got to eat, we can't keep eating wild caught stuff we'll eat it all. Farming in the water poisons the local water and wild populations. What's the plan then? Soylent Green?
Literally beans. The answer is more beans. Step away from the fish, and consume more beans instead.
Legumes suck heavy metal from the dirt too...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889157523001564#:~:text=However%2C%20several%20studies%20have%20shown,rules%20to%20protect%20public%20health