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A recent worldwide decline of ocean fishery stocks has stimulated rapid growth in cultivated production of fish and shellfish, usually known as fish farming. ███████ ████ ███ █████ ███ ████████ ██████ ████ ██████████ ████ ███████ ████████ ████ ███████ ████████ █ ███████ ██ ███ ████ ███ █████████ █████ ██ ███████ ████ ██ ██████ ██████████ ██████████ ████ ███████ ████ ████████ ██████ ████ ████ █████████ ██ █████████ █████ ███████ ██████ ███

Intro topic · Fish farming (FF)

Decline in wild fish (ocean fishery stocks) led to more fish farming. Fish farming produces a large portion of the fish we eat.

Some experts' perspective · FF will restore wild fish populations

Critique · FF potentially both alleviates and causes decline in wild fish

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Support for Critique (causes decline) · FF can damage wild fish habitats

Intensive fish farming (designed to produce lots of fish) leads to a lot of waste and higher potential for diseases among fish. Wild fish habitats can be destroyed from that waste, those diseases, or the escape of farmed fish species that aren't native to the region.

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Support for Critique (causes decline) · FF requires using a lot of wild fish for food

The farming process for many species requires using more wild fish (by weight) than we get from harvesting the farmed fish.

Support for Critique (alleviates decline) · Can reduce incentive to capture or eat some wild fish species.

Can reduce prices of some fish, which deters efforts to capture wild versions of those fish. Some farmed fish species can provide alternatives to some other wild fish species.

Doubt · Benefits of FF for wild fish might be lost

Markets have developed for some wild-caught fish, despite availability of farmed alternatives.

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12.

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Most farmed fish ███ ████████████

Unsupported. We don't know whether most farmed fish are carnivorous. We were only given examples of some species of carnivorous fish.

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Anti-supported. The passage states that farm fish are fed vegetable matter, which requires supplemental nutrition. Presumably, wild fish don't have this problem. Hence, we can infer that farm fish and wild fish do not consume the same foods.

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Unsupported. We know that pollution does some damage to wild fish populations and we know that overfishing does some damage to wild fish populations. But we don't know of the two which one does more damage.

Market forces can ██████ █████████ ██ ██████████ ███████████ ██ █████ ██████████

Supported. P3 details how the economics of fish farming encourages overfishing. Farmed fish has to be fed wild fish. P4 details how market forces can discourage overfishing. Farmed salmon reduce prices of salmon thereby reducing salmon fishing efforts.

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Unsupported. We know that right now, the market for wild-caught fish is niche, but we don't know that it will remain small.

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