Fish Farming: helping or hurting?

The two articles I were titled .">Fish farming can help feed the world and .">Fish farming is environmentally destructive. These two opposing articles were arguing if fish farms can help feed the all people of the world because of how versatile fish is to all different cultures, or if fish farmingis hurting the world’s economy, environment, and people that live in it. The article for fish farming states how the idea of aquaculture (fish farming) can help feed the one billion people worldwide who are dependent of fish as a major source of animal proteins. The more that the people working fish farms can feed the fish proteins to enhance their nutritional value the better off people can be because of how the supply of fish will not diminish. While this article is convincing that fish farming can be a good service to all kinds of people, it doesn’t do good in looking at the underlying facts of how fish farming hurts local commercial fishermen who are doing good for people and the economy. While in theory having fish farms would be more nutritious for people because what the fish eat can be controlled, that’s not the facts. Farmed fish are known to have higher levels of mercury which is very deadly to our bodies. Another problem with farm fish that the article Fish farming can help feed the world failed to mention was that by being held in a fish farm factory they are highly more susceptible to obtaining diseases than wild fish are. The opposing article I read Fish farming is environmentally destructive does well in looking at all sides of the issue and applauds fish farms for the attempt to try to do good for the world, though in reality nothing can beat how a wild fish is naturally born. Wild fish are never fed artificial preservatives and are not only limited to swimming in circles it’s whole life rather than embracing the ocean for what it’s worth.