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Or we switch to aquaculture for seafood. It's really weird how we stopped depending on hunting and gathering for food thousands of years ago except with respect to seafood. It's time to complete the agricultural revolution that started 10,000 years ago and switch to farmed fish.

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Aquaculture can be done well, but it is often done as densely packed as possible, and as with chickens and pigs that drives them to use then mitigate disease with medication. The notion was that the ocean was large enough relative to our population that we could use natural animal density to feed ourselves. If natural animal density can't feed us, then we need unnatural animal density...

If it were done temporarily, wouldn't it allow for the ocean to recover?

If you could farm fish cheaper than catching it, wouldn't that totally take away the incentive for dodgy fishing in 3rd world countries? And if that were done for a few decades, it seems like you could return to normal after that.

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