Fish Farming: Fishy Business
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If techniques like those used at Venture Point are widely adopted, fish farming could become sustainable while remaining profitable. If methods don't change, either voluntarily or by government regulation, we may get plenty of fish and shrimp to eat--at least for a while--but lose the wild stocks they came from and the clear blue waters in which they once swam.
--With reporting by Andrea Dorfman/New York, Christobal Edwards/Santiago, Stefanie Friedhoff/Walpole, Maine, Helen Gibson/London, Mike Goettig/Kunming, Robert Horn/Bangkok, Frank Sikora/Birmingham and Jiang Xueqin/Wuxi
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