I have lived in SE Alaska for 44 years. I live on a peninsula with a natural salmon stream at the head of the inner bight of my harbor. We used to have a native Pink and Chum run, Steelhead and a small run of Silvers, along with Dolly Varden Nd Cutthroat Trout. The bay used to be lively during the 70's, 80's and 90's with jumping salmon all summer long, as the various species had different timings for their runs. By 2005 the local salmon hatchery had started ramping up production and we were getting overrun with hatchery fish who were lost and trying to find someplace to spawn. They have almost completely wiped out all the native salmon. They forced a change in the timing of the Pinks that used to be first but now spawn later than the few chum who get in. There are literally no Silvers or Steelheads anymore and some Dollys. The bay used to be very alive with other sea creatures - Dungeness and King crabs, starfish of multiple species, clams, snails, sqid, Herring but now these populations are rare. No influx of life-giving salmon. The bears and eagles don't even get their share and have turned to alternative foods, often detrimental to the duck population. Also, commercial fishermen now stretch their nets almost fully across the whole span of Lynn canal so only a bare minimum of fish escape. I see Salmon hatcheries as a disaster

I worked in the Scottish salmon industry for 21 years. We forged all of the paperwork with regard to anti parasite treatments and especially antibiotics. We routinely over medicated and overtreated in the last 6 months before point of processing. I've never eaten or allowed my family to eat farmed salmon or trout.

"Hey, Salmon, we named a color after you!" "Wow, cool! Is it silvery like my skin?"

I'm from Norway. You'd never eat farmed salmon if you saw the destruction the farms wreak on the surrounding fjords with all the lice and parasites.

We lived by a small river in the 60's and 70's, where I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. All through my childhood, when the salmon were spawning, the quantity and variety of fish was mindboggling. We used to joke that you could walk on thier backs to cross the river without getting your feet wet. By 1978 the generations of returning salmon had been decimated by poor logging practices, so that during the peak of spawning season it was difficult to spot a battered old Humpy now and then in the amber waters. The bountiful rainbow assortment of various salmon species was gone. This event helped inform my world-view and turn me into a conservationist. Thank you for your good works.

I asked my my local supermarket lady " Is this salmon wild?" she replied " well, it's not happy".

We came to the same conclusion recently and have eliminated salmon from our diet completely.

A very interesting video. I had no idea about the re-stocking of "wild" fish. To be honest, you've hardly scratched the surface with this video. A huge issue is the source of feed for the fish farms. I've witnessed first-hand how the artisanal fishing communities of West Africa have been completely disrupted by the setting up of fishmeal and fish-oil processing plants designed to produce feed for fish farms. Traditionally, these fishing communities relied on the men to go out and fish in large dugout canoes, while mainly the women handled the onshore processing (salting, drying, etc) and sale of the fish to the local and regional communities. In The Gambia, for example, it has been the main source of protein for many years. Everybody got a piece of the action and the community got fed. Introduction of the fishmeal processing plants (many operated by Chinese companies) provides a virtually insatiable demand for the fish, driving down prices, leading to over-fishing and cutting out the on-shore indigenous processing industry. It's also become a divisive issue within the local community. They are also starting to see "fishing disruption 2.0" in which neighbouring states and the Chinese companies are deploying large trawlers to improve the efficiency of their fishing, adding further to depletion, and further marginalising the local industry. I read that it takes roughly 10kg of fish to produce 1kg of fishmeal, and 10kg of fishmeal to rear 1kg of farmed salmon; a 100:1 conversion ratio. Since we discovered this, two years ago, we haven't eaten any salmon in our household. We are fortunate to live in the UK where there are plenty of alternative indigenous sources of oily fish, such as mackerel and herring from the sea and brown trout from the rivers, as well as white fish such as haddock and cod. I think a large part of the problem is that a product that used to be a luxury and eaten on special occasions has now become a weekly staple, due to fish-farming practices driving down prices. People justify this on the basis that they are eating "higher quality'` food as we become more prosperous. This is nonsense. It's not higher quality food; it's mass-produced trash with a luxury halo around it.

The sea floor in the sea lochs in Scotland are being destroyed underneath the cages. When the storms come, sometimes cages are damaged and the salmon escape. They often have lice and are weak and floppy as opposed to their wild counterparts. They then interbreed so the wild ones are being weakened. I lived on the shores of a loch in the NW Highlands of Scotland and saw the destruction first hand.

My cousin owns a fish processing plant and he told me never, never buy or eat farmed salmon. The Norwegian farmed salmon (that's most of what we get) swims in a large bay that is completely polluted. There is no way for fresh water to get in and the polluted water to get out. Its filled with fish waste from millions of fish. I will go with Cousin Arnie's recommendation.

I visited a local restaurant here in the Napa Valley, California and saw a salmon entree on their menu. I asked the waiter "Is your salmon fresh or farmed?" He replied, "it's both - it's fresh . . . from the farm."

It's been more than 20 years since reading one of David Suzuki's books that I gave up Salmon entirely. I'm glad that BC is phasing out open pen farms, it can't happen fast enough, and I thank you so much for making this excellent video to share this information.

The one misstatement I caught was that the omega fatty acids found in salmon can be found in plant sources. While true to a degree, nearly all omegas found in plants come in forms that the body must convert into the more desirable form the body needs, and it can only convert a rather small amount at a time. So yes, chow down on omega-3-rich plants. Just don't expect the body's natural conversion capability to come anywhere near the quantity that best benefits our bodies. It's really a biological back-up system for when animal sources are scarce. The situation is very similar to the complication of the various, slightly different molecules that we lump together as this or that vitamin, over-simplifying that the body prefers or expects certain versions more than others, therefore some being more bioavailable than others, and occasionally some forms that can be detrimental.

I live in the Pacific Northwest in salmon country. We eat wild caught salmon about once per month. They have removed some of the dams in our region to improve salmon runs and are working to improve the streams for the salmon and to replant many of the native plants that existed in the region to restore the ecosystem. I am hopeful that things will improve.

Thanks for doing the work Chantel! This was truly an amazing and thought provoking video. And well done for hitting almost a million views! Pretty sure it will get there soon.

Two further notes about farmed salmon: millions of tons of smaller species of fish are harvested to make fishmeal. 1) 90% of that harvest could be consumed directly instead of a 25% conversion to salmon by weight. 2) fishmeal also contains soy and grain that has been treated with fertilizers, pesticides, etc and they are concentrated into the salmon.

Alaskan here, born and raised in the salmon industry. Here’s an option for you to not have to remove salmon from your diet all together. -Look for a cannery in an area of Alaska that isn’t supported with hatcheries and buy your fish from them directly. All canneries I know of offer direct sales to consumers or you can find a fishmonger in that same community and purchase from them. My biggest recommendation is Troll caught (not by trolls but Trollers 😅, that’s a fishing style and boat type) in southeast Alaska, Juneau to Ketchikan. They are individually caught and treated as prizes. Thank you for a very thoughtful and researched opinion.

I live in New Zealand and the main source of salmon is farmed in hydro electric feeding canals. These drain the Southern Alps and are pure h2o which flows through the pens . I was a cook for most of my life ,here and mainly the States and Canada, the only farmed salmon I eat is this type of farmed fish . much healthier than semi-still fjord water or the onshore farms or the bays or "calm spots" in the ocean. A truly healthy farm needs a lot of water flowing through it to remove the poop and other dropped items.

A few years ago I was going buy some wild caught salmon at a popular store in the US. They had many worms crawling out of them. I have always known that they were there but had never seen them.

Q: What kind of salmon should I be eating? A: Don't eat salmon.... Wow thanks

I was raised in Alaska and have eaten lots of (then) wild salmon. This store stuff does not even taste good and we don't eat it. Glad to find out why.

Hello and thank you for taking up this topic. I fish commercially for salmon in Bristol Bay in Alaska. I am proud of being part of that fishery - since my family started fishing there in 1959. Our fishery has its challenges, but sustainability isn't one of them. The fishery is managed by biologists whose first priority is sustainability of the resource and second priority is the maximum benefit of Alaskans (which also benefits others). The biologists closely track the salmon return each season and allow the fleet to fish only if the return exceeds what is needed for sustainability. Our fishery has been certified sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council. Check it out! You might be surprised. You might even decide it's OK to eat salmon. Although the fact that you live in South Africa might make it less sustainable from your perspective because of the transportation burden, but as a fishery, I think we're doing pretty well. Your thoughts?

I have been aware of this farmed fish for sometime. So I too have stopped eating farmed salmon and any other fish that is farmed. At least in our markets, they confess that the fish is farmed, a hint to me to not buy. I did not know that wild salmon was not really wild in some instances. Thank you for that. You are performing a great service. Thank you

I used to eat salmon almost exclusively... likely almost ALL I ate was farmed. THANKFULLY I've switched to sardines... after seeing this video I'm glad I did and will continue to use them as my primary source of Omega-3's and other shared benefits to salmon!! Great video!

I've talked to a person who has personally seen the destruction caused by salmon fish farms in Canada. His account of scuba diving beneath the farm enclosures, which is now considered trespassing by the fish farming corporations, was incredibly disturbing. In my mind, having a degree in Biology, fish farming is destroying the ecological web on a multi-species level that will slowly infiltrate other ocean harvesting occupations. If you look back in history of ocean fish harvesting, numerous populations have either been wiped out or reduced to nothing. It's all about money, nothing about sustainability.

Good solid reporting, articulate and well researched. One thing you didn't cover was what goes into the pellet feed of farmed salmon which could be a whole episode by itself.

I am from Australia and until recently hubby and I ate a piece of salmon/week. The salmon is farmed from Tassie. Hubby saw an investigation into farmed salmon - what they are feeding them as well as the impact on the environment. As lovers of Tassie, we have been to the salmon farms and listened to the information given by the industry. However, concerns for both our health and the environment have caused us to stop buying salmon. It's sad cause we enjoyed it - but that's what we decided. However, we are heading to Alaska later this year and may be tempted to try a piece or two while ther - wild caught and not huge amounts.

Thank you for a very informative video. What fish do you consider safe and sustainable and are still part of your diet ?

Thank you for taking the time to do the research and share the info. It’s been enlightening!!

Very good video. Thank you. I respect your opinion and advice. Please keep your wonderful videos coming.

what fishes are farmed in an environmentally responsible manner, do you have suggestions?

Is it true that farmed Salmon are high in Omega 6 from the pellets rather than Omega 3 like wild salmon?

For the most part, we only eat sockeye salmon from Alaska, which is not available year round. So we only eat it, for a small part of the year.

Salmond is my go-to fave fish, so I really appreciated hearing all of these points you share in this video. Thank you for the perspectives on farmed fish, kind of shocking but not surprising, I guess.

What fish do you suggest as an alternative? Thanks for this information. It confirms my long-held suspicions about farmed fish and definitely makes me think twice about eating salmon at all, at least not until I can source it ethically. One thing that occurs to me is that the by-products from fish farms on land could be used as fertilizer for growing vegetables, couldn't it?

I imagine it depends on the conditions of the farming system. One of my profs used to farm salmon. He'll no longer eat farmed salmon because of the sheer number of worms that cropped up in the farmed variety.

I live in the Pacific Northwest. I am also a marine biologist. Our federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans is in bed with the salmon farmers. That's why we still have salmon pens. I came to the conclusion, before I watched your video, that eating salmon, either wild-caught or, especially farmed, is not healthy for me or the salmon. I don't eat seafood at all anymore.

Thank you for getting straight to the point early. You provided all the information I needed to make a definitive decision within the first minute and 50 seconds of the video. How refreshing. I watched the entire video twice and subscribed for that singular reason alone. You're a rarity. Thank you.

What are the best fish alternatives in the supermarket that are sustainable?

Thank you for your input. It was very informative. Thank you I didn’t know a lot of this information.

Thank you so much for providing this - I wasn't aware of all those background occurrences.

I came into this video not wanting to like what I heard and wanting to disagree, but this was so thoughtful. I came away 100% agreeing with your choice and absolutely agree with the reasoning. Nicely done!

You can't get any of the DHA/EPA you need from any plant material except algae. The conversion from ALA to EPA/DHA cannot reach sufficient levels. Especially if you are on a plant based diet rich in linoleic acid. You don't need to eat fish, though. Fatty red meat, eggs, cheese also deliver EPA/DHA.

Thanks for researching all of this. Very informative & unbiased. Helps me a lot in my decisions.

There actually is a difference between getting omega-3s from fish and seaweed or getting them from various plants. The difference is that you won't get the 20-22 carbon fatty acids from flax, walnuts, etc. (their fatty acids will be 18 carbon long). This potentially matters because the chemistry that omega-3s (eicosanoid biosynthesis, etc.) starts out with these longer chains; and, though we do have the enzymes to add carbons a couple at a time, the conversion is extremely rate limited. Another question to ask might be whether that conversion step to the longer chain is rate limited for a reason and whether we actually need so much of the final product that we need these marine sources in the first place, but that's another kettle of fish (see what I did there?).

Would Soylent Green be a viable alternative?

Are there species of fish that can be bought at the grocery store that are environmentally sustainable? Do you have any suggestions? What are the organizations whose advice we can trust? As a marine biologist who obviously does her homework, I value your opinion. I love fish, but I also realize that we can't let ocean populations collapse. I think the threat of a 6th mass extinction is real.

Great video . thanks! What do you think about land based (circulating) systems that can take care of these issues? You mentioned them in the vid and the book "Salmon wars" also talks about it.I know they are currently sparce and expensive but in the big picture? they can theoretically provide multiple used as well in adeition to healthy and healthful salmon, exploring what can be repurposed salmon waste for various fertilizers etc. In a ideal situation with more localized systems servicing their areas, can that be a solution? fascinating topic. Thanks

Great diversified research. I live Canada, have followed the 'salmon' thing for decades. The diseases from farmed salmon that are now affecting wild salmon off BC coast is systemic. One of diseases affects muscles, therefore the heart, which in the end compromises wild salmon to get back to home range to breed. I read recently that our wild salmon historically used to push 100lb, now are 30-40lb avg. The testing of farmed salmon from multiple pens up and down BC coast several yrs ago, consistently from every pen, in the lab showcased nightmare scenario. Thx for all the extra data.

Thank you, I think I can follow you in every argument being expressed in your summary at 14:32. I love Salmon as Sushi for example but I think I will at least be able to reduce my consumption drastically and even let it go for a long while. You did not have to convince me to do so with your video since I have always been a deep lover of the sea and its species every since I was a kid. Surely your way of talking to your viewers is very sympathetic and open and I am sure you get a lot of confirmation and positive feedback for your passionate work which I am looking forward to see more of in the future.

We all are hoping for the best source of nutrition so what are good alternatives ,land or sea?

Facts should not be controversial! Thank you for your research with this. Great work! 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟

Right up my alley. I love salmon, and being Norwegian I used to eat quite a lot of the famed stuff. Until about 5 years ago, I realized the impact on environment, other species, fish health, wild salmons etc. I still eat salmon, but only from land-based farms. Only moderate amounts are for sale, at a higher price than sea-based farmed salmon. But that is the price I gladly pay. In general, homo sapiens' tampering with nature leads to disaster in most cases. Caveat emptor!

Thank you for your honest opinion and your sharing of your knowledge. I've often wondered about these issues.

Well put together. Thanks for your input.

Thanks for your valuable constribution.

From a Marine Biologist, we would like to know about the possibilities of toxicity of farmed salmon from synthetic dye/colour and dioxin in their deep sea food supply?....Please.

Thank you for this informative review. I have two other concerns about fish. 1. What are the health implications of the salmon growing/catching processes? Antibiotics, hormones in land farms, stresses etc. 2. Do wild caught sardines and mackerel have these environmental and health issues?

Would you guess or speculate that research into any particular significant food source ( other fish, pigs, cows or even plants) would result in similar type of conclusion?

You said that the farm raised salmon are mating with the wild salmon. How can this happen? Are the farm raised salmon swimming up streams to lay their eggs and or fertilize the eggs that are waiting to be fertilized?

So glad I watched this. I will never purchase farmed salmon again and reduce my consumption of wild salmon until I phase it out. The wild salmon issue you speak about is fraught with devastating futures. I am going to reduce salmon or not eat it and just go back to sardines. You are an amazing wealth of information.

I worked putting up a fish hatchery in Alaska. The fish that are wild that ran up stream were not the same strain as the ones that were produced at the hatchery. Both are caught in the wild but not the same. That bothered me. Why wouldn’t they produce the the same fish that ran wild?

I heard about the horrors of the farming industry and I'm ok with kidney beans over salmon. Thanks for a great report!

This was a wonderful balanced presentation. I learned a lot. There is no doubt demand outstrips the natural supply. Farmers have used crop rotation for over a hundred years. Has anyone explored the idea of pen rotation/relocation. Fish pen density could help the pest problem. Yes it would add to cost, but there is no free lunch. Unfortunately, the real solution is to reduce demand. This could be done by increasing price (reduce supply) or finding an alternative food source.

Beautifully presented, excellent information organization, and a high-integrity based decision, Telly. Thank you for sharing your research and evaluation.

Here are some tips to help your body more readily convert the ALA in vegetarian sources of Omega 3's into more useful EPA & DHA (the body can't use the ALA without converting it first): - reduce Omega 6 intake (competes with Omega 3 to break down into EPA & DHA) - reduce or eliminate alcohol (completely stuns the bio pathway for conversion) - consume more: Zinc, B6, B7, Magnesium & E (the body uses these nutrients during conversion) The only problem with plant based Omega 3's is that they exist as ALA which the body can't use without first converting it into EPA & DHA which is already present in the fish Omega 3's. Hope my tips help you level up your conversioN!

As the head of a family living in a big city, I've explained and come to conclusion that eliminating red meat and all sea food from our daily diet is the best way to lessen our collective damage to the environment based on our daily activity . We sometimes eat red meat when we go out for food

As a lifetime diver and sea kayaker and former member of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, as well as a life time sashimi fan, I have been looking at the abysmal situation with salmon, both wild and farmed. Telly's vid ties a ribbon on it. My personal solution is to only eat salmon in quality sushi bars where the chef knows the origin of the fish and only serves top quality items. One doesn't need to consume a pound of salmon to enjoy the flavour and mouth feel of the fish. One fish may provide enough for an evening of diners. I get my omega 3s from cod livers, anchovies and other sustainable sea food as well as land based sources.

Thank you for your research. I'm glad someone is out there to speak for them.

In the Pacific Northwest, all the major rivers are dammed and these hydroelectric dams provide for nearly all of the region's power without emitting any CO2 or leaving behind dangerous spent fuel. But the dams are bad for the fish. Fish ladders dont seem to solve the problem and neither do hatcheries. So what should be done? Wind and solar power can reduce the need for hydroelectric power but only hydro can provide a sort of battery of power for times when the wind doesnt blow and the clouds are heavy, blocking the sun. How to live in harmony with nature when every solution brings new challenges?

If you like salmon sushi, you may not want to read this. I was raised vegetarian largely because of my mother's working in a salmon cannery in Alaska as a teenager. This was in the 1940s. They ran two 8 hour shifts a day. At the end of the second shift, there would be a number of cans that were packed with salmon and the lids were on them. But they were not sealed. The morning shift would find those cans had over a quarter inch of parasites on the lids that had crawled out of the meat during the night. And remember that was when the waters off the coast of Alaska were pristine. You have to wonder what they contain now.

Fantastic work, thank you for sharing your valuable knowledge!

It is what the wild salmon feed on which makes them the healthiest food in the world. Farmed is commonly known to be SH#T food - that is very well researched and distributed on how bad these farms are. The red, wild salmon of Alaska cannot be compared to anything else. Unfortunately, it is the common, poor person who will be forced to eat food that is severely deprived of nutrients while the ppl who are telling us constantly how bad we are for the planet are flying in jet streams, limos, and flying in the most expensive meat, and fish in the world along the the most material goods like clothes and many mansions. It is WE who will die soon, because for them, we are parasites on this earth. Human life has no value anymore (think of the unlimited ways they have encouraged us to become sterile?) unless you are born to a certain few having wealth beyond imagining.

Thank you. I've been saying this for years. Unfortunately, no one wants to hear it. There are too many of us, and we are eating up the world.

I agree with the land based farming because I have seen the damage to the wild stocks it causes. I do disagree about the stocking efforts; the best specimens are selected where possible to breed. It's not only size but general health being used to select. Wild stocks would have likely completely crashed if it was not for that effort. I will continue to fish for wild salmon as long as I am able.

this was incredibly informative - thank you so much

A very informative video thank you, I have stopped eating it a year or so ago. A friend of mine catches trout and smokes it himself, I find it very similar in flavour to smoked salmon. Any thoughts on trout being a viable alternative?

Thanks for your "deep dive" into this topic and excellent presentation. What an eye opener - and so sad! I hate to give up salmon, but I will seriously look at alternatives.

Another part of the story around wild salmon. Summer 1979 while working at CH2M Hill, I spent a few months with about six Biologists putting up sheds, monitoring fish tanks and chutes, and lowered butterfly nets down gate wells, and counting fish by type and age on ten dams along the Columbia River, Rock Island down to the Dalles. We released 800,000 marked salmon fry in various batches, then counted them on the way down the river in a study to see how many would make it to sea in time. If the fish doesn't make it in time, they return up the river and become "jack" salmon - they won't breed. Turbines take out most of the fish on the way down. Our own private estimates came up to 4% of the fish making it to the mouth in time. Washington State Fish and Game, who'd funded and contracted the study, asked us to "review" our numbers and we magically came up with 14% for them - which fit the criteria for allowing a slower response with things like fish ladders and diversion channels. Meanwhile, the wild populations were crashing. It's why the hatchery program was implemented out here. I live in Oregon.

I've seen an on shore organic salmon farm in BC, operating on saline well water. It was a caviar farm though. One thing I found out is that for any farmed carnivorous fish, such as trout, char, steelhead and salmon, it takes 2 pounds of protein to grow 1 pound of fish. Most of that protein is from wild caught fish thats turned into feed. Not a very good efficiency.

I have just subscribed after watching your salmon video. Is there any fisheries management jurisdiction in the world which has not seen major negative impacts on wild salmon populations after salmon aquaculture implementation?

Great post my friend. I truly appreciate this information and am ready, willing and able to forgo Salmon.... period. Very happy to have found your channel. Have a great weekend. Charmed

An excellent breakdown. Confirmed what I suspected. Thanks much. (And you are very easy to watch!).

An additional comment: It's not at all the case that we can get all the omega-3 we need from plant-based sources. Plants provide omega-3 as ALA, not DHA or EPA. ALA must be converted into DHA to be used by the human body, and humans can only convert a very small fraction of the ALA we eat into DHA. It's certainly not enough to achieve omega-3:omega-6 balance of 1:4, which is the ratio commonly recommended by health professionals. The only vegetarian source of DHA is algae, and requires conversion into supplement form (and almost every study shows that supplemental DHA is less effective than dietary DHA).

As a fellow marine biologist, I have a question. "Was it a Titleist?"

What about trout fish? Can you do a video on that type of fish? It's similar in Omega's to salmon!

Really appreciated this thankyou.

If farming is destroying the local environment but wild salmon is depleting massively from consumption, what do you suggest?

Thank you! Very good information. A question: Since hatchery salmon spawn in the streams in which they hatched, how do they genetically influence other salmon strains?

I live in Michigan. Could you comment on lake salmon, trout and white fish?

This was an eye-opener. Thanks. I won't stop eating salmon altogether, but in recent years, I have reduced the amount of salmon I eat in favour of other line-caught fish because I have been dubious about farmed salmon in particular. I had no idea about the hatcheries before seeing this.

About a decade ago I read Canada had authorized a fishery to begin farming gmo salmon. This floored me and I was worried it would be done at sea and I think it was but I haven’t read about it since. Are gmo salmon among those that escape and is this an invasive species threat anywhere in the world?

So Miss Telly, what type of fish will you eat now? Thankyou for this video, but I ate wild sockeye salmon for supper.

Having spent 22 years as a marine biologist at Scripps Institute and California Academy of Sciences,working with Mahi Mahi and yellowtail jack I appreciate your presentation. Thank You.😊

I would be very curious to know from the perspective of a marine biologist - What is the most HEALTHY coice of fish to eat? Is there a sort of top 5 or top 10?

Thanks for educating me Telly on the complex world of salmon ,and the debate of eating them less frequently or even at all.

Agree 100%. I've seen SO many other videos and documentaries on the same topic as well. Wanted to check yours out as well. I've stopped eating ocean and stream fish now, + shellfish. Last taste of a Fish Sandwich at Culvers convinced me it was not worth the taste or money and I don't miss it, don't need it, don't want it. Thank you.

could you make soil fertilizer out of the fish poop?

Thankyou for the information: I have been paying extra and eating Tesco "organic" salmon in the belief its better for the environment. I also eat line caught fish. I would like to know about yours thoughts on these products?

I live in the western part of Texas, which is semi-desert. I was quite surprised about 20 years ago when someone built a fish farm to grow shrimp. Even though we have very little water on the surface, we have an abundance of salt water in the ground, so perhaps it made sense. After watching what you said about farming fish on land, perhaps it makes perfect sense. Sadly, the shrimp farm only lasted a couple of years. I don't know why it failed.