Salmon Maths

It takes four kilos of wild fish to plump up a salmon by one kilo, according to celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

It takes four kilos of wild fish to plump up a salmon by one kilo, according to celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Normally, that would be the salmon’s problem, but in a new TV series aired in the UK, the chef talked about the ecological costs of Scottish salmon farms. Which means cheap fish which would have been used by the poor in poor countries instead become fodder for salmon. Earlier, a report filed in The Ecologist magazine made the same point by showing how people in the UK and US are snatching cheap fish from the hungry in Peru. Next time you order a side of salmon and as you wait for your dish to arrive, pencil this seafood mathematics on your napkin.

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