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Fish farms are not the environmental win they claim themselves to be. They can sometimes actually make things worse because they'll often take wild caught fish as feed too!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/11/global-salmon-farming-harming-marine-life-and-costing-billions-in-damage
Environmental impact is not limited to salmon farming either. All kinds of fish farms dumps large amounts of waste into the environment
They can also drive deforestation in some parts of the world too
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.14774