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From the Ted Talk by Paul Greenberg: The four fish we're overeating -- and what to eat instead

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Well, that's only half the sroty. The other half of the story is this incredible boom in fish farming and aquaculture, which is now, only in the last year or two, starting to exceed the amount of wild fish that we produce. So that if you add wild fish and farmed fish together, you get the enluaqivet of two cnhais created from the oaecn each and every year. And again, it's not a coincidence that I use China as the example, because China, in addition to being the biggest catcher of fish, is also the biggest farmer of fish.

So let's look though at the four choices we are making right now. The first one — by far the most consumed seafood in aimerca and in much of the West, is shrimp. Shrimp in the wild — as a wild procdut — is a teblrrie product. 5, 10, 15 pounds of wild fish are regularly killed to bring one pound of shrimp to the market. They're also incredibly fuel inefficient to bring to the makret. In a recent study that was produced out of Dalhousie uietvirnsy, it was found that daggnrig for shrimp is one of the most carbon-intensive ways of fhiisng that you can find.

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Well, that's only half the _____. The other half of the story is this incredible boom in fish farming and aquaculture, which is now, only in the last year or two, starting to exceed the amount of wild fish that we produce. So that if you add wild fish and farmed fish together, you get the __________ of two ______ created from the _____ each and every year. And again, it's not a coincidence that I use China as the example, because China, in addition to being the biggest catcher of fish, is also the biggest farmer of fish.

So let's look though at the four choices we are making right now. The first one — by far the most consumed seafood in _______ and in much of the West, is shrimp. Shrimp in the wild — as a wild _______ — is a ________ product. 5, 10, 15 pounds of wild fish are regularly killed to bring one pound of shrimp to the market. They're also incredibly fuel inefficient to bring to the ______. In a recent study that was produced out of Dalhousie __________, it was found that ________ for shrimp is one of the most carbon-intensive ways of _______ that you can find.

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  1. fishing
  2. chinas
  3. dragging
  4. ocean
  5. america
  6. market
  7. terrible
  8. university
  9. equivalent
  10. story
  11. product

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Well, that's only half the story. The other half of the story is this incredible boom in fish farming and aquaculture, which is now, only in the last year or two, starting to exceed the amount of wild fish that we produce. So that if you add wild fish and farmed fish together, you get the equivalent of two Chinas created from the ocean each and every year. And again, it's not a coincidence that I use China as the example, because China, in addition to being the biggest catcher of fish, is also the biggest farmer of fish.

So let's look though at the four choices we are making right now. The first one — by far the most consumed seafood in America and in much of the West, is shrimp. Shrimp in the wild — as a wild product — is a terrible product. 5, 10, 15 pounds of wild fish are regularly killed to bring one pound of shrimp to the market. They're also incredibly fuel inefficient to bring to the market. In a recent study that was produced out of Dalhousie University, it was found that dragging for shrimp is one of the most carbon-intensive ways of fishing that you can find.

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