Photo Gallery Cod Farms
The world's first major cod farms have been established in Norway. They're meant to ease the burden on overfished wild populations, but gourmet chefs claim farmed cod tastes better.
Cod is a predatory fish that used to proliferate off the coasts of Europe, Asia, and North America. But decades of overfishing have made its wild populations unstable. Click here to read more.
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The first cod farms in Norway are a breakthrough: For years it was assumed that the fish was too restless -- and its young too difficult to feed -- for industrial farming.
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Steinar Eliassen runs one of the new generation of cod farms. Developments in feeding and farm nets have led to fish with better meat. Environmentalists applaud the new methods, too. "If cod is raised according to environmentally sound standards," says a WWF fisheries expert, "it is definitely the better alternative." Click here to read more.
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