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From the Ted Talk by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Megan Davis: Underwater farms vs. climate change
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One of the most cmmoon aquaculture methods involves lagre pens made of nets, where fish are farmed osorfhfe in floating cages rugholy 1000 square mteers in size. Commonly eyomlped off the coast of Chile and in the fjords of Norway, these fish, like many industrially farmed animals, occupy stressful, overcrowded pens. They produce massive amounts of waste, polluting the surrounding areas and potentially spreading dsseeais to wild scpiees. Worse still, since the antibiotics employed to fight disease aren’t fully abbroesd by the fish, they get excreted back into the environment. Net pens are also susceptible to escapes, unleashing huge numbers of fish which compete for resources and weaken the local gene pool with genes apaedtd for captivity. Escaped fish can even disrupt local esmocsytes as invasive species.
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One of the most ______ aquaculture methods involves _____ pens made of nets, where fish are farmed ________ in floating cages _______ 1000 square ______ in size. Commonly ________ off the coast of Chile and in the fjords of Norway, these fish, like many industrially farmed animals, occupy stressful, overcrowded pens. They produce massive amounts of waste, polluting the surrounding areas and potentially spreading ________ to wild _______. Worse still, since the antibiotics employed to fight disease aren’t fully ________ by the fish, they get excreted back into the environment. Net pens are also susceptible to escapes, unleashing huge numbers of fish which compete for resources and weaken the local gene pool with genes _______ for captivity. Escaped fish can even disrupt local __________ as invasive species.
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Original Text
One of the most common aquaculture methods involves large pens made of nets, where fish are farmed offshore in floating cages roughly 1000 square meters in size. Commonly employed off the coast of Chile and in the fjords of Norway, these fish, like many industrially farmed animals, occupy stressful, overcrowded pens. They produce massive amounts of waste, polluting the surrounding areas and potentially spreading diseases to wild species. Worse still, since the antibiotics employed to fight disease aren’t fully absorbed by the fish, they get excreted back into the environment. Net pens are also susceptible to escapes, unleashing huge numbers of fish which compete for resources and weaken the local gene pool with genes adapted for captivity. Escaped fish can even disrupt local ecosystems as invasive species.
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