Salmon fish farming holds great potential for helping meet the world’s ever-growing need for food. The main argument I have heard against salmon farming is that the farm-raised salmon can mix with the wild salmon and do serious harm to the naturally spawning fish, since most salmon farms are in areas where wild salmon also live.
We should study whether we can start salmon fish farming in Lake Michigan where no harm can come to existing wild stocks because there are none, and where for 40 years salmon have been raised in state-owned hatcheries for sport fishing in the lake. It seems logical to consider salmon farming for food as an extension of our existing salmon sport-fishing programs.
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