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Underwater farms vs. Climate change - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Megan Davis

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For billions of people, seafood provides a significant source of protein and nutrition, but over half the seafood we eat isn’t caught in the wild, it’s grown through aquaculture. Farmed seafood is one of the fastest-growing food industries, but the farming methods echo the problems we’ve seen in industrial agriculture. Is there a way to sustainably farm the ocean? Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Megan Davis investigate.

Approximately how much of the seafood caught globally is used to feed farm animals and carnivorous fish?

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Meet The Creators

  • Educator Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Megan Davis
  • Director Biljana Labović
  • Narrator Alexandra Panzer
  • Art Director Yuki Kijima
  • Animator Elsa Esteban, Marcos González, Yuki Kijima
  • Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
  • Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
  • Associate Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
  • Associate Editorial Producer Dan Kwartler
  • Script Editor Emma Bryce
  • Fact-Checker Eden Girma

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