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I have some serious concerns about fish farms. Unless they are done in a completely hydrogically isolated body I have many reservations. Being a long time purely wild salmon fisherman I have seen first hand not only the growth in market share of poor quality product and an increase in biological problems with escapees from fish pens.

If this is some pond or farm that again is isolated from other water bodies like stocked isolated lakes I dont take much issue.

Here in Alaska we are having many issues resulting from such efforts legal and illegal. There are a few drainages that have become so infested with introduced northern pike that are not in thier historic range and are taking a massive toll on the salmon smolt poppulation to the point where restrictions in the harvest of adult salmon returning to the same rivers is severly limited or even closed.

Then there is the issue of habitat destruction by industrialization such as the massive Pebble Mine near Iliamna, AK which has suggested that it will replace the few million wild existing salmon that hatch out of any area they want to dig 3,000 ft deep with hatchery salmon is somewhat of a slap in the face.

So, in closing, I have little problem with properly and responsibly stocked water bodies. But I absolutely detest some of the practices that are routine today.