Young's Seafood highlights the importance of aquaculture

The seafood company highlighted its approach with a new policy document entitled: "Why we believe fish farming is a good thing".The new policy highlights the fact that fish farming will become even more important in the next ten years given escalating world food demand, the increased cost of oil, expanding populations and the fact that wild fisheries are a limited resource. Mike Parker, deputy chief executive of Young’s parent company, Foodvest, said: “We felt it was important to emphasise our positive approach to aquaculture at a time when the global food industry is facing some major challenges and fish is under particular pressure. Fish is a healthy and natural source of protein – the only way for it to remain readily available to everyone is through the increased use of responsible aquaculture.” He added: “Recent news that the rising cost of oil is threatening to curtail wild fishing effort makes this issue even more relevant. With so many pressures on food supply, without aquaculture we could very quickly reach a situation where fish was a food beyond the reach of all but the richest consumers.”