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Published online 6 September 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060904-9

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Half our fish are now farmed

Aquaculture boom spells good and bad news.

There's a 43% chance that your fish dinner spent its life on a farm, rather than roaming wild. That's up from just 9% in 1980, according to this year's UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report, released 4 September at an aquaculture meeting in New Delhi, India.

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