While on the "See For Yourself" tour with the soybean checkoff, we visited an aquaculture facility near Guadalajara. Aquaculture is a growing industry in Mexico, with much of the production focusing on talapia. In fact, the country hopes to boost production enough to start exporting talapia to the United States. That is good news for U.S. soy growers as the Mexican fish farms are increasingly using soy protein. While at the farm, Mike Adams talked with Francisco De La Torre, the aquaculture program manager for the American Soybean Association about how the fish are raised and the potential for U.S. soy business.
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With the growing interest in Talapia fish farms in the US, I am wondering what your impressions were of the smell and what the exterior looked like?
Would you live next to one?
There were no odor issues at all from this facility, and from the outside it looked like any small greenhouse operation. Now keep in mind, the bulk of their production was for fingerlings that were then shipped out to other facilities to feed out. They did not grow out many adult fish, nor did they process any fish here. In my limited experience, it seems that most odor issues associated with fish come more from processing facilities and their waste matter than from fish production.
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