Several pyramid-shaped offshore aquaculture cages anchored in deep blue water, photographed from the deck of a boat with buoys in the foreground.

Letter to the Editor: AI Won’t Clean Up Industrial Fish Farms

Hamida Kingeblog

In a letter to the editor at IntraFish, farm policy expert Anthony Pahnke says AI and automation won’t fix offshore aquaculture because the real problem is the industry’s intensive, industrial scale. He writes that AI tools like sensors and automated feeders mask the harmful impacts of factory-style aquaculture, which mirrors patterns seen in industrial agriculture: corporate consolidation, ecosystem destruction, mass …