No Free Lunch: Sustainable Aquaculture Requires Recognizing Past Science, Improvements, and Comparative Assessment

Aquaculture has become an established and important part of the global food system. Several critiques of aquaculture continue to resurface, seemingly ignoring past research and improvements of (1) aquaculture and wild fisheries feedbacks, (2) aquaculture's role in food security, (3) moral complexity of aquatic foods, and (4) paths to better data.