YOUR GUIDE TO A SUSTAINABLE DINNER PLATE: WHY YOU SHOULD BUY AQUACULTURED FISH

Shopping for fish can be stressful. Every time I walk into a grocery store, I’m slapped with signs advertising “sustainably farmed” salmon and shrimp. But exactly how sustainable are these farmed seafoods? Are they really better than the wild caught option?

of fishing on our ocean’s entire ecosystem.

Both parthenotes were male, which also supports their conclusions. The sex of bird species is deter mined by their combination of sex chromosomes: males have ZZ sex chromosomes, and females have ZW. Thus, female eggs will either contain a W chromosome, and the offspring from par thenogenesis will be either ZZ or WW. Since the Z chromosome is critical for survival, all viable off spring from parthenogenesis will be ZZ and there male.