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Can This Fish Fillet Help Save Our Oceans?

Say goodbye to farm-raised salmon. There's a new fish in town that won't pollute the seas, for a change.

A good farmed fish is hard to find, but aquaculturists in western Massachusetts appear to have done the trick. Meet the barramundi, a South Pacific native, praised for its ability to thrive on a vegetarian diet, survive a low-oxygen environment, and churn out the holy grail of health-food compounds: omega-3 fatty acids.

Yesterday's article on The Atlantic's website christened barramundi as "the anti-salmon," a notoriously dirty fish when farm-raised. According to the article, Barramundi

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