Why I Only Eat Farmed Fish (Mostly)

Angry oyster, from a 14^th century Dutch manuscript

I grew up in a family that happily ate seafood whenever it was served--lobsters, clams, haddock, halibut, whatever. Fish was on the table at least once a week, often on Fridays, not because we were Catholic but because that was the day the notoriously foul-mouthed fish monger in his shop above the waterf…