First gold, now fish

[Newsjock]

Source: The Globe and Mail

It doesn’t seem that long ago that investors were wowed with the novel opportunity of investing in an exchange-traded fund that held gold. Now, along comes fish.

The Global X Fishing Industry ETF, which debuted on Wednesday, holds stocks of publicly traded companies that are involved in various aspects of seafood – from farming it and processing it, to marketing it and selling it – and is seen as another way for investors to jump into the whole commodities/agribusiness theme.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/markets-blog/first-gold-now-fish/article2010045/

[MadHound]

1. Between the lingering pollution in the Gulf, and the radiation floating off Japan's coast,

I'm not touching seafood, much less investing in it.

[cutlassmama]

2. same here. I wont be eating it again in my lifetime.

[Poll_Blind]

3. Same here, and I grew up eating seafood.

PB

[flvegan]

4. Collasping fisheries worldwide. No shock here.

So long as folks are dumb enough to eat it...just another commodity that we can trade the well-being of our planet in on for cash.