Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: To meet the rapidly rising market demand for fish and seafood, supplie

To meet the rapidly rising market demand for fish and seafood, suppliers are growing fish twice as fast as their natural growth rate, cutting their feedallotment by nearly half and raising them on special diets.

Meaning clarity -
We can say, "John walks twice as fast as Sam walks" - we are comparing actions.
Likewise, the sentence's meaning is "Suppliers are growing fish twice as fast as they grow naturally." They here refer to "fish." We are comparing how suppliers are growing fish with how Fish grow naturally. How are suppliers achieving it?
By two adverbial modifiers
1. cutting their feed allotment... (their logically goes to fish)
2. raising them on special diets...(them logically goes to fish)

Now, with this understanding -

(A) their natural growth rate, cutting their feed allotment - As Krishna also pointed out, the below two sentences using ellipses don't make sense
1. Suppliers are growing the fish twice as fast as "suppliers are growing"
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Statistics : Posted by Raman109 • on 03 Sep 2007, 19:18 • Replies 47 • Views 54979

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