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Post by lilolpeapicker on Feb 28, 2019 11:38:55 GMT -5
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Post by desertwoman on Feb 28, 2019 11:54:03 GMT -5
No matter that sustainable managed fisheries may be a good thing (and they very well might be, though I haven't read enough to know)
Susatainably managed wild fisheries seems to me an oxymoron. How can it be wild and managed at the same time?
I vote Farmed.
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Post by reuben on Feb 28, 2019 14:38:41 GMT -5
I'm all for wild when possible. Farmed fish has been a big problem on the South American coast. Floating pens hold fish, but when disease breaks out or fish break out they just move to another area, leaving enormous amounts of fish droppings off the coast, which impacts other creatures. Plus, they're fed artificial food.
But we don't all live in an area where we can get fresh fish on demand.
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Feb 28, 2019 15:31:40 GMT -5
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on Feb 28, 2019 18:24:58 GMT -5
I honestly don't know enough about the situation to make an informed comment, but it is something I'll read over the weekend. I recall that my father told me never to eat fish from fish farms, but I don't recall why, but it would have been a health issue for Dad to warn against farmed fish.
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Post by davidjp on Feb 28, 2019 20:06:38 GMT -5
I think it looks quite good to me. From a brief reading it seems you're buying a share of wild caught fish.
The Alaskan wild salmon population is managed to the extent that theres an allowable catch which is monitored quite intensively and fishing pressure regulated. In not sure how much fish hatcheries releasing baby salmon smoults are used in Alaska but they certainly are in other western states.
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Jul 7, 2019 10:18:35 GMT -5
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on Jul 7, 2019 10:32:30 GMT -5
Read the basic article but not any of the referenced ones, but my first question is WHY do salmon need to be modified? It seems they've lived the same kind of lives for years, and have considerable drive and stamina to swim upstream to spawn. To me that's an admirable genetic quality. And they taste good.
If I recall there are some competing varieties that have resulted in diminution of the native salmon, but this was in the West, I think. And I believe they were both native salmon, w/o any "enhancements".
So why would anyone want to modify them?
I know that I won't be eating them.
And BTW, I notice the price of salmon has doubled; I don't know how long this has existed - I only noticed it a few months ago. I'll check the labels next time and see if they GMO salmon, and if so, none of those cans will make it into my shopping basket.
Guess I'll have to learn how to fish. Maybe a trip to Alaska would be a good incentive.
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Jul 7, 2019 11:23:32 GMT -5
One thing that has been mentioned in some of my reading is that more and more people need to be fed. There is probably high profit involved. But I do know that salmon once it lays its eggs dies. I don't understand why that is not sufficient either.
Also restaurants may serve them. If you asked waiters/waitresses may not know. I would think the chef would however. I don't order salmon out anymore.
And did you know tilapia is all from farmed fisheries? Someone at one of the supermarkets told me that. So that is off my shopping list. I may go vegan yet.
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Post by tom 🕊 on Jul 7, 2019 11:47:44 GMT -5
Not me. I usually have two fish sticks with breakfast. That's pollock. Two or three times a month, I cook a fish stew with canned mackerel. I think I am getting iodine from the fish.
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Post by Mumsey on Jul 13, 2019 16:05:15 GMT -5
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on Jul 13, 2019 16:53:42 GMT -5
I'll check the next time I go to the store. I noticed salmon doubled in price, and w/o checking data on the salmon catch, I wondered what was going on. Maybe it's GMO salmon.
Isn't it sad though that the government and big agricultural companies work to deceive customers so that we're unaware we're eating harmful substances?
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