farm raised salmon

[lorschy]

Hi. I asked a grower here on the east coast what his thoughts were on eating salmon as sashimi. Anyone care to comment on his reply?

[gist901]

kaiten-zushi stores. If farmed salmon was as bad as some of these organizations and their websites claim, there is no way in hell it would get past the ridiculously stringent Japanese import regulations. Steelhead by the way, after many years of confusion, is officially a trout now. Shad

[BBsilver19]

farming causes. Out here in the US Pacific Northwest, farmed salmon do escape and cause problems for some of the native species, which are already under tremendous pressure from environmental problems.
The other issue is that farmed salmon, similarly to other intensive farming activity, tend to concentrate waste products.
Both of these problams can probably be solved, but they mean that salmon can`t be safely farmed everywhere.

[Basti_litho]

concerns regarding farming. I just think that the anti-farming crowd tends to go overboard, perhaps along with the commercial fishermen of the "wild" salmon, when they describe how terrible the farmed product is to the consumer in terms of taste and quality. Shad

[raclift]

farmed fish causes to the environment. If they put it on land with closed containment and dealt with their excrement in a sound way the opposition would decrease. When 10,000 or 80,000 antibiotic filled fish escape from a ripped net at a time, it`s just a matter of time before they bump out the native fish as has happened in Norway and Ireland.

[daliles]

their home and native land.

[timmy]

believe your propaganda. I`ll eat and enjoy farm raised Atlantic salmon as I please.

[Basti_litho]

don`t eat it. The people who have a concern for the wild populations do eat it. Rather than rant about how bad it is to eat farmed salmon in a sushi NG, it would probably be a better use of your time and effort to concentrate on getting government health depts to ban it`s sale if you believe what you say. Only the newbies and the ignorant would waste their time on this issue.

to some degree a negative impact on the environment. Do you go around hassling people who eat pork bought at the local supermarket? See: http://www.hogwatch.org/html/updt/updt.html If was it in your backyard I guess you would. the

here in that steelhead being

long. Steehead was always a salmonid, classified as Salmo Gardneri until 1988 when it was reclassified. We have them here in NY too, although obviously not native. However, whle the steehead ws originally tought to be a pacific salmon, then classified as a trout, then reclassified as a salmon, the matter is far from over. There is still a movement in the scientific circles to create a whole new category called Pacific Trouts, that would include the Steelhead, apache trout, golden trout etc. as all of these fish spawn multiple times unlike the true Pacific salmons. Therefore anyone who actually believes a steelhead is your average Pacific salmon doesn`t know this fish at all.

[JPierson]

When I go into a sushi bar, I don`t harangue the chef as to whether the fish is farmed or wild. I either eat or don`t eat. Pretty much everything that humans do has a negative environmental impact. I`m a cultural anthropologist- I happen to know that ideally, we would decrease our impact by not only refusing to have any more children, but by killing perhaps 2/3 of the world`s human population. We`s then allow the forests, woods, bayous, swamps, jungles, and so on to re-carpet the earth, and we`d give up using all technology above the level of the digging stick and the hoe. After that every person would be allowed to have children, because most of them would die without the technology that makes anti-biotics possible., and the human population would be kept in check.
I think this is a great idea- in fact, I`m so much of an environmentalist that I don`t have children, use public transportation, don`t keep pets, and go naked in my house (ALL clothing- especially the so-called vegan stuff- destroys the earth). since you obviously care about the earth even more than anyone else, I advise you to take the next step- kill yourself. Not only that- I`d advise you to support all terrorists who kill people- because they are helping to cleanse the earth of humanity. But I think you should just lead the way to enlightenment. Still, this is problematic too. If you are cremated, you`ll be destroying the ozone layer, and if you are buried you`ll be taking up valuable land. I`d say the best bet is to be put into a plain pine coffin and be buried in the deep woods where yu decay quickly, so that you can become one with the earth as soon as possible. That`s what I`m going to do.

[gist901]

but eat cooked salmon who buy the most common fish available today in fish markets..yes, the farmed atlantic salmon. <snip> before the word SUV was invented.
Just because I eat farmed atlantic salmon, as does the majority of the fish eating world, it does not mean that I burn down forests to make parking lots. Please try to keep things in perspective.
Do you walk or ride a bicycle everywhere you go?