Comments on: Blog Action Day: Salmon farming http://claresays.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/blog-action-day-salmon-farming/ A politically-minded social researcher's view of the world, work, and life in general. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:06:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: hugh williams http://claresays.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/blog-action-day-salmon-farming/#comment-1658 hugh williams Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:52:39 +0000 http://claresays.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/blog-action-day-salmon-farming/#comment-1658 Salmon farming is the source of a large proportion of the available salmon even in such areas as British Columbia which originally had salmon runs in virtually ever one of their many rivers and streams. Farmed salmon, for reasons which are not clear to me, have highly elevated levels of a range of carcinogins when compared to wild salmon. They require 10kg of so called trash fish to make one kg of salmon, the rest going into the ocean to pollute it. Salmon farms use a range of chemicals to keep the crowded fish from dying including fungicides pesticides and chemicals that kill sea lice (and crabs and lobsters). Bacteria exchange genetic material so antibiotic resistance from marine bacteria caused by the use of antibiotics spreads by pathways we can't even begin to understand to other bacteria. If ever there was a fish designed to to be utilized effectively it is the salmon. After all they come right back to their home stream to be harvested. Instead we hunt them before they are mature and then have to farm them to keep up the supply. Why do we work so hard to wreck a perfectly simple system. Hugh Blog "mtkass" "salmon farming-what a waste" Salmon farming is the source of a large proportion of the available salmon even in such areas as British Columbia which originally had salmon runs in virtually ever one of their many rivers and streams. Farmed salmon, for reasons which are not clear to me, have highly elevated levels of a range of carcinogins when compared to wild salmon. They require 10kg of so called trash fish to make one kg of salmon, the rest going into the ocean to pollute it. Salmon farms use a range of chemicals to keep the crowded fish from dying including fungicides pesticides and chemicals that kill sea lice (and crabs and lobsters). Bacteria exchange genetic material so antibiotic resistance from marine bacteria caused by the use of antibiotics spreads by pathways we can’t even begin to understand to other bacteria. If ever there was a fish designed to to be utilized effectively it is the salmon. After all they come right back to their home stream to be harvested. Instead we hunt them before they are mature and then have to farm them to keep up the supply. Why do we work so hard to wreck a perfectly simple system. Hugh Blog “mtkass” “salmon farming-what a waste”

]]> By: Clare http://claresays.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/blog-action-day-salmon-farming/#comment-1652 Clare Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:11:36 +0000 http://claresays.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/blog-action-day-salmon-farming/#comment-1652 I feel like I should clarify two things: 1- Not all fish from Chile is bad... just salmon because its farmed. 2- Not all non-Chilean fished is better. The problem is more with the farming techniques (used world wide) than that it is Chilean. I feel like I should clarify two things:

1- Not all fish from Chile is bad… just salmon because its farmed.

2- Not all non-Chilean fished is better. The problem is more with the farming techniques (used world wide) than that it is Chilean.

]]> By: travelchile http://claresays.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/blog-action-day-salmon-farming/#comment-1648 travelchile Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:30:06 +0000 http://claresays.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/blog-action-day-salmon-farming/#comment-1648 I don't eat Salmon, or any time of fish, and most of the times I don't eat meat either. So I guess I can't really take a stand since it's already something I do. Now Chilean Sea Bass I wonder about. That's something that's always on menus at restaurants in nice menus in the U.S. yet I don't even know the translation of it down here. I wonder if that's another destructive industry? I don’t eat Salmon, or any time of fish, and most of the times I don’t eat meat either. So I guess I can’t really take a stand since it’s already something I do.

Now Chilean Sea Bass I wonder about. That’s something that’s always on menus at restaurants in nice menus in the U.S. yet I don’t even know the translation of it down here. I wonder if that’s another destructive industry?

]]> By: BID http://claresays.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/blog-action-day-salmon-farming/#comment-1647 BID Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:27:12 +0000 http://claresays.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/blog-action-day-salmon-farming/#comment-1647 I was just talking about my love of salmon like ten minutes ago. How weird is that? I do know a little about the state of the ocean and I wasn't really aware of the dangers of buying salmon from Chile. I think my husband knows this because he told me on my last purchase, "At least it's not from China." I think he means Chile. You have cleared that up! Hubby leaves next Sunday for his annual fishing trip to New York, and he comes home with a loot of salmon to please me for some time. So when my supply has run out I will NOT buy Chilean salmon again!!! I was just talking about my love of salmon like ten minutes ago. How weird is that? I do know a little about the state of the ocean and I wasn’t really aware of the dangers of buying salmon from Chile. I think my husband knows this because he told me on my last purchase, “At least it’s not from China.” I think he means Chile. You have cleared that up!

Hubby leaves next Sunday for his annual fishing trip to New York, and he comes home with a loot of salmon to please me for some time. So when my supply has run out I will NOT buy Chilean salmon again!!!

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