Post by cjm on Sept 20, 2014 15:57:44 GMT
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Farmed Fish Add to the Depletion of Our Waterways
While farmed seafood is presented as a solution to the depletion of our waterways, carnivorous seafood - like salmon - actually eat a lot of wild-caught fish.
As this article explains, it can take 3 pounds of wild-caught mackerel and anchovies to create 1 pound of farmed salmon. Non-Carnivorous fish are eating GMO corn and soy, which isn't a great tradeoff.
www.puresalmon.org/feed.html
Escapement
Farmed fish are kept on the edges of waterways in pens or separated by nets. Millions of these farmed fish escape every year, and they are wreaking havoc on the existing marine environments in ways we have never seen before.
www.puresalmon.org/escapes.html
Water Pollution
Fish farms create pollution in a myriad of ways: tons of feces, uneaten food pellets, and antibiotics are just a few of the substances leaving open net farms and getting into the surrounding water.
www.seafoodwatch.org/ocean-issues/aquaculture/pollution-and-disease
Farmed Salmon Contains Toxins
Farmed salmon contains the highest level of cancer causing toxin PCB as well as other contaminants.
www.rense.com/general47/salmon.htm
Which is Healthier: Wild Salmon vs Farmed Salmon
Here is an interesting infographic from Prevention Magazine, which compares a 1/2 filet of wild salmon with its farmed brethren.
View the website to check out the statistics to see how farmed salmon - while it edges out wild in a few categories - just doesn't make the cut overall.
www.prevention.com/which-healthier-wild-salmon-vs-farmed-salmon
Hope for the Future of Fish Farming
Is there a way to make fish farming clean and green? Read about new, completely indoor, fish facilities which say they are the future of fish farming.
www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/04/07/298333029/the-future-of-clean-green-fish-farming-could-be-indoor-factories
Farmed Fish Add to the Depletion of Our Waterways
While farmed seafood is presented as a solution to the depletion of our waterways, carnivorous seafood - like salmon - actually eat a lot of wild-caught fish.
As this article explains, it can take 3 pounds of wild-caught mackerel and anchovies to create 1 pound of farmed salmon. Non-Carnivorous fish are eating GMO corn and soy, which isn't a great tradeoff.
www.puresalmon.org/feed.html
Escapement
Farmed fish are kept on the edges of waterways in pens or separated by nets. Millions of these farmed fish escape every year, and they are wreaking havoc on the existing marine environments in ways we have never seen before.
www.puresalmon.org/escapes.html
Water Pollution
Fish farms create pollution in a myriad of ways: tons of feces, uneaten food pellets, and antibiotics are just a few of the substances leaving open net farms and getting into the surrounding water.
www.seafoodwatch.org/ocean-issues/aquaculture/pollution-and-disease
Farmed Salmon Contains Toxins
Farmed salmon contains the highest level of cancer causing toxin PCB as well as other contaminants.
www.rense.com/general47/salmon.htm
Which is Healthier: Wild Salmon vs Farmed Salmon
Here is an interesting infographic from Prevention Magazine, which compares a 1/2 filet of wild salmon with its farmed brethren.
View the website to check out the statistics to see how farmed salmon - while it edges out wild in a few categories - just doesn't make the cut overall.
www.prevention.com/which-healthier-wild-salmon-vs-farmed-salmon
Hope for the Future of Fish Farming
Is there a way to make fish farming clean and green? Read about new, completely indoor, fish facilities which say they are the future of fish farming.
www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/04/07/298333029/the-future-of-clean-green-fish-farming-could-be-indoor-factories