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Sausalito,
CA - Salmon Season was closed for California in 2008 and world
wide Wild
Salmon numbers are at an all time low. At Fish. Restaurant we serve
Wild Salmon when we are able to get it from a trusted sustainable
source but when we can't we won't use
farmed
salmon and neither should you. Here are the reasons why...
Crowding,
Poop (That's right we said it), Disease, Toxins, Dye,
Invaders, Killings, and Less Food.
Got
your attention? Let's break it down.
Crowding
- at
salmon farms, thousands of fish are crowded into net pens with serious
health repercussions for both the surrounding waters and the salmon
themselves.
Poop
- the
excreta from an average farm are estimated to equal the sewage from a
city of 7,500 people. The waste flows straight into the surrounding
waters, fouling nearby habitat, causing disastrous plankton blooms, and
destroying shellfish beds.
Disease - can spread
rapidly
in such conditions. Farmed fish receive
antibiotics both in their feed and through injections. But even with
these medicines, diseases still spread from the farms to wild fish that
swim past the pens.
Toxins - the fishmeal and
fish oil fed to farmed salmon are heavily
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contaminated feed
materials. As a result, an average farmed salmon
steak is nearly ten times higher in PCBs than a wild one.
Dye - wild salmon gets its
color from its natural prey. But farmed salmon gets its color from an
added dye. Without that added pigment, it would be a pale gray.
Invaders - farmers prefer
Atlantic salmon to native Pacific species. When Atlantics escape their
pens, they compete for habitat with wild fish. Now they are
found as far
north as Alaska, where salmon farming has been banned.
Killings - when seals and
sea
lions see fish farms, they think free lunch. As a
result, salmon farmers
trying to protect their fish shoot hundreds every year.
Less Food - salmon are
carnivores. To raise one pound of salmon in captivity requires over
three pounds of mackerel, sardines, and other feed sources.
That is a
net loss of 68% of the edible fish protein.
So what is the conclusion?
Do Not eat farmed
salmon!
Too disturbing to be true? Check out What is Behind
That Farmed Salmon
Steak Facts and Footnotes at www.SalmonNation.com/Farmed.html.
This information is
provided by www.salmonnation.com a project of ecotrust and is reprinted
here without their permission but it is too succinct and pithy to go
through the motions of recreating it in a less educated and wordy
manner.
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