What Is The Healthiest Fish To Eat?

[centrarchid]

Balancing fatty acid profile against contamenants I recommend a freshwater fish raised in pond, that feeds low on food chain, and is not fed grain based or commercial fishery based or animal by-product based feeds. Lowly bluegil or other sunfishes in Louisiana.

The scaley versus skin as relates to feeding habits is bunk.

 

[mandelyn]

We do Alaskan caught fish only when we buy it. Nothing imported from Asia, ever. Nothing farm raised... farm raised is a sustainable practice for wild fish populations... but they feed them terrible commercial foods in those farms... who knows what's in it. Local caught.. depends on where it came from. My mom worked for the Sierra Club in Wetland Protection and I would tag along for testing local water sources. Scary stuff! There was a creek here, called the Mill Creek... one of the tributaries to it was called "Bloody Runs" it was so bad. Major dumping point for industry, that would then go into the Ohio and ultimately to the Mississippi. Nothing would grow in that creek except brown slime. No fish, no bugs, no nothing. They've been working on cleaning it up since the 70's. It can just now recently host wildlife.

I'm considering raising my own Tilapia since I'm some what of a fish nut. Though all I have right now is a pair of Goldfish and a blue crawdad. I've seem some very cool hydroponic setups.

One was utilizing an inground swimming pool! They left the deep end with water for the fish. Put a green house top over the whole thing. Cycled the water through a series of dirtless planters full of some very healthy veggies. They had chickens too, and they were worked into it. They were farming worms as well.

If my dad ever moves.. we're totally moving in and doing that to his pool! But with our winters, we need to keep water in the pool otherwise it will crack, you can only drain it so much. So we'd have to go bigger, and put the green house at regular height built around it to have the plants at ground level then the fish below in the pool.

He has another "pool"... 16x8x3.. smaller scale and we could keep the pool for swimming. Either way.

I like Tilapia baked with honey on top and a dash of Cilantro, pepper, and garlic salt. Yum! If you ever open a package and it smells "fishy".. the honey will take that out during baking.

 

[Avalon1984]

Mhmmm...fish sticks...daily...

 

[bluesub]

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Salmon do not live in fresh water. See links below.

Salmon are born in freshwater streams, then migrate to the ocean, then swim upstream in freshwater rivers to spawn.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Uh oh. I think I want to know.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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There is a local organic farm that raise their own Tilapia. I have been to their organic farm and I saw how they raised the Tilapia. I have purchased Tilapia from there before and it is delicious. Everyone buys from there, so they don't keep their Tilapia too long. You gotta get it as soon as they come out of the water.

 

[conny63malies]

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I was raised on Aischgruender Carp in germany!!!!!! Its a very high backed variety . My grandpa raised 100 in his large pond every year.

 

[chickened]

Carp are vegans.

Fish without scales eat live food in nature, they can be caught on fake bait resembling live food. The scaleless fish absorb toxins through the skin the ones with scales do not but can eat scaleless fish and get the toxins that way. A salmonoid will not eat rancid bait.
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i disagree... carp have scales and they are a bottom feeder or scavanger.


Salmon has the highest omega 3 rating I think.

 

[Matthew3590]

My school raises over 2000 pounds of tilapia every year... Very fascinating

 

[centrarchid]

Virtually all fishes cultured including carp are predatory in that animals make up bulk of nutritional intake. The fatty-acid profile (omega-3's of greatest interest here) of the fish meat reflects the fatty-acid profile of what the fish consumes. Therefore the wild caught versions of a given species can vary relative not only to aquacultured of same but also even between wild populations operating off different forages. This means that not all fish of a given species have similar omega-3 contents and that salmon are not always the healthiest and channel catfish and tilapia are not always the least healthy.

I am a fish nutritionist that is constantly worried about how to get away from using fishmeals yet keep the fatty acid profile in the edible product that approximates that promoted by consumption of a natural diet.