What Is The Healthiest Fish To Eat?

[mom'sfolly]

Most farmed salmon are farmed in sea pens. They have infected wild salmon populations with disease, parasites and cross bred in some cases. This is in a country that has good regulations (Canada). Can you imagine what happens in countries with bad regulations or unenforced regulations? I grew up in Alaska, eating a lot of fish, and farmed fish kinda creep me out.

Personally, when I buy fish, I look for several things. First, I buy sustainable wild caught fish. This means nothing wild caught in Asia, because of their horrible fishing habits. Second, I will buy farmed fish, under certain circumstances, usually fish grown in the US or Canada. I almost never buy farmed fish from Asia or South American. Their environmental regulations, and fish growing conditions stink.

 

[EweSheep]

mom'sfolly :

Most farmed salmon are farmed in sea pens. They have infected wild salmon populations with disease, parasites and cross bred in some cases. This is in a country that has good regulations (Canada). Can you imagine what happens in countries with bad regulations or unenforced regulations? I grew up in Alaska, eating a lot of fish, and farmed fish kinda creep me out.

Personally, when I buy fish, I look for several things. First, I buy sustainable wild caught fish. This means nothing wild caught in Asia, because of their horrible fishing habits. Second, I will buy farmed fish, under certain circumstances, usually fish grown in the US or Canada. I almost never buy farmed fish from Asia or South American. Their environmental regulations, and fish growing conditions stink.

I follow that idea too! NO Asian farmed or caught fishes.​

 

[Kschwartz]

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I saw a video once about farm raised fish and apparently some places now are feeding them corn on top of how disgusting their "living conditions" are... Will America's fish be fat too?

I'm with ya, never eat farm raised, at least catch your own!

 

[LegginMF12]

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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.

Yes but they spend the vast majority of their lives in the ocean and since most fish farms are in shallower waters the salmon get to swim right past them on their migrations. Nothing like a nice healthy load of parasites and a load antibiotic resistant germs right before they spawn. Most types, not all, of salmon die after spawning. The species that don't may be to weakened/ill to make it back to the ocean. This further depletes and stresses the wild populations of fish. Repeat cycle until we have destroyed the wild populations and all we are left with farm raised fish that are fed junk and antibiotics.
Almost all of the ocean farms are in other countries, but their is so much money in seafood that a lot of stuff is misnamed and labeled as being from somewhere the aren't.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1622817/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...on-farms-in-the-bay-of-fundy-worry-fishermen/

 

[chickened]

There is no such thing as a wild salmon anymore except maybe in some Alaskan rivers. Hatchery augmented fish have been swimming in the ocean for about 70 years and longer and the "wild" fish are and have been contaminated by hatchery stock. Generations of salmon are one of the most difficult to purge of hatchery stock because of their short life span. They call them "natural spawned" because they are not true wild fish. There are what they call strays that go to another river system to spawn instead of their originating stream. The cross contamination of hatchery stock is a fact often ignored by the pro-wild salmon studies, they assume the studies start with truly wild fish and the facts say different.

Fish farming in the ocean has been around a long time and these countries have done this to lighten the load on native stocks, it is still cheaper to catch free swimming fish.

 

[SillyChicken]

I disagree about carp being vegan.... btw, it's called being a herbivore, not a chosen life style. Carp are omnivore and will eat everything and everything.. frogs, fish worms... bugs n stuff........ I think the Asian carp feed mostly off algae, and they are not a native fish, highly invasive, and should be killed if found.


I can't wait to see how my catfish turn out. I stocked my pond with 100 of them this spring. I'm thinking about getting some bluegills this year. I am so happy to be able to raise my own fish, and not need a license or season to fish them!

 

[EweSheep]

You are lucky to have a pond like that! I love to eat blue gills! We used to have a pond where we used to live in one farm, it didn't have much fish but plenty of frog legs which it was delicious!

I like catfish, too!

 

[Mahonri]

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the tase of farm raised Atlantic salmon, but Mrs. Costco doesn't carry it in her store anymore.

So, I buy and eat lots of cans of Wild Pacific Alaskan salmon. worms and all. most healthy.

 

[Matthew3590]

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How big is your pond? I imagine a pond of being max of 20 foot radius.

 

[SillyChicken]

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How big is your pond? I imagine a pond of being max of 20 foot radius.

My pond covers about 2 acres