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BrentB
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for all of the informed comments _________________ Brent Barrett |
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Larry H
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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forrest wrote: | Good job! I hate the salmon farms for an entirely different reason. Sardine seines net all the bait and bottom fish so the fish processing industry can grind the biomass up for protein pellets to feed the farmed fish. The sardine seines have decimated the west coast bait fish populations just as they have done to the menhaden on the east coast. |
It takes about 12 lbs of fish when fed to farm salmon to produce ONE pound of farm salmon.
The fish farms take fish that are edible to humans, and bait fish, to make their salmon. Wild salmon eat krill and catch their own bait fish in the mid Pacific oceans to grow. The wild fish feed themselves as they are supposed to, while the farm fish need to be fed valuable protein and drugs to create a low quality product.
Not considered is how arrogant it is to destroy a wild food source for current profit! The wild salmon have been feeding the people of the coast for 10,000 plus years. Should we destroy the wild salmon in just one generation for the profit of a few? _________________ Larry H
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rogerbum
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Larry H wrote: | forrest wrote: | Good job! I hate the salmon farms for an entirely different reason. Sardine seines net all the bait and bottom fish so the fish processing industry can grind the biomass up for protein pellets to feed the farmed fish. The sardine seines have decimated the west coast bait fish populations just as they have done to the menhaden on the east coast. |
It takes about 12 lbs of fish when fed to farm salmon to produce ONE pound of farm salmon.
The fish farms take fish that are edible to humans, and bait fish, to make their salmon. Wild salmon eat krill and catch their own bait fish in the mid Pacific oceans to grow. The wild fish feed themselves as they are supposed to, while the farm fish need to be fed valuable protein and drugs to create a low quality product.
Not considered is how arrogant it is to destroy a wild food source for current profit! The wild salmon have been feeding the people of the coast for 10,000 plus years. Should we destroy the wild salmon in just one generation for the profit of a few? |
And that's a really important point. The bait fish used to feed the farmed salmon are, for economic reasons, generally harvested relatively near shore where they would feed the returning salmon. The bait fish the wild salmon feed on most of the time is farther offshore in the arctic. _________________ Roger on Meant to be |
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forrest
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | The bait fish the wild salmon feed on most of the time is farther offshore in the arctic. |
And that is where the Chinese intercept them. |
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