That's not a dispute on national lines, but one between real fishermen and the companies raising those chemical fake-salmon in pens the way they do .... lots of fishermen here disgusted with that too, several of them friends ... oysters you can raise in flats suspended in the water, because they're a critter designed to stick to something and keep themselves clean, but salmon no, they're designed to move continually, in nature all their lives they're moving, you pen them up by the hundreds of thousands in close quarters and the diseases and the sea lice will get them instantly .... so, then you dose them with chemicals and antibiotics .... the feed they give them is saturated with that crap
Consumers either don't know or don't care, this is the problem ..... salmon 'farming' should be illegal, for its environmental damage alone, the danger to wild stocks when weird out-of-place species get away, the chemicals etc .... and yes it is depressing prices, i heard at one point this summer pinks were going for twenty cents a pound up Rupert way, that's absurd ... but it's not a national thing, like alaskans taking british columbian fish is ... these guys have many allies here, on the chemical-salmon issue
People, if you didn't already know this - Eat only genuine wild salmon. |
