Ocean Farm raised fish for consumption

[WV1951]

Wait a minute how. You are fearful of eating fish that swim around in their own dodo?

You drink water don't you? Do you know what fish do in water to make baby fish? :wink:

 

[LDUBS]

We eat quite a bit of salmon. Getting the wild caught is pricey. We walk right past the Atlantic Salmon. Around here at least if it says "Atlantic Salmon" it is farmed. We also avoid any fish imported from Asia. And finally, I personally just have this thing about catfish whether wild caught or not.

I wish they could remedy the chemical issues with the farmed fish as we would all benefit.

Unfortunately around my area catfish is the most readily available to catch fish for table fair. I tend to eat a decent amount of it along with crappie, bluegill, and some wipers or sauger mixed in too. No trout or salmon waters near me in the middle of the nation. Unfortunately it doesn't matter a whole lot what water way around me I catch fish they all have fda warnings for consumption amounts due to pollutant or heavy metal levels in the fish. This all goes back to we've polluted the crap out of waters from the start of the industrial revolution till we finally started cleaning up our act with clean water clean air act. How many years later since we started protecting the waters and environment more strictly, and still pollutants are an issue despite stringent regulations on water ways now. I'd love to live somewhere further northwest where salmon abound.

Yeah, it is a shame. I cannot speak intelligently on the science, but hope we will be able to dig ourselves out of the mess. I was out yesterday and the lake's guideline was NO bass or catfish consumption for children and women of child-bearing age. They recommend crappie be limited to two servings per week. The is based a lot on mercury levels and PCB's primarily. And, this is in a small drinking water reservoir where they won't even allow human contact with the water.

Hmmm - maybe after the wife retires we will make some long road trips to British Columbia. We have some distant relatives up there that are on the side of the family that don't find me too irritating yet. Haha.

 

[Butthead]

MD also posts its consumption guidelines. It is pretty sad how pulluted things are, even the drinking water reservoirs. What really floors me is that human sewage routinely floods into our waterways when we get heavy downpours. How can it be 2018 and that still be an exceptable practice?!?

I stick to wild caught salmon, won't eat any fish caught in China, especially tilapia and catfish, and only eat only the young, small fish I catch locally.