Posted on 09/01/2017 6:53:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I think the ‘first of its kind’ hype applies to the hydroponic fish & feed waste disposal - a recycle system.
Other than that its the same food dyed, chemical, and drugged inferior fish. Also inedible unless caught in the wild.
These fish are predators - they eat the juveniles of other fish in the wild. This is all well and good as long as they are in their native Atlantic environment, but transport them to the West Coast or to the Great Lakes is asking for disaster.
Currently, there was a storm that broke an Atlantic salmon pen lose under suspicious circumstances in Washington State, releasing 350,000 Atlantics into the wild. Washington State now faces a crisis as these fish will destroy runs native salmon: Coho, Chinook, Pink, Chum, and Sockeye. They will bred, making the natives extinct.
Some history: The Salmon in the Great Lakes are Washington State fish originally taken from the Skagit river runs when Washington State illegal sold eyed-eggs (fertile) to the surrounding states. Commercial salmon fishermen in WA were subsequently blamed for the short fall and forbidden to fish when these stocks might be present in the state designated fishing areas of Puget Sound; the result was that other runs for different rivers were under harvested and the spawning grounds overcrowded, leading to a short fall in those runs as well.
Now due to the greed of the fish farming industry, they have brought their mess the the Great Lakes. Love the hype ‘hydroponics’ O so sustainable ...
When one of these pens suffers a failure ( and they will) brought on by storm, poor maintenance, or deliberate destruction (as is likely the case in WA for the insurance), those Great Lakes Salmon, nee Skagit River, will begin to disappear until the Lakes see the battle between Atlantic Salmon and Asian Carp for supremacy.
Loving fish worms, eh? They must add an extra zest.
Chemicals add a wonderful taste to an otherwise tasteless farmed fish!
The wild prices are high because of all the middle men; because famed fish are frequently sold at a loss to deliberately undercut wild caught; wild fish are mostly caught by individuals, while farmed fish are raised by corporations; wild prices are also high because of the onerous legal restrictions placed on harvest and reselling by the State’s legislators and their respective Fishery Depts.; WA even regulates according to how much they think a fishermen can earn to determine harvest times and quotas.
If you cannot afford wild, then an even cheaper alternative to farmed salmon is to go to a marine supply store, buy a can of bottom paint with cuperous oxide; hit up the pharmacy for some cheap over the counter drugs ending with ‘ciline’; and the grocery store for some red dye #2; mix and stir well. Throw in a can of cat food, kneed the mixture until firm; fry it up.
That’s what you are eating with farmed fish. Back in the old days, they even irradiated them negating the need to keep the meat cold ... we kept a sample in a bucket in the garage over the summer with no discernible change at the end.
What am I missing here? 40,000 square feet of Salmon ponds is 0.9184 acres. That’s supposed to carry 120,000 lbs. of Salmon? That’s 3 lbs. of salmon (I don’t know how large each fish is) per square foot of water. By comparison, in a catfish pond with aeration and artificial feeding, one MIGHT be able to go to 2000 x 2 lb. fish (4000 lbs.) per acre.
“Nutrient-rich” water for the plants, indeed.
“We can boost the O-3s in chicken eggs”
indeed. by feeding them omega-3s in flaxseed, so as long as you feed your farmed salmon with flaxseed, you’ll get some omega-3’s into them. but don’t forget to also feed them synthetic coloring or their flesh will be grey instead of salmon colored and no one will buy them.
I don’t eat farmed salmon. Other people eat farmed salmon to keep my price for wild salmon down to where I can afford it. I do occasionally catch my own.
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