Fish farming industry

[Risto]

Came across this documentary on Youtube about fish farming in Norway. I live on the shore of the Baltic myself and was under no illusions about the levels of pollution and the feed that's given to the farmed fish, but I was still shocked by some of this stuff. Especially the antioxidant preservative ethoxyquin that is used in fish feed and ends up in food, but has never been properly tested or approved. You'd think they couldn't pull that kind of thing off these days in the Nordic countries. Then there's naturally the fish equivalent of pink goo, i.e. ground-up fish heads etc. that end up in fish fingers and suchlike. The stuff looks lovely coming out of the grinder.

Poisonous Fish: The Big Health Lie / Giftiger Fisch – Die große Gesundheitslüge (2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH6wH1dqbwc

[bbq]

Salmon industry toxins soar by 1000 per cent
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/salmon-industry-toxins-soar-by-1000-per-cent-8h780rdx5

Are you eating TOO MUCH fish? Online calculator shows how many toxic compounds you're eating
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4075548/Want-know-salmon-eat-week-healthy-new-fish-calculator-determines-just-toxic-compounds-eating.html

FOI Backgrounder: Mortalities & Disease at Marine Harvest during 2016 - FOI reply from Scottish Government (28 October 2016)
http://donstaniford.typepad.com/files/media-backgrounder-on-foi-reply-on-mortalities-and-disease-at-mh-during-2016.pdf

The Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture is an international network dedicated to advancing environmentally and socially responsible aquaculture. GAAIA recognizes that salmon, shrimp, tuna and 'Frankenfish' farming jeopardizes sustainable and safe seafood production. By highlighting worst aquaculture practices, GAAIA will lead the fight against standards-setting and certification schemes for farmed salmon and shrimp farming in particular.
http://www.gaaia.org

Way too gross to read, let alone eating any of that crap.

[bbq]

That looked pretty tasty, fancy sushi?



Salmon farming in crisis: 'We are seeing a chemical arms race in the seas'
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/01/is-farming-salmon-bad-for-the-environment

“There’s no right way to do the wrong thing,” says Staniford. “The simple solution is to just stop.”

Chile's Salmon Industry Using Record Levels of Antibiotics to Combat Bacterial Outbreak
http://www.ecowatch.com/chiles-salmon-industry-using-record-levels-of-antibiotics-to-combat-ba-1891172698.html

Costco Rejects Chile’s Farmed Salmon Over Record-High Use Of Antibiotics
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/costco-rejects-chiles-farmed-salmon-over-record-high-use-of-antibiotics_us_55b106e7e4b08f57d5d3cda8

Salmon health alert
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-205547/Salmon-health-alert.html

[Risto]

Thanks for that. I read the Guardian piece. I hadn't paid any attention to the price of salmon since I don't eat it, but that article made me google for stories in Finnish mainstream press about the price. The reasons for the price hike they cite were losses of harvest in Chile due to algal blooms, reportedly caused by El Nino, and losses in Norway - no cause given; slow growth of fish in Norway due to cold summers, and Norway cutting back production since the introduction of Russian sanctions (Russia was a major export market). Absolutely zero mention of parasites. It's almost as if the industry doesn't want to mention them to the media, or something.

[bbq]

Sea lice and pesticide use in net pen salmon farming around the world
https://ecologyaction.ca/files/images-documents/file/Marine/Backgrounder_sea_lice_pesticides.pdf

Farmed Salmon Industry Causing Global Sea Lice Crisis
http://www.ecowatch.com/farmed-salmon-sea-lice-2342804499.html

Seafood Fraud: Your 'Wild' Salmon Is Probably Farmed
http://time.com/4089958/wild-salmon-fish-fraud/

Stores Say Wild Salmon, but Tests Say Farm Bred
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/dining/stores-say-wild-salmon-but-tests-say-farm-bred.html

Wild salmon may not be as wild as you think
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/28/8671455/wild-salmon-may-not-be-as-wild-as-you-think

Oceana Reveals Mislabeling of America's Favorite Fish: Salmon
http://usa.oceana.org/publications/reports/oceana-reveals-mislabeling-americas-favorite-fish-salmon

STUDY: Majority Of Salmon Labeled 'Alaskan Wild' Fake
http://thecount.com/2015/11/03/wild-alaskan-salmon-fake/

Salmon fraud frequently occurs at restaurants, grocery stores, study finds
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2015/10/28/salmon-fraud-frequently-occurs-at-restaurants-grocery-stores-study-finds.html

Everything we love to eat is a scam
http://nypost.com/2016/07/10/the-truth-behind-how-were-scammed-into-eating-phony-food/

Wild-caught salmon is often farmed and pumped up with pink coloring to look fresher. Sometimes it’s actually trout.

And then we've got yet another kinda insanity these days, does anyone still wanna "enjoy" that kinda omega-3 goodness?