Birdsnest, you keep making so many wrong and unsubstantiated comment based on the stuff you have been fed as the “faithful” feed lot church follower, I cannot keep up with it. Here is one:-
Farm salmon have certainly taken the pressure off the wild stocks. There is no denying that. .
This is a classic lie perpetrated by the salmon feed lot industry!! Salmon feed lots actually add to the pressure on fish stocks because you cannot get something for nothing!! Salmon are carnivores. On average it takes two to five kilograms of wild fish (used in feed) to produce one kilogram of farmed salmon.
Here are the sources to prove it.
http://www.farmedanddangerous.org/sa...almon-farming/
http://www.bellona.org/aquaculture/a...Feed_accounts/
http://wcwcvictoria.org/154/salmon-farming-background/
And a quote from the following:-
“Skretting states that 2.02 kg of fish is used to produce 1 kg of salmon( in norwegian only). Environmental organisations are also interested in alternative feed ingredients, and WWF has done its own calculation of FIFO on its Norwegian website.
They state in their calculation that 3.024 kg wild fish is used to produce 1 kg of farmed fish.”
http://www.thefishsite.com/articles/...h-farming-feed
“Salmon production requires huge amounts of fishmeal - an estimated 4kg of wild fish is needed for every 1kg of farmed fish produced. However, the ecological impacts of fishmeal production and the consequences for communities who are losing sources of fish for themselves, has left many to question whether it is sustainable.
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The salmon we produce is eaten by the mouths of people in the USA and Europe, but the asshole is here in Latin America,’ Jean Carlos Cardenas of Ecoceanos told The Ecologist. ‘The true cost of the cheap salmon you eat is being paid with the blood of our people and the health of our oceans.’”
http://www.theecologist.org/News/new...ntroversy.html
And this quote is pretty damning too!
“Many of the fish stocks used as feed - mostly anchovies, pilchards, mackerel, herring, and whiting - are already fished at, or over, their safe biological limit. So instead of relieving pressure on the marine environment, aquaculture is actually contributing to the
overfishing crisis that plagues the world's fisheries.
To reinforce this, quite fortunately there is a completely independent path to arrive at the same conclusion. For the year 2008 approximately 2.3 million tonnes of salmon were produced worldwide (FAO
ftp://ftp.fao.org/fi/stat/summary/summ_08/b-1.pdf) Again, assuming 1.2 kg of feed to produce 1 kg of salmon this means 2.76 million tonnes of salmon feed were produced. With 17% of salmon feed being fish oil this equates to the capture of 9.4 million tonnes of feeder fish. Thus, the global FFDR for salmon production is 4.09.”
http://www.verlasso.com/conversation...ild-fisheries/
What would happen if there were no salmon farms. The price would sky rocket, poaching would be rampant and alaska would bask in the profits off their nasty butt sea ranching practice.
You are twisting things again. The current demand is there because of “cheap” feed lot salmon. If there were no feed lots the prices would adjust to the demand and the demand would adjust to the price. No one “needs” salmon. People would transfer their eating habits just as they have always done.
And as we know feed lot salmon is not really “cheap” because it comes at a huge environmental, ecological and economic cost all of which is borne by others and “off the books” of the feed lot company owners. This industry is the classic evil travesty because it holds out the seductive promise of cheap food, while all the time exploiting and polluting the environment without having to pay for or be accountable for any of the real costs.
