Wild Salmon In Trouble Video: The Link Between Farmed Salmon, Sea Lice And Wild Salmon

[bcubed]

Check out this video: http://www.watershed-watch.org/sealice.html

[maxwell]

good video dude thanks for posting!

[Taco]

One thing I never see in all this... alternatives, whats gonna replace the cost effective protein source when fish farming is banned in these inlets? Move'em on land or to the open sea? Technology ain't there. Wild fish? Could be harder yet on populations.

 

Unfortunately we have over 6 billion people to feed in this ol' world..............................Alternatives please!

[reevesr1]

While it is certainly hard to not look at this through a fisherman's eyes, reality is there has to be a viable alternative before this practice is stopped. I'm certainly not smart enough to suggest one.

[PGK]

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[Jayhad]

While it is certainly hard to not look at this through a fisherman's eyes, reality is there has to be a viable alternative before this practice is stopped. I'm certainly not smart enough to suggest one.

 

 

There has been a lot of r&d into "bubble screens" as of late. I think this is a viable option to having farmed fish in open oceans.

[Harps]

We could eat less meat, stop wasting as much as we do (how much do fastfood places throw out?), and stop feeding all the ocean fish to our dam pets!

 

There is no need to feed more fish to pets than what humans consume... we should raise rabbits and ducks for petfood, leave the oceans to recover.

 

 

And in terms of aquaculture... we only have floating fish farms beacuse of the subsidies and the demand for fast meat. fresh water rainbows raised in dugouts would be a burden to water supply, but with water recycling through hydroponic greenhouses, and return flows through duck supporting marches, we could provide a much more sustainable source of protein (ducks, fish, and veggies).

 

We need money to go into inovation, not subsidies.

[Taco]

Paul that all well a good but the reality of the situation is that the raising food for billion of people is probably the most invasive thing that we can do to the "natural" environment and it has HAS to be cost effective or millions will starve. The price of milling wheat in the North American market has a direct effect on the cost of a pound of millet in sub-saharan Africa. Up a few cents and somebody loses one meal a day. Food no matter what market it's destined for has to be cost effective.

 

Alternatives Paul it's a about alternatives

[Harps]

Taeke,

But if all this petfood did not go to pets... or wasn't caught in the first place... wouldn't that be better?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMol...YD5344520080826

Less ocean fish for pets, more for people (plus stop dumping the by-catch).

 

Its also been demostrated that sustainable agriculture, whether its crops under tree canopies, shrimp in rice patties, or mixed terrace farming can be very cost effective and provide a locally controlled, cheap source of food (and income). Of course to help things we need to stop promoting mass industrial agriculture as the best way, and start encouraging small scale, high diversity operations with less reliance on fuel and ag-chemicals.

 

Just like the cork industry, when you take something away from locals and try to make it cheap and efficient> you ruin that local economy and environment.

The push for plastic corks and screw tops on wine bottles has resulted in the loss of cork "forest" and the desertification of parts of Portugal.

[Taco]

Badaboombadabing! give the man a seegar,

now all ya have to is convert a goodly portion of 6 billion people to your way of thinking

 

 

 

Of course there a better way Paul, there usually always is and if it's cost effective eventually it will become standard issue.......for a time until something better comes along

[markd]

Actually there is one man who is farming salmon inland in BC. Its funny that when he started he had no market and no demand for his product. Now that the wild salmon stock have been damaged from years of open-pen salmon salmon it is time to move the salmon farms inland.

[admin]

We could all eat the Soylent Green.

 

[SanJuanWorm]

But Soylent green is PEOPLE.