Infectious Salmon Anemia Reported in Wild Pacific Fish - NYTimes.com
I just got back from Montreal, where there is too much mercury in the St. Lawrence river to safely eat the fish.
(Ok, I heard the government would let a person eat one 3-inch fish per week).
Some of the suburban rivers are too polluted to eat the fish there either.
When I asked if this was a problem, or where they could get fish, I heard somewhat cheerfully that they had local artificially farmed fish. Kind of sad, considering the city's awesome gastronomic character, and even notwithstanding the below.
But seeing this headline reminded me of that. Montreal is not alone. This article is about wild Pacific Ocean salmon being tainted from escaped diseased farmed fish.
Check the logic: we pollute natural rivers, until we have to create artificial ponds.
Artificial ponds are known to develop and breed fish diseases (see article linked, and the anemia now escaping into the natural salmon population).
Once the ponds are too fetid to grow fish, and wild fish populations are too scarce (common already) or unhealthy to eat, do we eat from our fishtanks, like that cute new Geiko commercial? Or just eat three-eyed nuclear plant-pond Simpson's fish and hum 'That's Just the Way It Is'?
I LIKE SEAFOOD. DOCTORS SAY WE SHOULD EAT IT. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE HEALTHY FOR US.
WHEN will it stand to common reason that we should KEEP NATURAL HABITATS HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE FOR FISH POPULATIONS, rather than going full circle destroying aquatic and terrestrial resources and then say, 'hey, let's clean up where they originally came from!!' We are so fucking stupid.
I just got back from Montreal, where there is too much mercury in the St. Lawrence river to safely eat the fish.
(Ok, I heard the government would let a person eat one 3-inch fish per week).
Some of the suburban rivers are too polluted to eat the fish there either.
When I asked if this was a problem, or where they could get fish, I heard somewhat cheerfully that they had local artificially farmed fish. Kind of sad, considering the city's awesome gastronomic character, and even notwithstanding the below.
But seeing this headline reminded me of that. Montreal is not alone. This article is about wild Pacific Ocean salmon being tainted from escaped diseased farmed fish.
Check the logic: we pollute natural rivers, until we have to create artificial ponds.
Artificial ponds are known to develop and breed fish diseases (see article linked, and the anemia now escaping into the natural salmon population).
Once the ponds are too fetid to grow fish, and wild fish populations are too scarce (common already) or unhealthy to eat, do we eat from our fishtanks, like that cute new Geiko commercial? Or just eat three-eyed nuclear plant-pond Simpson's fish and hum 'That's Just the Way It Is'?
I LIKE SEAFOOD. DOCTORS SAY WE SHOULD EAT IT. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE HEALTHY FOR US.
WHEN will it stand to common reason that we should KEEP NATURAL HABITATS HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE FOR FISH POPULATIONS, rather than going full circle destroying aquatic and terrestrial resources and then say, 'hey, let's clean up where they originally came from!!' We are so fucking stupid.
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