Is there any rational in permitting the continuation of commercial 'hunting' of wild fish?
Most of the stories you hear about wild fish involve their disappearance, usually because of over-fishing.
"The notion that it's going to make things better for wild fish hasn't been borne out, " he says.
Sooner or later, we will drive wild fish to extinction, unless we make the switch to farmed fish.
The human race is rapidly depleting the stocks of almost every wild fish that we like to eat, and many traditional fisheries are already wiped out.
Not only is the claim about toxins unfounded, but it ignores the very real (and widely documented) danger of mercury accumulating in wild fish, including salmon.
The culture (?free market-driven economy) of wild capture fisheries is all wrong for the levels of co-operation and collaboration needed to restore and protect wild fish populations.
Critics are concerned about the levels of sea lice at farms which can be passed on to passing wild fish and are particularly harmful to juvenile fish.
Applications are being seen for more dispersive 'open sea' sites out of lochs along the shoreline, which it is hoped could prove less of a threat to wild fish as they are away from the river mouths.
Similarly, if you look at what happened a couple of years ago, there were all kinds of crossover points that happened around the same time: more cell phones than landlines, more laptops than desktops, more debit cards than credit cards, more farmed fish than wild fish, more girls in college than boys.
More 'wild' fish could be nurtured and caught with much less effort (fuel, time, stress) through collaborative management and working.
Yet farmed fish still carries a bad rap, both from environmentalists concerned about the pollution caused by on-shore and near-shore farms, and from food snobs who favor the more robust taste of wild caught fish.
FORBES: Regulatory Uncertainty Drives A Fish Farmer To Foreign Waters
What is surprising is that this is the first report of this from a wild population of fish.
Welcoming the introduction of the bill, Mr Wheelhouse said both wild and farmed fish stocks were vital to rural communities and the wider Scottish economy.
In addition, groups most concerned with overfishing note that carnivores such as salmon need to eat wild-caught fish, depleting populations of feed fish such as anchovies.
The Scottish government hopes the bill will ensure that both wild and farmed fish continue to be managed properly without harming fishing on the country's rivers and lochs.
Costco last week said it halted sales of five wild-caught fish species that are on Greenpeace's "red list" of overfished species, including Greenland halibut, certain types of grouper, and skates and rays.
Late last year Whole Foods Market color coded all of its wild-caught fish to show consumers which are most sustainable, based on guidelines set by Monterey Bay Aquarium in California and New York's Blue Ocean Institute.
From Austria to New Zealand, I have scoured the map for examples of easy-drinking bottles that will pair well with whatever you serve, whether it is turkey, ham, wild game or fish, or simply to round off a memorable day.
Except for wild game, wild mushrooms, wild berries and fish and shellfish, virtually all the food in European and American diets has long been derived from genetically modified organisms yes, even the organic stuff at Whole Foods and the local farmers market.
The absurdity of the current environment reached a peak when the DOJ, and agents from, get this, the U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service, raided the Nashville factory of the legendary Gibson Guitar company.
They say consuming 250 milligrams of omega-3 fatty acids a day -- t he equivilant of 6 ounces a week of wild salmon or other oily fish -- could prevent heart disease.
So many people showed genuine interest in our journey and generously told us about their lives, and we left nearly every town with a few fish or other wild game in our fridge.
According to Aqua Bounty, the engineered salmon are all female, sterile, and raised in physically contained facilities, so the chance of the fish breeding in the wild is negligible.
The Atlantic Salmon Federation, for example, fears the fish could get into the wild, start breeding and disturb the ecosystem.
Unlike Mediterranean and Australian tuna operations, which scoop up schools of young wild tuna and then grow them in fish farms, Hawaii Oceanic Technologies plans to raise its ahi from eggs.
They say escaped fish pass on genetic weakness to wild salmon if interbreeding occurs.
They don't breed, and no fish are added back to the wild population.
Commercial fishermen bring in a wild catch of roughly 90 million tons of fish each year, with another 70 million tons coming from aquaculture.
FORBES: Regulatory Uncertainty Drives A Fish Farmer To Foreign Waters
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