Concerned about over-fishing

[sarahmichigan]

Between articles like this:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/photogalleries/bluefin-tuna/index.html

and listening to "Cod" as a book on CD, I'm getting very concerned about over-fishing and am feeling guilty about eating fish now, even though it's only once or twice a week.

Supposedly, wild salmon and other wild fish is better for you than farmed fish, but if this is the price you pay for eating wild fish, I'm not sure it's worth it.

Comments

[airsucker.livejournal.com]

Actully, the Pacific salmon fisheries are models of sustaneable fisheries.

Check these sites if you want to eat sustaneable fish.
http://www.fishbase.org/search.php
http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

thanks for the links. I need to do some more research.

I've heard that farmed fish aren't as good for you nutritionally (something about the omega oils) but it's a complicated issue, that's for sure.

[airsucker.livejournal.com]

That's true for farmed salmon, but farmed catfish seems to be ok, from the reading I did earlier this year. Not that catfish has the same qualities as salmon. I think that fresh-water fish farming has been going on for a long time in Asia, but ocean-farming adds a whole new bunch of problems and I could be entirely wrong.

[pstscrpt.livejournal.com]

Salmon in particular is very damaging to farm, because they're generally fed wild fish, and they tend to get wild salmon sick when they're raised at sea. Tilapia is supposed to be very easy to farm and not harmful at all; I don't really get why it's still expensive.