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Skriven 2012-02-12 17:01:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Fish pellets 1
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Jim Weller <=-

 JW> I don't want no farmed fish raised on pellets of
 JW> cow manure and ground up chicken feathers!

 DD> Where would they do that? Southeast Asia? Surely not in America.
 DD> Surely not.

I exaggerated: cow manure goes into chicken feed and chicken feathers
go into fish pellets.

We save the cow manure for the carp. See next post.

Granted these guys, are their sources (WWF and suzuki), have an axe
to grind but...

From: Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform

Farmed salmon have residual traces of antibiotics as they are
frequently administered to the farmed fish via their feed. Canada
requires a withdrawal period from antibiotics prior to harvesting
but not all fish sold in Canada is raised here. The Canadian Food
Inspection Agency (CFIA) has issued numerous import alerts for
farmed salmon imported from Chile. 

CIFA also issued several alerts for Chilean salmon containing the
pesticide Emamectin and/or Ivermectin.

From: Les Burridge, Judith Weis, Felipe Cabello, and Jaime Pizarro
(March 2008). Chemical Use in Salmon Aquaculture: A Review of
Current Practices and Possible Environmental Effects. Salmon
Aquaculture Dialogue Technical Report, World Wildlife Federation.

Wild salmon get their pink to red flesh from the diet they consume
including crustaceans such as shrimp or krill. Since farmed salmon
eat a diet of pellets, the colorants canthaxanthin or astaxanthin
are added to the feed to create that appealing pink color.

Farmed salmon pellets are 20-50% fishmeal. the balance soy and
canola which is often genetically modified.

From: Volpe, John (2001). Super Un-Natural: Atlantic Salmon in BC
Waters. David Suzuki Foundation.

A study published in the American Journal of Environmental Science
and Technology found higher levels of PCBs in farmed salmon than in
wild salmon. The authors of the study concluded that frequent
consumption of farmed salmon is more likely to boost exposure to
PBDEs than wild salmon. In a global assessment of farmed salmon in
Science in 2004, 13 persistent organic pollutants we found.

The economic incentive to speed the growth of farmed species has led
to the use of an increasingly high-energy diet, which means farmed
salmon have a higher fat content than their wild counterparts. This
makes them more vulnerable to contamination by fat-soluble
pollutants (i.e. PCBs) that accumulate up the food chain. And, since
feed ingredients are sourced from fisheries all over the world,
"local" farmed salmon can contain contaminants from distant seas.


Cheers

YK Jim
                                                         
... Crap from the profit mongering corporate factories isn't free.

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