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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Geff_t on March 04, 2010, 05:34:59 PM

Title: CTV at 6pm
Post by: Geff_t on March 04, 2010, 05:34:59 PM

On tonights CTV news hour at 6pm they will be doing a report on Farmed vs Wild salmon. They are doing tests on both. I wonder what they will find. I think they will testing the meat of both.

Title: Re: CTV at 6pm
Post by: chris gadsden on March 04, 2010, 06:46:59 PM

Quote from: Geff_t on March 04, 2010, 05:34:59 PM

On tonights CTV news hour at 6pm they will be doing a report on Farmed vs Wild salmon. They are doing tests on both. I wonder what they will find. I think they will testing the meat of both.

Thanks, missed it but we will be able to view it on the CTV web page.

Title: Re: CTV at 6pm
Post by: vancook on March 04, 2010, 07:11:08 PM

dang missed it too. as a cook I am against farmed salmon for a variety of reasons culinary wise. But more so because of the enviromental damage

Title: Re: CTV at 6pm
Post by: Fish Assassin on March 04, 2010, 07:21:53 PM

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100219/bc_ctv_investigates_food_fish_100219/20100304?hub=BritishColumbia

Title: Re: CTV at 6pm
Post by: vancook on March 04, 2010, 07:36:27 PM

Quote from: Fish Assassin on March 04, 2010, 07:21:53 PM

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100219/bc_ctv_investigates_food_fish_100219/20100304?hub=BritishColumbia

thanks for the link, unfortunately they'll never take away those open ocean farms

Title: Re: CTV at 6pm
Post by: Bill on March 05, 2010, 08:41:40 AM

To bad they did not include how much damage is caused by the the fish farms in our echo system, then maybe the consumer would have a different view about purchasing farmed Salmon   

Title: Re: CTV at 6pm
Post by: skaha on March 05, 2010, 09:20:50 AM

-- my conclusion from this video, farmed salmon are couch potatoes.. fat and out of shape.

Title: Re: CTV at 6pm
Post by: Nitroholic on March 05, 2010, 12:41:21 PM

Marry Ellen Walling (BC Salmon Farmers Association) "We're replicating the diet as closely as possible... ...so they are eating what their wild salmon cousins are eating"

-arn't the pellets corn based?
-atlantic salmon are cousins to pacific salmon? really?

Title: Re: CTV at 6pm
Post by: gordc on March 05, 2010, 12:56:04 PM

How can you do an objective comparison between fish when one is from the atlantic and one is from the pacific.  That's a huge variable.  Also they failed to mention that farmed salmon has way less mercury than wild and more omega 3s.  

http://www.farmfreshsalmon.org/F33.cfm

Title: Re: CTV at 6pm
Post by: vancook on March 05, 2010, 02:47:07 PM

Quote from: gordc on March 05, 2010, 12:56:04 PM

How can you do an objective comparison between fish when one is from the atlantic and one is from the pacific.  That's a huge variable.  Also they failed to mention that farmed salmon has way less mercury than wild and more omega 3s.  

http://www.farmfreshsalmon.org/F33.cfm

if you watched the other two videos they had posted they clearly stated that altho the farmed has more fatty acid because they're just fat fish, they also said the wild salmon had better omega 3 than the farmed.