Farmed Salmon: Unhealthy and Unsustainable
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- While filming Call of the Killer Whale in British Colombia, Jean-Michel Cousteau and his team heard a consistent message from the scientific community, First Nations and marine conservation organizations. That message was that open-net salmon farms are killing many of the wild salmon runs of British Columbia and are creating biological and social degradation that could last for decades. Open-net salmon farming is one of the most harmful aquaculture production systems in the world and, as consumers, we can use our purchasing power and make a difference!
Great video! I commercial fish in Alaska for cod and salmon, and whenever I'm in the states, I try to tell people not to eat farmed salmon. When people are confronted with the realities of farmed fish, they usually say "gross!".
Where you can get the Wild Salmon which are good quality and are affordable, you should publish the list of Wild Salmon sellers here
Why does Health Canada allow this toxic food to be sold?
Money.
There's really only one way to get this problem solved: A massive consumer boycott of farmed salmon products.
Spread awareness. We can fix this.
They often put those farms directly in river mounds too, so all fish going up and down the river are getting sick. I think it is planned too. If wild fish stocks are plummeting, the demand for farmed wish will increase.
After reading some comments I see quite a few people are missing some key points. I would also be concerned with how the salmon are farmed. Usually these farms are overpopulated which is why they are given antibiotics to fight bacteria. They are swimming around in their own filth!!! And those same salmon we then eat.
I bought farm-raised salmon and wild-caught at the same time once. I left it in my fridge for a week. Wild-caught started to have a strong fishy smell while the farm-raised scent is fresh. Toss out the farm-raised and ended up cooking the wild-caught. I knew something wasn't right.
Wild caught was dark red while raw, right??
@@mikej2133 yes sir. Almost red or dark orange definitely not orange or pink. Label wild caught, but it is pricy per pound.
Wait... so we can't support normal fishing because the salmon population is getting smaller, and we can't support farmers because the produce is unhealthy?
Every time I think I find the perfect substitute to beef I get this shit thrown in my face! ok no more famed salmon boys, THANKS ALOT!
Even the salmon have to deal with evil people.
Not touching farmed salmon at any cost. We need to spread the word!
so easy stop eating farmed salmon
Diane Jean farmed salmon tases nasty because of the unnattural food they feed the fish on farms.
It's not so easy now that Fukushima radiation has destroyed the wild Pacific Salmon and most life in the Pacific. Classified endangered now.
not gonna buy farmed salmon!
What is also more than strange is that an Atlantic Salmon is hatched and raised in the Pacific in these farms.
@101powerhealth Sorry, no, but thanks for your interest. If you find some, please post it for all to see.
As someone who works in meat/seafood retail,yes wild salmon is better for you but at $19.00-$21.00 per pound it is not feasible for most people to afford.Farmed salmon goes for $5.99-$8.99 per pound retail and I believe is still a better option than fast food. I've seen and laid hands on every piece we sell,I've never seen any with any deformity or even damaged skin.I wouldn't sell it or recommend it if I felt it wasn't safe.We can't keep it in stock we sell anywhere from 250-400 lbs of farmed salmon a week,every week,all year long and that's just at 1 location.There should definitely be efforts made to improve the quality of the industry but there is simply no way to end farm raised fish,the demand is just too great.
Money over health always
What ever you put in your body has an effect on your life.
Not putting anything in your body too has an effect on your life...
@@Retroscoop is actually even better.
By the way, read about farmed shrimps in Asia and look at some videos! It get way better :-(((((
After you see those videos and how nasty they raised them, do yourself a favor and don't eat them. Save yourself from cancer...
+GRANDCANYON46 Thanks! Shrimp have tasted off to me for about 20 years
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Not to mention the huge impact regular farms have had on the enviroment.
Lol the fishermen hate fish farms... no way!
What's funny or not understandable about it? It's clearly not case of self-employed vs factory making same product but for cheaper. Wake up.
I have an idea. Lower the prices and they wont buy the farmed Salmon.
good short video that covers this problem! Do they have to mark the farmed salmon at the stores in Canada?
One of the reasons salmon die at their spawning ground every time they reproduce is to shake off lice.
Cousteau's legacy lives on! Thanks Jean-Michel! I'm not a diver but is the water supposed to be that cloudy? If not, then we have a problem and the issue with farmed salmon is real.
The main concern is that atlantic salmon could escape and establish runs in rivers with existing pacific salmon runs, transmit diseases, compete and hybridise.
The facts are that while some feral atlantic salmon have been found in rivers with existing pac. salmon runs, nothing has ever been established in 40+ years, and attempts to hybridise atlantic and pacific salmon in lab conditions have been mainly unsuccesful, producing only a few sterile offspring (they come from different genuses).
The cost have been just passed to us big times. It is not cheap to treat cancer. This is devastating.
How can I know if the salmon I buy in the supermarket is farm/ wild salmon? This is so sad... :(
Its easy to tell by the color of the meat. Google pictures.
I see.. thanks Justin :)
The Pacific Salmon Forum PSF - a non-biased scientific body ordered to look into the sea lice issue found that the studies Morton was citing (her own), were incorrect. Co-author Marty Krkosek agreed. Morton and Krkosek were asked to “recalibrate”. She concluded that “the survival of the pink salmon cohort was not statistically different from a reference region without salmon farms.” That’s right - no extinction. Not even a difference.
This seems to be a more complex problem. On one hand the lice and other pollutents kill the wild salmon, on the other hand demand for salmon is so high that only fishing wild salmon would probably kill them off as well. I think the solution here is not to necessarily get rid of farmed salmon, but to keep them separated from wild so they can't contaminate them.
Key word... probably. From this video and credible testimony the Wild Salmon have NO chance with the farms.
Consider an entire coast "depending" on wild salmon for generations, many regions with zero restrictions on where and how much they fish... We're talking GENERATIONS of un-restricted, mismanaged and irresponsible over fishing. Think this may have contributed to the decrease of our wild stock?
yup
not really. Solution: stop eating salmon
Great video. Here I am avoiding processed synthetic garbage food… eating fresh produce… and even then, farmed fish, meat & veg is a problem… makes me want to grow my own.
@CommonSenseCanadian The average yearly per capita intake of PCBs has been estimated to be about 30 nanograms from farmed salmon, 199 from pork, 306 from milk, 716 from poultry, and 2,401 from beef. When it comes to mercury, wild Alaskan halibut contains about 25 times as much as farmed salmon and tuna contains about 33 times as much! So if farmed salmon isn't high in contaminants, why do environmental organizations say that it is?
@Folkboat11
what websites did you find this information?
Everyone who's really into working out, health , and fitness, know not to buy farmed salmon. Even gmo corn feed farmed catfish, taste more like chicken, than fish.
Sadly, years of salmon farming have given consumers a taste for it. When I was a kid, salmon was a luxury fish, not something you could afford on a weekly basis. Now you can find it at grocery stores for the same price as beef.
What are those "13 chemicals that are 10 times stronger...." that you state in your piece , and where is the proof please?
theres lots of proof dum ass
This is grounds for a class action lawsuit.
Very eye opening. I hate farmed salmon now
I understand your frustration. Try to eat mostly plant based food and see how you feel!
do you know where I can get video of farmed raised salmon being fed red bebe's for food to make there meat red??
Thank you Jea-Michel Cousteau to support Dr Morton for speaking out. On 2017, Much respect to Dr Morton who still leads a great battle to save wild Salmon and fights against Salmon Farms that destroys Wild Salmon, Spread Virus and degrade Biodiversity. Dr Morton leads her battle along with First Nations last Guardians of Biodiversity! Salmon Farms are drive by greediness and profits!
We could try under fishing methods?
Why not just raise salmon in artificial lakes and feed them their natural diet? It shouldn't be that hard.
I guess they will loose their fish and so they cannot collect their money.
are they feeding chemicals to farmed salmon??? If so, why? Why don't they let the salmon grown naturally?
Shame on these people who support this kind of farming of fish..Shame on everyone involved...Messing with Mother Nature....KARMA....
maybe you are right people, i am just going to watch that video... but, please... advise me somebody... I should also loose weight. I should eat meat according to blood type O.... I do not eat meat, except sometimes some processed foods where are some parts of meat.... if salmon is not healthy, what should I eat like a protein? chickpeas? green bean? Nuts? cod fish? if I skip out processed foods, from what foods can I have a pleasure?
Aquaculture is the future, becuse not only salmon but globally wild fisheries are in decline due to human populations and overfishing. I work in and understand the commerical fishing industry, but there has to be a balance. In this specific case the farms should be moved to avoid impact on wild stocks or altered to avoid contamination. This is a problem but bashing farmed fish is not the solution.
any up dates...
I think farmed salmon is better to eat now then wild cesium 136 nuclear radiated salmon.
yeah they're feeding them unnatural food at first. But what happens when they go to the ocean for three years and eat completely natural food. there is not much of a difference compared with wild salmon. Plus if we stopped farming fish, wouldn't the commercial and sport fisherman destroy the remaining population?
nw fishbonker Didn't you watch the video? The fry are dying from farmed salmon nets getting lice on them...
Scottish Wild Salmon are also suffering a problem with lice
Kudos to William Shatner for standing up for Canada's wild salmon. Check out "William Shatner Supports Bill for Wild Salmon"
Do people not know about this thing called evolution? The fish will adapt to the new conditions. The real danger is banning these kinds of farms and then the natural salmon vanishing due to over-fishing.
The thing is that most of the people prefer farmed meats because they taste less gamey and more fatty. Perhaps we need an education on taste!
the only issue im seeing here is that the fish farms are to close to shore and its allowing the baby salmon the get sealice so simply have salmon farms further out to sea or in areas where wild salmon dont breed and there is also land based fish farms and as for chemicals companies have been abusing there use for years in all forms of industry
+Lucas Garrett That's the main issue, not the only issue. They still are feeding these fish dog food until they release them, ONLY WILD! Or Don't Eat Fish.
Not all farmed fish is bad. It's the techniques these mass producers are using that are bad... 2:42
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Thankyou sooo much Alexandra.
after everyone was fishing for 30 years, severely reducing fish population, blame farms now.
Can we even call farmed salmon - salmon, if the fish do not migrate?
haha, did i say that? my point is that if we have no hatcheries to keep the population up, the commercial fisherman are going to harvest all of the wild salmon, obviously to sell.. not eat.. and there will be no more for us to catch, the fact is we need hatcheries, we just need to improve on ways to farm fish.
i bought some sockeye salmon the other day from shoppers that said product of U.S. and wild caught, is that ok? I bought because the salmon looked extremely fresh, it was dark red and 25 bucks for 2 pounds. Just wondering if I can trust shoppers cuz that fish was goood.
I love to see the white man sitting at the feet of the wise native to learn the ways of the land. Look at how concerned he looks---oh man, that white guy is getting schooled big time. He is on the brink of tears---how sincere! How noble!
I feel that we the hoi polloi are to blame because of our insatiable desire to consume all we can NOW. Farmed Salmon today and GM Salmon tomorrow. Oh wait, GM or cancer Salmon is already being consumed right?
I worn Canadian not to eat farmed fish at all I fell so sorry for the people who got sick because of these fish like me I got cancer
Save the wild and eat farmed fish!
stop eating it
I dont think the problem is farmed Salmon but the practices that the farmers are using such as chemicals and not species specific feed etc..
Save the Bluefin tuna from imminent extinction! Save all marine life! We cannot blame anyone but ourselves the consumers. Eat less seafood or only Buy seafood with a MCS label. We are overexploiting our ocean's precious resources.sign the petition for marine reserves on the greenpeace website! Everyone can change the world ,including YOU! Thumbs up to keep this at the top
Farming is still here Don. Where are you?.. looks like you are the one that is not sustainable :)
I just watched a documentary where they mentioned salmon is worst than pork ..
how can you say its a conspiracy?? at this point, i would say it's common knowledge that farmed raised salmon is not healthy. they have high PCB levels and very low levels of omega3, among many other issues. if you want links for these studies i'll be happy to provide them.
@Cty2 I would bet that what BC farmers feed their salmon is far better than what Alaska fed billions of farmed hatchery salmon with the melamine infected fish feed two years ago. The feed was not recalled and all fed out. It's 2010 and these fish could be coming to a store near you. There was a pet food recall at the same time but Alaska did not recall the feed to salmon ment for human consumption.
Wild fresh salmon are only available for about 3 months, even with different varieties coming into spawn. What's the solution to the demand? I don't see any, so work on sustainable and healthy "farming."
Yes, there could be bias, and of course, not all fish farming is bad, one would have to be retarded to believe that, but if you really pay attention, the real issue of the techniques used is addressed as the reason for the boycott. Those that could get past their bias would agree that there would be no real reason for boycott if the techniques used weren't so hazardous. 2:42 The farmers would be smart to adapt.
All the food we eat is now farmed ! These guys are still taking the dwindling stalks of wild Salmon and complaining about the lack of it just like the Cod fisherman. There is a price to pay for fish farming, yes but I have been on the periphery of it for over forty years and can assure you it is much better than it was and still improving. Fish farming is sustainable but wild stocks of all fish are NOT given demand
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its a worry what they putting in those farmed salmon
Too: Folkboat11
That fake salmon yo refer to is only bred this way in hopes of rebuilding a wild population that has been decimated due to the farming of atlantic salmon in these Pacific waters. The hatchery bred wild salmon of Alaska also hold far more nutritional value than farmed fish. How else would you have fisheries rebuild a population that is being destroyed by governmental neglect?
4:25 Im not sure how true that is. There are lots of jobs in the buisness and lots of northern towns are aflout because of fish farming.
couldn't they invest in some research to improve fish farming.. I think its a great idea but its not perfect right now.
this only happens in Canada not in the Faroe Islands
I've seen a video that shows that it's even worse in Norway than it is in Canada. Norway's fisheries minister is an industry shill, apparently.
No more farmed salmon for my household
More for me!
@@popeyegordon enjoy it!!
@@ditadatje7419 I eat 300 pounds of seafood each year. I only avoid Chinese farmed products. I thrive on seafood.
@johnosandra All farmed fish are not equal. Some, like catfish, take well to farming and have minimal ecological impact. Large, open ocean fish like salmon and tuna are poor candidates for farming. That said, these fish farms are a symptom of the problem and not the cause. The cause is overfishing.
Si no hay demanda no hay negocio
I really don,t know how to interpret your reply except that there are no truffles in Norway, the mushrooms are not "mine", I don,t blame the Poles for "stealing" mushrooms(that,s funny!) and what does any of this have to doe with salmon farming? If my comment sounded negative it,s probably because some enviromental issues are quite serious.
Ugh.. dear God what am I eating.. how would I know if they are wild or not?
So I've got a question. If farmed salmon are bad, then you guys just fish the wild ones into extinction?
I wonder why people miss the point everytime; vegan thought if people stop eating meat the planet will be safe, environmentalists/activists thought if we cover the planet with solar panels we will save the planet, and so on
Simply put....The Earth has given us everything and we have given back...nothing. Only after the last stream has been poisoned, only after the last fish as been caught, then will man realize...money can not be eaten.
maybe you are right people, i am just going to watch that video... but, please... advise me somebody... I should also loose weight. I should eat meat according to blood type O.... I do not eat meat, except sometimes some processed foods where are some parts of meat.... if salmon is not healthy, what should I eat like a protein? chickpeas? green bean? Nuts? cod fish? if I skip out processed foods, from what foods can I have a pleasure?
Unhealthy? How do you feel about this? Alaska Seafood Processing creates dead zones
September 28, 2011
Trident Seafoods Corp. to Pay $2.5 Million to Resolve Clean Water Act Violations and Spend More Than $30 Million to Upgrade Processing PlantsSettlement to reduce discharges of seafood...
People can eat wild salmon till the end of time and they won't die out.
Over fishing by anglers, getting rid of farming salmon are two reasons fish are the way they are.
Anglers? Or commercial fidhing
Over fishing by anglers?
Are you stupid?
What an idiots.
The one big question HOW COME THE LICE DO NOT KILL THE FARM SALMON ???
Lice exist in almost all salmon populations.
Evolution is not a speedy process...You can go tomorrow and start a salmon farm if you wanted.You cannot expect wild salmon to adapt to the impacts that farmed salmon creates in one day. It has been about a decade since farmed salmon came about and the salmon have yet to evolve.
This has a bit of a bias. It's not the farming itself doing harm, but the mal-practises of the farmers themselves...
If Alex Morton new her science, she would not have to use circus act mud throwing campaign's to get attention.
SO, What do we do for the Salmon supply?
Fish 3 days a month and charge 2000 dollars a pound?
Good luck with that. The fisherman will leave, the community will leave, the salmon will come back, then bears, whales and seals will love happily ever after......
insert a sea lice predator in the salmon tanks, control the predator population
These poor animals must be so unhappy being imprisoned and crowded like in concentration camps, it's so against their nature. I agree with all the anti-salmon farming info but have never seen anyone express concern for the cruelty done to the fish.
Why is no one from the ASPCA expressing their views on these raising practices? If a private citizen can go to jail for mistreating their pet, even a gold fish in a tank, then why not the industrialists raising living animals for profit?
It's too bad about the salmon farming causing so much problem with the environment and the wild fish. The wild fish are already being destroyed by invasive cormorants and the huge over population of seals and sea lions that are being treated like SACRED COWS here on the West coast of the U S. If something doesn't change soon there will be no salmon.
Who cares if the salmon die if I can buy a yacht.
Without a doubt.
Do you disagree with this video?
Farmed salmon is totally disgusting. I won’t touch it.