Fish could feed the world.
(Tru dat, BUT, I want to continue eating Halibut just for the halibut not because there’s nothing else on the menu.)
“Fish is a sustainable source of protein compared to beef,” Zilberg said.
(Maybe so, BUT, beef is so much more delectable in so many ways.)
Anyway, here’s the other side:
https://www.jpost.com/special-content/fish-could-feed-the-wo…
“Fish is a sustainable source of protein compared to beef,” Zilberg said.
(Maybe so, BUT, beef is so much more delectable in so many ways.)
Have you considered insects?
Why Eat Bugs?
www.edibleinsects.com/why-eat-bugs/
We should all eat bugs. Eating insects can have a positive effect on your life in a variety of ways. There’s the personal experience, the global experience and the [low] environmental impact that eating insects can have.
DB2
Dave, have you noticed that the lowly cod has been elevated in status over the last 50 years, due to scarcity? I have read that the once prolific Grand Banks have been so overfished that the area is no longer commercially viable.
The Grand Banks: Where Have All the Cod Gone? New Scientist 16 Sept 96 p24
THIRTY years ago, children in Newfoundland could catch fish by dipping a basket into the
ocean. Now Canadian research vessels sweep the seas in vain, finding not a single school of cod
in what was once the world’s richest fishery. The destruction of the Grand Banks cod is one of
the biggest fisheries disasters of all time. And science helped make it happen. The Canadian
government banned fishing on the Banks in 1992, when scientists discovered there were nearly
no adult cod left. That ban is likely to remain in place for at least a decade. Canada has blamed
Spaniards, seals and the weather. But the real damage was done by years of “safe” catches that
scientists now realise were just the opposite
https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/teachers/lessonplans/Over…
Well, there is always plankton. Scoop them up in nets, and process them into green wafers. Yum!
Steve
The reduction industry says absolutely NO!
What is the reduction industry? When you see animals or eggs with more Omega 3, think dog and cat food as well, that is created in the reduction industry.
The smaller fish that the bigger and moderate sized fish eat are constantly being depleted to feed the reduction industry. Their bones and bodies boiled down to glean the Omega 3. Yep to feed our farm animals and pets. Along with our stupid insatiable appetite to get vitamins into are veins.
A doctor told me several years ago, you can take Omega 3 or fish oil and get much better blood results but the better numbers then will not help you at all.
The reduction industry some years ago was taking some 30 to 40% of the Pacific ocean’s small fish.
The fish you want to eat are scarce and expensive as a result.
Fish cannot feed the world. The overpopulation of humans and industrial fishing has already wiped out fisheries and is in the process of destroying small fish (as Leap1 pointed out) that are the base of the wild food chain. Not to mention killing “bycatch” and other species which are killed by fishing gear.
Some species of tuna are being fished to extinction.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58441142
It’s the tragedy of the commons. International law should make fishing and fish farming sustainable (in terms of catch, feed stocks and pollution) – but it can’t because the open oceans aren’t controlled.
Wendy
The fish you want to eat are scarce and expensive as a result.
Meanwhile, we are waiting for the moment Asian carp pass from the Mississippi River system into the Great Lakes. That transit would be easy to prevent, by closing the locks in the Chicago River, but that would hurt someone’s profit, so the waterway stays open.
Jan 11, 2022
Great Lakes states sue to stop Asian carp invasion
This week the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed, based on environmental genetic testing, or eDNA testing, that the Asian carp had penetrated the electric barriers within a man-made Chicago waterway that links the Mississippi River to Lake Michigan. This latest confirmation, placing the fish within six miles of Lake Michigan, comes after previous tests last fall found DNA evidence of the fish just north of the electric barriers.
On Friday, the justices will discuss behind closed doors whether to issue an injunction to close the locks in this Chicago waterway. The locks serve as the last physical barrier between the Great Lakes and the Asian carp. There is no date for the justices’ decision to be made public.
https://captimes.com/news/local/great-lakes-states-sue-to-st…
If the media applied the same hysteria tactics to Asian carp as they do to baby food, or gas prices, or “severe weather”, the carp would be on the brink of extinction soon enough.
Steve
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/627229213/the-science-and-env…
We definitely could live off fish, but are screwing that up entirely.
Have a listen…on the link above…
<Meanwhile, we are waiting for the moment Asian carp pass from the Mississippi River system into the Great Lakes.>
Asian carp are edible. Why aren’t commercial interests intensively fishing and selling them?
https://www.outdoorhub.com/how-to/2015/01/09/eat-invasive-7-…
Wendy
Meanwhile, we are waiting for the moment Asian carp pass from the Mississippi River system into the Great Lakes.
Illegal immigration!!!
AW
Asian carp are edible. Why aren’t commercial interests intensively fishing and selling them?
Some have been trying to market them to USians as food, but there hasn’t been much interest. iirc, they are favored by some people of Asian extraction. The local Detroit media was ALARMED!!! a few years ago when a truck carrying live Asian carp, being imported as food, was stopped at the border with Canada.
We know how gullible many USians are. Tell them eating the carp with make them fit, or slim, or solve their ED problems. Get “Dr Oz”, or “Dr Phil”, or “Dr Amen” on that, and the fish would quickly be hunted to extinction.
Steve
Well, there is always plankton. Scoop them up in nets, and process them into green wafers. Yum!
Almost as tasty as Soylent Green!
https://foodjunk.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/soylent-green-crac…
“Unfortunately, these crackers are not made of people (stupid government nutrition laws). They are made from the usual crackery ingredients like enriched flour and buttermilk but also contain a touch of spinach and spirulina powders for color and novelty. And they are officially licensed through Warner Brothers. So there’s that.”
The 1973 movie took place in the far off future of 2022 so there’s that, too.
Pete
Back in the 60s, my father, a nutritionist among other things, was an advisor to a guy who had developed a process that would turn trash fish into a high protein, flavorless flour. One could make the local breadstuff substituting some of this flour for the local flour and add substantially to protein in the diet for poor areas. The guy knew that no one overseas would use it unless it was FDA approved, which my father was helping with, but there were some corporate interests that kept showing up for hearings with ghastly photos of fish guts. As far as I know, the process never got approval. And yes, I did eat some of it.
These days I buy most of my leaf vegetables*** from a nearby combined hydroponic greenhouse with rabbit hutch and tilapia fish ponds. The owner is a brilliant PhD biology who has about an acre of hydroponics, four large tilapia ponds, and the rabbits all under a huge tent that allows her to control the amount of light, economically keep temperature and humdidity near ideal, and not lose water water vapor. The vege matter not bought by humans is fed to the rabbits whose poop supplements the tilapia feed, and the tilapia poop cycles in the water to the hydroponics.
Sounds like a large part of the future. The veges are fabulous.
david fb
***(lettuces, collard mustard chard kale greens, herbs, bok choy, bell peppers, heirloom tomatoes)
Asian carp are edible. Why aren’t commercial interests intensively fishing and selling them?
Maybe because they taste like carp?