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Date: | Wed, 25 Jun 1997 09:45:40 +0000 |
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Scotland, my native land, is being inundated with sea-farms for trout,
salmon etc. Sadly these are now causing major concerns since with the
high density of fish in these farms, diseases are spreading and therefore
antibiotics and other treatments are being given as well as food
supplements.
So if you decide not to eat farmed fish, there is the problem of pollution
in the seas from agriculture, deep sea dumping of all sorts of pollutants
and rubbish being ingested into the food chain.
Enough to make anyone paranoid! Maybe with larger coastlines and less
overall density of population this may not be such a problem in the USA
and Canada as it is for us here in the UK and Europe.
BTW if you want to check whether your trout or salmon is farmed or wild,
pick the whole fish up and let it slip through your fingers with its head
down. Farmed fish have a much narrower tail and is more flabby - less
muscle formation - since it has not had to swim against currents etc. A
fishmonger gave me this tip.
Best wishes
Rhoda
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