I agree with you completely. I love to eat salmon, but I also love to "snack" on herring (it takes quite a few to make a meal:) --- Bauer Ingrid <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > It can take up to three tonnes of wild fish to > > produce a single tonne of farmed fish." > > 3 tons to produce 1 ton? What kind of sense does > this > make? Is the 1 ton of farmed fish of such high > quality it can feed more people with less food? Or > is > this another misleading/misplaced statistic, like > how > many acres of *grain* it takes to produce 'x' head > of > cattle? > > herrings are the fishes caught here to be fed to > salmons . It will makes > more sense to eat more small fishes and less of > salmons ( but wild) rather > than promoting this overfishing of herrings which > are compromising the whole > of the food chain here( on the west coast) > fish farms are desastrous environmentally and health > wise. just boycott > them. > jean-claude > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from > anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/