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
>
>
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