Should You Avoid Farmed Fish?
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- čas přidán 1. 12. 2014
- Fish farming has become the new way to raise and eventually eat fish. Are the fish raised in farms good for you?
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I researched enough about farmed salmon that I no longer eat them.
Oh please
What do you eat?
Sai pawan kumar veggie
Copy That.
Farmed is awful. I’d rather have wild. The omegas are BALANCED. Farmed is not. I also only buy local other meats from farms I visit regularly
LOOK WHO'S FIRST NOW!
DNews I'm surprised you guys did not talk about the environmental impact of fish farming. Fish farming location falls under two categories: isolated tanks or at sea. The ones farm at sea uses mesh network to allow the waste to disperse from the farm. Unfortunately this alters the eco-system of the natural habitat. During my undergraduate degree in Immunology and Infections we talked a lot about the alteration of pathological flora in the ecosystem with fish farming.
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Yeah but what's on second...
No, Who's on second.
Would love an update to this, our salmonfarmers in Norway site new studies saying they are more than safe. But as you would guess we can’t always trust them to tell the truth. I eat farmed salmon just to get some fish in my diet
In many locations, we don't have a choice. Even farm raised Salmon fillets are expensive, so we're not dining on them daily. I may have 2 pounds of farm raised Salmon every 3 months, so I doubt that it's a health concern.
We only eat wild caught fish and shellfish!! And as far as canned fish (Tuna, Sardines,etc.) we only buy them if packed in water (Tuna) and olive oil (Sardines) and NEVER if they contain ANY SOY!!
there's a fish farm across the road from my dad's old house the smell was vile
I do not find wild salmon in Europe. There is a freezed salmon sold by ALDI with MSC certification, but I think it is farmed. Even the smoked salmon labeled as wild and caught in FAO 61 called Vadlazac with the same certification looks suspect. The price is similar to the farmed salmon, no difference.
Don't worry it's only in Norway? Pretty much all the salmon that I can buy in my country comes from norway :P
I have chickens. Chicken are lean muscle birds. The ones you see at the stores and eat are all overfed corn and hormone injected in USA.
Yeah local norwegian news has alot of problems with Norwegian salmon farming I don't really partake in the discussions, but I can tell you it's a problem here.
such winter
YES!!
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type Fillet Oh fish at the you tube search to find out more.
Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification. Does ACS certification helps in identifying which farmed salmon is safe for consumption?
I found fish that came from farms to be a bit on the fatty side. That's my only complaint. Couldn't care less how much omega they contain. Just cut down on the fat, you can barely eat it...
I always buy wild salmon if I can, but it isn’t always available.
Yeah only in Norway...bad thing is that most of the salmon we eat in Italy comes from Norway...
The fish on our plates is Blood on our hands!
Yes, it is called the food chain.
I believe as the Buddhists do, death is nothing to fear or to have distaste for.
As long as my fish or food in general doesnt hurt the wild, im fine with it.
Larry Burke
Yes, because it's not like there are any cruelty-free alternatives to meat and dairy.
***** Are cats cruelty free to their prey? How are you so sure that we are supposed to work differently than every other living thing on the planet that you have to convince others to stop? By the way, plants are alive to, so your still killing even if your a vegetarian.
Both wild and farmed salmon actually have pale meat. The color is added when they're sent to the market.
So, what's your backround enough to be giving advice?😂❤ just curious.
Correction D.news the conversion is wrong . You said 1 pound of salmon takes 2.4 pounds of fish to produce but in the screen it shows 1.88 Kg which is 4.14 pounds not 2.4 . and it is stupid to waste good food for less food this waste should be illegal
The Norwegian Salmon can not be eaten anymore. It has so much chemistry inside it will kill you.
The salmon at the big box stores, like Sam's, & WalMart, Randazzios, & others are ALL farmed!
Fortunately, living near the great lakes we catch a lot of walleye, but not enough to last the whole year so I need to buy from the markets!
I eat canned tuna, salmon, mackerel & sardines, that are high in omega 3, are wild caught & the omega 3 reduces inflammation, the inflammation, causes arterial sclerosis & heart attacks!
Were can I get the big slabs of WILD caught salmon, for Bar B Q ing, in the great lakes area? 🤔
The salmon farming industry needs a massive overhaul. Open net farming is impacting the eco-system by spreading disease in to the wild fish population. Wild salmon populations are plummeting near farms, whales no longer have food and on the West coast of Canada bears are starving because of very weak salmon runs. Sea Lice and many of fish disease spread from the farms. Fish farms never ever shovel their manure. It just piles up on the ocean floor. The fish are forced to swim in this filth. Fish pellets are treated with pesticides to preserve the high fat content of the food. No matter how high quality the pellets, they are treated with toxic chemicals as a preservative.
Salmon farms must go to a closed containment system to even be considered "sustainable". And that will shrink production and raise the price. But our environment won't suffer.
Regulations barely exist. Most countries protect the salmon industry before the citizens. In Canada the gov't pays full retail value to the farm when fish are lost due to disease. They don't need insurance because the gov't bails them out at the tax payers expense.
I can go on and on about misleading marketing and industry paid for science stats too.
A good substitute is Arctic Char which is raised in a closed containment farm.
I have many video on my channel that talk about the impacts of salmon farms. I just interviewed BC Marine Biologist Alexandra Morton on my youtube channel. She has watched her eco-system fall apart after salmon farms where introduced.
what do you think about aquaponics fish. Of course most of the market value goes to selling the plants grown from the fish's waste and not the fish but the fish grown in it look really healthy. And its easier to monitor the Ca Mg S N and other elements in the water and fish's food simply because its a closed system that can be easily tested if the practitioner is serious enough.
how about the aquaculture around the Puget sound? good or bad? i been thinking about applying for a job as a technician with them just cuz it sounds interesting but not sure if i'd be supporting a bad thing.
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Yes Marcus, you have the facts right there. Locally we got the same problem where the wild population get infected and now is in decline. In some rovers disappearing entirely.
And our food administration have issued a warning against eating the farmed salmon too often for the very same reason you pointed out - the pellets got high levels of preservatives and even one anti-explosive compound (yes true! The dust from pellets can actually ignite.)
Now it's winter I don't do any fishing, so I asked in the local supermarket for wild salmon. The reply?
'No we cannot sell that since such fish have no veterinarian licence.'
Wild fish don't need any, but the fish farms have cornered the market this way. That's how far the drain things have gone!
I haven't had meat in 12 weeks and no eggs. Only little dairy in some medication with lactose for a week and a bag of potato chips with milk in the flavouring.
I strive to aim for a vegan diet for the sake of health and ethics.
Funny, shown pics of wild vs farmed salmon both look like farmed Atlantic. Also you must only eat a lot of #2 quality farmed salmon because it's defiantly not light pink
Not everyone is rich!So eat less and stay healthy Costco sells wild cought salmon at a cost of $21.00 for ten fillets That works out to $2.00 per serving We serve it with steamed rice and green salad Total cost about $3.00Deal and you are eating healthy
Howard and Susie Nielsen
Eating healthy? Haha, no. Wild fish contains very high amounts of mercury and other heavy metals along with other pollution from the water. If it isn't specified where it was caught (for example artic which is the only clean place left+have a certification) then you can count on that it was cought in the dirty waters outside china or india where they empty all there trash with chemicals and have had several oil leaks. Our oceans are actually more polluted than the air. If you think you're healthy eating wild from out polluted oceans then you're dead wrong.
@Axle your country is a big trash my friend, india, bangladesh and all the mess around are the dirtiest places on this planet
@@musicmakesyoustrong Yes but salmon are a relatively small fish compared to tuna or sword so don't get big enough to accumulate a lot of toxins.
Dhanush T catfish exist in punjab, in the beas and ravi river, we call it singhara fish here
i like his shirt
Where can I get that shirt!?!?
I searched on U tube n the internet in general what is still available in wild fish FA results they tell u how to cook this that n the other I recently bought some Dover sole it tasted crap n am wondering if Dover sole ib now farmed too? Lemon sole tasted Much Much Better than the last dove sole I bought I hate farmed fish Specially salmon but when I can get Wild Alaskan Salmon YES wild salmon equals English OAK farmed salmons equals MDF
Please go visit an Aqua Farm. You will see and learn information that will change your mind. Don't rely on old research. Aqua farming has grown and advanced.
I really dont eat fish, that often at all, unless its fish sticks, but I would do so much with a farm of my own if I won the lottery. A lot of plans in the making, but no moola. :(
Yes
You were supposed to talk about the mercury levels, that’s the whole reason why the girl in the other video mentioned this video.
It confirms my prejudice against farmed fish. It's cheaper but I don't buy it. Plants use less complex molecules which is simpler. Meat I rarely eat it. Chicken feeds on seeds and should be quite easy but I am very suspicious on added supplements. What I'm worried about is anti-biotics and growth hormones which could give us cancer because were eating huge amounts of hormones during centuries. 20 years later we have problems.
Fewer humans means fewer consumers means better life for livestock, healthier meals, less inflation. We have gone too far, folks
I need your shirt.
I have heard of catfish farming 30 yrs ago...What is the big deal..I buy it and I have never gotten sick so far.
I think is good , people should create more healthy farms, and it feeds everyone.
You are not taking into account the difference between Atlantic salmon and Pacific salmon. The difference is like comparing Sheep meat to Goat meat. The taste is different and the texture too.
i dont eat market fish anymore because of farm fish, but i do eat sushi and prey they are not farm fish.
Farmed fish contains so much more calories because they are fatter due to a lack of movement... And not the healthy kind of fat. I always buy wild salmon. And in the supermarket here wild salmon is 1 euro cheaper per 250 grams.
Farming is great given that seawater is polluted
Cows are fed 13 pounds of feed to 1 pound of growth and produce the biggest greenhouse gas effect we know of today. Mice are completely different from people as well, this is ridiculous.
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Hello DNews :D Great video as usual!
Which ever way you look at it fish farming is more sustainable, and with a little organisation should have better quality control.
Lets face it the world gonna end someday
Corporations won't allow food to be labeled so we can see where it comes from.
I have lost count of the farms I have driven by with fish grazing in the fields.
I just came here for the T-shirt
I think fish farming is down there with other animal farming, way below plant farming.
Loving the shirt, Trace!
That t-shirt is brilliant Trace, they just keep getting better.
Vegetable oil is bad now? One study is not enough especially one in mice. Fish farming produces less co2 and prevents bi-catch like fisheries do and prevent overfishing.
Those pictures look exactly the same...
sure, just in norway. please
I would like to know what fis are farmed and what are not :(
I find the texture of the meat on farmed fish is rather flaky, kind of, and not as firm, for a lack of a better adjectives, as that of wild fish. I have always thought that it is probably due to lack of exercise... it cannot possible be the same to swim around in circles than to swim all over the place, including swimming away from predators. I imagine the fat content in farmed fish meat is a result of the same.
I think farming is the right direction, because then you're not disrupting the wild environment... But yeah, there needs to be a new certification for fish farmed right which takes into account diet, space, etc.
???? it takes more than double the amount of fish caught in the wild to to produce half the amount of farmed fish where is your logic this is making the wild fish stocks worse!!!
+tony carter my idea is farm smaller species and crustaceans, then feed the bigger species. Maybe in a future I'll be the few ones tuna sources for the Earth :P
super informative and all within 5mins
Fish farming is better than fishing species to extinction. I think that the nutrition fish need can be synthesized and the fish could be just as healthy as wild fish.
No wonder Tasmanian farmed salmon is so sort after we just feed them right
Confused
If you want affordable Omega 3 and 6 foods, eat flaxseed, corn, soybean, peanut and/or sunflower and save a fish.
John Chavez I don’t care about the Omega 3, fish just tastes good
Every time i hear about omega 3 I hear about fish. Its NOT the only source. You can get omega 3 from seeds such as flax seeds and not worry about mercury or hormones fed to fish.
Not to mention eggs.
Trace, I appreciate that at 0:35 you said fish farming in and of itself isn't bad, but the execution can sometimes be pretty terrible. I have no theoretical problem with fish farming; I think if we're going to keep fishing pressures as high as they are then fish farming needs to be incorporated into a sustainability plan. But that doesn't mean we should approve and forget. Sometime the fish farming practices are *WAY* worse than even wild fishing (look into shrimp farming, if you're interested). We need to continually look to improving fish farming practices so they don't go the way of factory meat farms.
If the shrimp come from an Asian country don't eat them.
Larry Burke Sounds like a dumb generalisation but is more than true!
How is fish farming 'in and of itself not bad'.
Raising animals for slaughter is immoral as anything.
***** I personally agree. I personally choose to be vegetarian. But not everyone holds those beliefs, and so the question then becomes one of sustainability. Most of the world's fisheries are overfished or have completely collapsed. So how are we to alleviate fishing pressure so we can both protect the ecosystem these fish are part of and meet the overwhelming demand of humans? Because if we do not farm fish then people will simply continue to exploit the ocean until it is completely depleted, and that is not an acceptable alternative.
*****
I understand where you're coming from but disagree.
Fixing one mess of a problem with another mess will never work.
I'd much rather people get over the fact eating fish is wrong and just stop purchasing it.
Also, as a vegan myself, I implore you to adopt the same lifestyle.
I'm not sure what kind of vegetarian you are, but drinking milk and eating eggs is no different from eating meat.
i think you guys should add links to your graphic t-shirts in the desc. when you wear them. this one might not be for me but i bet i know a few people would love to get them
Why you should avoid?
Because salmon sellers are not getting money anymore, and they say its also endangered so that they can higher the priced, there loosing money cause of farmed salmon, salmon is getting cheaper.
Farmed salmon, are like farmed chicken that you eat in KFC.. And that also includes farmed cows and pigs in the market.. so what's the difference?
Watch on CZcams. Is farmed salmon from Costco safe? Observe the label says wild. Worms!!! That’s why we are so confused.
i want that shirt
The title should've been salmond farmed/Wild?
This film didn't mention the high amounts of aluminium and heavy metals found in farmed fish.
feed the salmon fish oil, and price them higher at supermarkets.
ditch the vege oil version altogether
Can you guys do one on talapia? I keep hearing how unhealthy it is (worse than burgers or fried chicken), but the claims seem hard to believe.
I think it is necessary, otherwise we will end up depleting the wild life (kind of whats happening to Tuna).
I love salmon especially in sushi form, i would hate to see the farming be destroyed because people are trying to save a few bucks
i like finnish wild salmon.
We all know that the majority of tilapia in US stores is from China farms. Anyone know what they feed these particular fish?
Like the shirt. Wonder where I can get one.
Your t-shirt is AWESOME :D
Like the idea/topic of the video, however by reading the title I expected a more comprehensive analysis about the pros, cons and maybe solutions for fish farming, rather than just a few facts on replacing fish oil with vegetable oil
While wild fish are more expensive than farmed fish, how much money is it worth to take care of the health of yourself ?
This is very true! But, some people can barely afford food at all, much less half their paycheck on "good" fish... lol.
Heh I'm gonna start farming fish, shrimps and oysters next year, I don't have sea access... Let's see what happen this give me an idea of what not to use to feed them. For the Earth and not be part of mass extinctions :)
Allen Cohen i don't want to spend money on something when i'm not 100% sure it's the real deal. I can never be sure of that fish was caught "wild" because I can't see it myself. plus i don't want to be a hypocrit. I could never catch one damn fish myself. so i eat walnuts and bio chicken. lots of brown rice mm mm mm
Allen Cohen
Wild fish also has ALOT higher rates of mercury and other heavy metals along with and other pollutions from the water. Remember that. Wild fish is not healthy.
@@musicmakesyoustrong huh???? u got that mixed up wt farmed salmon dumbass
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I wish when you come to a video about is fish safe the guy talking would actually give you an answer. I guess the answer is no? because some farmers can feed them veg oil?
Fish farming wouldn't be a thing if big companies Learn how to fish right and not fish till an species goes extinct..
I believe fish farming takes place in Norway, Scotland, British Colombia, Alaska and South America, but most fish farms use Atlantic salmon and this can be a problem.
I have heard stories of Atlantic salmon escaping from their farms and breeding in the Pacific Ocean, but unsure if these stories are true?
Also, Its been discussed many time that salmon fish farms have inadvertently increased the amount of parasites that ultimately infect wild salmon and wild salmon numbers have declined in some places like British Colombia and Scotland.
However, I think wild salmon in the UK is starting to make a comeback and maybe fish farming practices have improved?
Once the farming techniques are equal or close enough to nature than humans should farm the majority of their food supply and let nature recover. We only have one planet. Ever country, including industrial giants, should be held accountable for its actions.
You're right. Genetic pollution and non-native competition caused by escaped farm fish is a huge problem all over the world and can have a huge impact on the environment. Intensive fish farming practices cause stress within the population; this combined with the high density of fish in small areas creates a breeding ground for parasites and diseases.
Curious to know what kind of chemicals fish farms pump into the fish they raise. I doubt those facts are often revealed. Fish is generally seen as a healthier food and if fish farms become the norm that may not be the case anymore with all the chemicals pumped into the fish.
What chemicals? Everything is a chemical!
It sounds like you don't actually understand what the word "chemical" means
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_substance here you go :o
***** I am fairly certain you don't properly understand the context in which I am using the term chemical.
I am fairly certain I do, and that you're using it incorrectly.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_substance Again
So why not farm what wild fish eat and feed them to the farmed fish? And create a mini ecosystem farm?
Trace where do you get those tees. I want them so badly!
I'm just glad that they label it so that I can buy which one I want.
Fish farming is horrible. By crowding fish into small pens, disease is spread rapidly which is then transmitted to wild salmon which has a devastating effect on wild salmon runs some years. This is especially true for Canadian salmon from British Columbia.
that is an awesome shirt! where'd you get it?
we will need farming to keep up with the intake but it should be heavily regulated
Farmed salmon are fed _racemic_ carotenoids (that which makes them pink) which are chemically different from the natural ones found in the wild. They're not as healthy.
GIVE. ME. THAT. SHIRT. NOW.
My second point is that West coast farmed fish is mostly Atlantic fish as in Chilli, the East Coat and Norway. So when you compare wild versus farmed you need to take this into account too.
Were can I buy a t-shirt like the one Trace i wearing?
how about ASC and MSC approved farming?
Are heavy metals included while looking at wild fish?
None of these questions will matter in 3-5 years or less due to the fact that the entire Pacific Ocean's ecosystem will be dead. The Fukushima nuclear reactors are now in runaway meltdown stage there is nothing whatsoever anyone can do to stop or even partially contain the radioactive contamination of sea water. Therefore the 3 runaway meltdown reactors at the Fukushima site are and have been for months contaminating millions of gallons of sea water which then flows back into the sea from which it came. The devastating consequences of this radioactive seawater are already evident at the bottom of the food chain with record numbers of plankton, sea urchin, shrimp, and starfish dying. These are just a few of the creatures affected by this disaster. The media is staying silent about the entire thing. I guess they know that nothing can be done to fix this problem.