<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for How the Monterey Bay Aquarium makes its safe-seafood list]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by juno http://www.grist.org/article/fish-stories/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:20:08 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/fish-stories/1 Health info?

What about the health and contaminant information?

]]> Health info?

What about the health and contaminant information?

]]> Comment #2 by Roz Cummins http://www.grist.org/article/fish-stories/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:39:20 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/fish-stories/2 Health alerts re fish by species..

Here is a list of health alerts by species, presented by the Environmental Defense Fund.

http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=17694

]]> Health alerts re fish by species..

Here is a list of health alerts by species, presented by the Environmental Defense Fund.

http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=17694

]]> Comment #3 by Roz Cummins http://www.grist.org/article/fish-stories/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:03:20 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/fish-stories/3 Juvenile wild salmon, sea lice, and salmon farms

Something that got cut out of the article (I assume for length) is the explanation of how sea lice are transferred from farmed salmon to juvenile wild salmon. I think it's an important part of understanding the risks posed by salmon farms, so I will recap the explanation here: mature wild salmon return to their homewaters to spawn. This means that they leave the ocean, swim up a river, and either lay their eggs or deposit their milt over the eggs. After reproducing they die.

Juvenile wild salmon make their way down the river when they are still very small (typically about four inches in length) and, as they swim past the pens of farmed salmon that are situated along the coast or they encounter escaped farmed salmon, they are exposed to the sea lice that infest the farmed salmon. Because they are so small, the juvenile wild salmon do not do well once they are infested with the parasites.

If there were no salmon farms, the juvenile wild salmon's exposure to sea lice would be delayed until they were older and stronger and better able to survive the infestation.

]]> Juvenile wild salmon, sea lice, and salmon farms

Something that got cut out of the article (I assume for length) is the explanation of how sea lice are transferred from farmed salmon to juvenile wild salmon. I think it's an important part of understanding the risks posed by salmon farms, so I will recap the explanation here: mature wild salmon return to their homewaters to spawn. This means that they leave the ocean, swim up a river, and either lay their eggs or deposit their milt over the eggs. After reproducing they die.

Juvenile wild salmon make their way down the river when they are still very small (typically about four inches in length) and, as they swim past the pens of farmed salmon that are situated along the coast or they encounter escaped farmed salmon, they are exposed to the sea lice that infest the farmed salmon. Because they are so small, the juvenile wild salmon do not do well once they are infested with the parasites.

If there were no salmon farms, the juvenile wild salmon's exposure to sea lice would be delayed until they were older and stronger and better able to survive the infestation.

]]> Comment #4 by Roz Cummins http://www.grist.org/article/fish-stories/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:07:50 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/fish-stories/4 The MBA list has health advisories as well

If you look at the larger list of seafood choices on the Monterey Bay Aquarium's website, you will see that there are health advisories included in the information about each fish. For example, here is the entry for Chilean Sea Bass (which you shouldn't be eating for environmental reasons to begin with.)

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sf ...

]]> The MBA list has health advisories as well

If you look at the larger list of seafood choices on the Monterey Bay Aquarium's website, you will see that there are health advisories included in the information about each fish. For example, here is the entry for Chilean Sea Bass (which you shouldn't be eating for environmental reasons to begin with.)

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sf ...

]]> Comment #5 by Ian Hanington http://www.grist.org/article/fish-stories/ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:59:54 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/fish-stories/5 SeaChoice in Canada

Kudos to Grist and Monterey Bay for highlighting this important issue, and for using the great photo of a landmark restaurant sign in Vancouver, Canada, to illustrate the story. On that note, some of your readers might like to know that similar Canadian information, including downloadable seafood cards, is available at http://www.seachoice.org. Like the Monterey Bay program, SeaChoice is aimed at encouraging sustainable fisheries, in part through consumer action. Its member groups include the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, the David Suzuki Foundation, Ecology Action Centre, Living Oceans Society, and the Sierra Club of Canada.

]]> SeaChoice in Canada

Kudos to Grist and Monterey Bay for highlighting this important issue, and for using the great photo of a landmark restaurant sign in Vancouver, Canada, to illustrate the story. On that note, some of your readers might like to know that similar Canadian information, including downloadable seafood cards, is available at http://www.seachoice.org. Like the Monterey Bay program, SeaChoice is aimed at encouraging sustainable fisheries, in part through consumer action. Its member groups include the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, the David Suzuki Foundation, Ecology Action Centre, Living Oceans Society, and the Sierra Club of Canada.

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