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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor,
In principal yes fish farming makes sense, but with at present a 4:1 protein conversion ratio it would be better and more sustainable to eat the wild fish rather than farm.
Deep water or open ocean farming is the future. Living in Ireland we see the damage salmon farming operations do to inshore bays, and local wild salmon and sea trout stocks through faeces pollution and sea lice infestation, set up like that fish farming is unsustainable.
If fish farm operations move to vegetable, farmed marine worm protein (appears very sustainable), protein derived from sustainably caught fish offal/carcasses, or a combination of all three there is a real future
As presently set up world wide be it tiger prawn farms (damage to mangroves) or inshore salmon farms (sea lice infestation, faeces pollution) most commercial set ups are unsustainable in terms of feed and also economically due to the subsidies required to keep them open.
Your sincerely,
Ashley Hayden
Ireland.
Web: http://www.anirishanglersworld.com/
In principal yes fish farming makes sense, but with at present a 4:1 protein conversion ratio it would be better and more sustainable to eat the wild fish rather than farm.
Deep water or open ocean farming is the future. Living in Ireland we see the damage salmon farming operations do to inshore bays, and local wild salmon and sea trout stocks through faeces pollution and sea lice infestation, set up like that fish farming is unsustainable.
If fish farm operations move to vegetable, farmed marine worm protein (appears very sustainable), protein derived from sustainably caught fish offal/carcasses, or a combination of all three there is a real future
As presently set up world wide be it tiger prawn farms (damage to mangroves) or inshore salmon farms (sea lice infestation, faeces pollution) most commercial set ups are unsustainable in terms of feed and also economically due to the subsidies required to keep them open.
Your sincerely,
Ashley Hayden
Ireland.
Web: http://www.anirishanglersworld.com/
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Australia - Farmed fish wins battle in taste test
The Noosa Junction Seafood Market has been working with the University of the Sunshine Coast on a research project into the growing aquaculture industry and consumer acceptance of “farmed fish”.
Researchers surveyed shop-goers during a “try and taste” session at the store last Tuesday using barramundi from a farm at Bowen, in north Queensland.
Seafood Market owner Andre Gorissen said it had been a perception among consumers that fish grown by aquaculture did not match the quality of wild-caught fish.
Mr Gorissen said consumer wariness about farmed or aquaculture fish could be a crossover from past issues with the quality of meat produced by intensive beef and pig farming. He said consumers seemed to change their minds about the farmed barramundi once they were given the chance to try some.
“We probably sold 60-80% more barramundi than we normally would,” he said.
Bowen barramundi farmer Marty Phillips was also on hand to talk to customers about his farming methods.
Mr Gorissen said it was in the interests of not only fish farmers like Mr Phillips but the industry as a whole to resolve false perceptions about the quality of farmed or aquaculture fish.
“Farmed fish available all year round is a big help in terms of sustainability and gives people options. You’re not depleting Australia’s natural fish stocks immensely. If our natural fish stocks are managed well, they should last us for a lifetime.
“We’ve got to look at things like aquaculture fish so we can get our weekly fish intake guilt-free or we can eat as much fish as we like without depleting fish stocks,” he said.
[Source: Sunshine Coast Daily]
Researchers surveyed shop-goers during a “try and taste” session at the store last Tuesday using barramundi from a farm at Bowen, in north Queensland.
Seafood Market owner Andre Gorissen said it had been a perception among consumers that fish grown by aquaculture did not match the quality of wild-caught fish.
Mr Gorissen said consumer wariness about farmed or aquaculture fish could be a crossover from past issues with the quality of meat produced by intensive beef and pig farming. He said consumers seemed to change their minds about the farmed barramundi once they were given the chance to try some.
“We probably sold 60-80% more barramundi than we normally would,” he said.
Bowen barramundi farmer Marty Phillips was also on hand to talk to customers about his farming methods.
Mr Gorissen said it was in the interests of not only fish farmers like Mr Phillips but the industry as a whole to resolve false perceptions about the quality of farmed or aquaculture fish.
“Farmed fish available all year round is a big help in terms of sustainability and gives people options. You’re not depleting Australia’s natural fish stocks immensely. If our natural fish stocks are managed well, they should last us for a lifetime.
“We’ve got to look at things like aquaculture fish so we can get our weekly fish intake guilt-free or we can eat as much fish as we like without depleting fish stocks,” he said.
[Source: Sunshine Coast Daily]
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