“The aquaculture industry promotes farmed fish as a safe, nutritious ocean protein that modern consumers can trust. This promise has helped industrial fish farming grow into a sector that now produces more sea animal products than wild‑capture fisheries. Yet the reality on many farms is much closer to factory farming on land: tens or hundreds of thousands of animals confined at high densities in pens, cages, or ponds where waste, pathogens, and parasites flourish. These conditions drive repeated disease outbreaks, large‑scale die‑offs, and heavy reliance on antibiotics that are important to human medicine.”
It’s really worth subscribing to this website. With so much harmful health and food misinformation circulating on the web this is the one place I now go to check the facts.
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Then we have the issue of microplastics in the sea which also enter a fish’s foodchain and ultimately ours. Only last week numerous volunteers from our local community particpated in a beach clean up to remove a tide of plastic and other rubbish washed up on the beach by the recent storms.
So where else can we get a regular dose of omega-3?
It seems: Flaxseed, Chia seeds and walnuts. These contain ALA, which your body only partly converts into the usable forms. Still healthy, just not as potent.
Final thoughts – AT 71 years young, while it’s important to stay informed re potential health risks, I sometimes wonder if I am worrying myself into an early grave. Because if pollutants don’t put me there, stress will. *laughing*
What are your thoughts re eating farmed fish, and when presented with a tray of fresh fish, do you care enough to ask the waiter for the provenance? (maybe I should just to see what happens)
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At home, where we eat most of the time, our diet is strictly plant based. Occasionally, I’ll eat clams, shrimp, or fish but no higher up the food chain. But not too often. We humans are draining the seas of fish, mollusks, and other creatures. For me, that is a real consideration, too. In short, I don’t eat enough fish or shrimp to worry about it—two or three times a year.
The conflicting information (on everything) is a challenge. I prefer wild, but don’t totally consume just that. We grew up growing veg, and I do love my vegetables. Now I grow a smattering of citrus, berries, peppers, tomatoes & herbs. The banana experiment has not been fruitful, lol.
I’m with you, I try to stay up on health related info. Still I wonder if our longevity isn’t mostly tied to genetics?
Many years ago, when we billeted young hockey players, we had a young man stay with us who was very well versed in the entire farmed fish industry. He was raised in a fishing community and was solidly against fish farms for the exact reasons you stated, Carole. He taught us to look for wild pacific salmon and tuna when we buy canned fish. As far as other fish goes, we either eat fresh lake fish that we or someone we know has caught, or, if we order fish when at a restaurant, we lean towards places that offer fresh caught from the sea. As a result of our scrutiny, fish isn’t a regular item in our diets.
Piglet in Portugal 
At home, where we eat most of the time, our diet is strictly plant based. Occasionally, I’ll eat clams, shrimp, or fish but no higher up the food chain. But not too often. We humans are draining the seas of fish, mollusks, and other creatures. For me, that is a real consideration, too. In short, I don’t eat enough fish or shrimp to worry about it—two or three times a year.
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The conflicting information (on everything) is a challenge. I prefer wild, but don’t totally consume just that. We grew up growing veg, and I do love my vegetables. Now I grow a smattering of citrus, berries, peppers, tomatoes & herbs. The banana experiment has not been fruitful, lol.
I’m with you, I try to stay up on health related info. Still I wonder if our longevity isn’t mostly tied to genetics?
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Many years ago, when we billeted young hockey players, we had a young man stay with us who was very well versed in the entire farmed fish industry. He was raised in a fishing community and was solidly against fish farms for the exact reasons you stated, Carole. He taught us to look for wild pacific salmon and tuna when we buy canned fish. As far as other fish goes, we either eat fresh lake fish that we or someone we know has caught, or, if we order fish when at a restaurant, we lean towards places that offer fresh caught from the sea. As a result of our scrutiny, fish isn’t a regular item in our diets.
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