Female hormone level in some streams is affecting the fish -- there was a story recently about this in GB. Hormone is in waste water, from birth control pills. I was surprised fish react to mammal hormones.
As for ocean fish and color shrimp are not fed to farmed fish. They are fed pellets and I know for a time they contained slaughter house waste. You know flamingoes are not pink unless they get crustaceans from brackish environment. Fish are probably a similar process. Kirk -----Original Message----- From: Hakan Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 7:00 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: industrial livestock husbandry was: Re: [biofuels-biz] Re: [biofuel] toxins in this season U.S. corn Sorry James, The Swiss does not have salmon any longer, cannot survive on the rivers through Germany, Italy and France. They do have sweet water Trout. Sweden have now a lot of Salmon and also farmed Salmon. I do not know if Steelhead is a common salmon or a relative in the same way as I described or it could even be the name I did not know. Farming does effect the fish quality, mainly because of the lack of muscle building. Do effect the taste in the same way as farmed pigs and wild. The sick fish you refer to, could have been the pest that was going through the industry around 10-15 years ago. They had to slaughter all farmed fish in Scandinavia and I believe US also, it took a while before they could start again and especially to get the larger size Salmons. They slaughtered the fish in fish farms to protect the wild population from getting the bug. I have never heard about antibiotics used in fish farming. In cattle farming I know of the extremely irresponsible use of antibiotics and I think that it is some countries that even give them hormones, a practice not allowed in Europe. At least in Europe they are trying to maintain the difference between human sexes and not try to indirectly feed the population with female hormones. I know that US is all for equality, but to achieve this by hormones might be too excessive. Maybe women lib. organizations are behind it? Hakan At 05:14 PM 12/26/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Hakan, > >Just as the US goes over the top on most everything, the fish industry is >just another excess. I have heard of some genetic degradation in the >farmed Salmon population due to not enough wild introduction. This has >caused sick undersized fish which then need antibotics, extra helpings of >protien, and such. This just leads to more of the same thing we see in >the cattle industries. Short cuts and greed causing major environmental >and biological issues. There has also been some noted changes in the >enviromental impact of fish farms especially in the latin countries where >there are even less controls than here. Water levels contain more waste >than should be which impact other aquatic species. I applaud the Swiss in >their management of such industries, as they do across the board, but in >the US it is a different beast altogether. > >On the note of flesh colour, I believe that open ocean (especially cold >ocean water) causes the flesh to be red, as steelhead also have that color >(and flavour). Something about an oxygen rich environ comes to mind. > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
