How much longer will this be allowed ? - why can a few companies and stockholders rape the oceans, and get away with it??

Today I came across a very interesting website - The NMF - The Norwegian Environment Association - here I found these scary videos - learn more about what is really going on in the farmed fish industry.
If you dare, then have a look at these two YouTube video - it is a disgrace that this is happening right now.
Don't buy these industry produced salmons - it is that simple!!!

1 st. video link:
YouTube- Farmed Salmon Exposed (Part 1)
2 nd. video link:
YouTube- Farmed Salmon Exposed (Part 2)
Tight lines
Pool 32 Mag

Thank you for posting this.

Cheers
JJ

Yes pool 32 mag, fish farming is indeed a terribly environmentally destructive thing.

I assume by your grave concern over this you never fish for farmed trout?

I don't see the point of this comment.

First, compared to the major issues of disease, food-source depletion, and interbreeding caused by industrial salmon farming in the ocean, any problems caused by rearing trout for sport fishing are absolutely minuscule. Developing an anal fixation on on tiny fraction of a fraction of the problem does nothing to help anyone.

Why divide anglers and create a distraction from where 99.9% of the real problem lies?

This reminds me of those who preach about the need to eliminate of 2-stroke outboards because they "pollute more". Yes, and I doubt all the outboards in the UK put out as much pollution in a year as a couple of clapped-out diesel city buses emit in a month.

Grouse

If one lives in a glass house one should not throw stones. One third of the world's marine fish catch goes into feed production for aquaculture. Trout production is part of this. Just because it may be a smaller part does not make it better, it just makes it smaller.

Yeah and as any aspiring porn star will tell you size matters !(long time ago auditioned)
we all are consumers of the worlds resources in one way or another ,and have are own value systems .
I fish when I can for wild fish ,but often due to time and financial constraints fish for stocked fish on the Ressers ,and I dont feel dreadfully guilty about that !
Far too much holy joe wild fishing purism going down at the moment !

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Andy Wren
Winter grayling taking a year off !
Claret not just a great dubbing colour!

Would you like to post a link to back up that statistic Fred.

That's what the Norwegian fish farmers say.

Although I have watched the films and listened to all the anti fish farm persons on them(they aren,t really going to promote them now would they)Even the wild fish get sea lice ,funnily enough from the sea.But as Andy says, all this save the wild fish and down with the rainbow, is a bit OTT.

Im starting to find it very hard to believe that some actually go fishing,rather than totally against it altogether and looking for converts to their cult here.

Everyone has their opinions ,which is their right and I just feel this is getting rammed down my throat everywhere I look on here.Yes I started a thread, but it wasnt about the enviroment as it turned into.

We go fishing because we enjoy it,we have options on where and what we fish for,thats our individual right and for someone to say that because we fish for stocked rainbows that we are damaging the enviroment to make us feel guilty is a pile of rubbish.
I enjoy fishing,for fish,it is relaxing and more are taking it up every year,rather than down it ,we should be promoting it and the benefits of why we do it.
This is the fly fishing forums afterall not the peta forum.

I am understanding of the plight of the wild fish,but my stomach is full now and cant take anymore of the downing of the rainbow as the cause overall,as its total rubbish.If you wish to just fish for the wild fish so be it ,but Im afraid it does nt make you any better than those who fish for rainbows and enjoy their fishing.Especially when some who do all the professing and protect this and that,dont practice what they preach.

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Kevin

morayflyfisher this thread is about fish farms. Please refer to the title. The excellent video links provided by the original poster clearly describe the terrible effects fish farming is having on the marine environment and wild fish stocks in particular. If you have not watched them and you are interested in the welfare of the oceans you may wish to consider doing so.