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Jeezz you almost sound defensive. It wasn't like anyone was accusing you of
eating all the fish... A number of news agencies have recently begun reporting that populations of large fish such as tuna, mackarel, cod are at one percent (1%) of the levels from 50 years ago. These news agencies include CNN, Fox Cable News, and MSNBC. I did not write the articles, nor am I one of the scientists who participated or tabulated the data in these studies. I'm glad that the fish in Alaska are safe to eat, and alive and well. But the Alaskan coast represents a small portion of the world. And this study is talking about WORLD fish populations. Other countries do not take the care and restraint neccessary to converse and cultivate thier fish populations in order to preserve them. We are also talking about "wild" fish roaming the open ocean in vast schools, not fisheries. The world-wide population of people has tripled in the past 50 years. Advances in refrigeration, packing, preservation, and harvesting has allowed more fish to be caught, sold, and consumed by these higher concentrations of people. This and the increased belief by "land-lubbers" that seafood is health food has increased world-wide fish consumption exponentially... And for the record I'm from Baltimore, MD. This is on the Chesapeake Bay, which has been fished long before Europeans people even discovered Alaska. The crustecean populations there are nearly decimated, though Chesapeake Bay crabs are renowed. The crabs and clams also have been found with toxic levels of mercury, lead, and arsenic. Fish from many areas of the Bay and the connecting rivers are considered unsafe to eat due to pollutants in the water. Much of the East Coast of the US was or is industrialized, and continue even with EPA standards to dump harmful substances in the water. In the past they dumped industrial wastes into the waters unabated. As I said I am glad that Alaska is doing fine, but never having been heavily industrialized, its easy to see why the waters in your area would continue to be safe and thriving. Unfortunately the rest of the states are not neccesarily in such good shape. And this isn't even taking into account other industrialized and/or developing nations that may or may not have any enviromental standards in place to protect thier waters, or conservation standards to protect thier fish populations... "Jan Flora" wrote in message ... In article , "Mike Stevenson" wrote: Fishes have faces...ask any 5 year old. I think that vegans BTW don't eat ANY animal or animal based product. No milk, no cheese, no gelatin (if you don't know you don't want to). I've also heard of so called micro-biotics that wont eat the above but also retrict themselves to seaweeds and the like. Unfortunately due to man's dumping activities its argueable whether seafood is really all that safe to eat anymore. And recently a number of articles detailing how most of the big fish populations are all but wiped out. It doesn't look promising... You've never looked an Irish Lord in the face! =:-O The feds just did a survey on 600 pregnant Alaska Native women. They took hair samples and tested for Hg. (mercury) All of the women (who live in the bush and eat mostly fish) tested way below EPA levels for Hg. Our mercury levels in Alaskan wild fish is .65 ppm. The EPA safe food level is 4 parts per million (ppm). To start with: wild fish populations in Alaska are healthy. I don't know where you are, but our salmon (5 kinds), halibut, crab (4 kinds), scallops, clams (4 kinds), pollack, cod (3 kinds), oysters, mussles, and shrimp populations are doing fine. Just because you guys fished out your fisheries, we haven't. God knows that the canneries from Seattle tried, but Alaska got statehood in 1959 and got control of the fisheries before they succeded. The by-catch (unwanted fish) that factory trawlers off coastal Alaska throw away every year could *feed the entire world* for one day. (Read that sentence again and think about it. Then write to your congressman.) Factory trawlers need to be run off our seas. Tyson (Chicken) owns loads of those trawlers. They do mile-long trawls that clear-cut the ocean bottom. It's like clear-cutting the forest. Nothing survives, but the shareholders smile. (A "trawl" is a weighted net that sinks to the ocean floor and catches everything there. A trawl net creates a kill-zone on the ocean floor.) I live in a commercial fishing town. Most of my friends and neighbors are comemercial fishermen. I catch most of the fish I eat. What's your connection with the sea, Mike? Do you read stuff in the newpaper and believe it, or do you have a direct connection with the sea and your food? Jan Homer, Alaska "Jan Flora" wrote in message ... In article , Pat Meadows wrote: On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 02:09:15 -0800, (Jan Flora) wrote: One of the ranchers in our cattlemans association is married to a vegetarian. It's NBD. When we have to go to convention banquets, he gets her prime rib and she gets his king crab legs : ) She's not a vegetarian then, she's someone who doesn't eat meat, but does eat fish. Vegetarian, by definition, means someone who doesn't eat red meat, doesn't eat poultry, and doesn't eat seafood - in short, a vegetarian doesn't eat any dead animals. What's 'NBD'? I can't figure that out. Pat The veggies I've talked to say that there are lots of kinds. Vegans won't eat eggs, they drink soy milk, and don't eat any flesh. Around here, there are lots of folks who won't eat "anything with a face." They'll eat seafood though. I say eat whatever you want and be happy. NBD = no big deal. Jan |
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