Guest guest Posted February 26, 2002 Report Share Posted February 26, 2002 Wild Alaska salmon is the way to go. Too bad it's $15/lb in the midwest. Soren > Here's another good link to find out about which fiesh > are being sustainably harvested. I'll warn you, it's > not pretty. I stopped eating almost all seafood after > reading over this site. Mackerel, striped bass, and > squid are all I could feel good about eating, but > they're difficult to find in my area. > Lierre > http://www.magazine.audubon.org/seafood/guide > > __________________________________________________ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 27, 2002 Report Share Posted February 27, 2002 > Wild Alaska salmon is the way to go. Too bad it's $15/lb in the > midwest. > > Soren The problem is that I don't live in Alaska. I just can't deem sustainable something that has to be shipped from thousands of miles away. I don't even know how to calculate how much fossil fuel is involved. There's a lot of grief in this for me. I live a stone's throw from the Connecticut River. There are descriptions from when the white people first arrived here of the salmon so thick one could walk across the river on their backs. Fifteen minutes from my house is a place called Salmon Falls. The Europeans used to use salmon to fertilize their corn fields, just threw them whole onto the ground. There are no salmon left here. I think last year 42 made it back up the river to spawn (there's people counting, trying to bring them back). 200 years ago there were millions. The river is basically dead. It's just so heart-breaking what we've done. Lierre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 27, 2002 Report Share Posted February 27, 2002 and Lierre, thanks for the sustainable fishing websites! --- lierrekeith <lierrekeith@...> wrote: > The problem is that I don't live in Alaska. I just > can't deem > sustainable something that has to be shipped from > thousands of miles > away. This is a concern of mine, too. Efforts to eat more locally seem undermined by eating fish shipped from thousands of miles away. Which is a big reason we want to raise our own fish and shrimp. > I don't even know how to calculate how much > fossil fuel is > involved. There's a lot of grief in this for me. I > live a stone's > throw from the Connecticut River. There are > descriptions from when > the white people first arrived here of the salmon so > thick one could > walk across the river on their backs. Fifteen > minutes from my house > is a place called Salmon Falls. Similar situation here in N. CA. We also have a Salmon Falls, which is now under the surface of a lake most of the year, and no salmon will ever see that area again unless they have grappling hooks to get over a huge dam. Aubin __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 27, 2002 Report Share Posted February 27, 2002 At 09:42 AM 2/27/02 -0800, you wrote: >--- lierrekeith <lierrekeith@...> wrote: >> I don't even know how to calculate how much >> fossil fuel is >> involved. There's a lot of grief in this for me. I >> live a stone's >> throw from the Connecticut River. There are >> descriptions from when >> the white people first arrived here of the salmon so >> thick one could >> walk across the river on their backs. Fifteen >> minutes from my house >> is a place called Salmon Falls. Lot of grief here too, Lierre. Canoed the river last summer and the freshwater mussels were abundant. Not a one I'd dare eat. Made me wonder about the otters and other river foragers. U.S. Fish & Wildlife recently preserved a section of the shoreline where a rare mussel bed is. Didn't know this myself but there is not one case of salmon fossil evidence on the river. Was shad. My husband did volunteer to stock fry salmon back into the CT's tributaries in '93. At the time he was the person who had placed more baby salmon into New England rivers than any other. Few years later it was found they'd gotten chewed up in the dam system coming out of West County. They did appropriate money to fix. As far as I know the stocking is still being done in the safe tributaries. Wanita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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