Fish and Seafood

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5 Fish You Should Never Eat - www.Health.Yahoo.net


Do you still want to eat Tilapia?
The truth about tilapia - www.Fox.News.com
Eating Tilapia is Worse Than Eating Bacon - www.DrAxe.com
Any fish farm raised should not be consumed.

21 Fish You Can Now Eat Guilt-Free - www.TakePart.com
Dogfish: Spiny
Grouper: Black, Gag, Red
Perch: Pacific Ocean
Rockfish: Aurora, Blackgill, Bocaccio, Canary, Chilipepper, Darkblotched, Greenstriped, Rougheye, Spiltnose, Vermilion, Widow, Yellowtail
Skate: Winter

Seefood Watch by Monterey Bay Aquarium - New and Updated Recommendations
www.montereybayaquarium.org/-/m/374D58A53FFA467783924EBA90B31B78.pdf

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곱상어: spiny dogfish
우각바리: grouper - black, gag, red
홍우럭 (장문볼락): Pacific Ocean Perch
rock fish: 암초에 사는 식용 물고기의 총칭: 쏨뱅이·볼락 등 (Aurora, Blackgill, Bocaccio, Canary, Chilipepper, Darkblotched, Greenstriped, Rougheye, Spiltnose, Vermilion, Widow, Yellowtail)
Winter skate

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Is Farmed Fish Really the Answer? - www.huffingtonpost.com

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Gov. Brown Signs California Bill Banning Commercial Production of Genetically Engineered Salmon - www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_31074.cfm

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a North Coast lawmaker's bill banning the commercial production of genetically altered salmon.

AB 504, authored by Assemblyman Wes Chesbro, D-Arcata, extends the prohibition of spawning or cultivating so-called "transgenic salmonids" in the Pacific Ocean to all waters of the state. The hatchery production and stocking of such fish also is prohibited.

The legislation protects the state's native steelhead trout and salmon populations, Chesbro said. He noted that federal food and drug regulators are reviewing an application by a company, AquaBounty Technologies, that seeks to raise genetically altered salmon in the United States.

"If these 'frankenfish' were to escape into our waters, they could destroy our native salmonid populations through interbreeding, competition for food and the introduction of parasites and disease," Chesbro stated in a news release. "The only way to ensure this never happens is to ban commercial hatchery production, cultivation or stocking of transgenic salmonids in California."

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Food Chain Catastrophe: Emergency Shut Down Of West Coast Fisheries: “Populations Have Crashed 91 Percent” - www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/food-chain-catastrophe-emergency-shut-down-of-west-coast-fisheries-populations-have-crashed-91-percent_04162015

Mac Slavo
- April 16th, 2015




Earlier this week Michael Snyder warned that the bottom of our food chain is going through a catastrophic collapse with sea creatures dying in absolutely massive numbers. The cause of the problem is a mystery to scientists who claim that they can’t pinpoint how or why it’s happening.

What’s worse, the collapse of sea life in the Pacific Ocean isn’t something that will affect us several decades into the future. The implications are being seen right now, as evidenced by an emergency closure of fisheries along the West coast this week.

On Wednesday federal regulators announced the early closure of sardine fisheries in California, Oregon and Washington. According to the most recent data, the sardine populations has been wiped out with populations seeing a decline of 91% in just the last eight years.

Meeting outside Santa Rosa, California, the Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to direct NOAA Fisheries Service to halt the current season as early as possible, affecting about 100 fishing boats with sardine permits…

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The action was taken based on revised estimates of sardine populations, which found the fish were declining in numbers faster than earlier believed…

The council did not take Wednesday’s decision lightly and understood the pain the closure would impose on the fishing industry, said council member Michele Culver, representing the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. She added that it was necessary because a new assessment of sardine stocks showed they were much lower than estimated last year, when harvest quotas were set.

Source: New York Times Federal Fisheries Regulators Halt West Coast Sardine Season - www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/04/15/us/ap-us-sardine-collapse.html?_r=1

Sardines, like honey bees, don’t seem important to the casual observer. But just like honey bees, which are experiencing their own colony collapse, they are critical to the propagation of the global food chain. The immediate effects can be seen on the creatures next in line:

… 90 percent of this year’s class of sea lion pups were starving for lack of sardines to eat.

“The sardine populations have crashed 91 percent since 2007,” he said after the vote. “We would have liked to see this happen much sooner, but now we can start to rebuild this sardine population that is so important to the health of the ocean.”

But even closing of commercial fisheries may not be the solution. As Snyder points out in the aforementioned report, there are some unexplained phenomena occurring in the Pacific ocean and either scientists don’t have a clue what is happening, or someone is keeping a gag order on researchers.

According to two University of Washington scientific research papers that were recently released, a 1,000 mile stretch of the Pacific Ocean has warmed up by several degrees, and nobody seems to know why this is happening. This giant “blob” of warm water was first observed in late 2013, and it is playing havoc with our climate. And since this giant “blob” first showed up, fish and other sea creatures have been dying in absolutely massive numbers.

The issue could potentially be one of climate change – but not the kind of climate change we hear from politicians who just want to put carbon tax credits in their pocket. Rather, we could be talking about cyclical climate shifts that have occurred regularly throughout the course of earth’s history. And with those shifts come massive migrations and species die-offs.

Or, as one contributor at ENEnews.com suggested, the answer to why this is happening should be obvious:

We have three cores melted out of their reactor buildings, lost in the mudrock and sandstone, which we have failed to locate and mitigate.

We have an underground river running under the ruins, which we have failed to divert around the reactors.

We have three empty reactors, containing nothing but corium splatter left when they blew up and melted out.

We have the Pacific Ocean Ecosystem, which we have stressed beyond endurance, through ocean dumping, over fishing, agricultural runoff, and now unrestricted radiation.

We have the sudden collapse of the Pacific Ocean Ecosystem, with a threatened collapse of the biosphere.

We continue to allow corporate and governmental inaction.

What in hell did you think was going to happen?

Something is wrong with world’s food chain and one Harvard Professor suggested last year that recent signs, namely with the die-off of honey bee populations, are a prelude of things to come:

But he now warns that a pollinator drop could be the least our worries at this point.

That it may be a sign of things to come – bees acting as the canary in the coalmine. That not only are we connected to bees through our food supply, but that the plight that so afflicts them may very well soon be our own.

Could it be that the collapse of honey bee colonies, mass sea life die-offs, and changing climates in once lush growing regions are all the result of the same underlying phenomena?

If so, then we can soon expect not just higher food prices, but a breakdown in the food chain itself.

And though none of us can truly prepare for a decades’ long (or longer) food disaster and the complexities that would come along with it (like mass migrations and resource wars), we can take steps to make ourselves as self sustainable as possible, while also preparing emergency plans to respond to the initial brunt of the force should it hit.

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Fish Still Contaminated with Phased-Out Chemical - www.scientificamerican.com/article/fish-still-contaminated-with-phased-out-chemical/?WT.mc_id=SA_HLTH_20141001

A persistent chemical formerly used in Scotchgard still contaminates most fish in U.S. rivers and the Great Lakes
A persistent chemical formerly used in Scotchgard still contaminates most fish in U.S. rivers and the Great Lakes despite a phase-out a dozen years ago, a new federal study shows.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency researchers found perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) in all of the 157 fish sampled from nearshore waters in the five Great Lakes and in 73 percent from 162 rivers.

The study, the largest of its kind in freshwater fish, suggests that eating bass, trout, walleye and catfish could be a major source of exposure for anglers and their families. The chemical remains widespread in wildlife, people and water around the world.

“This just shows that PFOS still dominates. Even though production stopped more than a decade ago, it’s still the main perfluorinated acid in the environment,” said Craig Butt, a Duke University chemist who was not involved in the study.

PFOS and other perfluorinated compounds are used in oil and water resistant coatings for pots and pans, clothes, paper, carpet and flame retardant foams.

The 3M Company, the major manufacturer of PFOS, voluntarily stopped its production in 2002 after scientists discovered that it was building up in water, wildlife and people.

Nevertheless, “every single human being we test has levels of PFOS in them,” Butt said. The compound “doesn’t break down in light, it doesn’t oxidize. Once it’s in the environment it’s not going anywhere.”

Most health studies have focused on communities with drinking water contaminated by PFOS. But people are exposed in many ways, said Sarah Knox, a professor and epidemiologist at West Virginia University. “Routes of exposure are multiple – things like linings of food containers, stain resistance sprays, fire-proofing and non-stick cookware,” she said.

The EPA estimates that “contamination in food may account for more than 90 percent of human exposure to PFOS and PFOA” and that fish may be a major source of PFOS.....

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A new study uncovers the rampant mislabeling of seafood sold in U.S. restaurants and grocery stores—one ‘wild’ shrimp even ended up being an aquarium pet.
Between horsemeat hamburgers, oyster imposters, and grape juice concealed in pomegranate bottles, food-fraud stories seem to fill the news cycle as often as we’re filling our bellies with mislabeled goods.

The latest dish best served ignorant? Wild-caught shrimp.

The nonprofit group Oceana tested shrimp sold in the United States to see if the seafood was truthfully labeled. If you thought the type of shrimp you paid for was the type you ended up eating, the results released Thursday aren’t going to be to your taste.

Researchers found that 30 percent of 143 shrimp products they bought in 111 grocery stores across the U.S. were mislabeled.

New York’s restaurants and grocery stores were the worst offenders; 43 percent of shrimp sold as wild-caught were cheap, farm-raised substitutes.....
Eating Wild-Caught Shrimp? There’s a 30 Percent Chance You’re Not. - www.takepart.com/article/2014/10/30/eating-wild-caught-shrimp-actually-theres-30-percent-chance-youre-not?cmpid=foodinc-fb