What is the deal with Gill Net Ban?

[Cacia]

wow. No farmed fish? I heard about the waste, etc. PCB's? Wildcard, this is a great source of real information. Maybe you could source some of this. I have a hard time finding the salmon you refer to. Give us some more info. Like a list of fish we buy here and how it is caught. Ahi, Opah, ahi, Mahi mahi. Where can I buy Salmon? Now, I buy the Kirkland in vacume sealed flash frozen pouches because it tastes fresher than the "fresh" at Costco. I love Opah. How is that caught?
thanks.

 

[Wildcard]

I love Opha too. It's a deep water fish and I know it's hook caught so Im thinking deep long lines or drop lines, maybe even pole caught. Not sure though, never comm fished here, yet. Ahi is all longline or pole, read sport hooked then sold. Salmon, wow, thats a long one. The only salmon that are farmed are silvers/coho and mostly atlantic that must carry the lable "color added" plus ATBs and steroids and they are fed beef pellets, that is pellets made from beef that cant be uesd for human consumption.
Reds/sockeye are hands down the best. Plankton eaters and have the highest levels of Omega 3s. Silvers/cohos and Kings/chinooks are awsome too. Chum/dog salmon are mostly sold as smokers and for there roe. Then finaly pinks/humpies. Cheap salmon with a soft flesh but they make a damn fine salmon salad samach .....
My source is years of sprot and comm fishing as well as keeping up with the comm fish and sport fish rags. Alaska seafoodmarketing Institute has a web site that can answer most of your questions, but I think they changed there name. Don't know the new one.
Any more info will cost a beer as it's too long to type.

 

[Cacia]

thanks. I did not mean source your info, I meant that I have been looking for free range red or sockeye salmon and can only find it in a can....
Yea, Opah is wonderful. I am a big believer in Omega-3's and have been taking pharmacuetical grade fish oil for five years or so.

 

[Wildcard]

Wish you would have said something, I can get all you want and I just got back from AK last week.

 

[Cacia]

AHHHHHH, I pay so much for that! It is about 50 a bottle from most companies. I hope you all are taking it. There is some good science about the benefits!

 

[Wildcard]

Also some new developments about not so good effects for women. I was scaning something today, shoulda payed more attention.

 

[LSanchez]

FWIW,
Monterey Bay Aquarium has a "Seafood Watch" link that lists (by region) what should be avoided and why as well as good alternatives. I don't know how accurate or updated it is, but I figure they know more than me so I use that as a guide.

 

[sea nmf]

Wildcard,

You are a fisherman and I can only take your word for it. I did a bunch of research and who knows how reliable it is. The US Fisheries have many rules, as does Canadian Fisheries. These are adhered to by fishermen from those countries.

However, other countries have been responsible for the descimation of the seas because of fishing outside of national limits and "sneaking" into other areas. At least that is what the research was revealing. I'll have to dig out my paper for my sources.

Anyway, it isn't simply by-catch to which I object, but "over-fishing" targeted species as well. I'm from the Pacific Northwest and the salmon fishery is very, very sad compared to when I was a child. Lots of reasons, but the bottom line is there aren't enough fish to go around. I say, let them recover.

Enough - I'll get off my box now.

 

[Wildcard]

The Sacramento delta and whole California salmon fishery has been endangered for many years now. With out changing a thing except a half a degree of ocean temp, the stocks have rebounded! Over fishing is indeed a problem but when it gets low, people change to other fisheries. There are many factors including natural population swings and no one thing is to blame. Over fishing, pollution and over population of a hungry world are a few things that have to be dealt with. If people are hunngry, they will fish. So many problems, so few solutions.