Eating fish

I love fish and seafood, so this is a bit of a f'ing worry

source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/14/whalers-won-veteran-activist?CMP=EMCENVEML1631

It's an article about whales, but it mentions the way ocean food chains concentrate toxic compounds which cannot be metabolised (things like Mercury, Aluminium, Chromium, and DDT):

"We came back with 955 samples from sperm whales ... We found, for example, that the concentrations of aluminum and chromium are surprisingly very, very high. Our data showed that chromium levels present in sperm whales were previously only seen in workers who have had long, occupational exposure — 20 years of being in some factory in which chromium is being used."

"If you have a six-step food chain you have a 10 to the 6th amplification — that is a million. So, if you were about to eat a pound of swordfish, and the swordfish had fed at the sixth level of the food chain, how many pounds of algae or diatoms did it take to make that one pound of swordfish? The answer is 10 to the 6th — a million pounds ... Now try to detoxify this with your liver. That's what you do when you eat a pound of any fish that lives at the 6th level of any ocean food chain."

The article predicts the extinction of whales through toxic pollution.


Best reason to not eat Tuna yet.

yeah, I love fish too, but there are just to many compelling reasons to not eat it. Therefore, I tend to eat it extremely rarely. Usually only a couple of times a year - especially big fish like tuna...

Holy shit that’s amazingly awful. I don’t eat much fish myself I like the chop chop chicken stuff and occasionally some smoked salmon..but yeah not ocean fish… I used to work for a Fisheries company and it broke my heart to see all the beautiful fish being chopped by the shit loads… ? Went on a big ass fishing trawler a few times the nets are ginormous mind blowingly… they told me the dolphins could just jump out the top of the nets etc when I started asking.. but I think they were lying a little

can I derail this thread slightly and ask if people have any opinions on the benefits of Omega 3 type diet supplements (fish oil based )
this is slightly more credible than homeopathy right?
optician recommended. but I saw them in a shop with a homeopathy stand so now I'm worried.

could just be snake oil, oh no wait thats probably rarer.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-05/tuna-fetches-record-price-at-auction/3760036 $713K for a tuna!

peat i'm pretty sure Omega 3 oil is good for you, however the fact that it is essentially a fat oil from fish is giving me second thoughts - the toxic compounds referred to in that article tend to accumulate in fatty tissue

To include in the general fukced up ness of things:

http://www.3news.co.nz/Fishing-industry-starving-whales-of-food/tabid/1160/articleID/161792/Default.aspx
http://www.marinereserve.co.nz/?p=441

Whale stradings may be deliberate suicides by whales suffering malnutrition due to human competition for thier food. Raises the question: is it the humane thing to do to attempt to return them to the ocean?

I was under the impression there was significant evidence showing Omega 1 to be good for you, in particular helping with brain development/maintenance

Thats what I read before I went out and bought a giant tub of it anyway

Just how did these 955 samples get taken from sperm whales? Humanely?

Jesus think about it

The are two options:

a) He was part of an organisation that catches whales, and is able to manage the complex and expensive legal, moral and logistical issues involved in taking 955 live whales from the open ocean

b) Do it cheap and easy. Gather samples from beached whales.

I did think about it and since it wasn't stated I wished to know their methodology seeing as how like he was condemning others for their inhumane treatment and given how logistically interfering with giant mammals in their ocean habitat 'in the interests of science' could not in any way be interpreted by whales, if given the option, as being in their interests. And stuff.

Unless of course you subscribe to the view that we, as humans, have some divine right to fuck with all other life forms, in our interests as curious predators.

Eat some vegetables!