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http://www.omniture.com --> Mail Tribune Blogs --> --> « Why Wolfgang Puck won’t keep me from foie gras Thoughts from our staff on the Final Four » Friends Don’t Let Friends Eat Farmed Fish Posted by Mark Freeman The Fish Hack is back at The Fish Wrap, where life is good but it would be “very, very, very, very good” if this here rag paid by the word instead of by the hour. Had my fill of Californication last week, particularly when a side trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium revealed that fish and advice are alike in one way: When they’re bad, they’re awful. Nothing wrong with the aquarium. The Fish Hack has one major shark-jones, and their tanks are loaded with my fellow predators. But the aquarium’s pubbin’ of its “Seafood Watch — West Coast Seafood Guide 2007” made me gag. The aquarium is telling people to ask questions about the seafood they eat, and make choices based on where the fish is from and how it is caught. That’s all good. Except, their recommendations violate The Fish Hack’s credo of “Friends Don’t Let Friends Eat Farmed Fish.” Their list of best seafood choices include farmed abalone, U.S.-farmed catfish, farmed sturgeon and farmed trout. Lingcod and Oregon salmon rank only as “Good Alternatives,” the same as dogfish and squid. Dogfish? Farmed catfish? Farmed ANYTHING better than lingcod or Oregon troll-caught salmon? Come one. Oregon troll-caught salmon are as good a resource as you’ll eat. Also, lingcod officially are a rebuilt marine stock, a real success story. Bagging on lingcod is soooo 2003. I don’t care if it’s in a pen sunk off Argentina or some dirty pond in Billy Bob’s backyard. Farmed fish aren’t real fish. They don’t get fat on shrimp or bugs. They’re fed ground-up fish carcasses and drugs to make their flesh appear edible. Remember the movie, “Soylent Green?” Charlton Heston was fed ground-up people cut into bite-sized squares. Is that healthy? Aquariums shouldn’t be lending cred to farmed anything. What’s next? Sam Elliott on television saying, “Tofu. It’s What’s Fer Dinner.” If you aquarium people want me to roll into a restaurant asking for farmed catfish, then you need to hit KFC and demand a bucket of factory-raised chicken whose feet never touched the ground. That’s just bad form. And even though The Fish Hack isn’t paid by the word, I’ll give you 17 extra “reallys” to string in front of that “bad.” No charge. This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 at 2:05 pm and is filed under Outdoor Journal . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. One Response to “Friends Don’t Let Friends Eat Farmed Fish” LeAnn Says: March 28th, 2007 at 5:26 pm Dear Fish Hack: I get quite a kick out of your entries. Back where I come from they would say you spin a good yarn. I do worry about your strong hankering after sharks though. You’d have to be pretty darn careful around one of them. After all that good fish you”ve been eating, they’d find you a pretty tasty morsel. Leave a Reply Mail Tribune Blogs is proudly powered by WordPress Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) .