Where are places where they have pollution problems with fishing boats?
Posted on Aug 09, 2009 under Fishing Boats | 3 CommentsI’m doing a project on weather or not fish farming or regular fishing is safer for the environment. Im talking about the big fishing ships. And where are some major place in North America where there are fishing problems that may be hurting our environment? I have heard of Alaska…….
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Alaska is a major source of seafood. Wonder what you have heard. You did not say.
Buzzard Bay off the coast of MA has some major fish farming research going on. The Norwegians have been doing lots of fish farming, and all over the Pacific Rim… write to the embassies. The International Aquaculture Society has offices on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, so give them a call.
I like that idea of fish powder. Just got back for Asian food store where I got some Thai fish powder made from sheatfish mixed with chili powder. Nice stuff.
August 9th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
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smaller fishing boats do not have ballast systems that fill and later empty – these can suck up one or more species of unseen microbes and organisms that are released later at the new destination;
also the normal discharge for the motors (oil, excess fuel) that move ships around can pollute the water and the air in dock;
human crew also tend to throw lots of stuff overboard and currents tend to cluster it into common areas of the ocean;
http://community.adn.com/node/127521
Fish farming done in ponds and rivers tend to have problems with all of the fish excrement (poop), but open ocean net systems are less of a problem with currents carrying it away
In both cases, farmed and caught, the fresh fish need to be distributed to the end-user (grocery stores and restaurants) and you have the pollution from transportation that uses fossil fuels.
Where malnutrition tends to weigh heavier on the mind, the solution is to encourage breakthroughs in making dry fish powder – this solves the storage problem and is easier to transport. People in poorer regions of the world will sooner care about pollution when they do not have to watch their children die for lack of nutritious food.
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August 9th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
If you’re going to correct someone, the right spelling should be used.
The term is ‘whether or not’.
Anyhow, the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland has a moratorium on fishing due to the depletion of the cod stocks. When sailors first came there the cod was so thick it would stop their boats. Now there are barely enough to keep the species from becoming extinct.
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August 9th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
weather or not
wether or not
whether or not
picky picky
Alaska is a major source of seafood. Wonder what you have heard. You did not say.
Buzzard Bay off the coast of MA has some major fish farming research going on. The Norwegians have been doing lots of fish farming, and all over the Pacific Rim… write to the embassies. The International Aquaculture Society has offices on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, so give them a call.
I like that idea of fish powder. Just got back for Asian food store where I got some Thai fish powder made from sheatfish mixed with chili powder. Nice stuff.
References :