By: The Philosophical Fish|29 October, 2009|Categories: Food Mood . Just Thinking|Tags: fish . food
Ever had one of those days when you wished you hadn’t picked up the phone? I just did. I received some bad news, news I’d been expecting for about 6 months, but hoped wouldn’t come. There is a reason I call myself an optimistic pessimist. I hope for the best, but I always expect the worst, and over the past…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|22 May, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: aquaculture . fish . Travel
I had the opportunity to visit several research sites in the Broughton Archipelago yesterday. We flew in and around the area in a small Beaver airplane for most of the day and set down first at a farm site that is currently fallow, but where University researchers are looking at the physiology of juvenile pinks salmon infected with sea lice.…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|28 March, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: aquaculture . critical thinking . fish . Travel
It’s ironic, we are so fixated on the negatives of fish farming that we fail to see that there are also benefits…support to coastal communities devastated by depleted fish stocks. Benefits to the wild fish because aquaculture can, to some degree, reduce the pressure on wild stocks. In the Skeena watershed the threat is not so much from farmed to…
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