I incorporate a lot of fish in my diet. I don’t care much for red meat. I think it is an age thing - I am surely carrying around about 25 pounds of red meat packed into my colon! So I like fish. We try to eat it two to three times a week, and I find it both sits well on my stomach and helps keep the pounds off a sedentary old man that spends all day at the computer writing.

We hear a lot about farmed fish, and that it is the next best thing since sleced bread. However, if you consider the impact on the environment, you will notice some things that just aren’t right. One, farmed fish are fed wild caught fish that are ground up. this depletes the world’s fisheries. It takes about 3 pounds of ground up wild fish to produce one pound of shrimp or salmon. Two, the effluence from these fish farms contains feces and uneaten food, which pollutes the world’s oceans. Thirdly, Hundreds of thousands of acres of coastal wetlands have been destroyed for aquaculture ponds and facilities.

I have to think that this is not particularly good for the environment. I no longer buy farm raised fish. My son goes to salmon camp this week, and will bring me back a lot of good filets to keep me through the winter. And the only pollution and threat to the environment will be a bunch of twenty-somethings enjoying what they like the best - fishing.

Drive on,

Charlie~

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