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Fish Farms And The Best Seafood
By David Griven
Fish farms stock fish that may be grown in artificial, crowded
conditions. These type of fish are not as tasty as fish grown
in the natural environment. I did not realize seafood can be so
delicious, until I started eating only genuine ocean fish.
If you go to a local river, there is no guarantee that the fish
you are catching was not originally grown on a fish farm and then
released to stock up the river with fish. A lot of the fish grown
on fish farms, may not be native to the local area, so if you
know your native fish that grow naturally in the river, then you
will know the fish to add to your catch and the fish to avoid.
I know I am not the only one who does not like factory farmed
meat or fish from a fish farm. This is why some people have given
up on buying fish from seafood stores, as many of the fish in
those stores are from fish farms.
Not Eat Farmed Fish
There are people who will not eat factory farmed meat, but I
am one of the only people I know who will not eat farmed fish.
It all goes back to one time when I was a kid. We went to one
of those fish farms meant for private fishers. Basically, there
are two kinds of fish farming out there.
Fish Farm Industry
There is the fish farm industry which produces most of the processed
seafood that you eat in your daily life. Fish sticks, fish and
chips, and even the baked salmon you order at your local seafood
chain probably come from fish farms.
These places are supposed to be pretty sterile, but in reality
they are massively crowded. The fish are stuffed into small pond
of water, crawling around on top of each other amidst heavy pollution.
How do I know? Because I visited the second kind of fish farm
as a kid.
Aquaculture Farm
Your typical aquaculture farm isn’t accessible to the community,
but many of these fish farms supply salmon, catfish, trout, and
other freshwater creatures to farm fishing lakes.
Basically, these are places where dads who don’t know how to
fish can take their kids to catch their own fish. At this kind
of fish farm, the lakes are literally jumping with them.
Hundreds Of Catfish
The one we went to had hundreds upon hundreds of catfish, all
bounding for the bait in a feeding frenzy. There is no challenge
to catching something at a fish farm.
There’s no sport to it at all. You drop a worm in the water and
three fish bite for it. They are probably just committing suicide
to get away from the crowded conditions.
The water was murky, the fish was disgusting, and the whole experience
at that fish farm was so unpleasant that I never wanted to eat
fish again.
Ocean Fish
Of course, a few years later I would eat ocean fish, but it was
years before I would touched a freshwater fish. To this very day,
I won’t eat anything from the sea unless I know that it really
is from the sea.
Farm raised fish is right out, no matter how clean and sanitary
the conditions are supposed to be.
I figured that if fish farms are that disgusting when they invite
visitors in, the ones that you don’t get to see are probably that
much worse. The idea makes me feel queasy and sick to my stomach.
Seafood Gourmet Store
But I have located a seafood gourmet store where I can get ocean
fish, that are genuinely from the ocean. They are certified as
genuine ocean fish. And they taste a lot better than fish from
fish farms.
I was skeptical at first, but then I went ocean fishing with
the manager of the store, just as an observer, and he showed me
how he caught all his fish. It was surreal to see clean fish caught
in the ocean.
Even though the gourmet seafood store is quite a distance from
my home, I still take my time to travel there, to review my options
and buy my favourite seafood. This lets me avoid all the other
seafood stores along the way, stocked with fish from fish farms.
About the Author:
David Griven has written a number of articles on food and cooking
including
Fishing Lakes.
Keep a lookout for more articles on this website.
Did You Know?
Have you checked out local restaurant prices for lobster or other
seafood? It can be outrageous and easily run you over $25 dollars
a plate. Buying it frozen in the grocery store is not much
better.
You still have to take it home, thaw it and hope for the best.
If you live inland then you know how hard fresh seafood is to
come by.
But rest assured that those days are long over. You can order
your fresh seafood online through many retail stores. It is caught,
packed and shipped directly to your door.
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