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[jenkinsbrynmair]

I shall even eschew smoked salmon/scrambled eggs for Christmas breakfast

good on you - the whole process of intensively rearing salmon in sea lochs for human consumption, as well as being terribly damaging to the environment is damaging to wild fish stocks - both salmon and sea trout as well as sandeel stocks that they harvest (no quotas) to produce the food pellets to feed farmed salmon. Farmed salmon in general is a poor alternative to wild salmon - colourless, flabby and full of fat. Let's not mention packed full of chemicals, antibiotics and colourings to make them look 'wild'.
I think salmon is a pretty overrated fish, the farmed type especially - not much better than tucking into a macdonalds IMHO. but if I had to, I would only eat wild salmon - and as salmon stocks are on a knife edge at the moment, in no small part due to polluters like Welsh Water and other uti;ity companies I don't eat it at all

 

[The Poot]

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news...l-fishing-support-uk-struggling-seabirds.html

Has this ban been overturned by Europe or by Starmer giving away our fishing rights?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Flahavan's?

Usually Pimhill but buywholefoods when they include them in their VIP free offer

 

[Erichalfbee]

good on you - the whole process of intensively rearing salmon in sea lochs for human consumption, as well as being terribly damaging to the environment is damaging to wild fish stocks

Horrible what these farms are doing. I’ll have to send Stan out fishing.

 

[Erichalfbee]

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news...l-fishing-support-uk-struggling-seabirds.html

Has this ban been overturned by Europe or by Starmer giving away our fishing rights?

No the ban is still in place in our waters but where do the Danish trawlers fish?

 

[Penninetrader]

What I don't understand about you JBM is that given your charitable endeavours in Africa you advocate for a climate policy designed to suppress peoples of the third world.

The third world is in line to be pillaged once more, aided and abetted by their own leaders greed, so no different than here in the so called first world. They are going for equality, all poor and servitude. I have taken some small steps to alert those I converse with in Africa of their plans and methods.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Horrible what these farms are doing. I’ll have to send Stan out fishing.

salmon are protected now, I always preferred Sewin anyway

 

[Erichalfbee]

salmon are protected now, I always preferred Sewin anyway

So you have to release rod caught salmon?
Is Sewin a trout?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

So you have to release rod caught salmon?

yes

Is Sewin a trout?

yes, basically it's a brown trout that due to feeding competition has drifted further and further downstream until it hits the estuary. some stay there and become 'slob' trout and some migrate round our coasts before eventually making their way back up the river of their birth to spawn. Unlike salmon that seldom (but not never) return to the sea after spawning, recover then do the trip again, sewin return to the spawning grounds multiple times.,