hey people! we really need to stop eating shrimp. for every pound of shrimp that are caught, nine other pounds of sealife die along with it! that is apalling and unacceptable, i should think, to anyone with a heart. lobby for shrimp to be produced through aquaculture. if there are farms for it, then only the shrimp we eat die, and since there will be no other animals there with the shrimp, none of them die in vain either! this is not only cruel and wasteful, but endangerment to animals:experts predict that, with the current rate of shrimp harvesting, by the year 2045 we'll have NO sealife left whatsoever! so don't support restaurants that serve shrimp, and explain to them why! organize a protest outside of fucking red lobster and inform people because not many know about this! get in touch with me if you live in the south and we'll organize a demonstration! peace!
Can you back up the 9 lbs to 1 lb of shrimp ratio? Semms a very inflated number. I catch alot with a long drag net. I throw all the other animals back unless ineed baitfish or im in the mood for bluecrab stew. I enjoy being outside and treat it with respect but i question some of what you say.
You have to consider that a lot of shrimp/prawn aquaculture, particularly in asia, has an equally damaging effect on the environment. Prawn farms are often located in the most biologically productive regions of the earth - mangroves and estuaries. One figure estimates that 80% of global fish catches are directly or indirectly dependant on mangroves. These farms are established by clearing mangroves for ponds, they involve widespread use of pesticides and antibiotics, and regular flushing of waste water back into the surrounding environment. The end result is the irreversible degradation of the surrounding ecosystem. Often the farm is productive for two to five years before it is closed due to serious pollution and disease problems - in most case they will just move on to a different location and do it all again. Of course, as with most things, there is a best practice scenario that could be played out - but does it meet the bottom line? BTW - i'm not sure how things are 'over there' but in Australia most restaurants will serve farmed prawns/shrimp (usually from Asia) - it's generally a lot cheaper, albeit a lot less tasty.
my dad read somewhere that it's 9/1. and one person with a net can of course take the time to throw back the others. but these are megacorporations that only care about mass production of their shrimp. and in mississippi, all you can get is wild shrimp. the state was the first to try aquaculture but they gave it up for some reason, i think cost..and when i say aquaculture, of course i meant without pesticides and in the safest way possible. we raise catfish in farms, which stay in the same place for years and hurt nothing because we use existing ponds with huge filtration systems. if we raised the shrimp on our coast (after we finally detox and clean EVERYTHING, Katrina was a bitch!:$ ) then we'd do it in the ocean off the beach in an area filtered, separated, and kept for the shrimp, away from other animals. the whole thing would be designed with safety of the animals and LAND in mind. the hurricane taught us to be more careful with levees and stuff. i'll try to verify that ratio as well and look a little more into the farms. peace
i went through southern miss a few weeks back for the first time since the storms. Actually went south of new orleans to Lafite to do some fishing.
did you notice that a lot of our forests and buildings were torn to shit? i guess the ban has been lifted since you fished. though i vowed never to eat anything that came out of those waters again since katrina.
It was kind of bad on I-10 and between the lake and new orleans, but it wasnt bad at all where we went.
i read about fisheries just the other day. its horrible. in thailand, it has a bycatch ratio of 14:1. and sometimes companies dont even throw it back, they grind it up for fishmeal so that the shrimp has more "meat" to it. and some companies say that is endangered animal safe, even though all they do is just throw it out instead of grinding it up. most of the time, by the time they find these other animials they are allready dieing or dead. i read this in a book called "the way we eat: why our food choices matter". its a very good "eye opener" book. but also, fish farms arent as good as they seem. they are often extreamily crowded, just like how tyson crams all of their chicken in one space to were they cant even walk, the fish in fisheries can hardily swim. fisheries are very unsustainable, too. also the waters that surround the sea cages become polluted from the concentration of fish feces and food wastes that are discharged and untreated, into the sea. antibiotics and pesticides are givn to the fish to reduce their incidence of disease and and of parisies and these end up going into the sea. Aslo, sometimes the fish escape the nets and then spread disease to the fish in the ocean. a better solution to both cathing the shrimp and shrimp fisheries is just to boycott shrimp alltogehter.
that place in the arizona desert seems alot better than the ones netted at the seashores, but it said nothing on how crowded/uncrowded the pond is. also, "Shrimp ponds constantly circulate fresh, clean well water, which is kept oxygenated by batteries of massive aerators.", which seems to me requieres alot of fossil fuels. but other than that, it seems like a way better choice to grow shrimp.
These are man made ponds they use solar power to run the circulation motors. The only things in the ponds are shrimp and a type of fish that helps keep the water clean.
oh, in that case, that is very good! i really respect how companies are using the power of the sun! but do you by chance know how much space the fish are given? im just curious, because i know how chicken farms can be cage free, feed organic vegitarian diet to the chicken, and no antibiotics, but still cram them together where they cant even spread thier wings, so i have a feeling that fisheries do that too. after all, there is a growing demand for environmentally-freindly food, so their is no other economically good choice but to cram them. i would feel alot better if i knew if they had as much room as they do naturally.
thats so cool. i hope in the next few years that most things will be operated from solar power. especially cars! im tired of people thinking that hybrid cars will solve everything. yes, its better for the environment, but its not nessesarily good for it either! electricity requries using fossil fuels too! atleast we can count on the sun for being there for another some-odd-million years.
it is a cool farm. but a few people sounded sort of condescending, so let me clear it up:when I said "farm" of course i meant a healthy, humane, comfortable, clean, eco-friendly environment for the shrimp. and i was only thinking of the other several pounds of creatures that die, and the fact that shrimp are either endangered or becoming endangered. i agree totally that the best way is to avoid shrimp and be veg. but some people will always insist on being selfish and having shrimp no matter what the case, so we have to have less damaging alternatives. lots of love to you guys! thank you skittle for the link and thanks everyone for your input
