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U.S., Canada put 7 year ban on all forms of salmon fishing in Yukon, Alaska (www.aptnnews.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Damn, prices of salmon are going to go crazy now and all the salmon lovers are going to lose it. Lol. I don't eat it anyway, but that's good if it's getting endangered.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's better to have expensive salmon now because we can only harvest so many, than to have expensive salmon in 10 years because there are hardly any left.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Good because it needs to get way more expensive. Salmon can still feel pain even if they cannot scream.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've always bought huge salmon fillets at Costco and chopped them up into maybe eight servings. It was always worth it. But just over the course of a year they've risen from around $25 per fillet to $40. I've told salmon to go ahead and go fuck itself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

πŸ˜‚ That made me lol. But yeah, my wife loves salmon (I don't even get close to it) and man it went up big time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, the price seems double what it was in 2021.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

This only applies to one type of salmon (chinook)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I happen to watch Life Below Zero as background noise and other salmon fishing has been banned for a few years. A couple of the cast members used to catch large quantities of fish to feed their sled dogs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Salmon is already expensive as hell a small piece the size of my hand is freaking $14

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Oh wow. I can buy 600g piece for Β£11.50.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I'm a Canadian who eats wild caught often. I'm gonna lose it!

[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I love salmon

I also know that conservation is key and if fishing is impacting them, then it's best to go a period without salmon

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It only impacts the wild caught industry as well, farm raised salmon will still be readily available. Atlantic salmon has never had a commercial season for wild salmon in my lifetime because we would wipe them out in a single season, so it's not that different from them.

People will just have to become more cognizant of where their fish is coming from. Avoid salmon from inshore farms if you can, the offshore farms are the best quality of life for the fish and have a nice fat content to them for extra flavor due to the better access to food compared to wild fish.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You know what's wild? That we feed roughly 9 billion people... Daily... Every day. Every. Single. Day.

Even if we cut out the malnourished or rationed people, we are feeding in excess at least 300 million in the US. I can't accurately understand that number of mouths to feed vs the wild. We are absolute savages and don't even understand it. We consume animals like zombies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

you know what's REALLY wild? When I was a kid, there were roughly 4.5 billion people to feed every day. I'm not that old, but the global population has doubled in my lifetime. Crazy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

On top of that, the US throws out something like...40% (I think?) of the food we produce. And a significant portion of that is food that has a long shelf-life in order to cycle out branding/labels.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Tay capitalism.