Farmed fish of any sort was never on my menu. Many Asian companies sell frozen fish with posh brand names in our supermarkets. Who are they trying to fool. I’d rather not eat sea food.
@@squange20 problem is brain health. I suffer from a ilness. i wont put it here. But evidence showed that Omega 3, acids, prevent or mitigiate the risk of getting the ilness. I never ate seafood/ fish when I was younger till now
Farmed salmon will eventually destroy wild salmon. Farmed salmon also destroys the sea floor under the pens. The very best model for "farmed" salmon is the hatchery model utilized all over Alaska. These hatchery raised smolt are released into the wild and return to the hatchery years later to spawn.
Wild salmon are a gift of nature (to us: for food and jobs, and to the rest of nature's flora and fauna and even the soil). They will return to us freely and virtually without end...if we will only respect the habitats they need.
"and virtually without end". So you don't know about the many seas and rivers that have been depleted of fish. Go speak to those fishermen if you do not trust information online. There is no such thing as unlimited supply - otherwise there should be no starvation or poverty. To your credit you did add the phrase "if we will only respect the habitats they need". Quite impossible to make stupid people do the right thing.
@@josephyeo6966 FYI, by "virtually without end" I meant "in perpetuity" not in limitless supply. I started into the fisheries science program at university in the early 90s, and have been following the (downward) tragectory of PNW salmon runs since the early 70s, so I am somewhat aware of the depleted stocks and degraded habitats. I left the fisheries science program quickly after realizing the fate of salmon is largely driven by politics (monied, well-organized influence groups), not science.
When the salmon farmers moved into Dover bay in southern TAS, the fantastic beds of giant oysters began to get sick and die and the shoreline became brown and horrible.
Thank you for calling attention to this toxic, appaling industry in once beautiful Tasmania. The 'authorities' are also destroying the once beautiful and amazing native forests, and burning the areas, also destroying the native birds eg the Swift parrots and animals. Will it all never end.
Ever been to Tasmania? Over half of the state is in reserves and those that aren't are still heavily forested. I guess you can't see the woods for the trees 😂😂🤡
Thank you for this excellent expose! We who live on lovely Poros Island in Greece are also in critical danger of the expanding fish industry, despite the damage done to the sea by the 9 or so cages we have suffered with for the past 30 years! This is also one of the endangered monk seal's breeding grounds. I hope we can band together to end such destruction of our seas!
Stopped eating salmon last year after I read about the food production practices used to rear this factory farmed fish and the negative impact on the marine environment.
If everyone in the world eats only fish from the ocean, soon we will have nothing. There are already many parts of the world where seas and rivers have been depleted. Sooner or later we will have to farm our livestock or the other alternative is "Solent Green". So it is unwise to encourage people to stop eating farmed fish.
How wonderful. I just bloody bought two large pieces of Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon and was looking up recipe ideas. Now I feel like a Big Mac and Fries...
Vegetable oil & Canadollar constipation. What's the stuff that is used to spray the Russet potatoes with - is it in Texas? Even the Farmers are afraid to eat what they are told to produce... maybe Burbank potatoes ?
Same goes for Norwegian farmed salmon as well. Nasty toxin laser diets, banned antioxidants and antibiotics, these are all that could be found in Tasmanian salmon as well as Norwegian farmed salmon.
@@shawnsupershine8058 Far from it. It has gone as bad as the tilapia from far East. “Farmed fish” is your clue. Wild caught is the way to go. Don’t be fooled by these Scandinavian Country names.
Tasmania. Such bountiful ecosystems. Such a beautiful island. So much nourishing food produce. Why allow yourselves to be hijacked by these base corporate interests, that will turn your state into a global toxic food dump?
There's what Tasmania is in its natural state and then there are vested interests looking for big profits. Or worse, it's big NGOs like Hydro just drunk on their unlimited power - remember the Franklin? That was close. A few places are trying to return wetlands to their natural state - just nowhere near enough.
Unfortunately all the issues raised in this film apply to all farmed salmon worldwide. We have a film coming out soon that address this so make sure you subscribe to the channel.
Eat ONLY wild caught and CERTIFIED salmon, please ensure they were NOT caught off of Alaska by the Chinese Communists! Virtually ALL packaged salmon sold in Costco, Sam's Club and Walmart are Chinese caught, even if wild caught and processed on Chinese "Factory" ships off the Coast of Alaska and Canada! Most are NOT fit for human consumption!
You know IBS (irritable bum syndrome) is on the rise in Australia and I with a bit of research found out that IBS is is an abbreviation for a group of symptoms that the Dr's have absolutely no idea what is causing it....
IBS Crohns Curable by that WA Doctor who got the Nobel for curing ulcers with an antibiotic in the eighties. Still practices in a Sydney suburb. Its about Gut bacteria.
@@christopherorrock-ey3wi Theres a pesticide going into the feed they give the salmon too so you bet theres chems that breach the blood brain barrier in there. Their flesh falls off them whilst still alive without the pesticide as counter intuitive as that seems. DDT, dieldrin and hexachlorobenzene.
"Atlantic" salmon is the species. not their geographical origin. An Australian salmon farmer blew the whistle on this 2 years ago in a much more in-depth program in 4-Corners.
"Pink Salmon" is also the name of a species of Salmon. I've caught them myself in the Puget Sound. You'd be amazed at how lean wild Salmon are, compared to the farmed ones
A bit of truth bending going on here methinks. Trans Fats are indeed bad but naturally occurring saturated fats are good. The true toxicity though comes from the artificial feed the fish receive
Powerful video. The only thing absent I feel is the distinction between ‘Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon’ and ‘Wild Caught Atlantic Salmon’. It may simply be omitted to focus on one point. Which, If that is the case, I understand.
Hi Steven. This is the first of many films to be released over several months. The only distinction we make between farmed and wild salmon in this film is the presence of trans fats in farmed salmon and not in wild salmon. All salmon in Tasmania is farmed as we don’t have wild Atlantic salmon in the Southern Hemisphere.
@@lowcoau Thanks for your reply. I hope my comment wasn't received as criticism. This film is outstanding and important for public awareness. I look forward to seeing the films that follow. Keep up the excellent work.
I think all the wild salmon comes from the Pacific side? I have yet to read of salmon that has both Atlantic and wild in the description. However, this video was about Tasmanian so perhaps areas like Maine might have better farms?
Hi all, i'd be curious in case anyone here has something to say about wild salmon and, in fact, more heavy metals (mercury etc.), i'm from Italy (sorry for my now rusty English) and what people here (with a minimum awareness) tend to assume, is that fish like wild salmon goes to the far reaches/depths of the oceans and has, in fact, more of those pollutants vs fish farmed by the shores. (this is merely a by-question and not in any way to overlook the farmed toxics...) A side-remark instead i would add is in my country/eu there was a famous news case a good 20ish years ago, that the orange hue in farmed salmon, to make it more eye-cathing (far as i know it would otherwise be light greyish/pinkish) was achieved by adding chemicals that turned out, of all effects, to cause blindess. We had journalists making bitter jokes about that ( = ironical and striking coincidence). Can't remember the name of the colorant involved but apparently it got banned by eu just then, and in my Western Alps area they farm a lot of trout (family run businesses mostly) and apparently they use carotene, which goes through as safe... These are all just hints/doubts/questions, i stumbled upon the video here (i like wildlife/wilderness videos) and got me back to those things... i quit eating salmon back then, too many antibiotics etc. too. Besides the trans fats. Ultimately one of the most toxic foods one can actually come across, in all... Cheers and keep up the good work, all
If this is what we thought of as health food, imagine what's in meat we eat. I'm disgusted and beyond disappointed in what this planet has become. People are its parasite.
I totally agree. We kill and slaughter introduced species and portray cancer as the enemy of humanity. We as people are the cancer of planet earth. Rid the earth of humanity, and nature will flourish. Im all for it. Nuke us all. Let the planet start again without the vermin of humanity.
Meat is much more tightly regulated. Beef in my town is also fed up on grass and hay for days before slaughter. They lay in the sun munching and crunching and having a Holiday before being taken to the knocking box. Fish has always been a toxic game of Russia Roulette. Toxins build up in them wild or farmed.
Very very true everything's contaminated ,/ bottom line you have to eat something Even Organic is not pure anymore polluted too I really don't think there is an escape
Just eat. If you avoid everything and your every meal tastes like sh*t, what's the meaning of your life? Live 3 or 5 years longer? I would rather eat whatever I want to eat and die earlier but with happiness.
Give it more thought because that remark is as thoughtless as defund the police. Unsatisfactory the police service may be but abolishing is not the best answer. WE have to use people with all their foibles. Its legal for those fish farmers to do what they do.
@@kimbo99 more thought? they are all we have? Salmon is an imported species! The company this is directed at is also responsible for having the Clarence River, NSW closed to green prawn trawling for 2 years because of their ROTTEN practices - affecting the livelihoods of 90 families. Look up Barnaby Joyce / white spot disease of crustaceans & their complicity in causing this disaster.
To our knowledge heavy metals are not a problem in Tasmania. The main issues are antibiotic use, ethoxyquin, which is used to preserve the fish food and banned in many countries, fish welfare and degradation of aquatic environments surrounding the pens.
I used to eat it sometimes..but since reading toxic and witnessing what's it's doing to our water ..never again...I recommend everyone read toxic ..all true ..that's why salmon industry want sue the writer.
and one of these Tasmanian 'producers' has a prawn farm on the Clarence River, which has been found to have the white spot disease of crustaceans & has been closed. This has caused the river to be closed also to trawling for & selling green prawns which was the main market of 90 families. All prawns now have to be cooked for the next 2 years & there is no guarantee it will be opened even then. 90 families. White spot was brought into Australia from Asia with permission by Barnaby Joyce who went against all advice from experts in the industry. Buying green prawns from the supermarket now almost guarantees this disease of ALL crustaceans will be spread all around Australia. Quite the conspiracy by government authorities. It is looking like the government is the main source of most diseases & pests that enter Australia in one way or another.
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White Spot in the Northern Rivers has been proven to have originated from the wider environment and not from the prawn farms. It was first identified in broodstock in the hatchery of a prawn farm in August 2022. This was not the farm owned by the Tasmanian producer. The broodstock had been caught from a nearby wild fishery. White spot was then detected in all three farms in the region in early 2023, again coming into the farm from the wider environment. The root cause of the outbreak is, as you suggest, the result of someone using contaminated imported raw prawns as bait. The strain of white spot in the Northern Rivers is genetically deifferent to that found in the 2016 Logan River outbreak. In conclusion, white spot was found in the farms because the farms test for it. The closure of the wild fishery was not due to the farms but because of the presence of the virus in the wider environment. The wild fishery, and the 90 families have been affected which is terrible, but at least the wild fishers can still catch prawns and sell them as cooked product. Have a thought for the families of the workers on the three prawn farms that had to close, destroy all their stock, and were unable to restock the farms in time for the new season. Those families have lost everything.
It would help in getting your message across if you turned that wretched music down, i mean way down as it interferes with your message, of which i gleaned only about 50%
If you need some stats on what happens when a "health nut" like me eats salmon every day for 20 years - sometimes twice a day - I have stage 1 Lipoedema - a fat storage disorder.
2:40 That's wrong. Big Mac and medium fries totals 51g of fat, and 200g of that salmon has 32.2g of fat. The Big Mac alone has 33g of fat, so even without any fries the salmon has less fat.
Yes. Flinders island, which was targeted for fin fish farming has unanimously voted against it and the Tasmanian government has removed all fin fish farming leases. Watch our film “the heart of the island “ to get the full story.
My entire diet is mostly fresh food which I prepare myself. I don't eat meat but I do eat seafood on occasion. Information like this is quite distressing. It is not likely that many seafood eaters can catch their own so now we add farmed seafood salmon or prawns" to our list of "no-no's". We live on a Pacific Island surrounded with abundant seafood! After watching this, farmed seafood should be banned in our country🌱🤔🙏🕊🙏💗
Fryin fish in Canola is Veri-bad as it converts to a trans fat & causes retinoic blindness - same as roundup redy cotton seed oil. Ghana pres. Won't allow vegetable oils - some friends ate food cooked in vegetable oil & experienced the most excruciating constipation belly pains - like wanting to have a shit Butt nothing Happens for at least 48 hrs to 3 days as i. Now we are terrified to eat takeaway meals & dining out. Too many supermarket cakes are cooked with Canola oil (CanOla is it Canadian owned oil ?)
Yuk! I would never eat farmed seafood. So many Asian companies are now selling frozen farmed seafood in our supermarkets. We never had them before. I’d rather do without.
NO, I REPEAT NO farmed fish are SAFE for HUMAN consumption, in order to KEEP those fish from dying they are FED massive amounts of antibiotics, which injested by humans decreases effectiveness of antibiotics in the human body when NEEDED!
That's really disturbing as someone who works in the exact factories shown and I'm glad I hardly eat fish that I don't catch myself, however this industry is vital to the Tasmanian job ecomony for 3 months every year as it's hard to get a job when you're over 21 where the high minimum wage gets capped and most employeers hire teenagers for legal cheap labour when they can
Does anyone care about the suffering caused by this greedy industry. Never mind the lies we are told abut healthy eating, what about the short horrible lives the salmon must endure.
The problem is sometimes salmon is mislabeled PURPOSELY . On occasion farm salmon is labeled as wild caught. Be careful where You buy Your seafood its not just farmed salmon that is toxic just about all farmed seafood is especially from asia.
At the age of 84, I have been eating wild caught salmon most of my life, have NEVER had "roundworms"! When cleaning your fish and preparing them for cooking very EASY to see it they have roundworms or other diseases!@@mykolapliashechnykov8701
Would love to know what she means by 'lacing of chemicals which are banned elsewhere'. Even a name would be informative. Or description of how the fish is laced? Very emotive. Light on the facts. Caratoids are used to colour the fish flesh. Specifically Astaxanthin, a red pigment that belongs to a group of chemicals called carotenoids. It occurs in naturally in algae and is an antioxidant. You can buy this in health shops or chemists as pills to take. So certainly not unhealthy for humans. The persuasive language used certainly directs you to one point (e.g. "genetically selected to be quick growing for quick bucks'). This applies to any agricultural business. Fruit, crops, animals. Genetic selection has been happening since humans decided to keep animals in one place in pens. I think they need to move their farms further out to sea and away from protected habitats and not have them so close together otherwise suffer the same fate as intensive pig stall farming and waste disposal issues (common sense). At least they are not harvesting every living thing in the ocean with massive non-selective nets.
I agree with you here. Lots of what was said here is rubbish and not backed by solid facts. Like stating that the salmon portion has the same amount of fat as a Big Mac and fries.....yeah, completely different type of healthy fat.- That's the difference. That important information was of course conveniently left out.
I used to fish close to farm fish cages, until I caught fish with cancerous tissues, after that I never eat farmed fish. Farmed fish is one of the the most toxic meat you can eat.
It's toxic for sure. I found that out when I bought it 3 times at the market cause it was on sale. All three times I immediately developed severe diarrhea after eating the fish.
@@khiem1939 oh, really, hate to tell you but it is, I even e-mailed to company to confirm, so fool you. P.S, a company will not leave it-self liable to a potential law-suit, in an e-mail ( legal document) saying it is, when it isn't.
@@khiem1939 You can definitely purchase wild caught fish and that includes salmon. You need to actually read the labels on products, ask the fish monger if it's wild caught, etc.
@@grantwatts681 there is no major wild caught Atlantic salmon fishery left in the world, let alone one big enough for the product to be sold as such a low-value product as canned salmon. Your canned salmon is most likely wild caught but it is inevitably one of the Pacific salmon species, not Atlantic salmon. Oh, and as a Yamba resident you'd know about the white-spot virus outbreak so could correct @fishnchips8132 in his comment above.
Farmed fish, no matter if salmon from Norway or Tasmania or warm water fish from ponds in China, Vietnam or Thailand are NOT FIT for HUMAN or animal consumption and should be made illegal Worldwide! In Asia the practice is to put fish ponds BELOW caged chickens and ducks and let the fish eat the bird's offal, they also place fish in human sewage ponds!
this is a video with a lot of misleading information. For example, the food of the farmed salmon has lots of chicken carcasses and eating these make the salmon contain chicken fats. Seriously? Feeding domestic animals with leftover of the human food has been practiced for thousand of years and you think wide salmon’s diet does not include those? Or do you imply eating chick will make salmon contain chicken fat? I eat proteins from cow and pig almost every day and will this make me grow those animal’s fat? Yes, of course these farmed animals grow much faster than wide species since they are fed with much more food everyday without effort. That is also one of the reasons of obesity of human. But that is not legit enough for this video with epic music to claim they are toxic. Salmon also contains much more fat than lots of other meat. But those are unsaturated fish fat which is different with the fat in your burgers. No matter what type of fat such as transfat they eat, Salomon will generate fish fat only. Just like Eating unhealthy trans fat will make you sick but you will only grow human fats. Salmon eats transfat does not translated into you are eating trans fat by consuming salmon. The only possible legit reason why people should stay away from these Tasmania farmed salmon is the illegal additives but you didn’t show any evidence of using these. If you are paranoid don’t by this video just remember every food you can find today are results of human interfered and selected including vegetables and organic food. Non of them are natural.
The salmon are eating chicken instead of fish. This means they have about half the good Omega-3 fatty acids than wild. They also have double the bad fat which actually stops you processing the good stuff. So the amount of good fats you get from this is very small indeed.
Canned ALASKAN wild caught salmon is seriously healthy and more than half the price of that toxic sludge.. it’s ready to eat and can be consumed anywhere anytime.. and so yummy!
Strange that this report got a overweight actor to talk about fats 😅 The amount chicken fats in a salmon is this the only point they can make? I eat one chicken a week and one salmon a year. Probably quarter of a Salmon. If you eat a variety of foods you automatically have trans fat. Eat enough of the good veg fruits etc and you can balance it. Wild caught is always better option but farm salmon is not toxic, why because i never have too much of it. Watch what you eat. Once a year maybe. Some in sushi..maybe. its not going to kill me or you
Stephen, can I suggest two things. Firstly read the book Toxic by Richard Flannigan which goes in to great detail about possible health issues that you may suffer and secondly keep your comments polite and away from personal attacks.
And the government allowed this to happen! So much for pristine Tasmania. They turn a blind eye. They know it's happening and don't do anything until it's too late.
Something to remember. In the 1930s, during the Depression when people often had a lot less food especially meat and fish, the average life span increased. People lived longer! It seems that farmed Atlantic Salmon is like a battery chicken. Plenty of additives too. The cages have a limited life span as byproducts from the fish build up on the ocean floor. Then they move on to pollute somewhere else. Hmm. Not good.
People did not live longer during the Great Depression because they had _less_ food to eat, that simply isn't true. Proper nutrition is essentilal to good health and longevity.
The salmon pens get moved to another area to fallow the area they were in for a time and then they're moved back. The same leases are used time and time again. So stop spreading misinformation. Oh sorry, I forgot that's what the greens are good for.
Propaganda. The music, the voice, the emotionally charged words. The gullible among us are already sharing this across social media showing yet again that they care for you. Planet of the Fools.
try wild salmon it tastes completely different. imagine a human raised with low oxygen with a bunch of other humans in a cage, no freedom to explore, and get fed food with chemical preservatives and seed oils - imagine how sad this person's energy would be, and how weak and sick their body would look - that's the equivalent of these fish - completely different to a healthy fish full of life and vibrancy that is only possible in wild conditions. some farmed fish may be better than other places, but it is impossible for them to replicate the conditions that nature provides, its simply a problem of density, fish cannot live in such small spaces all together, and its too expensive to farm fish without compromising on quality in the end, the most important thing is the effect on how you feel and your energy levels
What the mouth speaks comes from the heart - far more important and revealing than what goes into the mouth. The commentator lost me with the opening arrogant statement
People love Tasmania salmon. The question is how much are people willing to pay for it? Larger and fewer pens with fewer fish means reduced supply and MUCH higher prices. It’s already unaffordable for most people. Healthy food at scale = elite food and reduced global food security. I hate the way they are farmed, but what is your solution?
@lowcoau If we take that approach to every form of production that has some negative consequence, the world will starve. Ceasing production is not an option.
So putting the emotive hysteria aside.....the industry needs a few things improved by the looks; on one hand she says they use this toxic preservative in the feed............at the same time the information bar says this substance is banned as a food additive in Australia, so that needs to be tested for and enforced, with massive fines for non compliance. Then the feed needs to contain 10% krill.......shouldn't be too pricy to obtain. Finally the nets need to be moved a few times a year and marine species that thrive on left over food and waste should be introduced.........problems solved
If one normal wild fish requires 1 year to grow up, then one farm fish only requires 120 days to grow up at the same size. In this case, why don't you report the world have less wild fish now. And say stop eating wild fish and we must eat farm fish to conserve wild resources. And the toxic is majorly come from human waste. Fish farmer has no responsible for it.
Fish farmers who FEED their farm raised fish massive amounts of antibiotics to keep them alive and also feed them garbage to keep the COSTS of FEED down are RESPONSIBLE! There is NO FARMED FISH which is SAFE to EAT!
@@Phar2ReklissI heard even reported about Scotland alot of farmed Salmon to what level im not sure But most things even organic polluted now, very sad
