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Presented by
Charley Korns
Northwest VEG
Fish: Older than Dinosaurs
~ Fish have been on the earth for more than
450 million years, long before dinosaurs.
~ There are over 25,000 identified species
of fish.
~ It is estimated that there may still be
over 15,000 fish species that have not
yet been identified.
~ There
h are more species off fish
f h than
h all
ll
the species of amphibians, reptiles,
birds and mammals combined.
combined
PetEducation.com
Overview
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1 Eating Fish - or Not
1.
2. The Extent of Global Fishing
3 Methods of Ocean Fishing & the
3.
Consequences
4. Fish Factory
y Farmingg
5. Pollution
6. Related Disease and Illness
7. Tips on Being Fish-Free and Local
Options for Dining and Shopping
8. ‘Sustainable’ Seafood
E ti
Eating Fish
Fi h - or Not
N t
U.S. Annual Per Capita
p
Consumption (lbs.)
Year Red Poultry Fish &
Meat Shellfish
1910 96 0
96.0 11 8
11.8 11 2
11.2
1940 92.4 12.3 11.0
1970 131.9 33.8 11.7
2000 113 7
113.7 67 9
67.9 15 2
15.2
2005 110.0 73.6 16.1
a.Limnophobia
b. Entomophobia
c. Ichthyophobia
d. Pantophobia
Angler Fish
Answer: C - Ichthyophobia
y p
• If you have a fear of lakes
lakes,
you suffer from limnophobia
• off insects,
i t you have
h
entomophobia
p
• and of everything, its
pantophobia (vague and
persistent dread of some
unknown evil).
Enormity of the Methods
~ It ain’t a
few kids
with
fishing
poles
Longline
i Fishing
i i
~Most widely used fishing
gear on earth; each year an
estimated 2 billion longline
hooks are set worldwide,
worldwide
mainly for tuna and
swordfish
dfi h
Longline
i Fishing
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~ Single boat sets monofilament
line across 60 or more miles of
ocean
~ Each line bears vertical
gangion lines that dangle,
baited with up to 10,000 hooks
Longline Fishing
Bottom Trawling
i
~ Bottom trawling involves
gg g huge,
dragging g , heavyy nets
along the sea floor. Large
metal p
plates and rubber wheels
attached to these nets move
g the bottom and crush
along
nearly everything in their path.
Bottom Trawling
g
Bottom Trawling
~ The equivalent of fishing
th sea floor
the fl with
ith
bulldozers, trawlers
level an area 150 times
larger than the total
area of forests clearcut
on land each year.
year
~ The fisheries with the highest
levels of bycatch
y are shrimpp
fisheries: over 80 percent of a
catch may consist of marine
p
species other than the shrimpp
being targeted.
The Fate of the Ocean, Mother Jones, March/April 2006
Bottom Trawling
~ If allowed to continue,, the bottom
trawlers of the high seas will
destroy deep sea species, before
we have
h even di
discovered
d much h off
what is out there.
Robot Fish
Drift Nets
~ In the North Atlantic,
Atlantic shark and
monkfish nets are set 1,600 feet
below the surface,
surface then left
untended to sail and randomly
ensnare life.
life
~ In stormy seas, they may be lost or
abandoned yet they continue to fill
abandoned,
with prey
Drift Nets
Bycatch Victims
~ For every 5 pounds of fish caught,
more than 1 pound of bycatch is
dumped overboard, dead or dying.
Bycatch Victims
i i
~ Different types of fishing practices
result in different animal/species
being killed as bycatch:
} nets kill dolphins, porpoises and
whales
} longline fishing kills birds
} bottom trawling devastates
marine ecosystems.
Bycatch Victims
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~ It has been estimated that 100
y are
million sharks and rays
caught and discarded each
year.
y
~ An estimated 300,000 whales,
dolphins and porpoises also die
as bycatch each year, because
they are unable to escape
when caught in nets.
Longline
i Bycatch Victims
i i
~ Each
h year, llonglines
li kill thousands
h d
of unintended species that take the
bait including approximately:
bait,
} 40,000 sea turtles
} 100,000
100 000 albatrosses and 200,000
200 000
other seabirds
} millions of sharks
Worldwatch Institute
Fish Farms - The Great
Escape
• A storm in Maine freed more than 100,000
salmon who swam out of the pens into the
wild - the largest known escape of
aquaculture fish in the eastern United
States at that time (December 2000).
• Farm-raised fish, bred for market qualities
unlike the hardiness that wild salmon
must have to survive, can pass their
weaknesses on by mating with the few
wild
ild fish left.
left
Boston Globe, 2/23/01
Polluted Waters
~ Millions of tons of toxins produced
by our culture all end up, eventually,
in the water.
~ Largest
g share comes from animal
agriculture in the form of herbicide,
pesticide, fungicide, and chemical
fertilizer runoff from the fields, and
sewage from factory farms.
Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet
Polluted Waters
~ Toxins that pollute the air are eventually
washed into lakes and oceans
¾Solid waste sites
andd landfills
l dfill are alsol
leached by water,
which
hi h carries
i their
th i
toxins into rivers and
aquifers.
if
Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet
Polluted Waters
~ To
T eatt animals
i l who
h live
li in
i our earth’s
th’
waters is to eat our own noxious
ll ti
pollution, concentrated
t t d many times.
ti
~ Fish clean the water of toxins and
impurities: they can be seen as
earth’s kidneys, absorbing
contaminants into their flesh.
Familydoctor.org
Food Poisoning
i i from
f Fish
i
~ Scombroid poisoning: A substance like
histamine builds up in some fish when they
get too warm after they’re caught. Histamine
is a chemical that serves as a kind of alarm to
let your immune system know that an
infection is attacking part of the body.
} any fish that has not been refrigerated properly
properly.
Be especially careful when you eat fish such as
tuna, sardines, mahi-mahi or anchovies
Familydoctor.org
Got Parasites?
i ?
~ Anisakiasis is a parasitic disease
contracted from infected seafood which is
eaten raw or marinated
marinated. Although rare,
rare
this is a type of round worm which can be
picked up
p p from eating
g sashimi,, sushi,, and
ceviche.
} Symptoms can range from an acute syndrome
with nausea and vomiting,
vomiting abdominal pain or
diarrhea within 12 hours of eating infected
seafood to other problems which can last
weeks to months.
months
MedicineNet.com
Allergies
i to Fish
i
~ More than 6
6.5
5 million Americans have a seafood
allergy1
} shellfish allergy
gy is reported
p by
y 1-in-50
Americans
} fish allergy is reported by 1-in-250
~ The onset of seafood allergy is likely to begin in
adulthood, 60 percent with shellfish allergies and
40 p
percent with fish,, and frequent
q and severe
reactions are reported by sufferers.2
http://tastebetter.com/features/booze
Missing
i i fi ?
fish?
Sea Vegetable
g Salad
at Blossoming Lotus,
925 NW Davis St.
Local Alternatives
i to Fish
i
Frozen faux fish
options
p at Food
Fight! Vegan
Grocery, 1217 SE
St k St.
Stark St … and d
many Asian markets
C i soon tto F
Coming Food
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Fight:
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Omega 3
~ Fish are not the sole source of
Omega 3 fatty acids. Other options
include:
9 Flax oil and seeds
9 Hemp oil and seeds
9 Walnuts
9 Supplements (look for non-gelatin
p
capsules) )
‘Sustainable’ Seafood Pitch
N
New Seasons
S Market
M k t example
l
Problems facing our oceans today:
1. Overfishing
2 Bycatch
2. Bycatch
3. Farming
4. Habitat Destruction
} Our Commitment to Choice
Some people have
asked
k d whyh we continue
ti tto sellll species
i ththatt we kknow
may be threatened. Our goal is to share information
with you, our customers, so that you can make a
d i i about
decision b t what’s
h t’ right
i ht ffor you and d your ffamily.
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‘Sustainable’ Seafood
Why You Want to Avoid It
1. Even where certain fish species’ populations
are healthy,
h lth theth waters
t may nott be
b (mercury,
(
dioxins, other chemicals).
2. Th FDA’s
The FDA’ seafoodf d program is
i riddled
iddl d with
ith
deficiencies, is woefully under-funded, and
provides no assurance of safety for
consumers.
3
3. If preferences shift widely to “sustainable”
sustainable
populations, those too will become depleted.
4
4. Be kind to all animals
animals, don’t
don t eat them
them.
#2: Center for Science in the Public Interest, news release, GAO Gives Failing
Grade to FDA Seafood HACCP Program,Feb. 13, 2001
Famous Vegans
~ Alicia Silverstone
Silverstone, actress
~ Carl Lewis, athlete
~ Dan Piraro, cartoonist
~ Ed Begley Jr.,
Jr actor
~ Elijah Wood, actor
~ James Cromwell, actor and animal rights advocate
~ Joaquin Phoenix,
Phoenix actor
~ KD Lang, singer
~ Kevin Nealon, comedian and actor
~ Martina
Ma tina Navratilova,
Na atilo a tennis player
pla e
~ Moby, musician
~ Sinead O'Connor, singer and songwriter
~ Woody
W d H Harrelson,
l actor
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