Organic farmed fish or wild fish? What would you prefer?

[climbingrosie]

Ok, so if there was no financial difference and you could afford either, hypothetically, which would you buy? The organic fish that obviously is farmed (but slightly better than non-organic farmed fish), or the wild fish from sustainable fishing? Am just curious really as have to do some research into the pros and cons of each from an ecological point of view, but which would you rather eat?

And if you are on a strict organic diet would you view wild fish as organic and therefrore acceptable even though it is not certified?

you eco warrior you! ;)

nappies. like i said, mackerel, herring, sardines usually good bet if in season.

you live in the cuntry don't you? get someone to catch you some wild salmon or trout (farmed trout is absolutely heinous stuff, never touch it!).

hello btw

oh yes soph, ill send the gardener out to go catch me some salmon now... lol.

theres a fishing place down the road where they do trout, dunno if its farmed or wild but i bought some fromt he poncy farm shop once and it was bloody awful! vile stuff. think it might have been off...

are makeral herring and sardines all quite 'fishy' fish then? and what about shellfish?

By 'fishy fish' do you mean strong tasting? Coz they are all oily fish so yes they do have a more fishy taste than non oily fish

Sophable I have now bought that book from amazon and look forward to reading it, thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

yeah, i did mean strong tasting.

mind you, i had fresh sardines barbecued on the beach in spain once and they were wonderful, so i will try other fishes.
(i love white-meaty fishes though and tuna, sigh)

mmmm yes nappiesgalore I love tuna too! Mackrel is quite meaty as a fish as well as being strong tasting too, you could try that? (not just the smoked stuff, fresh mackrel is lovely on a bbq too) and couldn't agree more about th fresh sardines bbq'd on a beach, yum!!! it's just all the little bones that are a PITA....

nappies mackerel are like mini-tuna.

stick one in hot oven for 15-20 mins depending on size. if you want to get poncey shove a couple of bits of lemon in its guts (whole mack including head but 'cleaned' i.e. guts ahve been removed) comes off bone fairly easily....apart from pin bones, but really not a mega boney fish and absolutely amazingly delicious.

honest.

x

righto guv, if you say so ill give it a go

er, is lemon poncy then? i can do poncier than that without too much effort i think, any tips? (dp does a lovely, v simple roast cod thing with tomatoes and olives which is delicious but i do feel guilty each time about eating poor depleted cod. the idea of actually running out of loads of fish, worldwide, is horrible (thats likely, right? or am i mistaken about that too?)

btw LOL at you berating yourself for disabusing people of the notion that you are A Good Person

nappies yes cod is running out. our kids will not eat it.

mackerel is pretty rich, but horseradish goes and so would wasabi and so would soy actually. things that cut the richness.

Yes, if you love fish, eat Japanese ! I love fish and think the Japanese are the masters of fish cooking or non-cooking

Although I gather they are not very environmentally friendly in catching their fish.