Salmo....thanks for the logical come back..that is what I am more used to..You may find me to be more in the center than the PP Grandpa...I'm kind of a smart alec as you know but am more of an environmentalist than a Republican. I think a balance is what I am for. Not too far one way or the other. As Slab said about the relative danger in eating farmed fish versus wild...it is a matter of degrees..both types of fish are probably essentially good for you. Neither one is really harmful but one is found to be twice as harmful as the other....Something along those lines. I don't even buy fish in the market let alone farmed fish so my "beef" is with the over exaggerations made to promote a cause which , in this case, I think is commercially caught salmon. Some of the arguments I have heard in the last couple of days supporting a commercial fishing bias in the Columbia River spring Chinook allocation smack of big business more than anything....as does the fish farm debate. Not health of humans or health of a fish run but big business and lobbying.

As far as the government erring on the side of business being a Republican idea I disagree. Politicians from all states err on the side of business to gain votes and campaign money. To impose standards for PCBs and Dioxins and such that are punitive to business would not sit well with many constituencies so we have the FDA...not the Republican FDA or the Democrat's FDA but just the plain old FDA with their mandate to be moderate when it comes to standards. Not hysterical. The commercial fishing industry wants to kill the fish farming industry if they can because fish farming is a huge competitor of theirs. If I could put out a smear campaign to eliminate some of my biggest competitors I might consider it. That would make my life alot easier.