Jeff,

No you are not ill informed it's just hard to get all the info needed and it is even harder to understand for most of us myself included that Industrial food production be on land or on the sea does not make the world a better place.

Not that many years ago I thought I was about to become rich money wise. I am in the private water quality world. I thought that Aqua culture would go inland and I would be in the right place at the right time. To solve pollution problems with inland aqua culture is easy. I could make effluent going into recieving streams cleaner than the natural flow of the river. But this will not happen because of the costs. Even going into our domestic wastewater systems would be way too expensive for the industry. There is a thing called B. O. D. which I will not get into and fish farms are so high in B.O.D that they could not pay the bills for dumping on our over taxed systems that we have now. I'm not sure how many out there know that the Salmon Aqua Culture Industry is not making much if any profit now and is world wide situation. One must remember that these companies are owned by very large companies where profit is not measured in what each company they own makes but more how they fit into the total profit making adgender of the entire company.

I don't want to get into politics here we are doing too much of that already. But one thing I like to put out there is what ever happened to the concept of seasonal eating and regional eating? This calorie to calorie consumed thing is really going to be an important issue in the not too distant future. It's funny but we are making such a big deal over fossil fuel and SUV'S but that is such peanuts in the waste of fossil fuel compared to the massive waste of fossil fuel producing out of season food and non regional food that we import. This is a first world problem that has very much effected many 3rd world nation that never had a food problem before. No I won't go there. But I ask the question considering the difficult situation we are all facing or going to be facing with fuel shortages and growing unrest we have all become oh so familiar with. But the question is Why should the great people of Kansas be able to eat a fresh salmon that before Aqua Culture was nearly impossible to find outside of the NW. Yes there was can salmon they could buy. Why should they be able to waste so much fuel in eating farmed salmon. Why should I be able to go into my local super market and buy strawberries in January from Chile? One strawberry grown indusrially, shipped to Seattle displayed as we display things these days uses 495 calories burnt of fossil fuel. We eat that one strawberry and we recieve 5 colories of life substaning nutrition. This is a loosing situation as time goes on. Ya know I wonder if we could all except Commercial Salmon Fishing done seasonally and for only regional consumption only. Done in the simpilist of proceedures in small ventures, very localized.

Also what happened to growing a garden and caning like what was done by all before the magor highway progam plan was developed after WW2.