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  • From: Bunjov AT aol.com
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fwd: Peak Menhaden by Alice Friedemann
  • Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:43:37 EST

Thanks, Lynda! At least you gave me a choice between Yum! and Yuck! (maybe).
Sandy


In a message dated 2/11/2009 9:19:36 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
lurine AT com-pair.net writes:

Shad. Although you probably know them best as fish oil or fish meal <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: <Bunjov AT aol.com>

> Never heard of these!
> Could they be known by another name?
> Sandy
> Mid-Mojave (where there are few fish)
>
>
>
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> Sent: 2/11/2009 4:32:55 P.M. Pacific Standard Time
> Subj: Peak Menhaden by Alice Friedemann
>
>
> Peak Menhaden
> by Alice Friedemann
>
> Read the complete article at: http://culturechange.org/go.html?322
>
> Very few people have heard of menhaden, but they're the most important
> fish in the Atlantic and gulf waters, and they're almost gone. I'd never
> heard of menhaden until my husband, who grew up in Florida, mentioned
> them.
>
> "When we were swimming and the menhaden came through -- they looked like
> the shadow of a large, approaching cloud -- the water boiled with fish,
> and everyone got out as fast as they could because there were sharks
> slashing through them, biting at anything that moved," he told me.
>
> In The Most Important Fish in the Sea. Menhaden and America, Island Press
> 2007, H. Bruce Franklin describes menhaden schools as acting like a
> single
> organism: "flashes of silver with flips of forked tails and splashes,
> whirling swiftly … in moves more dazzling than those of a modern dancer,
> as they seek escape from hordes of bluefish below and gulls... above... a
> breathtaking experience".
>
> ...
>
>>From the 1860's to today, the weight of menhaden harvested is more than
> the combined weight of all other commercial fish -- more than all the
> salmon, cod, tuna, halibut, herring, swordfish, flounder, snapper,
> anchovies, mackerel, and so on.
>
> State by state, the menhaden industry wiped out menhaden and went
> bankrupt, but didn't die out completely, because the U.S. government
> spent
> taxpayer money to keep the industry going in states where menhaden still
> existed. There was no reason to do this -- menhaden oil, animal feed, and
> fertilizer had been replaced with much cheaper petroleum and soybean
> substitutes. The place menhaden inhabit in the ocean's food chain,
> however, is irreplaceable.
>
> Now one company, Omega Protein, catches the majority of menhaden, with 32
> spotter planes directing a fleet of 61 ships. Their spotting planes and
> vessels can find and catch the few remaining schools, since they swim
> close to the surface. They make poultry feed and fishmeal for farmed
> salmon out the menhaden, products that can be made more cheaply from
> plants.
>
> ...
> Read the complete article at: http://culturechange.org/go.html?322
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