A Northern Krill - This is what a lot of whales eat
In order to protect the food supply of whales, the NOAA has banned krill harvesting in parts of the Pacific Ocean off California, Oregon and Washington.
It seems that krill harvesting is processed for food in salmon farms, home aquariums, and for human consumption in something called Krill Oil.
The web sheet Natural News argues that a more eco-conscious choice for marine Omega 3 oils is “green-lipped mussel oil” from “aquatic farms that are not fed anything other than the natural phytoplankton circulating in the water.”
They go on to add:
The difference between “good” fish farms and “bad” fish farms is found in how they feed their fish: If other fish (or krill) have to be caught, processed and fed to the larger fish in an aquatic fishery, then that’s highly destructive to the larger food chain (and many salmon farms fall into this category). But if the aquaculture farms inject no food whatsoever into the fish populations, and they feed only on the naturally-circulating low-level food sources in the ocean waters, then it’s a “good” aquaculture farm. (Such is the case with green-lipped mussels farmed off the coast of New Zealand.)
I don’t know if it’s possible to find out if the fish farm fish you buy comes from an eco-conscious farm or not, but I suppose it couldn’t hurt to ask.
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