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Is salmon a deep-sea fish? Can it be farmed?

Salmon are deep-sea fish. They are first of all marine fish and live in the ocean. Moreover, because they live in deeper oceans, they can be classified as deep-sea fish. Specifically, they are mainly distributed in the deep sea of ​​the Pacific Ocean, especially in the deep sea of ​​the northern Pacific Ocean. However, although salmon are deep-sea fish, they do not stay in the deep sea all the time. When they are sexually mature, they will enter fresh water to reproduce in the appropriate breeding season.

1. Is salmon a deep-sea fish? Salmon is a well-known type of fish and also a well-known food ingredient. It is distributed in the waters of our country. From the perspective of attribute categories, salmon is a species of marine fish and can adapt to the environment in seawater. Marine fish is a general term for many species of fish, and it can be divided more finely. For example, deep-sea fish is one of the subcategories, which refers to fish living in the deep sea. Salmon is a deep-sea fish. Specifically, they are mainly distributed in the deep sea of ​​the Pacific Ocean, especially in the northern Pacific Ocean.

However, although salmon are deep-sea fish, it does not mean that they spend all their time in the deep sea, because this fish has the special habit of migratory migration. In the first few years of their growth and development, they live in seawater, generally in relatively deep waters. However, when salmon reach the age requirement for reproduction, they will enter fresh water when the breeding season arrives and reproduce in it.

2. Can salmon be farmed? As mentioned above, salmon is a marine fish. Wild salmon grow and develop in seawater. Although they can also reproduce in fresh water, they generally grow and develop better in the ocean. Therefore, although salmon can be farmed artificially, the scale is relatively small, and they are mainly caught directly from the ocean and then sold. Although farmed salmon grows faster, the meat quality is not as good as wild salmon, and the corresponding price is lower than that of wild salmon. This kind of specially farmed salmon can also be seen in the market.

690,000 salmon fed with antibiotics escaped into the sea. How will the Chilean government deal with it?

Let me briefly describe the cause and effect of this incident - the fish belonged to a Norwegian aquaculture company, and they were raised in cages in Chilean waters. The fish were fed a large amount of antibiotics. A storm came, the cages broke, and the fish escaped. The Chilean environmental protection department believes that salmon are predators and will cause great harm to their marine environment. Chile's current handling method is to issue a total fine of 5.3 billion pesos (about 6.6 million US dollars after conversion) to the Norwegian aquaculture company, but the Norwegian company claims that it is not satisfied and will appeal. It seems that there is still a lot of wrangling.

1. How did the salmon escape? This story started in 2018. Although Chile issued the fine recently, the reason written on the ticket happened in 2018.

In 2018, the Cape Redonda fishery in the Los Lagos region of Chile, about 1,000 kilometers south of Santiago, the capital of Chile, was hit by a major storm. At the time, the Norwegian company "Meiwei Aquaculture Group" operated the fishery, and salmon escaped from the cages because of the storm. A total of 690,000 salmon escaped.

Second, what about antibiotics? If it was an ordinary fish farm, with the cages destroyed and the fish escaping, people would often sympathize with the fish farm operators, after all, they had encountered unexpected events and suffered heavy losses. However, in this salmon escape incident, people's focus was on the keyword "antibiotics".

Statistics show that in the salmon farming industry worldwide, the chaos of antibiotics is a concern. In order to deal with fish diseases and parasites such as sea lice, farmers have to use a lot of antibiotics on salmon, and due to the existence of drug resistance, the amount of antibiotics used is increasing. Norway, as a major salmon producer, has always had a bad reputation on the issue of antibiotics.

(However, Chile, which issued a fine to the Norwegian company this time, is even more corrupt than Norway in the issue of antibiotics in salmon and is known as the "king of drugs".)

With 690,000 antibiotic-rich Norwegian salmon escaping into the ocean, people are naturally worried that one of them might end up on their table.

3. Does this matter to ordinary people? To be honest, I don't think it matters much. 690,000 may seem like a big number, but don't forget that this is data from two years ago. Two years later, how many are left in the ocean? This really needs to be questioned. As for whether these "antibiotic-rich" salmon will come to your table - whether it is "antibiotic" salmon caught from cages or "antibiotic" salmon caught from the ocean, the probability of buying them when a family buys them is the same, right?

If you say it has something to do with ordinary people, then it does. With the help of this news, more people can pay attention to the problem of large amounts of antibiotics ingested by aquatic products, which is of course a good thing for human health. Similar incidents include the use of dichlorvos in sea cucumber farming and the detection of excessive amounts of mercury in shark fins. These are all personal matters that deserve attention.

What do you think about the Chilean vs. Norwegian salmon dispute? Feel free to leave a comment to discuss!