Swapping Passaic River fish

[Barleywine]

When I stumbled back from my driveway this morning with today's newspaper, I was surprised to see this as the front-page story:

A new angle on cleaning up Passaic River: Swap your catch for a cleaner fish - NorthJersey.com

It seems that companies that are on the hook for the clean-up costs of the Passaic River are making alternate proposals to the EPA; one of which would be to create an indoor fish farm where anglers can swap their catch of Passaic River fish for what they are calling "clean fish", that would be safe to eat.

This seems like a pretty bizarre idea, and I wonder if there has ever been anyplace else where you would exchange a wild fish for a farmed fish.

I also question how safe those farmed fish would be since the speculation is that the exchanged fish would be Tilapia, and DC recently posted a thread about the dangers of farmed fish and Tilapia in particular.

 

[lightenup]

The problem with Tilapia is where it comes from....There are farms in the US, I believe there is one in San Diego that produces a "clean" product. I put clean in quotes because all farmed fish is crappy...you are what you eat, and they feed these things the cheapest meal they can find.....This is why salmon farms are pushing the genetically altered idea for salmon....These fish grow faster on less...hence a larger profit...I think the idea of the fish swap is very bizzare..Clean up the river.....


Maybe some of us can start a Passaic river T.U. chapter...


Tilapia are vegetarians, and in the far east they feed them shit....

 

[Oliver10]

This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard

 

[tompg]

when I read this in the paper, "dumbest idea ever" was also my thought