I kinda want to try seaweed.
Sources would be great if possible.
Thanks
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As a broad rule it's not as damaging simply because so much smaller number of it gets harvest.
What you have to take care of is that seaweed is very polite at absorbing metals from the water, that's what make it such a good source of minerals. That's also why it's recurrently heavily contaminated with the toxic stuff we don't want to munch through (like mercury, cadmium, lead etc.). A significant percentage of seaweed sold for human consumption is harvest from polluted waters and while (in theory) there are law preventing its sale, contained by practice there is NO regulation of seaweed.<sigh>.
Do a prod on 'seaweed heavy metal' and you'll swot a lot more than you ever required to know.
Fishing damages the environment? Not sure what kind of "fishing" you do or where on earth you're from, but I've never heard of any fishing I've done that "damaged" the environment! If fishing around you damages the environment, STOP ingestion those fish and, I guess try seaweed, if you have too!
I doubt that harvest seaweed could be as bad as fishing. I'm guessing that seaweed can be grown within aquacultures and probably don't cause too much mar if any to fish. But, sparkylump, you should know that humans are overfishing so much that in 50 years seafood will be depleted. Fish farm cause core pollution to streams and other bodies of water and bring decreased dissolved oxygen level along with further depletion of seafood. it's unpromising man.
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Sources would be great if possible.
Thanks
:)
Answers:
As a broad rule it's not as damaging simply because so much smaller number of it gets harvest.
What you have to take care of is that seaweed is very polite at absorbing metals from the water, that's what make it such a good source of minerals. That's also why it's recurrently heavily contaminated with the toxic stuff we don't want to munch through (like mercury, cadmium, lead etc.). A significant percentage of seaweed sold for human consumption is harvest from polluted waters and while (in theory) there are law preventing its sale, contained by practice there is NO regulation of seaweed.<sigh>.
Do a prod on 'seaweed heavy metal' and you'll swot a lot more than you ever required to know.
Fishing damages the environment? Not sure what kind of "fishing" you do or where on earth you're from, but I've never heard of any fishing I've done that "damaged" the environment! If fishing around you damages the environment, STOP ingestion those fish and, I guess try seaweed, if you have too!
I doubt that harvest seaweed could be as bad as fishing. I'm guessing that seaweed can be grown within aquacultures and probably don't cause too much mar if any to fish. But, sparkylump, you should know that humans are overfishing so much that in 50 years seafood will be depleted. Fish farm cause core pollution to streams and other bodies of water and bring decreased dissolved oxygen level along with further depletion of seafood. it's unpromising man.
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