 |
|
07-11-2017, 12:27 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 562
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyTheory
The fish farms we eat talapia and basa from are much worse than the NSR, just regulations on contaminants don't carry across boarders. NSR is probably pretty safe. And if you've eaten fish from factory farms, you e eaten worse.
|
I agree, I have never eaten Talapia or Basa, nor will I ever, for these very reasons. I'd take a fish from the North Sask any day over those. All you have to do is go on YouTube, search the show Dirty Jobs that was on tv and look for the Show on Tilapia used in a water treatment facility and you will be completely grossed out from ever eating those disgusting little buggers again. At least the water flowing down the North Sask starts out in the the ice fields of the Rockies as nice clear, clean water. We may be adding copious amounts of bad stuff along the way but still more appealing than a store bought Tilapia or Basa farmed in a cesspool somewhere overseas.
|
07-11-2017, 03:40 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 2,535
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by RavYak
Only because of naturally occurring mercury levels...
Anyone who wouldn't eat fish out of the NSR better never go visit the ocean or a fish farm to see where their super market fish comes from. Take my word for it, you would wish that fish came from the NSR, within city limits...
|
Right on. Love fishin the NSR but it's strictly C&R for this guy.
Anyone that eats fish from the supermarket (farm fish, not fresh) should watch Salmon Confidential
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbxOFcvC4U
|
07-11-2017, 10:26 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: St Albert, AB
Posts: 22
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by does it ALL outdoors
Right on. Love fishin the NSR but it's strictly C&R for this guy.
Anyone that eats fish from the supermarket (farm fish, not fresh) should watch Salmon Confidential
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbxOFcvC4U |
Thanks for sharing this documentary! What with salmon being on sale at the supermarkets this time of year it's a perfect time to share it too.
This really makes one realize that the NSR fish are not bad compared to what our own governments deems "safe" from these fish farms. I've always been against them and I know out on the East Coast they've been pushing for them saying "Look, the fish are fine in BC!" What a way to ruin something so beautiful.
As a sushi lover, this gives me the chills.
|
07-12-2017, 08:29 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 1,579
|
|
Not eating sushi any more after the story about the guy in Calgary and the worms in his gut!
On the NSR last night watched a a bait fisher and his son. "Ding-ding" goes the bell on his rod and a few minutes later a fat sucker goes into the bucket for dinner (fish tajine, yum!).
__________________
I fish, therefore I am.
|
07-10-2023, 10:31 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: saskatchewan
Posts: 20
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by JareS;3578722pa
The NSR is probably my favourite fishery but I don't eat a thing from it. Especially after seeing images of the PA pulp mill's effluent trail of black sludge winding a dozen or so KM downstream of the mill. Not to mention what is upstream (Edmonton  ) Funny how a lot of people wouldn't touch the fish from the NSR with a 10-foot pole but take their limits home from Tobin, Diefenbaker, etc. |
The pa pulp mill has been closed for 10 years
|
07-10-2023, 10:34 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: saskatchewan
Posts: 20
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Bullets
I have and will continue to do so. A pickerel would be nice to eat, if legal, but a nice river run pike is a treat too.
I am so brave I actually eat smoked oysters and sardines from China. Now that's scary.
|
Yes you are brave eating fish and other creatures from China grown lagoon pools
|
07-10-2023, 11:07 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: 204
Posts: 5,445
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by struff55
The pa pulp mill has been closed for 10 years
|
This thread has been closed for 6...
__________________
"I like to quote my own quotes" ~ Dewey Cox
|
07-22-2023, 07:51 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Central Alberta
Posts: 593
|
|
As a kid we caught them near home, NorthBattleford on the NSR. We ate some but definitely limited consumption. They looked good and tasted ok.
|
07-23-2023, 09:39 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 4,444
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dewey Cox
This thread has been closed for 6...
|
|
07-23-2023, 03:18 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Edm.
Posts: 4,922
|
|
Few years back I was fishing the river in Edmonton and after releasing a pike I lost the feeling in my fingers for a few hrs . I thought it was because water was really cold . Weeks later I am at a lake and I grab that hook that I caught that pike with and my fingers went numb . Not only will i not eat fish from that river ,but i would be wearing rubber gloves if I return again .
|
07-23-2023, 09:53 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 1,615
|
|
Mess around diggin for gold in the north saskie and all kinds of weird stuff will happen. Alot of history and lost souls passed thru that valley you are rooting around in.
|
07-24-2023, 11:12 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: okotoks
Posts: 36
|
|
Mercury poisoning
I had mercury poisoning from work related I was50times over the accsepable limit back in the 80sits not something you want I still have some thing going on it will come back to bitt you but you whoud have to eat a Lott of fish this stuff stick with you it get trapped in body onless you can prove that’s the problem your out to lunch
|
07-27-2023, 10:28 AM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Sibbald Flats
Posts: 1,094
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dewey Cox
This thread has been closed for 6...
|
The 2023 award for best response!! 😅
|
07-27-2023, 10:54 AM
|
 |
Moderator
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Stony Plain
Posts: 6,643
|
|
Eats McDonalds and other fast foods 3 to 4 times a week , pop and chips daily , Fruity Pebbles and Honeycombs for breakfast rum and coke Friday night till wasted ….. draws the line at eating a Walleye from NSR because it might not be healthy. 
|
07-27-2023, 11:58 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 3,567
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by jungleboy
Eats McDonalds and other fast foods 3 to 4 times a week , pop and chips daily , Fruity Pebbles and Honeycombs for breakfast rum and coke Friday night till wasted ….. draws the line at eating a Walleye from NSR because it might not be healthy. |
Lol, I've worked with guys who chain smoke under their welding helmets, live off of gas station food, and only shower a couple times a week... many of them felt that the NSR was "gross".
__________________
If the good lord didnt want me to ride a four wheeler with no shirt on, then how come my nipples grow back after every wipeout?
|
07-27-2023, 04:02 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: At the end of the Thirsty Beaver Trail, Pinsky lake, Alberta.
Posts: 24,607
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bushleague
Lol, I've worked with guys who chain smoke under their welding helmets, live off of gas station food, and only shower a couple times a week... many of them felt that the NSR was "gross".
|
Dam with that type of diet the fish from the river would be considered a step in the right direction health wise.
I personally wouldn’t eat fish caught in and a round a big city centre but to each their own.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
__________________
Be careful when you follow the masses, sometimes the "M" is silent... 
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 03:58 AM.
|
Linear Mode
