June 3, 2008
Water Taxi Beach Gets Giant Wild Salmon this Saturday
Sometimes you have to eat a species in order to save it. To raise awareness about threatened Pacific wild salmon, Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City will be adding wild salmon barbecue to the menu this Saturday. The feast is being held in cooperation with Save Our Wild Salmon, a group that’s traveling the country to educate people about the Northwest salmon crisis.
According to Save Our Wild Salmon’s website, last year just four Snake River sockeye salmon survived their journey from the Pacific Ocean to their ancestral spawning grounds in Idaho’s Rocky Mountains; they blame the problem on four “costly and outdated” lower dams on the river. And to make salmon preservation fun for the whole family, the roadshow features "Fin," a 25’ fiberglass salmon; it's got a giant mouth for kids to climb inside, letting them play in their food before eating the real thing.
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Wait...
They're adding Salmon to the menu to raise awareness about their threat of extinction?
Isn't this counterproductive?
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What a disgusting display of Orwellian garbage! Have we really sunk so low as to believe that we need to "eat the salmon in order to save them?"
Give me a break. This "Save Our Wild Salmon" group is a joke--their main interest in salmon is in killing them through fishing. The "crisis" to them is that they might not be able to hook those precious salmon through the mouth with their fishing poles any longer.
Listen up folks-if you're truly interested in stopping the path of species destruction and depleting of the oceans that we are currently on, I have a word of advice: Leave the salmon, and ALL the other fish alone!
Consider the obvious choice: veganism. Animal agriculture is more environmentally desctructive than even the automobile industries, and is not sustainable for the planet. It's time to stop stuffing our faces with dead animals and realize that our actions have serious consequences.
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I'm saving the salmon by smoking them, cutting them razor thin and putting them on a bagel with cream cheese.
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Nycgreen, I'd respond @ greater length, but right now I'm practicing my swing for the annual "clubbing of the baby carrots". They're so much more tender when young, with that soft pelt. (Yeah, I know they're just lathed irregular carrots).
Militant vegans are annoying.
And yeah, BH, Ess-a-Bagel Nova on a fresh, warm garlic Bagel, scallion cream cheese & a bloody mary on a Weekend morning is Nirvana.
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Hold your seahorses folks. There's bad PR or bad journalism afoot here - possibly both.
SOS is a good outfit doing good work (no affiliation here, but I've worked in the environmental space for 14 years).
The thing with salmon is that some wild populations are doing quite well (see Alaska), while others are in a dire state due to climate and landuse changes, dams (i.e. subsidized water and power for Eastern Washington farmers), etc.
Unlike many populations of wild fish, overfishing is not the problem for salmon.
And there are plenty of farmed salmon around (whole other set of issues there, however).
So, provided you do it right - as these guys always have - you CAN in fact eat salmon to save salmon. So get out your forks.