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How Norway Created Salmon Sushi

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Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi

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Norwegian farmed salmon are among the biggest sources of food-borne contaminants in a normal diet. It contains four times as much dioxin as the highest permissible limit for meat, eggs and milk.

Apparently this warning has been lifted:

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/norway-farmed-sal...

Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi

#42
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Keep in mind that California is very good at PR. Or bragging. Depends on how you look at it. Other places are similar, of course. Paris, and France in general, comes to mind, but so does Berlin. London can't decide if it's awesome or rubbish, but it knows it's important. California is convinced it's the center of the universe.

The the logic I can draw from your statement is that Norway is a very humble place :)

Well, yes, that's half of it. The other half is that social status is more implicit here.

Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi

#43
post #39

Norwegian farmed salmon are among the biggest sources of food-borne contaminants in a normal diet. It contains four times as much dioxin as the highest permissible limit for meat, eggs and milk.

Apparently this warning has been lifted: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/norway-farmed-sal...

Go for wild catched cod (for example) from the Atlantic or Pacific instead, the food given to the Salmon contains large quantities of fish caught in the Baltic sea which is more or less unfit for human consumption.

Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi

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post #27
post #24

When I lived in Argentina we would call Sushi restaurants "Salmon shops" as they would never serve Tuna, it would be 95% salmon and some minute pieces of white fish.

Those are raised in Chile probably, the american productor of Salmon. Is the same as Norway for European market (and often farms belong to Norwegian or Norway/Chile mixed companies).

> productor

You're probably looking for the English work 'producer'.

Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi

#45
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Keep in mind that California is very good at PR. Or bragging. Depends on how you look at it. Other places are similar, of course. Paris, and France in general, comes to mind, but so does Berlin. London can't decide if it's awesome or rubbish, but it knows it's important. California is convinced it's the center of the universe.

The the logic I can draw from your statement is that Norway is a very humble place :)

They just like to make copious amounts of money and stay quiet.

Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi

#47
post #5

speaking of sushi, here's a video about the extinction of blue fin tuna (includes economics, history, culture): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hivvTo6VSS8

One more reason to eat salmon sushi, salmon is farmed and will not go extinct.

Tuna's much harder to farm (the fry have a tendency to kill themselves in inventive ways), but they've figured it out in recent years.

Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi

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post #15
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One more reason to eat salmon sushi, salmon is farmed and will not go extinct.

Farmed salmon is much inferior to wild salmon though.

Depends on your tastes. The farmed stuff has a higher fat content, which tends to be more palatable in sushi.

Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi

#49

To this day, the salmon in Japanese sushi restaurants is always labeled サーモン "saamon", which is known to be imported and is OK to eat raw; and never 鮭 "s(h)ake", which is (usually) local and always salted and cooked first -- even though ''shake'' as a term covers all types of salmons.

I lived there for two years and clearly remember it being labelled as 鮭 (while painstakingly learning the words and characters too for different common foods as well). Granted, this was about 10 years ago, so maybe it has changed?

Re: How Norway Created Salmon Sushi

#50
post #9

Another way of see this is that both, Japan and Norway have a big aquaculture industry and they compete. To assure the control of the salmon's market is an essential goal for Norway as nation; they produce 1 million of tons each year for the european market. When somebody tries to farm new salmon (in France or Spain or whatever) they typically flood the market with below cost salmon or trouts until the competence is…

When somebody tries to farm new salmon (in France or Spain or whatever) they typically flood the market with below cost salmon or trouts until the competence is distroyed by lack of rentability. 10 years ago (I think) Norwegian salmon farmers was penalized big time by EU authorities. Haven't heard about anything since then and I refuse to think that Scottish aquafarmers would pass up an opportunity to get the Norwegi…

Dozens, maybe thousands of european salmon farming small companies vanished about 15 years ago and dumping was the final nail in the coffin. I could tell you some histories that producers said to me, but all is a little more complex than that. In the last 10 years we have a big recession in Europe by the scam. You can not expect a lot of regrowth inside Europe.

We have also two big and destructive tsunamis: Indonesia 2005 and Japan 2011. Ironically the banda-aceh tsunami that wipped entire villages favoured a vigorous regrowth of the aquaculture sector from India to Philipines because: 1-the fisher float was distroyed and 2-survivors were mortally afraid of working at the ocean. The sector in Japan have enough economical muscle to survive practically unscathed to the 2011 disaster. Another consequence was a renewed interest of the investors in South-America; and of course China is growing at at impressive "bigger-better-faster" pace that the rest of the world, as always. Aquaculture of trout and salmon in the south of europe is currently frozen and probably will never recover

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