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Gag Gifts, Occasion Gifts - Omaha Steaks 12 (4 oz) Orange Roughy
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List Price: N/A
Our Price: $69.99
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Manufacturer: Omaha Steaks
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Binding: Misc.
Brand: Omaha Steaks
Label: Omaha Steaks
Manufacturer: Omaha Steaks
Publisher: Omaha Steaks
Size: Omaha Steaks 12 (4 oz) Orange Roughy
Studio: Omaha Steaks
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Editorial Reviews:
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What a catch! Boneless, skinless fillets with a mild flavor that is sure to please! Serve our Orange Roughy Fillets with your favorite side dish to make a delightful meal.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: YUMMY
Comment: Eat these worthless bottom-feeders, who needs a fish drinking up all the water for over a century? Hell, if my grandma livedc that long, and didn't make herself any more usefull than this fish, we would have had her put to sleep. EAT UP!
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Summary: Don't eat me, I'm older than your grandma and I'm endangered
Comment: First of all, you don't eat/chop down/mess with, something older than your grandma. Orange roughy live for over one hundred years. And the deep sea corals that they live amoungst can be even older still.
Secondly, sustainable fishing doesn't mean fishing anywhere and leaving a fraction of the stocks to breed. Some orange roughy stocks are down to 6 (six!) percent of their natural levels.
And lastly (as if that's not enough) you don't obliterate an entire ecosystem to catch one thing. The fishing technique used to catch orange roughy is bottom trawling... think bulldozer. Deep sea corals hundreds of years old are wiped out by deep sea bottom trawlers fishing for orange roughy.
There are plenty of sustainable fish guides available on the internet, and there's no excuse to be eating orange roughy. What we need is a moratorium on high seas bottom trawling to protect the unique deep sea habitats where these fish live.
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Summary: Not Advised for Purchase
Comment: Orange roughy can probably be called the world's most unsustainably harvested fish. This deepsea inhabitant, referred to by the name of 'slimehead' prior to marketing experts changing the name to 'orange roughy, is a slow-growing, long-lived fish. These fish do not reproduce until they are in their 20's and they live to 130+ years. When eating this fish, you may very well be eating a creature well over 100 years in age, from a population that has little chance of rebounding after initial harvests. On top of all this, the fishing practice used to capture these fish, namely deep sea bottom trawling, is one of the most destructive fishing practices known to humankind. Comparable to bulldozing down forests, huge nets equipped with heavy gear scrape along the sides of seamounts, removing ancient cold water corals and other benthic habitat. There is no excuse for ever eating this fish when there are so many alternatives.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Advised for Purchase
Comment: Orange roughy can probably be called the world's most unsustainably harvested fish. This deepsea inhabitant, referred to by the name of 'slimehead' prior to marketing experts changing the name to 'orange roughy, is a slow-growing, long-lived fish. These fish do not reproduce until they are in their 20's and they live to 130+ years. When eating this fish, you may very well be eating a creature well over 100 years in age, from a population that has little chance of rebounding after initial harvests. On top of all this, the fishing practice used to capture these fish, namely deep sea bottom trawling, is one of the most destructive fishing practices known to humankind. Comparable to bulldozing down forests, huge nets equipped with heavy gear scrape along the sides of seamounts, removing ancient cold water corals and other benthic habitat. There is no excuse for ever eating this fish when there are so many alternatives.
Customer Rating:
Summary: This is not a product that should be purchased.
Comment: Orange roughy can probably be called the world's most unsustainably harvested fish. This deepsea inhabitant, referred to by the name of 'slimehead' prior to marketing experts changing the name to 'orange roughy, is a slow-growing, long-lived fish. These fish do not reproduce until they are in their 20's and they live to 130+ years. When eating this fish, you may very well be eating a creature well over 100 years in age, from a population that has little chance of rebounding after initial harvests. On top of all this, the fishing practice used to capture these fish, namely deep sea bottom trawling, is one of the most destructive fishing practices known to humankind. Comparable to bulldozing down forests, huge nets equipped with heavy gear scrape along the sides of seamounts, removing ancient cold water corals and other benthic habitat. There is no excuse for ever eating this fish when there are so many alternatives.
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