Salmon Tanker

To ensure that farm-raised salmon remain at peak of their freshness (read: still swimming) for whole trip to back to shore for processing, Rolls-Royce is building the world's largest mobile aquarium/meat wagon.

It has a roughly 9,800 cubic foot (3,000 cubic meter) carrying capacity, enough to pack in 450 tons of salmon into a trio of closed circuit, water-recirculating, lice-filtering holding tanks. Loading and unloading the fish is accomplished by hoovering them en mass out of their off-shore pens through 2-foot wide plastic tubes, then spewing them back out once the ship reaches shore.

LINK (via: Gizmodo)

Asking Norway about the Piscine Reovirus

Industry and government deny the piscine reovirus (PRV) is anything to be concerned about, even though this newly introduced, highly infectious virus from Norway has infected the majority of the salmon farms in BC and is rapidly spreading to BC’s wild salmon.

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This fish tastes like shit

Asian seafood raised on pig feces approved for U.S. consumers.

LINK (via Bloomberg)