RE: dissing omega 3

Liz

The story about depleted stocks - couldnt obtain as you need to be a member of that site - can you pls forward info tks

 

The Omega 3 one has been totally dismissed by notables such as Bill Lands and Michael Crawford - its a desktop study and shoukld not have been published or promoted the way it was because all it does is CONFUSE the public

Cheers
Roy

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From: Liz Brown <bfeab@uaf.edu>
To: seafood <seafood@ucdavis.edu>
CC: Laine Welch <msfish@alaska.com>, Bristol BayTimes <bbtimes@nushtel.com>, Victoria Briggs <ViedeF97@aol.com>
Subject: dissing omega 3
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 06:30:39 -0900
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>Here's the first 'not all it's cracked it up to be' story I've seen
>about omega 3:
>http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/rapidpdf/bmj.38798.680185.47v1?hrss=1
>
>Here's a link to the source for the assertion that we should stop
>eating fish because we've depleted the world's stocks:
>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v423/n6937/full/nature01610.html
>
>My knee jerk reaction is that this is irresponsibly ignoring that
>many fisheries are managed sustainably. I would be interested in
>hearing other perspectives.
>
>--
>Liz Brown
>Marine Advisory Program
>University of Alaska Fairbanks
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