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Two dangers with fish:

1. Fish farms creates varying levels of hormone-disrupting and carcinogenic compounds in fish.
2. Mercury accumulating in large wild-caught fish are also carcinogenic: swordfish, orange roughy, southern bluefin tuna particularly. Salmon not so much.

Solutions:

1. Eat small wild-caught fish as much as you want.
2. Eat the large wild-caught fish mentioned above rarely. Salmon is fine.
3. Put pressure on the fish farms to clean up their act, because as PPs said, the entire world can't eat wild fish, there aren't enough. We have to switch to farmed fish at some point. Norway is making great progress, actually, Chile, not so much. Those are two big fish farm producers.

Extra things to consider:

1. Worms are present in wild, never-frozen, fish, and occasionally they can cause digestive distress once consumed and require medical intervention. Buy fish that's been frozen on board the fishing vessel, it kills the parasites.
2. Sea lice are rare in wild-caught fish but more common in farmed fish because of mass congregation. While they don't cause problems for humans, they eat the fish alive, so are an ethical problem for fish farms.
3. Antibiotics are being phased out in Norway fish farms, but not in Chilean fish farms. They contribute to long-term antibiotic resistance in humans. Avoid at all costs.[/quote]

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