Hi to European Sardines
2005.02.01 3:13

I saw for the first time European sardines in a supermarket. It was from the Netherland. Like European guys, their face is small and body fatty as opposed to Japanese version, bigger face skinny body, they looked indeed very very delicious.
It was very unusual for us to see European sardines. Because sardines had been thought to be one of the typical common national diet for Japanese till recently. But because of many reasons, for example some say owing to global warming, others say overhunt, we are unable to eat our national diet- sardines any more. Now it's less than one-tenth compared to the utmost. Thus European sardines appeared in a Japanese supermarket.
Instead of a drastic decrease of the quantity of sardines, pacific sauries, that had been thought to be the hight class cuisines came to be easily accessible by common household much more than before.
It is not the quality that decides the value of it but the quantity- principle of market- thus pacific sauries came to be common in our household.
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Lower on the food chain?(Score:2)
by geoswan (316494) on 2005.02.01 11:22 (#11536025) (Last Journal: 2005.09.22 3:53)
That reminds me...
We get warnings about how much fish we should eat. Although there are various factors that make fish a healthy choice, we get warnings to refrain from eating salmon or tuna, because they are so high on the food chain, mercury, and other toxins get strongly concentrated in their flesh.
Well, by this reasoning, little fish are less of a risk, because they are lower on the food chain. Baleen whales too would relatively safe, because they eat krill, which is low on the food chain.
Where I live tinned sardines are more or less the same price, per gram, as the cheapest tins of tuna or salmon.
So, are sardines safer than salmon?
Re:Lower on the food chain?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) on 2005.02.01 15:49 (#11537715) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.09.24 14:16)
Welcome to visiting my JE for the first time. Thank you very much.
We do not usually eat fish whether it contains highly toxic materials like arsenic or mercury because it positioned higher enough to concentrate these materials at the near end of the food chain. Regarding your question, whether sardines are safer than tuna or salmon, sure sardines are smaller than these fish, but the level that contains toxic materials doesn't make many differences.
But there are exceptions for this. For example we have to be careful not to eat fish caught in a highly contaminated inland sea enclosed nearby industrial complexes, we can find those in our country and sure in your country too. and I have heard hijiki seaweed contains concentrated arsenic risky enough to influence on our body badly. If we were reported, at least we've got to be very cautious to take those fish or sea produce.
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