We Should Be Eating More Canned Fish?

No, please don&#x27;t.<p>Commercial fishing is not good. Do some research to find the many reasons.<p>Plastic is not something you want to eat, and fish have increasing amounts of plastic in them.<p>Same goes for Mercury. Sardines (and probably anchovies) don&#x27;t have much, but other larger fish do.<p>Were it not for these problems, then I too would advocate good canned sardines for health. They have higher calcium per weight than any other food or drink. They have a good amount of protein, and of course they have the omega oils.<p>But the current state of things is such that it would be wise to reduce consumption, not increase it.

While I completely agree. I think the author could have made a much stronger argument. And whenever I try canned fish from Europe, it&#x27;s far better than the American brand.

As a Cajun, it amuses me to read the comments. We&#x27;ll boil up some crawfish, break them in half, eat the meat, suck the head, chuck it, do it again.

Fish always freaks me out, because I don&#x27;t know how to handle it.<p>Take oil sardines with the starry eyes. Am I supposed to eat the sardine whole, with head, eyes and tailfin? Am I supposed to bite the head off and spit it out? Cut it off?<p>It&#x27;s so basic and I feel like an idiot, but I really have no idea.

„The vast majority of tuna stocks are healthy and abundant“? I am highly skeptical of that claim. Does anybody have any up-to-date, global numbers?

Did I miss something or was his only argument why we should eat it is that he likes it? He says its not that bad for you, but it&#x27;s not really good for you, it&#x27;s not that expensive, although it&#x27;s far from cheap. it&#x27;s not that gross eating bones and eyeballs and shit after you get used to it, but it is until then. None of these at all imply we should eat it.

As a kid my Dad introduced us to sardines while hiking. Friends always thought my brother and I were crazy when cracking open a can at the summit of whatever peak we just climbed, until they try one and realize that nothing else they have packed for their own lunch will now satisfy their newfound craving for oily fish. I don&#x27;t know why, but it works.

In Norway, sandwiches with a spread of mackerel in tomato sauce is a breakfast&#x2F;lunch staple

I’m very worried about heavy metals, plastics, and chemicals too much to eat any seafood.

healthy or not, how sustainable is the can itself? Let&#x27;s assume you put it to recycling, better or worse than plastic?<p>Also mostly per serving, not per gram. You can buy fish and meat without packaging that weighs as much as a sardine can.

And fish in jars, too, like herring and sprats! I eat many of these each week.

if you are high in triglycerides, no, you should not be eating fish packed in oil.