Aquaponics Digest - Fri 01/08/99




Message   1: Karas

             from "Wendy Nagurny" 

Message   2: Fwd. Resource -  [IBS-GEN] Greetings - IBS forum in 1999

             from S & S Aqua Farm 

Message   3: Donate $100.00 to the OCA and receive a free hardback copy of

  Mad Cow USA.

             from Debbie  Ortman 

Message   4: US 'Mad Cow' Legal Action (Please Post)

             from Debbie  Ortman 

Message   5: Winter in the northern hemisphere

             from S & S Aqua Farm 

Message   6: Re: Karas

             from "Lloyd R. Prentice" 

Message   7: Re: Karas

             from "Jim Sealy Jr." 

Message   8: Cloning!!!

             from "Susanne Machler" 

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Subject: Karas

From:    "Wendy Nagurny" 

Date:    Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:23:11 -0500

I was looking through a Polish cook book and found some recipes for Karas.

The book states that these are Poland's best tasting pan fish, but are not

found in North American waters.  It also states that the recipes cannot be

used substituting usual NA pan fish because of the amount of bones in our

fish.  The scientific genus for Karas or Crucian is Carassius.  These are

"Goldfish"!  Does anybody know what species of Carassius are used as a pan

fish in Poland?  If aquaculturing the Polish Karas is anything like the

normal aquarium goldfish, it would seem like this might be a preferred

species for cooler systems, providing there was a market for them in NA.

Wendy

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Subject: Fwd. Resource -  [IBS-GEN] Greetings - IBS forum in 1999

From:    S & S Aqua Farm 

Date:    Fri, 08 Jan 1999 11:29:55 -0600

Following are sign-on instructions for a new integrated bio-systems

discussion on Africa, as well as the web site for the proceedings of last

years discussions.  If you have any questions, contact Jacky Food direct

.  Paula

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>Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1999 16:34:08 +0100

>Sender:       Integrated Bio-Systems - General Forum 

>From:         Jacky Foo 

>Subject:      [IBS-GEN] Greetings - IBS forum in 1999

>To:           ET-W1@SEGATE.SUNET.SE

>

>From: Jacky Foo 

>

>To IBS list subscribers

>

>Best wishes for 1999 and thank you for the greetings that some of you have

>sent me.

>

>In this message I like to provide some background information on the ET-W1

>mailing list as it will provide some perspective for its future.

>

>The mailing list is provided by the UNESCO Microbial Resources Centre

>(MIRCEN), Stockholm through facilities made available at SEGATE.SUNET.SE of

>the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm). The need for such a mailing

>list came from the ZERI project at UNU/IAS (Inst of Advanced Studies,

>United Nations University, Tokyo). The ZERI project's mailing lists started

>out in 1995 at CAREN.NET (Science University of Tokyo) but when CAREN.NET

>services closed down, all the lists were moved to @MSIAS.IAS.UNU.EDU at

>UNU/IAS itself using the LISTSERV software. The mailing list for integrated

>bio-systems was named IBS-GEN. In Oct 1997 I moved it to SEGATE.SUNET.SE

>because of the web interface which was needed for the Internet Conference

>on Integrated Bio-Systems.  MIRCEN-Stockholm also provided some 15 mailing

>lists for the ICIBS.

>

>Now that the ICIBS is over, the UNU/IAS will continue to support until

>April 1999 the updating of the UNU/IAS Resource Site on Integrated

>BioSystems (http://www.ias.unu.edu/proceedings/icibs/resource) which

>includes this mailing list. I have not taken up any discussion on what will

>happen from May 1999 but I hope that the Inst of Advanced Studies will

>continue to provide its support.

>

>MIRCEN, in cooperation with other individuals and organizations, hope to

>launch the Internet Conference on Biotechnology in Africa in the near

>future. IBS will be one of the many topics

>(http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-25860/jacky/africa.htm) suggested and will give

>a greater opportunity for those from African countries who missed the ICIBS

>to present their work.

>

>Identifying researchers and practitioners who have email access in African

>countries will not be an easy task but I hope that with the cooperation of

>the 330 subscribers from this list, we will be able to start identifying

>IBS-people and contacting them to join ET-W1 and the ICB-Africa

>announcement list - IAS-WG09. To join IAS-WG09, email

>listserv@msias.ias.unu.edu and use the subscription command :

>SUB IAS-WG09 yourfirstname yourlastname

>e.g.

>sub ias-wg09 Martin Bokanga (Nigeria)

>

>Best regards

>Jacky Foo

>listowner

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S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775  417-256-5124

Web page  http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/

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Subject: Donate $100.00 to the OCA and receive a free hardback copy of

  Mad Cow USA.

From:    Debbie  Ortman 

Date:    Fri, 08 Jan 1999 12:12:52 -0800

Donate $100.00 or more and Organic Consumers Action will

send you a free hardback copy of the book: "Mad Cow USA, Could the

Nightmare Happen Here?" by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.

Send donations to:

OCA

860 Highway 61

Little Marais, MN 55614

This applies to individuals, coops, stores, etc.

Thanks for your support.

Debbie Dunbar Ortman

National Field Organizer

Organic Consumers Action

3547 Haines Rd.

Duluth, MN 55811

(218) 726-1443

(218) 726-1446 Fax

safefood@cp.duluth.mn.us

http://www.purefood.org

Join the Organic Consumers Action in

your local area. If you want to become a member or a volunteer--or make a

donation--call (218)726-1443

To subscribe to the free electronic newsletter, Food Bytes,

send an email to: majordomo@mr.net

with the simple message: subscribe pure-food-action

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Subject: US 'Mad Cow' Legal Action (Please Post)

From:    Debbie  Ortman 

Date:    Fri, 08 Jan 1999 12:54:49 -0800

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE THURSDAY, JAN. 7, 1999

MEDIA CONTACT:

ANDREW KIMBRELL, D'ARCY KEMNITZ, ATTORNEYS AT CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY

202-547-9359

LEGAL ACTIONS FILED TO FORCE FDA, CDC, TO COMBAT 'MAD COW' TYPE DISEASES IN

PEOPLE, WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK IN THE UNITED STATES.

TERMINALLY ILL UTAH HUNTER, AGE 30, COULD BE THE FIRST VICTIM OF U.S. 'MAD

DEER' DISEASE.

'MAD COW' TYPE DISEASES ARE ALREADY KILLING PEOPLE, DEER, ELK AND SHEEP IN

THE U.S.

Washington, DC -- Today, Thursday, January 7, 1999, two formal legal

petitions were filed demanding that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) act immediately to monitor,

regulate and prevent 'mad cow' type diseases in the United States.  These

diseases, known as Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, or TSEs, are

killing people, deer, elk and sheep in the United States.  Petitioners

include the Humane Farming Association, the Center for Food Safety, a group

of United States CJD victims and their families and consumer, farm and

animal protectionists.

The demand for immediate government action is given added urgency by the

extremely unusual case of a thirty-year old Utah man, R. Douglas McEwen,

who is now terminally ill with CJD, a 'mad cow' type disease in humans.

Mr. McEwen hunted deer and elk; it is feared he may have contracted CJD by

eating or handling deer or elk infected with 'mad deer' disease.

Additionally, there is industry and governmental concern that as a frequent

donor Mr. McEwen  may have contaminated blood products internationally.

Mr. McEwen and his wife Tracie are petitioners in today's legal actions.

His fatal disease underscores concerns that current federal regulations are

grossly inadequate to prevent and monitor potential animal and human

epidemics in the United States.

The family of 'mad cow' type disease, TSEs, include numerous strains and

have different names in different species.  The best known strain is

British Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), dubbed 'mad cow disease,'

which has now spread into the British human population as 'new variant

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease' or nvCJD.  So far 33 teenagers or young adults

are confirmed dead or dying of nvCJD.  Since the disease has a virtually

invisible incubation period that might last decades, it won't be known for

many years whether the final toll will be in the dozens, hundreds or

thousands of human lives.

In the United States efforts to identify, monitor and prevent human and

animal deaths from TSE diseases have been grossly inadequate, despite the

fact that people, deer, elk and sheep in the U.S. are dying from these

diseases, known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in people, Chronic

Wasting Disease (CWD) in deer and elk, and scrapie in sheep.

CJD in humans in the U.S. appears to be often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's

or other types of fatal dementia, and seems much more prevalent than

admitted by government agencies.  Given the very long invisible incubation

period of this 100% fatal disease, and that fact that it can be spread by

infected medical instruments and is almost impossible to kill by heat and

disinfection, and the consequences of failing to identify the disease are

extremely serious.

The first legal petition demands that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control

(CDC) aggressively look for CJD in humans and make CJD a reportable and

monitored disease.  This petition is also being filed in all fifty states

with the appropriate state health officials.

The second legal petition demands that the Food and Drug Administration

(FDA) close serious loopholes in U.S. animal feed regulations which

currently allow types of cannibalistic feeding practices known to cause and

spread 'mad cow' type diseases in animals and humans.  For instance,

current U.S. regulations allow calves to be fed milk replacer containing

cattle blood protein, and pigs to be fed back to pigs and cattle.  U.S.

sheep infected with scrapie, a 'mad cow' type disease, can be used for pet

and pig feed in the U.S.

Commenting on today's legal actions Bradley Miller, National Director of

the Humane Farming Association stated, "TSEs represent a potentially

devastating threat to both human and animal health. Our government's

response to date has been shamefully inadequate. These legal actions

provide a blueprint by which federal and state agencies can act decisively

to prevent a TSE epidemic in this country."

Dr. Michael Hansen, Research Associate of Consumer's Union commented, "The

current increase of TSEs in wildlife and humans shows that the time for

effective prevention may be running out.  The federal agencies must

immediately take action to avert what could become a very significant

public health problem."

Andrew Kimbrell, public interest attorney and Director of the Center for

Food Safety stated, "Given what we know now, it is unconscionable that the

CDC is not strictly monitoring this disease, and that the FDA is still

allowing the feeding of blood and other animal by-products to animals. The

federal agencies are obviously putting the interests of agribusiness

companies ahead of their duty to protect the public from this terrible and

fatal group of diseases.  We will go to court if necessary to ensure that

the agencies do their job in protecting human health and animal welfare."

                                                END

Center for Food Safety is a project of the

International Center for Technology Assessment

310 D Street, NorthEast

Washington, D.C.  20002

(202) 547-9359 telephone

(202) 547-9429 facsimile



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Subject: Winter in the northern hemisphere

From:    S & S Aqua Farm 

Date:    Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:09:12 -0600

Looks like the worst predictions we heard about this winter are coming

around.  We've been iced in for the past week with about 60% of our

neighbors without power for much of that time.  Just when we thought the

roads would be easily driven, we have a new storm coming in.

Hope that all of you are well and staying warm.  For those in the southern

hemisphere, try to send some good weather up our way.  

Best wishes to all for a safe and successful 1999.

Paula Speraneo

S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775  417-256-5124

Web page  http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/

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Subject: Re: Karas

From:    "Lloyd R. Prentice" 

Date:    Fri, 08 Jan 1999 18:09:39 -0500

Wendy Nagurny wrote:

> 

> If aquaculturing the Polish Karas is anything like the

> normal aquarium goldfish, it would seem like this might be a preferred

> species for cooler systems, providing there was a market for them in NA.

> 

For a time, my sister's family tried to raise "white carp" (don't know

the scientific 

name) for the San Francisco Bay Area Asian market. Raised in outdoor

ponds up near Anderson, California, and fed prime rations, the carp were

supposed to grow to a pound or more within six to eight months. At a

pound or more, this fish would fetch $3.00 to $4.00/lb. live weight when

delivered directly to the market. As I recall, the original stock came

from a grower somewhere in one of the southern states.

To my untutored eye, this fish had the same conformation as dime-store

variety gold fish. Most were a whitish grey color, but a certain

percentage of the spawn was distinctly gold. My nephew claimed that they

were indeed the same species. 

In practice, my relatives had the same problem that some Tilapia growers

struggle with -- the fish spawned prolificly well before reaching market

size. Tireless seining would turn up a few one to two pound fish (e.g.

marketable size), but the modal weight, not counting the copius small

fry that slipped through the holes in the net, was somewhere around 10

to 12 ounces after two seasons. This fish seemed to excell at converting

expensive feed into small fry rather than marketable weight.

I've also thought that this would be an interesting fish to try in an

aquaponic system. But, clearly, one would have to initiate some manner

of family planning.

Lloyd R. Prentice

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Subject: Re: Karas

From:    "Jim Sealy Jr." 

Date:    Fri, 08 Jan 1999 21:34:05 -0600

Just as an aside, on the white carp, we use white amur carp to keep

down duckweed in catfish ponds. Some triploid (genetically sterile)

carp are documented to grow to seemingly incredible sizes. I just

learned over the holiday how large. One removed from my uncle's lake

weighed in at 110 LB.

Now that's one _Big_ goldfish.  I'm trying to get the photo from

him to post on my website as this was as beautiful fish according to

eyewitnesses.

Jim

Lloyd R. Prentice wrote:

> 

> Wendy Nagurny wrote:

> >

> > If aquaculturing the Polish Karas is anything like the

> > normal aquarium goldfish, it would seem like this might be a preferred

> > species for cooler systems, providing there was a market for them in NA.

> >

> 

> For a time, my sister's family tried to raise "white carp" (don't know

> the scientific

> name) for the San Francisco Bay Area Asian market. Raised in outdoor

> ponds up near Anderson, California, and fed prime rations, the carp were

> supposed to grow to a pound or more within six to eight months. At a

> pound or more, this fish would fetch $3.00 to $4.00/lb. live weight when

> delivered directly to the market. As I recall, the original stock came

> from a grower somewhere in one of the southern states.

> 

> To my untutored eye, this fish had the same conformation as dime-store

> variety gold fish. Most were a whitish grey color, but a certain

> percentage of the spawn was distinctly gold. My nephew claimed that they

> were indeed the same species.

> 

> In practice, my relatives had the same problem that some Tilapia growers

> struggle with -- the fish spawned prolificly well before reaching market

> size. Tireless seining would turn up a few one to two pound fish (e.g.

> marketable size), but the modal weight, not counting the copius small

> fry that slipped through the holes in the net, was somewhere around 10

> to 12 ounces after two seasons. This fish seemed to excell at converting

> expensive feed into small fry rather than marketable weight.

> 

> I've also thought that this would be an interesting fish to try in an

> aquaponic system. But, clearly, one would have to initiate some manner

> of family planning.

> 

> Lloyd R. Prentice

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Subject: Cloning!!!

From:    "Susanne Machler" 

Date:    Fri, 08 Jan 1999 20:54:21 PST

Wishing all of you a Happy new Year!!

Hope warmer weather sets in for the colder ones....

Still loving every day here in the Caribbean.... :)

Jim, please post your website address.

I posted a table recently showing different nutritonal values for 

different feedstocks. I have been tempted to toy with growing some local 

beans for growth as an alternative feed. Can anyone pass on to  me some 

of their experiences on the best ratios of feed mixture/ compositions so 

I could ry to "clone" this better!?

Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 21:34:05 -0600

From: "Jim Sealy Jr." 

To: aquaponics@townsqr.com

Subject: Re: Karas

Reply-To: aquaponics@townsqr.com

Just as an aside, on the white carp, we use white amur carp to keep

down duckweed in catfish ponds. Some triploid (genetically sterile)

carp are documented to grow to seemingly incredible sizes. I just

learned over the holiday how large. One removed from my uncle's lake

weighed in at 110 LB.

Now that's one _Big_ goldfish.  I'm trying to get the photo from

him to post on my website as this was as beautiful fish according to

eyewitnesses.

Jim



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