OMEGA 3

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in SydneyAUSTRALIAN marine scientists have discovered that oils in southern hemisphere fish tend to have a higher percentage of highly polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids than those carried by their northern cousins. The high levels have been found in canned tuna as well as fresh fish and the good news for fish farmers is that this applies equally to both wild stocks and farmed species.Dr Manny Noakes, a research dietician at the clinical research unit of the Australian government science agency CSIRO, said if farms maintain a strictly ...


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