[Avodah] Clarification on No pox on lox, insists Monsey group More on Worms in Fish

[Yitzchok Levine]

>In what I sent out earlier  from 
>http://www.lohud.com/article/20100309/NEWS03/3090385/No-pox-on-lox--insists-Monsey-group 
>I quoted
>
>"Go ahead,  eat lox," said Yisroel Neiman, a 
>member of Chevra Mehadrin, a Monsey organization 
>that prepared a report on fish and Jewish law. "It's kosher ­ I just had some."
>
>Neiman said he had no idea why the report was 
>being interpreted to mean that salmon, the fish 
>from which nova lox is made, violates Jewish dietary law.
>
>"They made it up," Neiman said, referring to 
>media organizations who attributed the ban on 
>lox to the report. "It's a lie. We never said lox isn't kosher."

I have learned from Rabbi Chaim Goldberg of the 
OU that Neiman's statements are misleading. Rabbi 
Goldberg explained the following to me. Some fish 
are produced on "fish farms" whereas as other 
fish is caught in is natural habitat.  Fish 
produced under controlled conditions on farms is 
called farmed fish and fish that are caught in 
their natural habitat are called wild caught.

This Monsey group and the others who claim that 
there are worms in our fish are referring to wild 
caught fish. Take a look at a can of Alaskan 
salmon. You will see that it says wild caught on it.

Virtually all lox is made from farmed salmon. 
This Monsey group and the others who hold like 
they do regarding there being worms in fish agree 
that there is no problem with worms in farmed salmon.

Thus, Neiman can say there is no problem with lox 
and that he just had some, since virtually all lox is made from farmed salmon.

The impression given by the news blurb is that 
there is no problem with worms in fish according 
to the Monsey group. But this is not their 
position. They still maintain that certain types 
of wild caught fish do have worms in them.

Yitzchok Levine 
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