Fish Need to Relax to Taste Better
鱼为悦己者鲜

It's a stressful job, living in a fish tank and waiting to be grilled. But a Greek university is making great progress in getting fish to relax and, according to researchers, taste better. Fish living in water tanks under artificial lighting tend to suffer severe stress and depression, Sofronios Papoutsoglou, Professor of Applied Hydrobiology at Athens' Geoponic University, told a Greek daily newspaper. This changes the way the fish taste, he said. For the past 10 years Papoutsoglou has researched conditions for fish in captivity and has come up with a number of golden rules to make them taste better, including customizing water tank color to the species, providing ‘play’time in the tanks and improving the quality of their food. Greece is the biggest farmer of Mediterranean fish, exporting over 60,000 tonnes of bream and bass.

  住在养鱼水箱里等着被送上烤架是一件压力很大的事情,不过希腊一所大学已经取得了重大成就,可以让鱼儿活得轻松,并且——按照研究者们的说法——吃起来更加美味。雅典农业大学的应用水生生物学教授索福罗尼奥斯·帕波索格娄对希腊一家日报说,生活在水箱和人工光照条件下的鱼会因巨大的压力而抑郁沮丧,而这将改变鱼肉的味道。过去10年中帕波索格娄一直在研究被囚禁鱼的状况,并总结出了一系列使鱼肉更鲜美的“黄金准则”,比如为不同品种的鱼定制相应颜色的水箱、给鱼儿提供“娱乐”时间以及改善饲料质量等等。希腊是最大的地中海鱼类养殖国,每年出口超过6万吨鲷鱼和鲈鱼。

Remarks
子非鱼,安知鱼之乐?