The gloves are off! Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's excellent BBC Channel 4 programme, Fish Fight has steeled the British public's approach to sea fishing methods and malpractice within the Common Fisheries Policy and the pitfalls of fish farming. Honest and engaging, Fearnley-Whittingstall spelled out the problems of our current fishery policies clearly and with commonsense, and managed to team up with Jamie Oliver, the housewives' favourite, to add weight to his campaign.

He attacked fish-farming on two counts - the well-documented problem of sea lice, but also on its shaky stance of sustainability. Why, he asked, do we catch 3kg of wild fish in order to grow 1kg of farmed salmon? Why not eat the wild fish we catch in the first place? Good question!

The only point I would pick up on Fearnley-Whittingstall's view of fish farming was that he (like many members of the British public) was sucked into the 'organic' farmed salmon labelling system. I would never eat any farmed salmon, organic or otherwise. To my mind, there is a huge disparity between the organic label given to, say, a potato, and that of a farmed salmon. First, is feeding lots of fish to create less fish sustainable and organic? I don't think so. Second, 'organic' salmon still produce masses of problematic sea lice, so they need treatment. How can an 'organic' farm treat lice successfully when the commercial farms struggle to cope using super-strength chemicals? How much chemical can a farm use yet maintain its organic status is a question that the Soil Association and Freedom Foods are struggling to address (yet in agriculture only biological agents for control are allowed).

And is keeping thousands of fish in a small cage really the British public's interpretation of the term 'organic'?

I believe the word organic has been hijacked by the fish farmers, and the companies that issue organic badges have allowed their rules to be bent to suit the practice of fish farming, not to suit the standards perceived by the public. Perhaps Hugh could investigate the true status of organic fish farms next?

I'd be interested to hear your views. Should an organic farmed fish be treated by chemicals?