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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The super expensive Alaskan sockeye doesn't taste as good to me as the farmed Atlantic. I can eat the farmed Atlantic slow roasted with a little lemon. Sockeye needs a curry or teriyaki to taste good. This is just my opinion, obviously.[/quote]

Farmed salmon is the feedlot ribeye of the sea. Reminds me of the people that disparage grass fed beef.[/quote]

I personally don’t like farmed salmon but it does have a milder flavor and seems somehow higher in fat content.  (To me it seems almost wet or mushy).  I definitely know people that prefer the farmed salmon because of the milder taste.  If it’s something like sockeye that Ms going to have a gamier taste that some people don’t like.[/quote]

This is like comparing a high end feedlot ribeye steak to a grass fed top sirloin. Of course the feedlot ribeye is going to have a higher fat content and be “buttier.” Ever have wild chinook or coho?

Farmed salmon are grown in pens and forced fed, pumped full of antibiotics, and given supplements to dye their meat pink. They carry sea lice which they spread to wild fish passing by. Their waste pollutes. They escape pens and compete with wild runs for food. They say they are sterile and can’t breed with wild stocks, but like Jeff goldbug in Jurassic park said, “nature will find a way.” We shouldn’t be eating it, and we shouldn’t be acting like it’s a guilt free food. Farmed salmon is incredibly damaging.

Plus, it’s just bizarre foodie type people want to act like salmon snobs or experts on how it should be repeated, but don’t demand wild salmon. When it’s out of season it’s out of season. Thats the natural way.
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Farming aquatics are important to reduce the pressure on wild caught.

The natural way is to only eat salmon you personally catch in your nearby stream.  Any commercially caught fish is “unnatural” as a food source.

Heck, my dad has a couple of ponds and raises bass and catfish for us to use.  Farming is not evil.  A few times a year we harvest the big ones (by letting the grandkids fish for an hour or two) and have a fish dinner.  That’s not evil.

The biggest pressures on wild caught fish are Asian nations poaching international fishing grounds.   The US regulates fishing, but Asian boats don’t care at all.  [/quote]

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