Salmon, this product has the nutrition of farm raised, but it says wild caught?

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catscats222
catscats222 Posts: 1,598 Member
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English is so confusing.
Can you check the wording and tell me for sure it's wild caught?
It says wild, but it sure looks like farm raised.
I have read a lot and I know that lower protein means farm raised, and lower fat is also a sign of farm raised
this stuff only has 1.5 fat

Here is the site: for Auqua Star Wild Pacific
https://www.instacart.com/safeway/products/122811-aqua-star-wild-pacific-salmon-2-00-ea
a good piece of real wild caught salmon will have about 15 grams of good fat !
http://www.costco.com/wcsstore/CostcoUSBCCatalogAssetStore/Attachment/864716-Nutritional-Information.pdf

That Auqua fish is caught in Alaska, then shipped to China, then back the US - they do this?

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  • youdontknowwhatyousaw
    youdontknowwhatyousaw Posts: 221 Member
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    First, they are different portion sizes. Second, two different types of salmon. While I couldn't see what kind of salmon the one label was for, I'm taking a guess that it's Sockeye. The Aquastar salmon is Keta. Admittedly, the aquastar salmon is still low in calories for Keta.

    What disturbs me the most is why you keep making fear mongering threads. This could have been left in the original thread asking about the fish.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
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    http://www.alaskaseafood.org/fishingprocessing/seafoodweb_may11/china.html

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  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
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    Keta is disgusting. Gag worthy.
  • Physick
    Physick Posts: 13 Member
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    Its sort of embarrassing but I actually prefer farm raised salmon. All the wild-caught stuff I've ever had was so INCREDIBLY fishy my house stank for days. The farm raised stuff I found to actually be MORE fatty- and closer to what I classically think of as salmon. Big fat flaky layers after cooking as opposed to intensely fishy and nearly stringy wild-caught. Just my opinion. Probably pretty hard to guess from fat content where it comes from.

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