wild vs farmed salmon

The farming system, as it currently is, is also bad for the natural fish stock. I will not buy farmed salmon.

I only eat wild caught fish, never farmed. Wild caught salmon is hard to find around here.

silversnow7 wrote: »

FYI Costco has a nice frozen wild caught salmon selection

Costco (up here in BC) is iffy. Sometimes they have wild and sometimes it is just farmed. I'll grab it if it's wild.

isn't canned salmon usually (if not always) wild caught?

Motorsheen wrote: »

isn't canned salmon usually (if not always) wild caught?

All the ones I've ever seen were!

Although wild salmon is generally better tasting and more sustainable than farmed salmon, there are a number of sustainable farmed fish including catfish, tilapia, trout, and salmon done the right way.

Checkout http://www.seafoodwatch.org/

Also, wild caught fish can be found the freezer section--most of what is in the seafood dept is thawed out anyway.

megpie41 wrote: »

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

megpie41 wrote: »

I only eat wild caught. It's been shown that farmed it much higher in omega 6 and lower in omega 3 (you want the opposite). Farmed salmon also has color added to make it look pink. Wild salmon is naturally pink due to the krill and shrimp the salmon naturally eat.

Are you sure about that?

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2014/03/fish-faceoff-wild-salmon-vs-farmed-salmon/
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/finding-omega-3-fats-in-fish-farmed-versus-wild-201512238909

I'm not sure what you are asking? Am I sure about what?

That farmed is lower in omega-3.

This is on another topic but it came into my mind and I want to share it ...
At one time, I remember being very excited about the concept of fish-farming.
I grew up eating fish every day because my dad fished every day and we ate what he caught.

Back in those days, we had a lot of different kinds of fish ... ones you don't see in the stores anymore.
By the time I was a young wife and homemaker, the stores carried less and less varieties of fish, and what was available was often past it's prime ... and I hate smelly fish. So when the concept started of farming fresh fish to make it more plentiful all year round, I was thrilled!

But now --- the fish-farming system didn't go the way I had dreamed it would back when it started. And I read frightening reports about the unsafe and unhealthy ways some fish farm systems operate. Yet, at the same time ... what are we doing to the waters of this world? How safe is the natural, wild fish we might get? I think a lot of it depends on what part of the world you live in. Also if you are near a sea, big lake, or not.

For me, I eat fish sparingly ... For one thing, it's the most expensive protein on my shopping list. For another, there are the warnings about mercury, lead, and other pollutants that our wild fish are poisoned with.

I do eat farmed fish. I do eat wild caught fish. No more than 3-4 ounces at a time. No more than 6 times a month.