Comments on: Don’t Eat Farmed Salmon!

By: Carnivorous?

Carnivorous? — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:16:41 +0000

Farmed salmon are carnivorous, you say. Well, what do wild sockeye eat? Better yet, what do 1.5 billion hatchery salmon in Alaska eat? All eat fish meal. Same stuff. No story here.

And then someone says “good to eat Rainbow Trout”. What to Trout eat? Answer – fish meal too.

As for salmon color – the same pigment is eaten by wild, farmed and hatchery salmon. No story here either.

If you simply ‘like’ wild salmon better because it makes you feel good, then just say so. But don’t mix in bogus information that is distorted to scare the consumer away from a healthy product.

By: Ed Bruske

Ed Bruske — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:59:56 +0000

Meg, glad to hear Food Inc. has made it to Portland. Hopefully everyone will see it at least once.

RW, I definitely concur on the rainbow trout. Trout farms exist all over the country. I think we even have some in Virginia. It’s a delicious fish, too often overlooked.

By: Ed Bruske

Ed Bruske — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:39:15 +0000

Bronwyn, New Zealand has one of the best fisheries in the world. Still, while some aquaculturists have taken laudable steps, there is nothing sustainable about salmon farming. And you’re right, we could probably eliminate a lot of problems if humans just stopped eating.

Kim, I love it when restuarant people just make stuff up.

By: kimsikes

kimsikes — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:33:25 +0000

Haha … my husband and I had dinner at Coastal Flats and I asked the server where they source their salmon. He said it was farmed and was very quick to follow up with “but they’re less prone to disease than wild-caught fish”. Hm, could it be the anitbiotics??? Silly corporate chains …

By: bronwyn

bronwyn — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:59:09 +0000

No antibiotics in this farmed salmon.
http://www.kingsalmon.co.nz/TheFullStory/

And how many pounds of anchovies or beef or chicken do you think it takes to make a pound of human?

By: rwthompson

rwthompson — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:23:18 +0000

Totally agree on this. My wife and I took our honeymoon in Alaska, and saw how the fisheries work first hand. Alaskan salmon is by definition wild – farmed salmon is illegal there. Hatcheries are used however.

Sockeye is my favorite, seared quickly to medium / medium-rare. If you have a Trader Joes nearby, they usually have a good (frozen ) selection of a variety of species of wild-caught Alaskan salmon.

Another ecologically responsible farmed fish is Rainbow Trout. It is a delicious cousin of the salmon.

By: megwolff

megwolff — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:56:11 +0000

I had my very last fish meal back in February, but I will warn everyone I know that does eat it about the farm raised. Thanks. FYI, Food, Inc. is finally playing in Portland, Maine.