However, farmed salmon don't have access to their natural diet of algae and krill and have a gray - colored flesh.
Not exact matches
But fish
farms are also notoriously difficult to regulate and prone to accidental release: Asian carp in the Midwest (introduced to clean algae from the
farms), Louisiana crayfish in China and Atlantic
salmon in the southern Pacific have all
done substantial environmental damage after escaping from fish
farms.
They
do create significant problems for static fishing gear, such as the fixed nets used by estuarine
salmon fishers, and they may also impact on numbers of wild
salmon, although most
salmon eaten on these islands is
farmed.
The fall of 2014
did have a healthy return of adult pink
salmon, bringing sea lice into near - shore waters where they could infect
farmed salmon.
Also in 2015, individual
salmon farms did not coordinate anti-louse treatments, with some
farms delaying treatment until just prior to the time when juvenile
salmon migrate past
farms.
Farmed salmon and those that are cultivated in other parts of the world can be filled with toxins, pesticides, antibiotics, and more, which
do not promote optimal health.
Farm - raised
salmon eat pellets, and as the nutritional quality of pellets varies, so
does the nutritional quality of the fish.
While the conclusions of this study were not without controversy, it
did seem that the
salmon populations recovered when the
farms idled.
Fish (except for
farm - raised fish, any commercially available fish is fine, but [i] fatty deep sea fish such as
salmon, herring, and mackerel are the best, and [ii] because of mercury contamination
do not have large fish such as tuna or shark more than once a week).
I don't recommend that people eat
farmed salmon for many reasons.
Farm - raised
salmon do not eat a natural diet, so their flesh would be gray if they were not given these additives.
Thank you for the heads - up mark, we just had some expensive
salmon for dinner the other night and I don't know if it was wild or
farmed but I will definitely be looking in the future!
Finally, if you
do choose to eat
farmed salmon, the Environmental Working Group (applying EPA health standards) suggests eating no more than one serving of
farmed salmon a month.
We
do have fish
farms of rainbow trout and
salmon here in Idaho but would a fish swim up stream for 50 + miles to a lake?
A wild
salmon is nutritionally superior to a
farmed salmon and
do not be fooled into thinking that eating a
farmed salmon is as good!
Remember,
farmed salmon and wild
salmon do not offer the same anti-inflammatory benefits.
Not long ago, I saw frustration build in a colleague, the veteran medical writer Gina Kolata, as she grappled with a new paper in a respected journal, Science, positing that
farmed Atlantic
salmon held much higher levels of PCBs and other contaminants in its flesh than
did wild
salmon.
With
farmed salmon becoming ever more popular,
did you ever ask yourself, «what happened to the skins of all this fabulous smoked
salmon?»