I refuse to eat farmed salmon!
I always ask if it's farmed or wild. If the server hesitates,I will not order the salmon.

Even Kroger's, my local supermarket, gets farm raised salmon and I always pass on it. They know me by now, and they told me to shop for wild salmon at their store on Thursday's!

This is just one more reason NOT to eat farm raised salmon.Thanks for the heads-up TR!

I have a rule around here if we don't catch it,we don't eat it.But they have mercury and no telling what else in them.There are signs at all the boat launches tellin you about how much fish you can eat.

Check out these links:

http://www.sectionz.info/ISSUE_1/Hidden_costs.html

http://www.paystolivegreen.com/2009/02/wild-salmon-vs-farmed-raised-whic...

I agree that farmed salmon are not the way to go, but look a little farther into the pork, chicken,turkey,and beef you are eating. Talk about antibiotics and chemicals pumped into your food. This is the main reason my wife and I are starting to raise our own food.

I never have to worry about that. My wife always asks if it is "pond salmon" before she orders it or buys it! Not a chance that she will buy it.

Same category with your Costco prawns and tillapia filets from China. If you would eat anything farmed in water in China, you haven't been to China is all I can say about that.

Never ever eat a farmed Salmon!

Thank you for this story. Interested folks should also check out the awful story of the sea lice and the host of diseases that came from salmon farms in Norway. Rotenone treatments of river systems, eradicating native fish, no end in sight, etc. Untold millions of taxpayer dollars (or kroner, I guess you'd say) poured into trying to fix a problem that did not exist before the net pens.

The honest truth is this: if you protect your native fish and the rivers that they live in,you have a sustainable harvest of healthy, wild fish to eat.
Maybe you don't have ten million tons of it, affordable for every Tom, Dick and Harry on earth, but I don't think you can have it both ways.
Every time somebody says, "don't worry about it, if we wreck the river, we can just set up a farm to produce the fish that used to be in there" and "heck, the taxpayers will pick up the tab for cleaning the water that we ruin, don't worry about it" we all reap the whirlwind.

When we take care of the river, the ocean, the marshes, we have it all. You can't short cut it.

While grocery shopping last night I stopped by the fish department to check out the salmon. 90% of it was from Chile or China. I was surprised to see even the Alaskan Salmon was from China. Norway was the only other importer of salmon. A real eye opener.

Well, first of all these are Atlantic salmon (actually trout not salmon). Since there are no wild salmon runs that I am aware of in Chile, I doubt the lice issues are going to affect wild fish populations like they have in Europe. Also, fish getting loose from the farms aren't going to muck up the wild true salmon runs like they have on Vancouver Island. So, if you're going to buy farmed Atlantic salmon, the ecological impact of Chilean fish is perhaps the least significant.

I'm not terribly worried. The FDA is pretty strict about what's in imported foods (at least foods consumed by people - dogs haven't fared as well). Unfortunately, they're not nearly as strict about imported live species. That's why we are in the midst of the flying carp crisis in the Mississipii drainage.

The FDA is pretty strict about what's in imported foods (at least foods consumed by people - dogs haven't fared as well). Unfortunately, they're not nearly as strict about imported live species. That's why we are in the midst of the flying carp crisis in the Mississipii drainage.carmanjacabjackeymikesam

since living in alaska, i will not eat any salmon from any store no matter where it came from. there is no substitute for salmon you catch yourself and eat a couple hours later.

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