The topic of salmon was brought up at the nutrition talk on the weekend and I wanted to clear up the Atlantic Salmon question. Is Atlantic Salmon safe to eat? You be the judge but I know I won't be eating it. If the fish I am buying does not say "wild" than I do not buy it. When I first found out that farmed salmon were colored pink, I had to draw the line. Wild salmon is the best choice and the healthiest.
Many people think that when they buy Atlantic salmon that it comes from the Atlantic Ocean meaning that it is wild. This is not the case. Atlantic salmon is a species of salmon that is most popular for farming.
Not only that, when buying wild salmon you are supporting local fisherman and are helping keep the ocean clean. Farmed salmon threatens the runs of wild salmon and that is a very bad thing if we want to keep this source of tasty Omega 3 around for generations.
There are wild Atlantic salmon however they are close to being extinct due to human industrial development.
Here are a few links with some great information on why to purchase WILD salmon.
Marks Daily Apple
Environmental Working Group
The Hidden Costs of Farmed Salmon
Seafood Watch Link
Greenpeace
I buy wild salmon at a variety of places including Billingsgate Fish Market, Sunterra Market, Blu Seafood and Market and even Costco occasionally has wild fish. If you know of any sources to buy great fish, post a comment.
Right on Stacey!
ReplyDeleteI am a fishing guide who earns our household income from wild salmon. Our future is looking rough. Diseases from farmed salmon feedlots are killing of millions of wild salmon and many rivers are now dead or near death. The most lethal salmon disease known, ISAv was brought to British Columbia 20 yrs ago by the Norwegian salmon farming companies because our gov't was either stupid or already corrupt. Today this ISAv is responsible for the collapse of commercial fisheries, historic wild salmon runs and indiginous peoples food supplies. This salmon farming industry is so destructive it makes the Tobacco industry look good. Please for the sake of our oceans and a future our kids can survive in DO NOT BUY farmed salmon, aka Atlantic, Scottish, Chilean, Chinook, Steelhead. Farmed salmon is used highly in the Sushi industry. Farmed salmon = Pharm salmon.
www.salmonfarmingkills.com
Thank you for posting this.
ReplyDeleteDrug resistant sea lice from Pharmed Salmon are killing the wild salmon of British Columbia. See for yourselves.
http://vimeo.com/9646074
As president and founder of an incorporated non profit group{STRACC.com}dedicated to the conservation of salmon/trout stocks and habitats I'm pleased that you and others are working toward a common goal to Save Wild Salmon and end ocean based salmon farms.
ReplyDeleteWe at Wild Game Fish Conservation thank you for publishing your concerns regarding open pen Atlantic salmon feedlots and the products they market for global consumption. Through Legacy, our monthly web-based publication, we dedicate vonsiderable time to educate our readers of the impacts of pen raised Atlantic salmon.
ReplyDeleteMuch work remains to protect and restore wild salmon on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.