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No More Buying Cheap Salmon

Economical shopper that I am, I rarely buy salmon if its over 6.00 a lb, and I haven't asked recently where it comes from, but odds are its raised in a crowded pen on the edge of a body of salt water, mixing with the oceans. My daughter tells me what's wrong with farmed salmon. Not only does it lack much of the nutritional value of wild salmon, the farmed salmon & their diseases are moving from the farms to the open waters, directly threatening the wild species.

Read more about it at Save Our Wild Salmon and Why Wild Salmon, a very informative site from Trout Unlimited.

So far, I've learned:

-- Its good to eat wild salmon if its caught responsibly, encouraging that fishing industry
-- Not good to eat farmed salmon of any kind, shouldn't support that industry
--There is no more salmon farming in Puget Sound, or anywhere in the US. It was outlawed due to disease in the fish and other factors.
--Salmon is farmed on Vancouver Island, and in northern European countries
--Canned salmon can be either wild or farmed
-- Most Pacific salmon sold is wild. Most Atlantic salmon sold is farmed.

-- Much of what I thought I knew about salmon is incorrect, and what's in the above list may not all be true either.

Wasn't I a salmon watcher four years ago and don't I know the difference between silver and coho and chum? Guess not. Did I miss some news reports on this? Do I just think I've heard all about it and tune out info on salmon that's probably out there?

I should try to list all the references to "save our salmon" that I hear for a week or so. Tune up the radar on that.
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