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So when I go to the market and get "Wild Caught Salmon" it really could be farm raised salmon that escaped and were subsequently fished in the vicinity?
by bochoh 9y ago
So when I go to the market and get "Wild Caught Salmon" it really could be farm raised salmon that escaped and were subsequently fished in the vicinity?
- eric_h 9y agoPerhaps - if you live on the west coast and get "fresh wild caught Atlantic salmon" ;)
- 0xfeba 9y agoHa, maybe that's why they say "Wild Caught" and not "Wild".
- larubbio 9y agoA caught fish could be wild, or from a hatchery. You can tell the difference since hatchery fish have a fin removed but I imagine it's easier to not differentiate when labelling.
- appleiigs 9y agoThe meat looks significantly different when comparing wild pacific to atlantic. But yes, shady fish distributors have been caught selling cheaper fish as the more expensive.
- wil421 9y agoFor me Atlantic vs Sockeye or Copper River Salmon. Atlantic is usually a faded pink orange color. It’s more like Arctic Char. Pacific Sockeye is extremely red. Another fact, the only native Trout species in my state, Georgia, is Brook trout. They are actually closer to Arctic Char than trout or salmon.
- NegativeLatency 9y agoCopper River salmon isn't a species, it's acrually multiple kinds of pacific salmon with extra marketing and branding.
- cl0ne 9y agoKings, sockeyes and cohos. It's all caught in Prince William Sound near the mouth of the Copper River. I grew up fishing there. There is a lot of marketing, but I think it tastes way better than farmed or Atlantic salmon and just can't bring myself to eat that.
- wil421 9y agoNot saying it isn’t good marketing. I can see a visible difference between Copper River salmon and salmon of the same species from somewhere else.
- matheweis 9y agoUnless you caught it yourself, color is a particularly bad way to determine the kind of salmon you’re looking at; Fish farms feed their fish a steady diet of red dye to colorize their flesh: https://qz.com/358811/heres-why-your-farmed-salmon-has-color-added-to-it/ https://qz.com/358811/heres-why-your-farmed-salmon-has-color...
- mholmes680 9y agooh man, this just ruined my day. You can normally see the difference immediately by color between farm and wild raised. At least they have to label it as color added now...
- wil421 9y agoI trust some of the places I get my fish. Certainly not the big chains.
- neonhomer 9y agoI've always assumed that "Wild Caught" was used a purpose so the fish could be farmed, but then let loose and caught in the "wild". But maybe it's more difficult to do that.
- PeachPlum 9y agoLocally sourced = bought from the supermarket down the road
- jonnathanson 9y agoI would be highly suspicious of anything calling itself "wild" and "Atlantic" in the same breath. There is almost no wild Atlantic salmon fishery left in the United States and Canada. It's all farm raised. Occasionally you can find legitimately wild Atlantic catch in Scotland or Norway. But wild catch makes up less than 1% of all Atlantic salmon on the market. So if you want wild salmon, start by looking for a Pacific label, a listed species, or a regional designation of some kind. That's still not a guarantee, but it narrows things down quite a bit. For what it's worth, 90% of all salmon on the US market is farmed. So if you're at a restaurant or a BBQ and aren't sure what you're getting, you're probably getting farm-raised Atlantic salmon.