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The meat looks significantly different when comparing wild pacific to atlantic. But yes, shady fish distributors have been caught selling cheaper fish as the m
by appleiigs 9y ago
The 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.