Are there benefits of eating Wild Alaska Salmon versus Atlantic farm-raised salmon?
Yes, all Alaska salmon are Wild. These fish grow naturally in Alaska’s cold, clear waters. Farm raised salmon are fed pellets that contain antibiotics, pesticides, growth hormones and artificial coloring agents. Free-ranging wild Alaska salmon are recognized as the purest fish found anywhere. In fact, the Alaska Division of Public Health continues to encourage “pregnant women, women who are breast feeding, women of childbearing age, and young children continue unrestricted consumption of fish from Alaskan waters.” A recently published article in, The Audubon’s Living Oceans Campaign, reads “Farm-raised salmon consume more antibiotics per pound of ‘livestock’ than are any other farm-raised animal.” A total of over 23 million pounds of antibiotics are consumed by livestock in US animal production each year. Trying to regulate the use and overuse of antibiotics is a serious problem in the fish farming industry in North America and British Columbia. It has been almost impossible to regulat
