What’s the difference between “farm-raised” and “ocean-caught” salmon?
Farm-raised salmon (often disguised with words like ‘Fresh Atlantic’) is not from the Atlantic Ocean, nor is it even fresh. Farm-raised salmon are fed grain and color tablets (to get the flesh to look like the natural salmony orange). These salmon farms are incredibly unhealthy, can be high in mercury, and not very good for humans. Oh, and it is an utter environmental disaster. “Ocean-caught salmon,” for the most part is net caught and not sustainable. It is becoming increasingly more expensive, like all fish, because, of all sorts of environmental factors and over fishing. The pessimistic part of me wants to say, “Enjoy it now, ‘cause there is not going to be much fish in the future.” But that is just too depressing, and there are still some sustainable fishing happening.
