Is farmed raised salmon bad for you?
 

Practically the only salmon I can get here in LA is farm raised with color added. We also order wild salmon from some places in Alaska but the prices are quite exhorbitant.

I am aware that the farm raised salmon are kept in pens, fed chemicals etc. But how good or bad is this type of salmon?

Does anybody know anything about this issue?

http://www.deliciousorganics.com/Con...vsfarmfish.htm

has good info.

here ya go... linkage

i'd rather eat a sock

become friends with your local sushi chef. you might be able to go through him to get good salmon. lucky for me, I work under a master sushi chef and have those materials readily available to me.

I just heard that it is not really safe to eat *any* fish on a regular basis... Canada Health just issued a warning saying how many days a month it was safe to eat fish.

A very good friend of mine was eating quite a bit of fresh fish in an effort to eat healthy and maximize her intake of Omega3 Fatty Acid... she just found out that she as a high level of mercury in her system... too many fish.

We are seriously fucking up our eco-system.

thanks for the info. i want to throw up now. Amazing how the human race is so f"ing destructive to the earth.

Go to Trader Joe's. If you don't have anything against frozen fish you can buy wild salmon for very cheap.

Mobo123, since you are in the LA area, check out Whole Foods Market. Actually, TODAY is the first day that we have this season's run of FRESH Alaskan Copper River King Salmon in the stores. Although I must admit, that the price this year has greatly increased from years past. The fish itself looks absolutely incredible.

Thanks for the heads up. I live just a few minutes away from a Whole Foods. Probably equal in price to the salmon from Alaska.

Costco also carries fresh wild salmon in the summer. :)

Well, I found wild salmon.

For those of you who have a chain store called Trader Joes near by, they carry frozen wild salmon at very reasonable prices. $6-$7 a pound.

Its not fresh but what the hell, it's wild salmon.

Nice to see that you were able to get some wild salmon. You may not get as much fish for your dollar, but the rich taste of a nice organic fish is worth the price.

/real fish don't eat pellets...or food colouring...or antibiotics...or slice

I say you just have to look at where the raised salmon comes from! I have no idea about other countries, but norway has laws against chemicals that change color of meat and fish... and they fall under the animalabuse laws so there are regulations on how to feed them and how much room they have in the pen etc...

That's probably true. but when you figure in the cost of shipping from Norway to Los angeles all the while trying to keep the fish fresh, we're back up to $25-30 lb.

Yes, they have that seafood roadshow every other week. I was able to get whole salmon for dirt cheap. You have to fillet it yourself but it's worth it.

Right now, stores are getting the first catch of the season. Wait a few weeks and the prices will be down well below $10/lb (to more like 6-7/lb).