Earlier this month, government figures showed farmed salmon production hit a seven year high last year.
Farmed salmon production hit a seven year high last year, according to Scottish government figures.
The startling decline in wild Scottish salmon is being blamed on pollution and interbreeding between wild and farmed salmon.
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Eating farmed salmon occasionally is not a great health concern, but risks can add up if you eat salmon often.
In 2010, by contrast only one company, farmed-salmon producer Compania Pesquera Camanchaca SA, launched an IPO.
It is hoped they will help minimise the impact of sea lice - a naturally-occurring parasite that attaches itself to both farmed and wild salmon.
They have seasonal access to wild-caught (better than farmed) King salmon (larger and more desirable than sockeye) from the Columbia River (one of the greatest salmon locales), and the piece I had, cooked on an alder wood plank, was THE best salmon I have ever tasted.
Some of the most sustainable choices, according to Seafood Watch, include wild Alaskan salmon, farmed Arctic char, and U.S.-farmed shrimp and catfish.
Farmed ballan wrasse have been introduced to a Scottish salmon farm for the first time.
Despite that all the engineered salmon will be sterile females and that they will be farmed only far inland, he remains skeptical of assurances that there is virtually no possibility of escape and interaction with the wild population. (Not that it would make any difference if that did occur.) Why?
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