In addition, groups most concerned with overfishing note that carnivores such as salmon need to eat wild-caught fish, depleting populations of feed fish such as anchovies.
The sort of sophisticated consumers who seek out boutique pinot noirs from Oregon and artisanal cheeses from Vermont would presumably pay a little extra for wild-caught Louisiana shrimp.
Finally, why did the programme not point out that in fact world wide the trade in wild-caught reptiles and amphibians has been steadily declining over the past 3 or 4 years.
Costco last week said it halted sales of five wild-caught fish species that are on Greenpeace's "red list" of overfished species, including Greenland halibut, certain types of grouper, and skates and rays.
Late last year Whole Foods Market color coded all of its wild-caught fish to show consumers which are most sustainable, based on guidelines set by Monterey Bay Aquarium in California and New York's Blue Ocean Institute.
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.
When the wardens feel that that an orangutan is fully rehabilitated, it is caught and then returned to the wild - usually deep in the forest or to one of Sarawak's National Parks or Wildlife Sanctuaries.
He travels the world in search of high-quality pelts, especially those caught in the wild.
In their university-funded study, Dr. Brodin and his colleagues first tested wild European perch caught from a midsize stream in Sweden called the River Fyris and found that levels of the drug in fish tissue were more than six times the level commonly detected in the water.
Yet farmed fish still carries a bad rap, both from environmentalists concerned about the pollution caused by on-shore and near-shore farms, and from food snobs who favor the more robust taste of wild caught fish.
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