Anyone here tried farmed salmon? or trout? or shrimp/prawns?

Curious about the taste myself. Haven't tried it. Probably won't though.

How about Ikura? Anybody hear like it? other then with Sushi

   

There are 1000's of fish farmers here in NF. I wouldnt eat farmed fish though, just dont like the idea.

   

what kind of fish farming is going on over their Adam? Is it Atlantic salmon also?

Hear of any PCB problems with the feed used on these fish?


Is it gov't funded like ours?


We've had a interesting time of it here in BC.

   

The problem is the feed. There was major problems with this last year. The feed the ywere using was not what is was labled as. The fish feed had fish in it so the fish were either dieing for getting sick.

   

The problem is the feed. There was major problems with this last year. The feed the ywere using was not what is was labled as. The fish feed had fish in it so the fish were either dieing for getting sick.

   

Is there a lice problem on the east coast too? I know it's an issue with fish farms in BC, but haven't heard anything about it from the east.

   

Fish farms on the west coast are the biggest environmental threat to the eco-system out here. Sea Lice, as Rev pointed out, are almost out of control and we're seeing far more attached to wild salmon then ever before. Not to metion the disease problems that have surfaced. One farm gets infected and all the wild fish in the area get it and it far more likely for farms to have diseases because of the unnatural numbers packed together in pens. The other problem is the ones that get out. There is a bounty on Atlantic Salmon in the wild in BC. The bays that they keep the pens are almost void of life after the farms leave due to the amount of fish poop they leave behind.

Plus, wild fish taste far better than farm fish. I wouldn't buy farm fish even if they tasted good, they're bad news all around.

   

I dont know about the lice thing.

But i dont east Salmon unless i catch it mylsef. Im a Newfoundlander, we eat Cod

   

I'm a prairie boy...I don't eat fish unless it comes breaded in a box.

The over-crowding issue is predicatable though. We've seen the same thing in domesticated animals, especially pigs, here. The recent bird flu in BC may be transmitted by wild birds, but we never saw such devastating effects until the farms became factories...the wild birds have been there all along and their numbers are actually reduced now. When I grew up giving a dairy cow antibiotics was a rare occurence, now it's in their feed every day. It's actually becoming a problem in well water. We never considered feeding ground up cow parts to cows either. Their winter food was chop...crushed grain...and hay...dried grasses.

It's all a symptom of the same thing, profits over sanity.

   

If you go to a resteraunt do you have an option of buying wild fish or farmed fish? I've never seen the option. It's the same with geneticaly modified food. It should be labelled but isn't always.

   

You can ask if the fish is farmed or not, they have to tell you its the law.

   

I've never had Atlantic Salmon before, but I know that the wild Pacific species taste great. My favorite is still Coho, but I do like Chinook from time to time. I hope the fish farms go away soon, from what I've heard the magority are in finacial trouble so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

   

Of course the waitress/waiter may just tell you that it is wild when in fact it's not. Most consumers haven't a clue what to look for or what the taste difference is. Harder still is to figure it out when they've put a nice sauce on in or marinaded it.

   

It would seem that you can now use wild chinook to put out household fires.....

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