eating our way to extinction, which I’d on Amazon prime right now, talks about Norway and the farmed fish system there. Seeing what the farmed fish looked like (they are often not healthy) was kind of gross.
The FDA is very clear on this, even if they think the amounts are mostly of concern to pregnant and lactating women.
https://www.fda.gov/food/consumers/questions-answers-fdaepa-...
On the flip side, farmed salmon doesn't have the health benefits of wild, because they don't eat things with a lot of omega-3's.
> Overall, they found close to half of the samples were mislabeled (43 percent), and rates of mislabeling were especially higher in restaurants vs. grocery stores (67 percent, vs. 20 percent). The most common form of mislabeling was farmed Atlantic salmon being represented as” wild” salmon. These trends persisted when comparing all of their salmon data (466 samples) spanning over four years.
Without knowing how much salmon is consumed at restaurants via grocery stores, it's hard to validate that "most" wild salmon is actually farmed.
It was insanely beautiful, pink flesh, lots of fat. Rarely have anything that good.
In Norway the salmon farms spend the entire life in the farm. Are fed lots of antibiotics because they get sick. And are overpopulated.
Nz. Is very strict because of 1 person messes up it ruins the reputation of the entire country.
I worked at the University library when I studied, I remember there was a ton of outdated books from the early development of salmon aquaculture. Salmon farming didn't even succeed until the late 60s, it took a lot longer to make it profitable. They tried a lot of wild stuff, some of it was ecologically questionable to put it mildly (like "havbeite", the idea of forgoing enclosures entirely and just release the smolt to sea, hoping to catch it later).
But regulation has caught up to the industry somewhat. Of course, now the Norwegian owned industry does a lot of the bad stuff it's no longer allowed to do in Norway in Chile instead.
New Zealand has a legit below-the-radar farmed salmon business, mostly because their salmon has quality unlike any other farmed salmon I've experienced.