> The US in their dietary guidelines for 2010 recommends eating 8 ounces per week of a variety of seafood and 12 ounces for lactating mothers, with no upper limits set and no restrictions on eating farmed or wild salmon.
? What am I missing?
Contaminants are commonly found in the flesh of farmed and wild salmon..."
> We know that every fish is a trade-off between omega-3 content and toxic content like PCBs. From the perspective of salmon in general, the balance favors consumption of that fish. Now the challenge here is that I can’t tell which salmon is farmed the right way or the wrong way.
For example:
> A recent study in British Columbia links the spread of parasitic sea lice from river salmon farms to wild pink salmon in the same river
The lice from the farmed fish devastate the wild salmon populations, so ecologically they are awful.
That to me is a pretty clear reason to avoid farmed salmon.
But you’re right, of course, if we should consider the environment as well. I haven’t eaten fish in 8 years, personally, partly because so much of it is fished or farmed in an unsustainable way.