What does it mean when they say salmon is farm raised?

Question

Do people usually prefer that it's farm raised? Is it better if it is? Is it better for the environment?

Answer 1

Farm salmon are raised for market in large undersea cages, or net pens, off the coast. They are hand-fed fishmeal pellets (a vitamin rich, high-protein diet), for about two and a half years, until they are harvested. Atlantic salmon are the most commonly farmed salmon because they have better growth and survival rates on farms than the Pacific salmon. Chinook and coho are also raised in B.C.

Farm raised salmon are feed diets that are high in fish oil and meal made from just a few species of ocean fish. This increases the biomagnification of contaminants found in the farm raised salmon as compared to wild caught salmon whose diet is pretty diverse ranging from zooplankton, larval and adult invertebrates, as well as smaller fish, such as herring, pelagic amphipods and krill.

The average dioxin level in farmed-raised salmon was as 11 times higher than that in wild salmon -- 1.88 parts per billion compared with 0.17 ppb. For PCBs, the average was 36.6 ppb in farm-raised salmon and 4.75 in wild salmon.

Farm raised salmon are also fed antibiotics to keep diseases from spreading. In fact, farmed salmon have more antibiotics administered by weight than any other form of livestock.

Farm raised salmon are also not good for the ecosystem because when they do get out of their pens and wreak havoc on our delicate ecosystem. These farmed fish consume more of our natural resources and infest other salmon with sea lice and other diseases. (About 1 million Atlantic's have escaped through holes in nets from storm-wracked farms in the Pacific Northwest's Puget Sound)

The pellets that these salmon are fed cause major environmental issues. Uneaten feed and fish waste blankets the sea floor beneath these farms, a breeding ground for bacteria that consume oxygen vital to shellfish and other bottom-dwelling sea creatures. A good sized salmon farm produces an amount of excrement equivalent to the sewage of a city of 10,000 people.

so to make a longs story short wild salmon are better for you as well as the environment.

Answer 2

Farm raised salmon are raise in pens out in the ocean. There is some success in raising salmon in fresh water though. The farm raised salmon is cheaper, but it lack the nutrients and flavor of wild salmon. Farm raised salmon is also reputed to be fed a carcinogen that gives it its pink color. Farm raised salmon is very bad for the environment. It kills fish in the area by breading diseases, like fish lice. The waste from uneaten pellets and fish excrement's heavily pollutes the surrounding waters. Fisherman's routinely shoot marine mammals to protect there stock, and fish sometimes escape and decreases genetic variability of the wild populations, making it susceptible to diseases.

Answer 3

It means it has been bred, just like any other animal bred for slaughter. I'm not sure that it is good for the environment or, indeed, for those that eat it. There were reports some years ago that intensively farmed salmon from the West Coast of Scotland were far more prevalent to nasty parasites which remained in the meat after slaughter. this due to th eintensive conditions in which the fish were expected to live. Large areas of natural water have to be penned to provide the places in which the fish live.

Answer 4

Farm raised salmon (as with most farm raised fish) does mean it was raised in a controlled environment. Obviously still in water but fed mainly on man made pellets and the like.

You often see fish farms in rivers, lakes, dams and oceans - they let the outside water flow in as though the fish are free, but the fish are in large "nets" and can not leave (unless they are very resourceful!!!).

It depends on your taste to which you prefer. I prefer free running fish of all sorts.

Answer 5

Farm Raised means the fish swam around in circles alot more than the wild salmon. Excessive consumption of the farm raised salmon can make you giddy/dizzy

Answer 6

Salmon is the worlds largest eaten fish. It is therefore one of the endengered species also. so it is artificially grown in its favourable conditions which is later use for human consumption. is grown like the chicken, pigs, and other animals used as a food on the farm. so this type of salmon they say salmon is farm raised.

Answer 7

While raised in huge tanks and not in the wild. They say wild salmon is tastier, but along with uncontrolled environmental issues, the high toxicity levels are found in the wild salmon that you do not find in farm raised.

Answer 8

a farmed salmon is definitly not as desirious as wild. Farmed salmon have a bad rap for disease and screwing up the eco system. They are raised in under water pens(open top) and are considered 'weak' in the gene pool!

Answer 9

clean caught salmon tastes quite fishy and robust once you study it to Chilean salmon, that's tasteless and watery in texture. there is no reason to devour farm raised shrimp or fish once you shouldnt have too. in any different case, you may in basic terms devour some thing this is interior of reach on your section. I dont be responsive to roughly your popcorn question. Is there "farm raised and wild" popcorn?

Answer 10

It doesnt matter if it's farm raised or wild. The fish still feels pain and suffers because you enjoy the taste of it.