Do you pay attention to farm raised vs wild caught seafood?

[+ FrankR]

When you buy seafood - do you care if it was farm raised or wild caught? Are you willing to pay a premium for wild caught seafood?

[+ sync]

No, I buy what looks good to me (for better or for worse, that practice extends beyond seafood).

[bigvalboy]

When you buy seafood - do you care if it was farm raised or wild caught? Are you willing to pay a premium for wild caught seafood?

 

Absolutely. I only buy wild caught, and I don't really care about the cost. There are plenty areas of my life where I can cut costs, what I eat is not one of them....

[MikeBiDude]

Yes I pay attention. I don’t buy farm raised seafood unless I can identify and research the source. Over farmed salmon has to have artificial color added back into make it salmon colored..it goes white if over farmed. No thanks...Tilapia one of the most over farmed here in SoCal.

 

Wild caught for me...

[Inkdnaija00]

Absolutely. I only buy wild caught, and I don't really care about the cost. There are plenty areas of my life where I can cut costs, what I eat is not one of them....

Booom!!!

[+ FrankR]

Very interesting - thank you all for the comments. I’ve been thinking about switching to farm raised in an effort to support ‘sustainable’ living, but have a hard time getting over the issues with farm raised fish.

[+ Avalon]

My fish usually comes in a can

[Rudynate]

I used to only buy wild-caught but I've been reading that aquaculture methods have changed a lot in the last few years, so I am more open-minded. Also, one of my favorite things to serve company is Scottish Salmon. Whenever I serve Scottish Salmon for dinner, people literally rave. Guess what? It's farmed.

[+ OliverSaks]

Fish are friends, not food.

Except Jaws, he’s a scary mofo.

[+ Avalon]

Fish are friends, not food.

Except Jaws, he’s a scary mofo.

 

And this is why some Hindus don't eat fish because of the Vishnu fish avatar

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsya

[MikeBiDude]

Scottish Salmon for dinner, people literally rave. Guess what? It's farmed.

Scottish Salmon is one of the ones where I researched my source, and I do buy farm raised. Even for sushi/sashimi my source is excellent.

[Rudynate]

Scottish Salmon is one of the ones where I researched my source, and I do buy farm raised. Even for sushi/sashimi my source is excellent.

 

It's hard to find. I only know of two stores that have it, and it's always good.

[marylander1940]

My fish usually comes in a can

 

You better be careful with that, some unwanted mercury might come in your tuna.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/04/mercury-in-canned-tuna-is-still-a-concern/index.htm

[+ Avalon]

You better be careful with that, some unwanted mercury might come in your tuna.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/04/mercury-in-canned-tuna-is-still-a-concern/index.htm

 

Thanks for the link!

[marylander1940]

Thanks for the link!

 

just try not to eat too much canned tuna, once or twice a week only.

[+ Avalon]

just try not to eat too much canned tuna, once or twice a week only.

 

Since I can't have bread I like to mix it with mayo and mustard and horseradish and grated cheese and have it with cottage cheese. Sometimes cherry tomatoes if I have them.

[+ Autumnal]

When I buy fish to eat at home I only buy wild caught. In a restaurant when I order fish I never ask if it's wild or farmed.

[rvwnsd]

Like @Rudynate and @MikeBiDude I have opened my mind to farmed seafood. As with wild-caught seafood, it needs to be sustainably raised (or, in the case of wild, sustainably fished).

[fedssocr1]

I saw a documentary recently about farmed salmon and all of the chemicals used to raise them. So, it's wild-caught for me. I suspect there is no perfect food though.

[rvwnsd]

I saw a documentary recently about farmed salmon and all of the chemicals used to raise them. So, it's wild-caught for me. I suspect there is no perfect food though.

Wild-caught seafood is not without chemicals, such as the chemicals that pollute the oceans and many freshwater lakes. Additionally, not all farm-raised seafood is raised with massive amounts of chemicals. You really have to do your homework.

[Rudynate]

Wild-caught seafood is not without chemicals, such as the chemicals that pollute the oceans and many freshwater lakes. Additionally, not all farm-raised seafood is raised with massive amounts of chemicals. You really have to do your homework.

 

 

The thing that was supposed to bad about farmed salmon was the PCBs. But they've found that the concentration of PCBs is about the same in farmed and wild-caught salmon.

[+ OliverSaks]

Bioaccumulation is a motherfucker in marine ecoystems.

 

Also a motherfucker: bycatch

 

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Bioaccumulation

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Bycatch

 

/“radical” enviro thoughts

[+ FrankR]

Perhaps I should expand my thread title to farm raised, wild caught and lab grown... https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/01/growing-fish-lab-save-oceans-overfishing.html

[Rudynate]

Perhaps I should expand my thread title to farm raised, wild caught and lab grown... https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/01/growing-fish-lab-save-oceans-overfishing.html

 

 

Baramundi apparently is an ideal aquaculture fish. They raise it in huge indoor tanks.

[+ g56whiz]

Depends. If I’m going to simply steam the fish I choose a wild caught product. If I’m making something like a salmon mousse or fish tacos I don’t care.