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Is farmed salmon aquaculture

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Is wild salmon aquaculture?

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What is the difference between farmed and wild salmon?

Farmed salmon are raised in ponds. Wild salmon are caught in their natural environment.


Is canned salmon considered to be wild salmon?

Whether canned salmon is wild or farmed depends on where the fresh salmon comes from. Some canned salmon is wild caught, some is farmed. The label on the can should say which.


What are the affects on wild salmon when farmed salmon escape?

Farmed salmon can tranmet diseases to wild stocks of salmon. If farmed salmon enters the rivers to spawn and interbreeds with wild samon they can contribute to what can be called 'genetical pollution'. As each stock of salmon in each particular salmon river has been adapted to the very conditions in this river, generation after generation, for thousands of years, such an interference is undesirable.


What species of fish are farmed in Canada?

Salmon and Trout.


Can salmon be organically farmed?

Salmon can be organically farmed as like any fish. This is typically done in a contained farm to control the environment and the food of the fish. An example of this would be through hydroponics.


What was the largest segment of the aquaculture industry in 2003?

Of total seafood consumed, shrimp, salmon, tuna, and catfish accounted for the largest segment of the aquaculture industry in 2003.


What animals are raised in aquaculture?

Betwee salmon, carp, tilapia, European seabass, catfish and cod which are the principal fish on aquaculture, tilapia has the higuest count of all.


Fish farmed for its roe to make caviar?

The fish farmed for authentic caviar is Sturgeon. There are also other fish who are farmed for its roe. One example is Salmon.


Which is better farmed or wild salmon?

WILD WILD WILD! Wild salmon is a sustainable resource. Out of every red (or nest) two babies survive. That means for every two parents two baby's survive keeping the run the same. Wild salmon is one of the healthiest things you can eat being completely natural. Farmed salmon is given pesticides. Farmed salmon is the modern "chicken" of the sea with growth hormones, pesticide's, and eating there own feces. TRUST ME IM A COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN!


Why do they add dye to farmed salmon?

Salmon are naturally colored grayish, similar to cod, but are pink due to the diet they consume. Farmed salmon do not consume the same diet (shrimp) that wild salmon consume. Since they are grey, farmers add dye to the meat to make it more appealing to consumers.


How much vitamin D is in salmon?

It depends on the type of salmon it is. Commercially farmed salmon has very little vitamin D, while wild salmon has quite a bit of vitamin D. Wild salmon eat many aquatic plants and animals that are rich in vitamin D. Farmed slamon are fed garbage feed pellets not fit for any animal and the feed contains little vitamin D. Wild salmon is fine for vitamin D. Farmed salmon is a waste of money.