What’s The Difference Between Wild and Farmed Salmon? | Salmon | What’s Eating Dan?
This week Dan delves into the science of one of the most popular seafood, Salmon. He does so by using his favorite childhood snack as an analogy. Dan explains the difference between farmed and wild salmon and why you shouldn’t treat them the same way when cooking at home.
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But which do you recommend? Also, does one taste better?
Is there a great difference of which is healthier for us humans?
Uh Dan. I think you are mistaken as to why salmon get pink/orange flesh. Trout are salmonids and I have eaten wild trout right out of an alpine lake with no exposure to krill much less oceans and their meat 🍖 is the same orange color. 🤷🏼♂️🤔 Why is that ya think?
Is this video for high school kids ?
These videos are excellent except for the god damn annoying background music!
Wow. It seems like salmon farming is pretty fishy.
cook your wild salmon less sounds like asking for parasite
I love eating seafood, salmon in particular. But it has gotten to a point that I can't ethically eat most seafood. Many fish stocks are being unsustainably harvested, farmed species are causing environmental damage, international fishing fleets are destroying the ocean floor, bycatch is harming other species, etc. I'll still eat sushi a couple times a year (far fewer than the once a week I used to year ago) but that's about it.
Oh and I also eat Scottish smoked salmon.
I like canned salmon and grew up in the Summers with red canned salmon cucumbers tomatoes onions and mayonnaise on the plate. However I have never ordered salmon in the restaurant and I have never purchased it to go get home other than the cans to make salmon patties. People are nuts over salmon and I just don't get it. I live on the coast of Maine and there are so many more tasty fish out there than salmon.
Atlantic salmon (salmo salar) do not necessarily die after spawning, as do Pacific salmon (oncorhyncus spp,) Most farmed salmon are genus salmo; most wild salmon are genus oncorhyncus.
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Marine biologist cringe – ana-drom-ous? A-na-dro-mous (long-o), just like the definition shows. Simple syllabic pronunciation.
In my experience as a personal chef who is deathly allergic to fish, New Zealand farmed far outstrips Atlantic farmed, though the cost may be prohibitive
These are gems!
Which is more sustainable?
maybe should mention how bad farming salmon is super bad for the environment and to the wild salmon population.completely unsustainable. stop buying it .
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So eating salmon skin is ok? Honestly didn’t know…
I didn t like how you omitted the ecological implicances of either choice. "This bald eagle wings are delicious, like the Panda ribs we had last night"
Hey Dan,realy like your videos and agree with most of the comments regarding farmed salmon ,being from Vancouver island surrounded by salmon that we can fish wild salmon year around.
One thing I wanted to add is there are white meat salmon also.Chinook or King salmon have a strain called "snowballs" thats only what I know them as. They are a white meat salmon , the meat is a real pale pink color when raw but turns white when cooked. I believe the oil content is much higher also.
Which is healthier to eat, consume farmed salmon or wild salmon? Coz I eat wild salmon fillets.
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You didn't include fat content of wild Atlantic salmon to farm raised Atlantic salmon.
Please lower the music volume, or just cut it off.
Farm raised salmon is wasteful, destructive garbage.
Woah! You're comparing farmed Atlantic salmon to wild Pacific salmon. Totally different species! Atlantic salmon do not die after spawning but return to the ocean and repeat the cycle (check out the difference between grilse and salmon). I live in New Brunswick, Canada and at one time 1/3 of all the wild Atlantic salmon in North America lived in our Miramichi River. Sadly, the numbers are down 90% in the last thirty years, but it wasn't that long ago that we were allowed to keep Atlantic salmon for the table. Now that was a good tasting fish!
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Besides putting dye in their dog food, er fish pellets, they often dye the flesh of farmed salmon. Wild salmon is high in Omega 3 Fatty acids, where farmed salmon is rich in Omega 6 Fatty acids. Omega 3 is one of the important factors of eating salmon. Also, the fish in pens are prone to "wild-spread" disease.
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What's in the salsa verde?
I was going to watch this playlist, but the music is so distracting and annoying, I give up 🙁
Doesn’t this add to the over fishing of wild salmon, which in turn dramatically lowers their population. Wouldn’t farmed salmon be better in a renewable way?
2:45 So, you can make purple salmon?
Me too! (and me too, heh heh)
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I wish this video addressed the difference between farmed salmon swimming in its own concentrated waste and wild caught. I never buy farm raised.
Nah, sockeye salmon is gross unless it’s perfectly prepared, and even then it’s not as good.
I think it's irresponsible not to talk about the environmental impacts of farmed salmon. Some of the comments below spell them out.
I think it's irresponsible to not talk about the environmental impacts of farmed salmon.
Lets have more talk on the problems of farm raised salmon vs wild.