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• AlphaOmega@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would be okay with removing the word “farmed” provided they sold the salmon as is. No pink dyes, just a gray carcass.
  Then you wouldn’t need to distinguish between farm raised and wild caught. The difference would be obvious

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• Syldon@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Considering how much value some put on the quality of wild salmon versus farmed salmon, I think it is pretty shallow to remove that information from packaging. I avoid products that have no country of origin on the packaging. I can easily see why some would be upset about this. This is inhibiting choice. Moreso the fishing industry will have to spend money to do this. Changing all the packaging will not come free of charge. Therefore you have to conclude it is nothing more than a con to make more money.

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  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I go out of my way to buy wild caught, fresh fish. Living in Canada it’s pretty easy and just as affordable as the farmed shit

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• HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sure, we can drop 'Farmed'. Lets go for 'Captive' or 'Caged', if they prefer

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have no problem with farmed salmon, but also no problem with letting wild salmon people sell at a premium.

  Frankly, I think that in 2023, fish stock depletion from catching wild fish is generally a much larger environmental concern than the footprint from farming fish, unless you’re eating small fish for which depletion isn’t as much of an issue.

  So, if someone’s concerned about environmental impact – and a lot of people involved in marketing food don’t care one way or another, but do care about demand for their product and will use appeals to environmental concern – I’d suggest that they should probably favor fish out of aquaculture.

  We clamped down hard on fishing the Atlantic salmon in the US, shifted a lot of consumption to aquaculture, and the wild salmon has slowly been recovering along the US coast:

  abcnews.go.com/…/wild-atlantic-salmon-found-us-ri…

  More wild Atlantic salmon found in U.S. rivers than any time in 10 years: Officials

  The last wild Atlantic salmon that return to U.S. rivers have had their most productive year in more than a decade, raising hopes they may be weathering myriad ecological threats

  The salmon were once abundant in American rivers, but factors such as overfishing, loss of habitat and pollution reduced their populations to only a handful of rivers in Maine. The fish are protected by the Endangered Species Act, and sometimes only a few hundred of them return from the ocean to the rivers in a year.

  The greater survival of the salmon could be evidence that conservation measures to protect them are paying off, said Sean Ledwin, director of the Maine Department of Marine Resources sea-run fish programs. The count of river herring is also up, and that could be aiding the salmon on their perilous journey from the sea to the river.

  Americans eat a lot of farmed Atlantic salmon from expansive aquaculture operations. Commercial fisheries for wild Atlantic salmon in the U.S. closed decades ago due to overfishing and pollution. They once ranged south to Long Island Sound, off of Connecticut and New York.

  But counts of wild salmon have been trending up in recent years. The count of salmon at the Milford Dam in the Penobscot River has been over 1,000 in four of the last five years, Maine data show. That followed several years in a row when the count never exceeded 840.

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