Magazine demonstrate ignorance
In a recent article, the Maclean's magazine suggested that people pay up to $ 30 a pound for wild salmon while "your average supermarket fillet (of farmed salmon) costs $ 6 or 7 per pound". The article also suggests that "wild flesh actually tastes like salmon, unlike the flabby farmed fillets we've become accustomed to".
What the magazine fails to acknowledge is that those prices for wild salmon only apply to a very small segment of the wild salmon fishery. The bulk of wild salmon catches consist of Pink and Chum salmon, both of which sell for prices well below those paid for farmed salmon.
Since customers world wide purchase some 1.4 million tonnes of farmed salmon each year, it is difficult to support a notion that farmed salmon tastes bad.
