Is there any nutritional difference between wild-caught and farm-raised fish? Is one type better for me than the other?
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Overview
From both a nutritional and environmental impact perspective, farmed fish are far inferior to their wild counterparts:
- Despite being much fattier, farmed fish provide less usable beneficial omega 3 fats than wild fish.
- Due to the feedlot conditions of aquafarming, farm-raised fish are doused with antibiotics and exposed to more concentrated pesticides than their wild kin. Farmed salmon, in addition, are given a salmon-colored dye in their feed, without which, their flesh would be an unappetizing grey color.
- Aquafarming also raises a number of environmental concerns, the most important of which may be its negative impact on wild salmon. It has now been established that sea lice from farms kill up to 95% of juvenile wild salmon that migrate past them.(Krkosek M, Lewis MA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.)
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