I'm in Scotland and used to love eating salmon, but have given it up entirely due to the issues around farmed salmon. It's not always easy when eating out to find out where a salmon came from, so I just order something else. Maybe I'll try salmon again when I'm next in Orkney!
I try to eat local. On the Pacific coast, I eat wild salmon, but in Scotland, I would eat farmed salmon to support the local economy. Where I can choose, e.g. the grocery store, I go wild. But by March, a fresh farmed salmon might beat a wild fish frozen since June.
There are other, more sustainable ways of supporting the local economy. Here, in the Highlands, the biggest farmed salmon producer is MOWI. It is a Norwegian company and that is where most of the profits go. There track record when it covers to lawfulness is dodgy to say the least and can easily be looked up on line. Support small scale, local economies.
I have access to this farmed salmon: https://orakingsalmon.co.nz/. But you did not discuss it. Perhaps you aren’t familiar with it, but if you are, or will be, a little info or an opinion from you would be helpful.
Salmon aren't native to New Zealand, but this looks like a typical net-pen farmed product. Seafood Watch rates it a Best Choice. I love wild king salmon so I'd give it a try.
I'm in Scotland and used to love eating salmon, but have given it up entirely due to the issues around farmed salmon. It's not always easy when eating out to find out where a salmon came from, so I just order something else. Maybe I'll try salmon again when I'm next in Orkney!
I try to eat local. On the Pacific coast, I eat wild salmon, but in Scotland, I would eat farmed salmon to support the local economy. Where I can choose, e.g. the grocery store, I go wild. But by March, a fresh farmed salmon might beat a wild fish frozen since June.
There are other, more sustainable ways of supporting the local economy. Here, in the Highlands, the biggest farmed salmon producer is MOWI. It is a Norwegian company and that is where most of the profits go. There track record when it covers to lawfulness is dodgy to say the least and can easily be looked up on line. Support small scale, local economies.
Sorry about the typos
I always try to eat as locally as I can.
I have access to this farmed salmon: https://orakingsalmon.co.nz/. But you did not discuss it. Perhaps you aren’t familiar with it, but if you are, or will be, a little info or an opinion from you would be helpful.
Salmon aren't native to New Zealand, but this looks like a typical net-pen farmed product. Seafood Watch rates it a Best Choice. I love wild king salmon so I'd give it a try.