wild salmon vs farmed salmon

Wild Salmon Vs. Farmed Salmon 1 Salmon is the third most consumed seafood in the U.S. (2010). Each person eats about 2 pounds a year. The source of this fish is acquired from two places, either a salmon farm or from the wild. There are definite positives and negative to both sources, but farmed salmon benefits both the consumer and the environment, while wild salmon only benefits the consumer.
2 Farming Salmon is very significant to the market demand. Annually, Americans consume 284,000 metric tons of salmon, more than 2/3rds of which is farmed salmon. Many wild salmon are blocked from migrating by damns thus preventing reproduction. If we didn’t farm salmon our supply would not fulfill our demands. Farmed Salmon is exponentially more sustainable than wild because reproduction is supervised. Many people even argue that farming salmon relieves stress on the population of natural salmon.
Wild Salmon is A lot harder to acquire than farmed. Wild salmon has to be caught, transported and distributed while farmed salmon is already caught and only needs to be distributed. Farmed Salmon allows for salmon availability year round. Farmed Salmon is a huge industry, in Alaska, Salmon Farming makes up more than 50 of total direct and indirect statewide employment and is worth one billion in there state economy.
Farmed Salmon is very regulated. Farmers work with professionals that can prevent disease, lice and other toxins from inhibiting the fish and make for a far healthier fish. Farmed salmon also is very high in omega 3 and certain fatty acids, giving certain nutritional benefits exclusively to farmed salmon. Farming Salmon has very little affect on the environment unlike wild salmon fishing, which eventually will wipe out the population. In recent decades the wild salmon population seems to be in a constant decline. The cause is due to numerous things like: lice, damns, natural causes and other marine life. Many would argue salmon are dying