re: Unpopular food opinion - farm raised Salmon tastes better than wild caught

I bet you also like tilapia.

Skuna Bay Salmon FTW.

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Mee too. It just doesn’t taste good. They’re sooooo many better options. Tuna, flounder, grouper, snapper etc. Why eat stinky oily fish?

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I agree for the most part. I love chasing them but I’m very picky about the ones I eat. Typically caught in the salt. I do catch some dime Coho very close to the salt that I eat but everything else I smoke or give away.

I prefer white fish.

Salmon are not oily, imo.

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They’re sooooo many better options. Tuna, flounder, grouper, snapper etc.

Why eat stinky oily fish?

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Meh, Salmon is so different than other fish. It's like it's its own meat. FWIW, I don't particularly like Tuna. It just doesn't taste like much to me. I would prefer Salmon any day.

Same as grass fed organic beef. Sux. Farm fish can’t compare just like real ranched beef finished in grain (but slaughtered by rancher in his way)is the way. Fish caught in the wild and cooked Fresh is incredible.

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I can't be the only one that thinks this

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You're not. The majority of blind taste testers prefer farm raised salmon over wild caught.

Part of the reason is proximity. I don't think you can convince people who've been to the Pacific Northwest that farm raised is better than fresh wild caught salmon but, only people within that locale would have the benefit of having that experience. The frozen Copper river stuff we get in the southeast doesn't compare. It's been abused and doesn't resemble what they are eating.

Another reason is the affects of diet on flavor. Obviously the natural diet of wild fish lends to a more assertive flavor which is actually not preferred by the average consumer. Similar to how free range chicken and wild boar taste different than their mass produced commodity cousins. White meat pork and chicken are almost flavorless now (to me). Farm raised salmon is preferred by the average consumer because it's flavor is milder and more approachable.

Believe it or not, sushi chefs actually prefer farm raised salmon because of the increased fat content and milder flavor. They find the wild caught too lean. Now I'm sure there are sushi joints in the PNW that serve wild caught, and why wouldn't they? But in Japan, they are importing Norwegian farm raised salmon for sushi. There is a salmon, native to Japan but it's typically served cooked, not as sashimi or sushi.

Personally, if I was offered a choice between a freshly harvested wild caught salmon and a freshly harvested farm raised salmon, I would choose the former. But I don't have the luxury of that so, we eat farm raised.