Folks- Insist on wild Alaska salmon for fine dining! Alaska Salmon are NOT endangered, and most of the wild salmon on the market is caught by family owned small fishing operations.
"Sockeye" Steve Sutherlin has eaten wild Alaska salmon for decades, beginning in his Alaska boyhood. Even after eating tasty boatloads of wild Alaska salmon, Sockeye Steve yearns for his next bite of this fabulous fish.
Wild Alaska salmon roam the cold clean high Pacific Ocean -- swift, fierce hunters of the deep. In a couple of short years after leaving Alaska streams as babies, wild salmon grow strong and huge.
When the salmon return to Alaska to reproduce, a sustainable amount of the wild fish are plucked from the clear Alaska waters by fishermen for lucky diners.
The rest of the salmon fight upstream through spectacular wild Alaska waters to insure the next generation of wild Alaska salmon will continue this cycle of life.
Each hardy returning salmon that goes on to breed will call upon stored nutritional reserves in its flesh to sustain it on its unique and singular journey to the very riffle of the stream in which it was born.
The physical power of the wild salmon and its stored nutrients combine to form a firm, yet flaky and sublimely-textured flesh for dining enjoyment.
May 30 2009- Copper River salmon, noted for high omega 3 content, are finally coming down in price a bit, these are good sockeye and kings! Other fisheries will come online soon, so fresh salmon season is upon us!
June 25 -- Bristol Bay and Prince William Sound sockeye on the market, King salmon too.
August 25 -- The Sockeye season and King season now are winding down but still some freshies around. The Silver salmon season is upon us. Silvers are also known as Coho salmon. Cohos are an amazing game fish, they hit the fly hard and pound for pound they are the fiercest fighters.
Oh my Alaska music and fresh wild salmon, woo hoo!
Wild Alaska salmon is a prime source of omega-3s, the healthy fats that fend off heart disease and maybe more, but are you aware that a mere 3 ounces of the fish serves up 170 percent of your daily vitamin B12 and more than 80 percent of your D?
What the fisheries expert won't eat: farmed salmon
David Carpenter, M.D., director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany, published a major study in the journal Science on contamination in fish.
The problem: Nature didn't intend for salmon to be crammed into pens and fed soy, poultry litter and hydrolyzed chicken feathers. As a result, farmed salmon is lower in vitamin D and higher in contaminants, including carcinogens, PCBs, brominated flame retardants, and pesticides such as dioxin and DDT. According to Carpenter, the most contaminated fish come from Northern Europe, which can be found on American menus. "You could eat one of these salmon dinners every five months without increasing your risk of cancer," says Carpenter, whose 2004 fish contamination study got broad media attention. "It's that bad." Preliminary science has also linked DDT to diabetes and obesity, but some nutritionists believe the benefits of omega-3s outweigh the risks. There is also concern about the high level of antibiotics and pesticides used to treat these fish. When you eat farmed salmon, you get dosed with the same drugs and chemicals.
The solution: Switch to wild-caught Alaska salmon. If the package says fresh Atlantic, it's farmed. There are no commercial fisheries left for wild Atlantic salmon.
Budget tip: Canned salmon, almost exclusively from wild catch, can be found for as little as $3 a can.—Prevention Magazine
Just passing along for your health. Also I saw some separate research that vitamin D improves balance, and decreases the risk of falling.
Carpenter's study gave me a few more reasons not to eat farmed that I didn't know about -- Steve
