We need to rethink our obsession with salmon
telegraph.co.ukfavourite fish. Last year we ate more than £1bn worth of Scottish salmon – all farmed. Wild Scottish salmon is off the menu as it’s illegal to kill one – let alone sell it – in all but a handful of rare circumstances.
Wild Atlantic salmon (the same species as the farmed version) is in crisis and numbers of have fallen by up to 80 per cent in the past 25 years.You will see wild salmon for sale, even in supermarkets, but this is Pacific salmon.
If you’ve ever eaten it and thought how different it tastes, it’s because it isn’t the same species as our farmed Atlantic salmon.
It is either pink or the richer ‘red salmon’, Pacific sockeye. Try fresh sockeye – available as ‘wild Alaskan salmon’ – and you’ll see what I mean.As numbers of our wild native salmon have plummeted, farming has soared.
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