1. The practice also raises questions about the quality of farmed fish, says Pauly. 2. Though perfectly and classically cooked, the one I sampled had the muddy, acrid flavor of farmed fish. 3. As the director of the Aquaculture and Fisheries Program here, he did some of the pioneering work on how best to produce caviar from farmed fish. 4. But farmed fish are actually at the market a day later, whereas many wild fish remain aboard boats for several days before even reaching the dock. 5. But seafood experts say the farmed fish are milder. 6. By eating fish meal made from wild fish, farmed fish deplete the stocks of the natural resource, Ms. DeWaal said. 7. Farmed fish still represent a small portion of the amount of fish sold domestically. 8. Farmed fish, they say, inevitably escape from pens into the wild. 9. If you order salmon in a Manhattan restaurant, you will almost certainly get a farmed fish. 10. It appears, then, that there is sometimes a tradeoff of a pound of wild fish for each pound of farmed fish. |