farmed salmon
Cultivated Atlantic swimmer
Farmed salmon is salmon raised in aquaculture facilities rather than caught in the wild.
The fish are bred in ocean pens or tanks and fed controlled diets, producing most of the salmon sold in grocery stores.
Farmed salmon tends to be fattier and less expensive than wild-caught, though debates persist about environmental impact and nutritional differences: Is this farmed salmon or wild?
- aquacultureFarming underwater organisms
- AtlanticOcean bordering Europe
- penInk-filled writing tool
- netsMesh devices for catching
- open waterUnobstructed body navigable freely
ocean · fillet · pink · omega-3 · fish oil · feed · wild-caught · antibiotics · scales · spawning · hatchery · Norway · Scotland · Chile · sea lice · sushi · smoked · lox
- salmon fisherieschinook, coho, sockeye, spawning, hatchery
- salmonsockeye, chinook, coho, kokanee, steelhead
- salmon industryhatcheries, wild-caught, sockeye, coho, chinook
- salmon farmingfish pen, fish cage, fish hatchery, hatchery, smolt
- fishingfishing rod, fish, angling, bass fishing, fishing gear