Why Choose Wild Pacific Salmon over Farmed Salmon?

Health

  • Farmed salmon are often fed antibiotics which can aid in the growth of drug-resistant bacteria in people who eat them.
  • Farmed salmon contains 200% more fat than wild Pacific Salmon.
  • Farmed salmon contains higher levels of some chemical flame retardants.
  • Farmed salmon has up to 10 times higher levels of PCBs and dioxins than wild salmon.
  • Wild salmon is drug- and antibiotic-free.
  • Wild salmon is lower in saturated fats than farmed salmon.

Ecology

  • Collectively, Canadian fish farms produce waste equal to the raw sewage produced by a city of 500,000 people.
  • Parasites and disease can pass through net cages and contaminate the eco-system.
  • Farmed salmon can escape their cages and compete with and displace native stocks, even spawning in wild Pacific salmon rivers.
  • Escaped Atlantic salmon have been known to eat wild salmon fry and eggs, jeopardizing wild salmon runs.

Economy

  • The flood of farmed salmon to the market has contributed to a decrease in wild salmon prices, affecting the livelihood of commercial fishermen and their communities.